More About National Aviation Day
In 1939, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared Orville Wright's birthday as National Aviation Day. Why he chose to honor Orville over Wilbur is a mystery to historians, but it could have had something to do with the fact that Orville was still alive when FDR made the day official ... and Wilbur was not.
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