1981 Birthday Elijah Wood, born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, actor, Radio Flyer, Good Son 1980 Birthday Thomas Ian Nicholas, actor, Radio Flyer, Rookie of the Year 1949 Birthday Bobby Clarke, Manitoba, NHL player and coach, Philadelphia Flyer 1948 Event Wright Flyer, 1st plane to fly, returns to U.S. from England 1946 Event "Exposition Flyer" rammed at Napierville Illinois, killing 48 1944 Birthday John Heard, actor, Pelican Brief, CHUD, Radio Flyer, Big 1938 Event "Olympian Flyer" express train crashes in Montana, killing 47 1918 Death Roland Garros, French stunt flyer, dies 1918 Death Eduard "Mick" Mannock, British WW I flyer (Victoria Cross), dies 1910 Death Daniel Kinet, auto racer/1st Belgian flyer, dies 1909 Birthday Kate Smith, singer, God Bless America, Philadelphia Flyer luck charm 1905 Event Orville/Wilbur Wright's "Flyer III" flight 38.5 km in 38.3" 1904 Event Orville and Wilbur Wright fly a circle in their Flyer II 1904 Event Flexible Flyer trademark registered 1706 Birthday Benjamin Franklin, Boston, kite flyer, statesman, and inventor
