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Bastille Day, Trinity Test & Nadia's Perfect Ten | Jul 13–18
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From the storming of the Bastille to the world's first nuclear detonation, this week in history delivered seismic moments across five centuries. Plus: DiMaggio's untouchable streak, the Rosetta Stone, and the scoreboard that couldn't handle Nadia Comaneci.
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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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