The Boeing B-47 Stratojet Strategic bomber plane made its first flight.
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Terrorists attacked Rome's Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino International Airport, leaving thirty dead.
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King was released in theaters.
NASA completed a successful mission to map the Moon's gravity field.
The first sustained motorized aircraft flight took place.
Pope Paul III excommunicated King Henry VIII of England.
