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On September 24, 1706, during the Northern War, Charles XII and Augustus Strong signed the Altranstedt peace, according to which the latter renounces the Polish crown in favor of Stanislav Leschinsky.
1784 - in Lyon in the air rose the first woman - Mrs. Tybl in the presence of Swedish King Gustav III in a balloon climbed to a height of 2700 meters and held out for 142 minutes.
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1852 - in Paris, the French engineer Henri Giraffe made the world's first flight on an airship of his own design, on which a steam engine was installed.
1869 - in the American market there was a panic due to mass buying up of gold bars by two businessmen, better known as "Black Friday".
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1916 - pilot K. K. Artseulov for the first time deliberately performed the "corkscrew" and withdrew the plane from it.
1938 - American Don Budge won the US Open Tennis Championship and became the first holder of the Grand Slam in the world.
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1944 - published the American "Plan Morgenthau" on the post-war arrangement of Germany - it was planned to completely turn the industry of Germany and turn it into a purely agricultural country.
1953 - Hollywood premiered the first panoramic film.
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1960 - in the US, the world's first nuclear carrier, the Enterprise, was launched. The ship was 342 meters long and with a capacity of 94,781 tons, was serviced by a crew of 4,600 people.
1970 - the Soviet space station "Luna 16" returned to Earth, completing the world's first unmanned flight to the moon. She delivered 101 grams of lunar soil to Earth.
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1989 - Pope John Paul II publicly apologized to Galilee and returned to him "the right to be the legitimate son of the church."
1999 - a three-meter bronze monument to Sherlock Holmes, the hero of the novels and stories of Arthur Conan Doyle, was opened in London on Baker Street.