First flight across the English Channel - 7/25/1920

Louis Charles Joseph Blériot (1 July 1872 – 1 August 1936) was a French aviator, inventor and engineer. He developed the first practical headlamp for cars and established a profitable business manufacturing them, using much of the money he made to finance his attempts to build a successful aircraft. In 1909 he became world famous for making the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier than air aircraft, [N 1] winning the prize of $5,000 offered by the Daily Mail newspaper.Blériot was also the first to make a working, powered, piloted monoplane. and the founder of a success ful aircraft manufacturing company.
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