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
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.
