She continued making exhibition flights until 1916, earning her the nickname the ‘Tomboy of the Air’.
12th October 1915: British nurse Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing squad
12th October 2018
French aviator Louis Charles Joseph Blériot made the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air aircraft.
Elise Raymonde Deroche was the daughter of a Parisian plumber.
On the 17th December 1903, American brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright successfully made the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight.
On the 18th February 1930, Nellie Jay – better known as Elm Farm Ollie – became the first cow to fly in an aeroplane.
Frenchman André-Jacques Garnerin performed the first high-altitude parachute descent.
31st October 1517: Martin Luther reputedely posts his 95 Theses
31st October 2020
30th October 1961: The Tsar Bomba detonated by the USSR
30th October 2020
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018