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Lindbergh's Landing, Blue Jeans & Mount St. Helens | May 18–24
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This week in history spans the Council of Nicaea, Anne Boleyn's execution, the birth of blue jeans, Lindbergh's Atlantic crossing, the founding of FIFA, Apollo Ten's dress rehearsal, and the eruption of Mount St. Helens. Eight centuries of politics, aviation, disaster, sport, and culture packed into one week.
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On August seventeenth, eighteen oh seven, on the Hudson River in New York, Robert Fulton pointed his North River Steamboat north and let the engine do what sails and oars had always done before. The vessel departed New York City bound for Albany, churning upstream under its own mechanical power.
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