DECEMBER 17
1969:More than 40 million television viewers tune in to The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson to watch singer Tiny Tim marry 17-year-old Victoria May "Miss Vicki" Budinger.
1903: Brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright make the first sustained, heavier-than-air flight on the sand dunes near Kitty Hawk, N.C. With Wilbur Wright at the controls of the Wright Flyer, the motorized biplane glider makes the longest flight of the day, lasting 59 seconds and covering a distance of 852 feet.
1944: Maj. Gen. Henry C. Pratt orders the release of detained Japanese Americans from internment camps scattered across the country. Beginning on Jan. 2, 1945, more than 110,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry, forcibly relocated in 1942, will be permitted to return to their homes on the West Coast.
1903: Brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright make the first sustained, heavier-than-air flight on the sand dunes near Kitty Hawk, N.C. With Wilbur Wright at the controls of the Wright Flyer, the motorized biplane glider makes the longest flight of the day, lasting 59 seconds and covering a distance of 852 feet.
1944: Maj. Gen. Henry C. Pratt orders the release of detained Japanese Americans from internment camps scattered across the country. Beginning on Jan. 2, 1945, more than 110,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry, forcibly relocated in 1942, will be permitted to return to their homes on the West Coast.
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