Aviation Chronology: 1910s Entries in grey refer to aviation and world events achievements not specific to women. Entries in white refer to women's achievements. Birthdates of female pilots/groundcrew, etc. are not given individual entries, but listed in the first entry for each woman. Reference works are cited by code numbers, identified in the Bibliography.

Name	Date(s)	Notes	Bibliography
1910	1910	1910	1910
Therese Peltier (1873 - 1926)	January 4, 1910	French Leon Delagrange is killed in an accident with his monoplane at Pau, while trying to win the Michelin cup. His protege Therese Peltier decides to give up flying.	Le-1
Raymonde de Laroche (August 22 , 1886 - July 18, 1919)	January 4, 1910	French. Laroche crash-lands during training (as many student pilots did.) She receives a broken collarbone and bruises.	Le-1
Raymonde de Laroche (August 22 , 1886 - July 18, 1919)	February 10, 1910	French Laroche participates in the Heliopolis air meet in Egypt. 12 aviators compete, with five monoplanes and seven biplanes. On this day, Laroche flies 20 kilometers.	Le-1
Raymonde de Laroche (August 22, 1886 - July 18, 1919)	March 8, 1910	French Laroche is the first woman to take the test and receive a pilot's license, #36. This is awarded by the Federation Aeronautique Internationale.	Le-1
Marie Marvingt (February 20, 1875 - December 14, 1963)	March 15, 1910	French Marvingt is presented with the Medaille d'Or of the French Academy of Sport.	Le-1
Helene Dutrieu (July 10, 1877 - June 26, 1961)	April 9, 1910	Belgian. Helene Dutrieu pilots a plane designed by Roger Sommer into the air, and flies for 20 minutes.	Le-1
Raymonde de Laroche (August 22 , 1886 - July 18, 1919)	July 1910	In Rheims, France, the Seconde Grande Semaine (Second Great Week) is held, The second year in a row. The only female aviator in attendance is Raymonde de Laroche. Male flyers include: Hubert Latham, Jan Lindpaintner, Jan Olieslagers, Etienne Buneau-Varilla, and Charles Weyman. On the sixth day of the meet, Raymonde crashes her plane and is severely injured. I[t is at this point revealed, by one newspaper that she has a seven year old son, Andre (believed to be the son of Leon Delangrange.) There are no other mentions of such a son.] LaRoche will resume flying in 1912. After this crash, aviation writers of the day point out that women are unfit to fly, at least in competition.	Le-1
Hilda Hewlett	July 1910	English. Born 1864 into a wealthy family, Hilda Herbert, marries Maurice Henry Hewlett in 1888. Givng birth to two children, meanwhile keeping up an avid sportslife - both she and her husband are bicycling enthusiasts, and when the motor car comes into fashion, she is the passenger and mechanic for Miss Hind, the only woman entered in the Land's End to John O'Groats Trial, in a Singer Tricar. Hewlett had financed the training for engineer Gustave Blondeau to learn to fly. They purchase a Farman, name it the Blue Bird, take it to England, and open up the first flying school in England, the Hewlett-Blondeau School. "From this unlikely location, three quarters of British aviation would emerge."	Le-1
Mrs. Gavin	July 1910	English. Mrs. Gavin attends the Charles Lane Gliding School at Brooklands. The biplane glider slides down a rail in order to get airborne.	Le-1
Charles Wachter	July, 1910	French Wachter, a friend of Marie Marvingt's, is killed while flying at Rheims, when a wing of his plane collapses.	Le-1
Edith Maud Cook	July 10, 1910	English. A show-woman who appeared under several names - depending on which company she was working for - such as Elsa Spencer, Viola Fleet, Viola Spencer-Kavanagh, Viola Spencer and Viola Kavagnag, she died on this day of injuries received five days earlier in a failed parachute jump.	Le-1
Lydia Zvereva	August 8, 1910	Russian. Zvereva receives license #31.	Le-1
Helene Dutrieu (July 10, 1877- June 26, 1961)	August 23, 1910	Belgian. Dutrieu takes her test for her pilot's license test, but because of red tape will not receive pilot's license, #27 until November 25.	Le-1
Marthe Niel	August 29, 1910	French. Born on December 29, 1880 in Pierpoint, Brittany. Niel receives a pilot's license, #226. She passed her tests while flying a Koechlin airplane (built by Jean Paul Koechlin.)	Le-1
