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Daylight Saving Time begins in the UK

sunrise through clock face
Photo by Air Force Senior Airman Andrea Posey

DST was a WWI effort. Germany was the first, in April 1916. The UK followed on 21 May 1916.

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Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart fly across the Atlantic

Lindbergh flight path
Charles Lindbergh flew a Great Circle route along the curvature of the earth rather than flying directly east over the Atlantic Ocean.

On 20 May 1927, Lindbergh left New York to become the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic. Five years later, Earhart would become the first woman to do so.

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A patent for keeping severed heads alive

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Illustration accompanying Patent No. #4,666,425­­, a procedure to keep a severed head alive.1987.

Filed under “science fiction, meet the US Patent Office.”