While we’re on a short break from full episodes, This Day, That Year is back and this week we rewind to December 17, 1903. In just twelve seconds over the dunes of North Carolina, two bicycle mechanics quietly launched the modern world. We walk through the Wright brothers’ first powered flight, why almost nobody cared at the time, and how that brief moment reshaped warfare, travel, globalization, and even the path to space. A reminder that history doesn’t always announce itself when it arrives.