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Check Six: National Aviation Day

August 15, 2015

From the This Day in Aviation website

In 1939, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, proclaimed Orville Wright’s birthday, August 19, as National Aviation Day. Congress, in Title 36 U.S. Code, Subtitle I, Part A, Chapter 1, Section 118, authorized the federal observance:

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