American engineer and pilot, co-founded the Wright Company (died 1948)

Orville Wright

The Wright brothers, Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright, were American aviation pioneers generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful airplane. They made the first controlled, sustained flight of an engine-powered, heavier-than-air aircraft with the Wright Flyer on December 17, 1903, four miles (6 km) south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, at what is now known as Kill Devil Hills. In 1904 the Wright brothers developed the Wright Flyer II, which made longer-duration flights including the first circle, followed in 1905 by the first truly practical fixed-wing aircraft, the Wright Flyer III.

Born

1871

August 19

Died

1948

Era

1870s

Country

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1871 Born
1948 Died

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-43 In the wake of the murder of Julius Caesar, his nephew and heir, Octavian, uses the threat of military force to compel the Roman Senate to elect him Consul.
947 Abu Yazid, a Kharijite rebel leader, is defeated and killed in the Hodna Mountains in modern-day Algeria by Fatimid forces.
1153 After a six month siege, Baldwin III of Jerusalem captures Ascalon, obtaining a vast amount of plunder and securing the southern border of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

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The world in 1948

When Orville departed

april 1 Cold War: Communist forces respond to the introduction of the Deutsche Mark by attempting to force the western powers to withdraw from Berlin.
april 1 Faroe Islands gain autonomy from Denmark.
april 13 In an ambush, 78 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital, and a British soldier, are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarrah. This event came to be known as the Hadassah medical convoy massacre.
april 16 The Organization of European Economic Co-operation is formed.

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1871

Clarence Hudson White 1871–1925 American photographer and educator (died 1925) Florence R. Sabin 1871– American medical scientist (died 1953) George Hirst 1871– English cricketer and coach (died 1954) James Craig 1871– 1st Viscount Craigavon, Irish captain and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (died 1940) Nicolae Iorga 1871–1940 Romanian historian and politician, 34th Prime Minister of Romania (died 1940) Vernon Louis Parrington 1871–1929 American historian and scholar (died 1929) Winston Churchill 1871–1965 English statesman, soldier, and writer, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1874)

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