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16 October
Samuel Franklin Cody makes the first officially recognised aeroplane flight
in the United Kingdom. Cody, an American born entrepreneur, pilots his
own design, British Army Aeroplane No.1 for a flight of 424 metres (1,390
feet) at Farnborough.
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