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1783 |
Montgolfier brothers’ balloon makes first ascent |
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1868 |
Hugo Eckener is born |
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1884 |
Auguste and Jean Piccard are born |
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1893 |
First Chicago World’s Fair (Columbian Exposition) |
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1895 |
Jeannette Ridlon is born |
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1896 |
Italo Balbo is born |
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1900 |
First test flight of a zeppelin |
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1901 |
Alberto Santos-Dumont circles spire of Eiffel Tower in powered dirigible |
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1903 |
Wright brothers’ first successful flight in heavier-than-air craft at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina |
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1914–1918 |
World War I |
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1919 |
Versailles Treaty |
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1922 |
March on Rome |
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1927 |
Charles Lindbergh flies solo across the Atlantic |
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1929 |
Graf Zeppelin’s around-the-world flight |
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1931 |
Italo Balbo’s trans-Atlantic seaplane squadron cruise to Brazil |
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May 1931 |
Auguste Piccard reaches stratosphere |
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1932 |
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected president of the United States |
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1933 |
Adolf Hitler named Chancellor of Germany |
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May 1933–October 1934 |
Second Chicago World’s Fair (A Century of Progress) |
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July 1933 |
Italo Balbo’s trans-Atlantic seaplane squadron cruise to Chicago |
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October 1933 |
Hugo Eckener brings Graf Zeppelin to Chicago World’s Fair |
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November 1933 |
Tex Settle and Chester Fordney set new altitude record in gondola and balloon designed by the Piccards |
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October 1934 |
Jeannette and Jean Piccard reach stratosphere |
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1935 |
Italy invades Ethiopia |
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1936 |
Hitler reoccupies the Rhineland |
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1937 |
Hindenburg explodes over Lakehurst, New Jersey |
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1939–1945 |
World War II |
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1940 |
Italo Balbo shot down and killed |
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1954 |
Hugo Eckener dies |
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1962 |
Auguste Piccard dies |
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1963 |
Jean Piccard dies |
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1963 |
Valentina Tereshkova successfully launched into orbit by a Soviet R-7 rocket |
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1969 |
Apollo XI moonshot |
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1981 |
Jeannette Piccard dies |
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1982 |
EPCOT theme park opens in Orlando, Florida |