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This technical illustration shows early hot air balloon designs. The first untethered manned hot air balloon flight was performed by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes on this day in 1783.
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The Ukrainian city Vovchansk (Kharkiv region) after Russian shelling and bombing.
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