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Columbus Sets Sail, Hiroshima & Anne Frank Arrested | Aug 3–7
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Five days in history spanning five centuries: Columbus leaves Spain, Jesse Owens stuns Berlin, Anne Frank is arrested, the atomic bomb falls on Hiroshima, and Bertha Benz takes the world's first long road trip. This week in history has never been busier.
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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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