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Recently I ran across some interesting facts from 1947. That was the year I was born so I really enjoyed seeing what was going on that year.

1947

FIRST AND LAST

Howard Hughes pilots his giant wooden seaplane on its first and only flight—25 feet in the air for half a mile across California’s Long Beach Harbor. Known as the Spruce Goose, the plane actually is of laminated birch. Until 2019, it holds th…