Monday, November 14, 1910. First Ship Launch.
Eugene B. Ely took off in an airplane from the USS Birmingham in the first shipboard takeoff.
He landed in Hampton Roads.
He'd follow that up by being the first person to land an airplane on a ship on January 18, 1911.
Not too surprisingly, he died in an aviation accident on October 19, 1911. He received a posthumous Distinguished Flying Cross on February 16, 1933.
