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1912 - In Holbrook, Arizona, USA 14,000 meteorite stones fall; no injuries reported.

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1939 - First use of fiberglass sutures, by R.P. Scholz, Saint Louis, Missouri.

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1941 - First US Army flying school for black cadets is dedicted (Tuskegee, Alabama).

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1941 - President Franklin Roosevelt appoints FEP Committee.

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1950 - RKO Radio Pictures releases Disney's first entirely live-action feature film, Treasure Island, to theaters in the USA. The film is based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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1957 - First rocket with nuclear warhead fired, Yucca Flat, Nevada, USA.

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1961 - First in-flight movie shown (TWA).

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1963 - NASA civilian test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 105 km altitude.

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1966 - Governor James Rhodes declares state of emergency in Cleveland, Ohio due to race riot.

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1967 - Race riots in Durham, North Carolina, USA.

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