Wright Brothers flights of 1909
Airplane inventors Wilbur and Orville Wright are famed for making the first controlled, powered, heavier-than-air flights on 17 December 1903 at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Lesser-known are other flights of theirs which played an important role at the dawn of aviation history.
Source: Wikipedia — Wright Brothers flights of 1909 (CC BY-SA 4.0)