Word: rozier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brazil had been long apotheosizing Alberto Santos-Dumont. First called "Father of Aviation," he presently became throughout South America "first man to fly," despite his own deprecation of the title. "First man to fly" was Frenchman Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier, who went up in a captive fire-balloon in October 1783. "First man to fly in a powered heavier-than-air craft" was, as every schoolboy knows, Orville Wright along the beach at Kitty Hawk, N. C. in 1903. Alberto Santos-Dumont first got off the ground with a box-kite type of powered machine in France three years...