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Rutan is best known for setting perhaps the last great achievement in aeronautics.

Harris didn’t want to be “the first,” he just wanted to fly, and fly, and fly. And he did.

“We didn’t break everyone. But mostly the stratagem worked.”

One of the earliest (and definitely the longest-working) “Rosie the Riveter” from World War II.

He was the last public letter writer at the Central Post Office in what is now Ho Chi Minh City.

Field was the first professional meteorologist to do weather reports on New York television, and the first to use weather radar.

Det. Cooley was the arresting officer that led to the Supreme Court’s “Miranda” decision.

Doctors warned him he’d never walk again, but two days later he was at the controls of an Air Force fighter jet.