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KingCucamonga
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KingCucamonga asked in News & EventsOther - News & Events · 2 decades ago

Can Anyone Tell Me What Happened On Oct. 14th, 1947?

Update:

Oh BTW it wasn't Chuck Yeager breaking the sound barrier

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  • Mr. Sacamoco
    2 decades ago
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    8 Billion people woke up and another 7 Billion went to sleep.

  • uvkitty
    1 decade ago

    Test pilot Chuck Yeager flew his XS-1 rocket airplane faster than the speed of sound over the desert in southern California. He attained a top speed of about 650 mph.

    Source(s): http://northport.k12.ny.us/~fifthave/explore/
  • pineapple_34_34
    1 decade ago

    Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time

  • Bear Naked
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Test pilot Chuck Yeager flew his XS-1 rocket airplane faster than the speed of sound over the desert in southern California. He attained a top speed of about 650 mph

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  • CMSgt342
    1 decade ago

    Chuck Yeager flew the X-1 faster then the speed of sound (first time that's done in level flight)

  • Jenn
    1 decade ago

    Didn't German Gen. Erwin Rommel (aka the Desert Fox) commit suicide?

    *revised* nevermind i was off by a few years. he committed suicide in 1944.

    Source(s): History major
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