In 1939, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, proclaimed Orville Wright’s birthday, 19 August, as National Aviation Day.
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19 August: National Aviation Day
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19 August 1871
19 August 1871: Orville Wright, co-inventor with his brother Wilbur of the first successful airplane, was born at Dayton, Ohio.
© 2015, Bryan R. Swopes