Blanche Stuart Scott	September 2 or 6, 1910	American Born April 8, 1891 in Rochester, New York The daughter of a wealthy veterinarian, Scott grew up as a "fresh brat", as she termed herself. Scott "probably" makes her first flight on this day, at Hammondsport, New York. There are no observers for her to claim the record offically as the first American woman in the air.	Le-1
Bessica Raiche (April 1875 - April 11, 1932)	September 16, 1910	American Bessica Raiche's new airplane is wheeled out, and she makes numerous short flights - only going straight, for short distances, before the plane crashes.	Le-1
Bessica Raiche (April 1875 - April 11, 1932)	September 26, 1910	American Born 1896, as Bessica Faith Medlar [ Wikipedia says 1875] Bessica Raiche, nee Medlar, trains at Mineola, Long Island, a popular location for aviation training, and there are many witnesses to her flight.	Le-1
Bessica Raiche (April 1875 - April 11, 1932)	October 13, 1910	American Bessica Raiche is presented with a gold medal by Hudson Maxim of the Aeronautical Society of New York, for being the first American woman to solo.	Le-1
Marie Marvingt (February 20, 1875 - December 14, 1963)	November 8, 1910	French. Marving receives a pilot's license, #281.	Le-1
Helene Dutrieu (July 10, 1877 - June 26, 1961)	November 25, 1910	Belgian. Dutrieu, who had taken her test for a pilot's license on August 23, is awarded pilot's license, #27 on this day.	Le-1
Marie Marvingt (February 20, 1875 - December 14, 1963)	November 27, 1910	French. Marvingt makes a flight of 42 kilometers in 53 minutes, at that time a record for women.	Le-1
Lilian Bland	December, 1910	Irish. Lilian Bland, "a member of one of Belfast's most prominent familiues," writes an article for the December issue of Flight, describing how she builds a glider, that will evolve into an airplane. When completed, she will call it the Mayfly.	Le-1
Jeanne Herveaux	December 7, 1910	French. Born December 10, 1885 Herveaux receives a pilot's license, #318.	Le-1
Melli Beese	December 10, 1910	German. Born Amélie Hedwig Beese, September 13, 1886. On this day, Melli and her instructor, Norwegian Robert Thelen, make a flight. Due to mechanical failure the plane crashes, Melli breaks her foot. Her sister, Hertha von Grienberger, witnesses the accident and begs her sister to give up flying. Her father dies shortly afterwards of a heart attack. Beese is filled with grief, but due to an inheritance, now has the money to learn how to fly. However, she has difficulty finding a new instructor, as Thelen will no longer teach her.	Le-1
Helene Dutrieu (July 10, 1877 - June 26, 1961)	December 22, 1910	Belgian. Helene Dutrieu tries to win the "recently established" Coupe Femina. She takes off from Etampes in the mid-afternoon, and flies in circles for 60.8 kilometers, flown in one hour and nine minutes.	Le-1
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Helene Dutrieu (July 10, 1877 - June 26, 1961)	1911	Dutrieu competes against men and wins the King of Italy Cup.	Le-1
Harriet Quimby	April, 1911	American. Born May 11, 1875 in Coldwater, Michigan. Harriet Quimby enrolls in the Moisant Aviation School, newly opened at Hempstead, Long Island.	Le-1
Mrs. Gavin	May 20, 1911	English. The New York Evening World publishes an article stating that Mrs. Gavin - an excellent golfer - was the first English woman to fly - but this claim has been disputed.	Le-1
Jeanne Herveaux	May 28 - June 8, 1911	French. Herveaux signs a contract with La Societe de l'Ecole Nationale d'Aviation in Lyons. She is to appear daily from May 28 - June 8, flying two exhibitions a day - one in the morning and one at night.	Le-1
Blanche Stuart Scott	June 11, 1910	American Scott at this point is flying with Thomas S. Baldwin at Mineola, Long Island. She had trained on a Curtiss pusher, now she was learning on a faster plane.	Le-1
Marie-Louise Martin Driancourt	June 15, 1911	French. Driancourt receives a pilot's license, #525.	Le-1
Mathilde Moisant (September 13, 1878 - February 5, 1964)	July 1, 1911	French-Canadian descent. Mathilde begins training to become a pilot.	Le-1
Melli Beese	July 27, 1911	German. Born Amélie Hedwig Beese, September 13, 1886. Melli Beese, taking lessons at Johannisthal, in Berlin, flies for the first time alone.	Le-1
