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On July 13, 1985, musicians and celebrities gathered at Wembley Stadium in London and JFK Stadium in Philadelphia to hold a 16-hour Live Aid concert, raising more than $125 million for famine relief in Ethiopia.
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On May 21, 1927, Charles A. Lindbergh completed the first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight in history, flying his Spirit of St. Louis from Long Island, New York, to Paris, France.
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March 30, 1867 - The United States buys Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000.
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Coca-Cola is older than the Eiffel Tower … On May 8th, 1886, Dr John Pemberton sold the first glass of Coca-Cola at Jacobs’ Pharmacy in Atlanta, charging five cents a glass … Nearly three years later, on March 31, 1889, construction of the 300-meter-high Eiffel Tower in Paris,
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Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto on February 18, 1930 at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on January 27, 1756, in Salzburg, Austria.
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The blue whale is the largest animal on the planet, weighing as much as 200 tons and reaching lengths of 100 feet.
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The oldest human being in the world is Inah Canabarro Lucas, a 116-year-old soccer-loving nun from the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul who was born on May 27, 1908. ⚽️🇧🇷🙏❤️
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Jean-Pierre Blanchard & John Jeffries made the first balloon flight across the English Channel on January 7, 1785. The flight took about 2.5 hours and covered the distance from Dover Castle, England to Guînes, France.
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