First Manned Hot-Air Balloon Flight

The Montgolfier brothers' November demonstration in Paris proved humans could escape Earth's surface, igniting the age of aviation and exploration.

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The First Macedonian War was fought by Rome, allied with the Aetolian League and Attalus I of Pergamon, against Philip V of Macedon, contemporaneously with the Second Punic War against Carthage. There were no decisive engagements, and the war ended in a stalemate.

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