Harriet Quimby	July 31, 1911	American. Born May 11, 1875 in Coldwater, Michigan. The New York Evening Mail reports that "Miss Quimby Outdoes Rival in Flying Dips."	Le-1
Harriet Quimby	August 2, 1911	American. Born May 11, 1875 in Coldwater, Michigan. Quimby receives pilot's license, #37, having tested in front of the Aero Club of America representatives George F. Campbell-Wood and Baron Ladilad D'Orcy. She is the first American woman to earn her pilot's license. Note, the text of Le-1 says she received her license on August 1, the index says August 2. McL-1 also states August 1, 1911.	Le-1, McL-1
Jeanne Herveaux	August 11, 1911	French. Herveaux flies her Bleriot, with a Gnome motor, for 1 hr 45 min, 101 kilometers at 600 meters altitude, in an attempt to win the Coupe Femina. However, Dutrieu wins the prize with her feats.	Le-1
Mathilde Moisant (September 13, 1878 – February 5, 1964)	August 14, 1911	French-Canadian descent. Moisant takes her pilot's license test in front of Baron Ladilas D'Orcy and William Bluet.	Le-1
Mathilde Moisant (September 13, 1878 – February 5, 1964)	August 17, 1911	French-Canadian descent. Born September 13, 1878, in either Manteno, IL or Earl Park, In Moisant receives pilot's license, #44, at the age of 33. She is the second American woman to earn a license, following her friend Harriet Quimby. (Her brother was John Moisant, who ran an aviation school before his death in a crash on December 31, 1910.)	Le-1
Lydia Zvereva	August 22, 1911	Russian. Born in 1890. Zvereva receives pilot's license, #31, from the Russian Aviation Flying School at Gatchina. The plane she flies is a Farman.	Le-1
Hilda Hewlett	August 18, 1911	English. On this day, Mrs. Hilda Hewlett takes the tests to earn her pilot's license. She will become the first Englishwoman to do so. She is 47 years old. She will teach flying at her school (founded in 1910) but when it is closed in 1912 for construction, she will not resume flying. However, she will run an airplane construction business called Omnia Works for many years (and many of their planes will fly during WWI), until retiring and moving to New Zealand.	Le-1
Hilda Hewlett	August 29, 1911	English. Hewlett receives pilot's license, #122.	Le-1
Melli Beese	September 13, 1911	German. Beese receives a pilot's license, #115.	Le-1
Mathilde Moisant (September 13, 1878 – February 5, 1964)	September 23, 1911	American. Moisant participates in the international aviation meet held at Nassau Boulevard, New Jersey. Four women pilots are to appear, but the publicity focuses on: Claude Grahame-White, Harry Atwood, Earle Ovington, T.O.M. Sopworth and Grorge Batty. The women participate in events for the Rodman Wanamaker Trophy, "offered to members of the fairer sex."	Le-1
Melli Beese	September 26, 1911	German. Melli Beese competes with men at the Autumn Fly at Johannisthal. She is ostracized by the other, male pilots until her friend Charles Boutard flies with her, and then Alfred Pietschker. She sets a women's world record for endurance flying on this day - 2 hours and 9 minutes.	Le-1
Melli Beese	September 27, 1911	German. Melli Beese continues to compete in the Autumn Fly In.	Le-1
Melli Beese	September 28, 1911	German. Melli Beese continues to compete in the Autumn Fly In. However, the weather is bad this day, and Hellmuth Hirth announces that Beese will not fly, because "as chief pilot for Rumpler, he could not be responsible for the machine she had on loan." Beese believes this is just a ruse to prevent her from achieving first place in the endurance trials. [She would eventually end up in 5th place. Captain Paul Engelhard is killed in a crash during this meet.]	Le-1
Eudocie V. Anatra	October 3, 1911	Russian. Anatra receives license #54 from the Russia Aviation Flying School at Gatchina. She will open up a flying school in 1912, with the male flyer Naumov. One of their students will be Eugenie Shakhovskaya, who will complete her training in Germany.	Le-1
Beatrice Deryck	October 10, 1911	French. Deryck receives pilot's license, #652.	Le-1
Bozena Láglerová	October 10, 1911	Czech . Laglerova receives license #37 from the Austrian Aero Club. She was the first female student of Hans Grade, and had begun her training in the spring of 1911.	Le-1
Bozena Láglerová	October 19, 1911	Czech . Laglerova receives license #125 from the German Aero Club.	Le-1
