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  • Today in Florida History May 17, 1913 – Domingo Rosillo del Toro, a Cuban Armed Forces pilot, flew a Blériot Type XI monoplane from Key West to Havana on this date, the first person to accomplish the international flight. He attempted the flight in order to win a $10,000 prize offered by the Cuban government. The flight took over two hours in the small open-cockpit plane across the Florida Straits, a route that would later...Read more
 

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