Yesterday in History
March 8, 1910
Elise Deroche, the colorful self-styled Baroness Raymonde de Laroche, becomes the first woman in the world to receive a pilot’s license in Paris.
March 8, 1910
Claude Moore-Brabazon receives the Royal Aero Club’s first aviator’s certificate in London. Charles Rolls receives the second. Edited to add that elsewhere it is reported that Henri Farmen received the first British pilot's licence.
March 8, 1917
Count F. von Zeppelin died at the age of almost 79.
Last edited by seacue; 8th Mar 2007 at 23:13.