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Anne Boleyn's Crown, D-Day & the First AIDS Report | Jun 1–6
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From Anne Boleyn's coronation and the Battle of Midway to the first CDC AIDS report and the D-Day landings, this week in history was packed with world-changing moments. Eight remarkable events across five centuries, four continents, and every corner of human experience.
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On August twenty-fourth, nineteen thirty-two, above the American continent, Amelia Earhart climbed into her cockpit in Los Angeles and pointed her aircraft east. Hours later, she touched down in Newark, New Jersey, becoming the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop in a solo flight.
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