历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-12-17(在线收听

 December 17th, 1903Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Wilbur and Orville Wright conduct the first successful manned, powered flight of the airplane. The brothers achieved the pioneering feet with their experimental craft, dubbed the “Wright Flyer”.

1957The United States successfully test-fires the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time. Initially designed to carry a nuclear warhead, the Atlas later boosts an America's space program into orbit. 1830Simón Bolívar, the South American patriot to lead revolutions against Spain's colonial rule , dies in Columbia. 1969Before reality TV, there was Tiny Tim, the singer marries his fiancée- Miss Vicky on NBC's "Tonight Show", and the event seen by 50,000,000 viewers.
Today in History, December 17th. Mike Gracia, the Associated Press. 
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