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Bob Dylan plays a Fender Stratocaster electric guitar at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival.

July 25, 1965: Dylan Goes Electric at the Newport Folk Festival

Bob Dylan caused a sensation at the music festival by playing an electric guitar

Aviator Wiley Post under the wing of the Winnie Mae (1933).

Wiley Post Gets His Props

Why can’t the first pilot to circumnavigate the globe get any respect?

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Happy Birthday, Ginger Rogers: The Original Dancing Queen

Rogers is best known for her partnership with Fred Astaire and the glamor they brought to Depression-era America

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Celebrating 55 Years of Disneyland With Dumbo the Flying Elephant

Disneyland first opened on July 17, 1955

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