Bozena Láglerová	October 22, 1911	Czech . Flying in Czechoslovakia, at Kladno-Krocehlavy, near Prague, she crashes, but the plane is repairable and she is only slightly injured.	Le-1
Mathilde Moisant (September 13, 1878 – February 5, 1964)	November 1, 1911	American. Moisant sails with the Moisant group for Mexico City, to attend an aviation meet to celebrate the inaugeration of President-elect Madero. Harriet Quimby and Andre Houpert are also in this group, which barnstorms through Mexico.	Le-1
Cheridah de Beauvoir Stocks	November 7, 1911	English. Born in 1887 in Somerset Stocks receives pilot's license, #153, from the Royal Aro Club. She had trained at the Grahame-White school at Hendon. She learnned on a Farman biplane, and would later fly a Blériot monoplane.	Le-1
Beatrice Deryck	November 12, 1911	Indonesian national. Flew in a balloon on this day with Mme Gustave Goldschmidt..	Le-1
Lyubov Golanchikova	December 29, 1911	Russian. Golanchikova receives license #56, flying a Farman biplane at Gatchina.	Le-1
1912	1912	1912	1912
Bessica Raiche	1912	American Bessica and her husband have moved to Chicago. Bessica organizes the US's first pilot-instruction class exclusively for women. However, this class does not last very long, and later in the year the Raiches move to California, where Bessica takes up her medical practice (having a degree in medicine from Tufts Medical School).	Le-1
Melli Beese	January, 1912	German. Melli Beese opens a flying school, with Charles Boutard and Hermann Reichelt as partners. Financial support is provided by Melli's wealthy mother, among others. The school will last for a while, but hardly make much profit. Soon, with preparations for a possible war, private flying schools such as hers will be forced out of business. In addition, Beese will marry a Frenchman, Charles Boutard, and thus assumes his citizenship. During the war, she is regarded as "the enemy." [See December 22, 1925]	Le-1
Lilly Steinschneider	1912	Hungarian. Steinschneider receives license #4.	Le-1
Blanche Stuart Scott	February 17 -18, 22, 23-25, 1912	American Blanche Scott flies in an air show, billed as the "tomboy of the air." At this point in her career she earns $5,000 a week.	Le-1
Winnie Buller	May 3, 1912	English. Born in Bacton, Norfolk Buller receives pilot's license, #848, from Breguet School at Douia, France.	Le-1
Julia Clark	June 11, 1912	American. Clark receives pilot's license, #133.	Le-1
Harriet Quimby	July 1 - 7, 1912	American. Harriet Quimby participates in the 1912 Harvard-Boston Aviation Meet at Squantum Airfield, which also features Lincoln Beachey, Charlie Hamilton, arnum T. Fish, Earle L. Ovington, Paul Peck and Blanche Scott.	Le-1
Harriet Quimby	July 7, 1912	American. Harriet Quimby dies when first her passenger and then she is thrown out of the newly designed Bleriot she is piloting on the last day of the 1912 Harvard-Boston Aviation Meet. (Seatbelts will not come into common usage until 1913, when pilots start doing loop the loops.	Le-1
Katherine Stinson	July 19, 1912	American. Katherine Stinson takes the tests to earn her pilot's license.	Le-1
Katherine Stinson	July 24, 1912	American. Stinson, who had tested for her license on july 19, is officially given her pilot's license, #148, by the Aero Club of America. She will spend the next couple of months at Cicero Field, making practice flights.	Le-1
Jeanne Pallier	August 2, 1912	French. 48 year old Pallier taes the test for her pilot's license. She "astonished the aviation world by flying over Paris at a height of 700 meters for her distance flight." She will be awarded her license on Sept 6, 1912. She trained on an Astra biplane, although she soloed in a smaller model.	Le-1
Eugenie Shakhovskaya	August 6, 1912	Russian. Born in 1889, a princess Shakhovskaya, who had trained at Gatchina, flew with Vladimir Lebedev in Russia. On this day, she and Karl Hackstetter, her navigator, arrive arrive in Berlin from St. Petersburg after a 24-hour flight.	Le-1
Eugenie Shakhovskaya	August 16, 1912	Russian. Shakhovskaya receives license #274, licensed by the German Aero Club, at Johannisthal airfirld near Berlin. She had begun her training in Russia, at the school run by Eudocie V. Anatra.	Le-1
Jeanne Pallier	September 6, 1912	French. 48 year old Pallier receives pilot's license, #1012. She had completed her test on August 2, 1912.	Le-1
