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Amelia Earhart, MLK's Dream, Krakatoa & First Oil Well | Aug 24–29
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This week in history: Amelia Earhart flies solo coast-to-coast, Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his 'I Have a Dream' speech, Krakatoa destroys an island, and Edwin Drake strikes oil for the first time. Eight centuries of turning points, all connected by one calendar week.
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On October fifth, nineteen oh five, near Dayton, Ohio, Orville and Wilbur Wright climbed into their Wright Flyer III and did something nobody had managed before. They flew twenty-four miles in thirty-nine minutes, setting a new world record for sustained flight.
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