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A few years before he died, Sir George Cayley (1773-1857) of Brompton-by-Sawdon, Yorkshire designed and flew the first man-carrying glider.
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1941: US congress passes the Lend-Lease Bill, authorising huge war loans to Britain and the Soviet Union.
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