Also on this day: France recognizes American independence. Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 8, known as the “Unfinished” because only two movements had been completed, is first performed publicly in Vienna 37 years after the composer’s death.Wilbur and Orville Wright of Dayton, Ohio, conduct the first successful manned powered airplane flights near Kitty Hawk, N.C., using their experimental craft, the Wright Flyer.The U.S.
War Department announces it is ending its policy of excluding people of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast.The United States successfully test fires the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time.The U.S.
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