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- 1935 — American aviator Emilia Earhart flies from Mexico to New York, an event she commemorates with an engraving of the flight route on her Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso.
- 1945 — On the last day of World War II in Europe, Russian fighter-bombers destroy the A. Lange & Söhne factory in Glashütte while Walter Lange, who would lead the resurgence of the company in the 1990s, watches.