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This Day In History
hot-air balloon
first manned free flight was taken by Jean François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes on a 20-minute, 9-km. flight over Paris (1783)
phonograph
a new invention was announced by Thomas Edison (1877)
Verrazano-Narrows Bridge
span connecting Brooklyn and Staten Island in New York City opened to the public; it was the longest suspension bridge in the world until overtaken by the UK's Humber Bridge (1964)