Lex Anteinternet: Tuesday, August 1, 1911. First "licensed" female American pilot.

Lex Anteinternet: Tuesday, August 1, 1911. First "licensed" female ...: Harriet Quimby became the first American woman to receive an airplane pilot's license, although that meant something significantly diffe...

Tuesday, August 1, 1911. First "licensed" female American pilot.

Harriet Quimby became the first American woman to receive an airplane pilot's license, although that meant something significantly different at the time as the government did not issue them and you did not require one to fly an airplane. 

She was killed in an airplane accident the following year at age 37.

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Monday, July 31, 1911. End if the Porfirian legislature and of Standard Oil. Complaining Russians and Germans. First Black Boy Scouts.

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Lex Anteinternet: Monday, November 7, 1910. Dawn of commercial avia...

Lex Anteinternet: Monday, November 7, 1910. Dawn of commercial avia...: The first commercial airplane flight took place when Wright Company pilot Philip Parmalee transported two bolts of silk (worth $1,000) from ...

Monday, November 7, 1910. Dawn of commercial aviation.

The first commercial airplane flight took place when Wright Company pilot Philip Parmalee transported two bolts of silk (worth $1,000) from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, for delivery to the Morehouse-Martens Department Store in Columbus.

Predictably, Parmalee died two years later in an airplane crash.

Philip Parmalee

Oddly enough, showing the dangers of an earlier age, his mother had been killed when he was a child by a runaway horse.

The HMCS Rainbow arrived at Esquimault, British Columbia, to begin her service patrolling the Pacific coast.  She was the Royal Canadian Navy's second ship.