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December 17th, 1903
Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Wilbur and Orville Wright conduct the first successful manned, powered flight of the airplane. The brothers [-----1-----] with their experimental craft, [-----2-----] the “Wright Flyer”.

1957
The United States successfully test-fires the Atlas [-----3-----] for the first time. Initially designed to carry a nuclear warhead, the Atlas later boosts an America's space program into orbit.

1830
Simón Bolívar, the South American [-----4-----] to lead revolutions against Spain's colonial rule, dies in Columbia.

1969
Before reality TV, there was Tiny Tim- the singer marries his fiancée- Miss Vicky on NBC's "Tonight Show" – and the event seen by some 50,000,000 [-----5-----].

Today in History, December 17th. Mike Gracia, the Associated Press.
achieved the pioneering feat dubbed intercontinental ballistic missile patriot viewers