Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 22 July 1933

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All 287 passengers and 14 crew on board the plane died from smoke inhalation after the aircraft made a successful emergency landing at Riyadh.
(19 August 1980)

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BirthFactDeath (x) Saturday 22nd of July 1933 92 years ago
35-year-old aviation pioneer Wiley Post becomes the first man to fly around the world solo from New York to Berlin, Königsberg, Moscow, Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, Rukhlovo, Khabarovsk, Flat, Fairbanks, Edmonton, and back to New York in Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States. Fifty thousand people greeted Post on his return after 7 days, 18 hours, 49 minutes.