Charlotte Möhring	September 7, 1912	German. Möhring, flying a Grade monoplane, receives pilot's license, #285.	Le-1
Bernetta A. Miller	September 25, 1912	American. Miller receives pilot's license, #173.	Le-1
Raymonde de Laroche	September 25, 1912	French Charles Voisin (pilot and aircraft designer) and Raymonde de Laroche are involved in a car accident. Voisin is killed immediately, Raymonde is badly injured.	Le-1
Raymonde de Laroche	November 19, 1912	French Raymonde writes a lettr to her friend Jacques Mortane, telling him she is learning to fly a Sommer biplane at Mourmelon, outside Paris, and that she intends to try for the Coupe Femina. The Sommer is a biplane. By the next year she will absndon the Sommer for a Farman biplane.	Le-1
Ruth Law	November 20, 1912	American. Law receives pilot's license, #188.	Le-1
Lyubov "Luba" Golanchikova	November 21, 1912	Russian. Golanchikova, hired by C. MacKenzie Kennedy , friend of Anthony Herman Fokker, to fly a Fokker, sets a women's world record for altitude in a Fokker eindecker, with a flight of 2200 meters.	Le-1
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Rosina Ferrario	January 3, 1913	Italian. Ferrario receives license #203, from the Italian Aero Club. She flew a monoplane. Ferrario was the only Italian woman awarded a license before the War.	Le-1
Eugenie Shakhovskaya	April ?, 1913	Russian. In Germany, Shakhovskaya, with Wssewolod as her passenger, takes off in a Wright biplane, "possibly a new model." The plane loses power and crashes. Wssewowold is killed, Eugenie is injured but recovers.	Le-1
Helene de Plagino	June 4, 1913	French. Plagino receives a pilot's license, #1349. She was the daughter of a diplomat stationed in Bucharest.	Le-1
Marthe Betenfeld Richer	June 4, 1913	French. Born on April 15, 1889 , at Blamont in Meurthe-et-Moselle Richer receives pilot's license, #1369. Betenfeld had married Henri Richer, a wealthy attorney, when she was 22. (Her husnand will be killed at Verdun.)She acted as a spy for the French during WWI, and during WWII.	Le-1
Martha Behrbohm	June 4, 1913	German. Behrbohm, who trained at Johannisthal with Paul Schwandt, as well as Hans Grade, receives pilot's license, #427.	Le-1
Katherine Stinson	July ?, 1913	American. Katherine Stinson, billed as "the Flying Schoolgirl" performs for two weekends at Cincinnati's Coney Island Park, flying with the pilot A.C. Beech. She flew a new Wright flier.	Le-1
Lyubov "Luba" Golanchikova	July 23, 1913	Russian. French aviator Léon Letort and Luba attempt to win a 10,000 mark prize for making the first flight from Berlin to Paris in one day. They leave on this day from Berlin in Letort's plane - a Morane - at 4:30 am, but bad weather delays them and it takes them 4 days to reach Paris.	Le-1
Florence Seidell	August 20, 1913	American. Seidell receives pilot's license, #258.	Le-1
Helena P. Samsonova	August 25, 1913	Russian. Born in 1890. Samsonova receives license #167 from the Imperial Moscow Aviation Flying School.	Le-1
Carmen Damedoz	September 5, 1913	French. Damedoz receives pilot's license, #1449. She flew a Sommer biplane. Damedoz was also a member of the Stella society (balloonists.)	Le-1
Florence Madera	September 5, 1913	?. Madera receives pilot's license, #1421.	Le-1
Cheridah de Beauvoir Stocks	September 20, 1913	English. Stocks, who has flown enthusiastically since gaining her pilot's license, is a passenger on this occasion, as Sydney Pickles takes her on a flight in a new model - a Champel biplane. Pickles crashes the plane and sustains a broken leg, Stocks is unconscious for several days, and has back injuries. She is forced to give up flying, due to a paralyzed right side.	Le-1
Raymonde de Laroche	November 29, 1913	French. Laroche makes a flight, in a Farman(?) of 323.5 kilometers in four hours. This gives her the lead in the Coupe Fenima, and at the end of the year, when no other woman matches her distance, she is awarded the prize.	Le-1
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Hèléne Caragiani	February 6, 1914	Romanian. Caragiani receives pilot's license, #1591.	Le-1
Winnie Buller	May, 1914	English. Buller takes lessons at the Caudron School at Hendon, learning to fly a new airplane from France.	Le-1
