Dwight D. Eisenhower became the first president to fly in a helicopter.
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The Saxon King Æthelstan of Southern England was the first successful king to take over Northern England.
Basketball player Michael Jordan was offered the richest NBA one-year contract of $30 million from the Chicago Bulls.
Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, was shot in a pistol duel with Vice President Aaron Burr.
Seven people were killed when a French passenger train derailed in Brétigny-Sur-Orge.
NASA's Atlantis space shuttle took off from the John F. Kennedy Space Center on mission STS-104.
