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On Saturday, New Year s Eve 1910 John Bevins Moisant (1873-1910) a French Canadian aviator, races against a 150-horsepower Fiat around the City Park Race Track in his 50-horse-power monoplane. He loses by a whisker. The next day he is determined to win the Michelin Prize for the longest sustained flight of the year so he straps on an extra 351 gallon fuel tank and takes a practice run but a sudden gust catches his plane which takes a sudden dip and pitches him head first 25 feet in the air. He dies enroute to the hospital. Born in Kankakee, Ill in 1873 he had left home at 19 to try farming with his brothers in California, but this proves too tame. They buy a sugar plantation in El Salvador and land in the middle of at least one Central American revolution. Still seeking adventure he turns to flying. He becomes the first man to fly London to Paris to London using a compass. He is also the first to ferry a passenger across the channel. He crashes frequently and survives, especially in 1910. In October 1910 he wins a $10,000 prize flying around the Statue of Liberty in a borrowed airplane, and gets lost in the process. Moisant Airport, now called New Orleans International Airport was named after him. |
| E. D. White becomes Chief Justice of the United States. | Papa Celestin organizes the Original Tuxedo Orchestra and the Tuxedo Brass Band. | In 1910 the St. Vincent s Hotel and Free Labor Bureau is opened by the Rev. Peter Wynhoven to give relief and spiritual administration to homeless men. Until 1936 it provides beds, meals clothing and jobs to men willing to work. It is located in the Decatur St. end of the Lower Pontalba building. |
Samuel Douglas McEnery |
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