🔬 The Montgolfier brothers' balloon (1783)
Where: Annonay, France
📅 On This Day: June 4
June 4, 1783: The Montgolfier brothers' balloon. On this day in 1783, the Montgolfier brothers launched a big hot-air balloon in front of a crowd in Annonay, France. The brothers ran a paper factory, and they used the fact that hot air rises. This public flight brought people one step closer to their dream of flying.
✨ More events on this day
- 1784 🧭 Élisabeth Thible became the first woman to fly in a free-floating hot-air balloon, singing opera as it rose over the city of Lyon in France.
- 1896 💡 Henry Ford finished building his Quadricycle, his very first gasoline-powered car, and took it for a successful test drive through Detroit.
- 2010 🚀 SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket made its first flight from Cape Canaveral; later versions learned to land back on Earth so they could fly again.
🧠 Question of the day
What business did the Montgolfier brothers run?
- A bakery
- A paper factory
- A shipyard
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Answer: A paper factory
Questions
What happened on June 4?
June 4, 1783: The Montgolfier brothers' balloon. It happened in Annonay, France.
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