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This Day in History:
May 3, 1923

The first non-stop transconential crossing of the US is completed by Lts. John Macready and Oakley Kelly, flying a single engine Fokker T-2 between New York and San Diego, a distance of just over 2,500 mi in 26 hr 50min.