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This Day in History:
October 15, 1924

The ZR-3 (later renamed the Los Angeles), a German dirigible constructed for the US Navy under a reparations agreement, arrives at Lakehurst, NJ, after flying the Atlantic with a German crew under the command of Hugo Eckener.