Lydia Zvereva	May 19, 1914	Russian. Born in 1890. Zvereva, flying a Morane monoplane at an airshow in Riga, and is the first woman to perform a loop. (Male aviators to do this before her were Peter Nesteroff and Aldolphe Pégoud.)	Le-1
Sophie A. Dolgorukaya	June 5, 1914	Russian. Trained in France with Leon Delagrange. She received her pilot's license in Russia, No. 234.	Le-1
Else Haugk	June 6, 1914	Swiss. Haugk (last name also sometimes spelled Haugh), a Swiss, travelled to Gemany to train, and earned liscense #785. She had trained on a Rumpler Taube, at the Hansa Fllying Works.	Le-1
Gaetane Picard	July 2, 1914	French. Picard receives pilot's license, #72 for aeroplanes and hydro-aeroplanes - a separate category from civil pilots. She had trained at the Blériot scool in Buc.	Le-1
Gaétane Picard	July 10, 1914	French. Picard receives pilot's license, #1653. She had trained at the Blériot scool in Buc.	Le-1
Sophie A. Dolgorukaya	June 5, 1914	Russian. Dolgorukaya receives license #234.	Le-1
Elsa Haugk	June 6, 1914	Swiss. Haugk receives pilot's license, #785.	Le-1
Mrs. Richberg Hornsby	June 24, 1914	American. Hornsby receives pilot's license, #301.	Le-1
Margaret Stinson	August 12, 1914	American. Stinson receives pilot's license, #303.	Le-1
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Nadeshda Degtereva	1915	Russian. According to Lebow in Before Amelia, Degtereva disguised herself as a man and flew combat missions during WWI, on the Galician front. She is "the first woman pilot injured in combat."	Le-1
Katherine Stinson	1915	American. The Stinson family makes plans to open up an aviation school.	Le-1
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Katherine Stinson	May, 1916	American. Katherine Stinson develops an act where she races automobile racer Dario Resta. "Spectators watched with disbelief as Stinson dropped to within six feet of the track, flying sixty miles an hour, to cross the finish line ahead of her competitor."	Le-1
Lydia Zvereva	May 1, 1916	Russian. Born in 1890. At the age of 26, Zvereva contracted typhoid fever in April, and dies on this day. She was buried in Alexander Nvetski Monastery, and an aerial formation flew overhead in her honor.	Le-1
Dorothy Rice Peirce	August 23, 1916	American. Peirce receives pilot's license, #561.	Le-1
Katherine Stinson	October 14, 1916	American. The Billboard reports that Katherine Stinson's contract at Richmond was for "the largest amount paid any aviator for a fair engagement this season."	Le-1
Helen Hodge Harris	November 12, 1916	American. Harris receives pilot's license, #633.	Le-1
Ruth Law	November 20, 1916	American. Ruth Law sets a non-stop distance record by flying 590 miles from Chicago to Hornell, New York.	Mo-1
Katherine Stinson	November 25, 1916	American. Katherine Stinson and her entourage - Frank Champion, her mechanic, and Emma, her mother, set sail for the Orient where Katherine will be touring for six months.	Le-1
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.	April 16, 1917	United States of America declares war on Germany.	Pl-1
1918	1918	1918	1918
.	May 15, 1918	President Woodrow Wilson witnesses the first airmail flight to take off from Washington, DC. (The pilot will fly off in the wrong direction and crash 20 miles a way.)	Pl-1
.	November 11, 1918	World War I comes to an end. African-American soldiers and pilots, who had been treated as equals in France, return to the United States to find themselves relegated back to second-class citizens.	Pl-1
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.	January 29, 1919 Sunday	The Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, which institutes Prohibition.	Pl-1
Raymonde de Laroche	June 7, 1919	French Laroche, at Issy-les-Moulineaux, flying a Caudron G-3, sets a new women's altitude record, at 3,900 meters.	Le-1
Ruth Law	June 10, 1919	American Ruth Law sets a new altitude record for women at 4,270 meters.	Le-1
Raymonde de Laroche	June 12, 1919	French Laroche resets a new altitude record for women at 4,800 meters, breaking the one set by Ruth Law a few days earlier.	Le-1
Raymonde de Laroche	July 18, 1919	French visits Le Crotoy airport, and flies as a passenger with test pilot M. Barrault. The plane crashes while coming in for a landing, and both Laroche and the pilot are killed.	Le-1