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    • Apr 16, 1867
    Airplane inventor Wilbur Wright is born in Millville, Indiana. He's memorialized in the 2001 Trick Pony single "Just What I Do"
    Aug 19, 1871
    Inventor Orville Wright is born in Dayton, Ohio. The Wright Brothers, famous for establishing aviation, are cited in Trick Pony's 2001 hit "Just What I Do"
    Nov 22, 1898
    Aviator Wiley Post is born in Grand Saline, Texas. A record-setting pilot, he's named in Tex Ritter's 1961 recitation, "I Dreamed Of A Hill-billy Heaven," along with comedian Will Rogers, who perishes with Post in a plane crash
    Feb 4, 1902
    Aviator Charles Lindbergh is born in Detroit. Famous for making the first non-stop solo flight from New York to Paris, he will be referenced in Bill Anderson's 1970 country hit "Where Have All Our Heroes Gone"
    May 30, 1912
    Inventor Wilbur Wright dies of typhus in Dayton, Ohio, nine years after the Wright Brothers inaugurated manned flight. The brothers are remembered in Trick Pony's 2001 single "Just What I Do"
    Aug 15, 1935
    Comedian Will Rogers and renowned pilot Wiley Post die in a plane crash outside of Point Barrow, Alaska. Their souls live on in Tex Ritter's 1961 recitation "I Dreamed Of A Hill-billy Heaven"
    Aug 18, 1936
    Tex Ritter arrives at the Glendale Airport in California, where he is set to begin work on his first movie, "Song Of The Gringo," at the end of the month
    Oct 23, 1942
    Broadway and film composer Ralph Rainger dies in a mid-air collision near Palm Springs, California. The author of "Thanks For The Memory," he also co-wrote "Blue Hawaii," recorded by Willie Nelson for the 1992 movie "Honeymoon In Vegas"
    Jun 22, 1944
    Dueron Robertson dies in France when his plane is shot down during World War II. The son of Eck Robertson, he played on his father's 1929 recording "Brilliancy Medley," included in the 1952 album "Anthology Of American Folk Music"
    Nov 3, 1945
    James Wagner dies in a plane crash in the Berkshire Mountains near Wingdale, New York. Wagner is the biological father of the future Priscilla Presley



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