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September 17, 1931
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The first long-playing record was demonstrated in New York by RCA-Victor, but the venture failed because of the high price of the players 
 
September 17, 1911
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First transcontinental airplane flight, NY-Pasadena in 82 hrs 4 min 
 
September 17, 1908
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Lt Selfridge, on a test flight with Orville Wright, was kills when the plane crashed, becoming the first passenger to die in an air crash 
 
September 17, 1908
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Thomas Selfridge becomes 1st fatality of powered flight 
 
September 17, 1906
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Playing as Sullivan, Columbia U jr Eddie Collins debuts with As 
 
September 17, 1902
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US protests anti-semitism in Romania 
 
September 17, 1900
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Queen Victoria disbands British parliament 
 
September 17, 1877
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William Henry Fox Talbot, English photographic pioneer, dies 
 
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