🔬 First people fly in a hot-air balloon (1783)
Where: Château de la Muette gardens, Paris
📅 On This Day: November 21
November 21, 1783: First people fly in a hot-air balloon. On this day in 1783 in Paris, Pilâtre de Rozier and the Marquis d'Arlandes rose into the sky in a hot-air balloon built by the Montgolfier brothers. They floated about 9 km over Paris in roughly 25 minutes. It was the first time people flew freely through the air.
✨ More events on this day
- 1676 🔬 Danish astronomer Ole Rømer presented the first measurement of the speed of light, worked out by timing the moons of Jupiter.
- 1877 💡 Thomas Edison announced his new invention, the phonograph. It was a machine that could record sounds and then play them back for the first time.
- 1964 🏛️ The Verrazzano–Narrows Bridge opened in New York City, joining Brooklyn and Staten Island. At the time it had the longest bridge span in the world.
🧠 Question of the day
Who built the first balloon to carry people?
- The Lumière brothers
- The Montgolfier brothers
- The Wright brothers
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Answer: The Montgolfier brothers
Questions
What happened on November 21?
November 21, 1783: First people fly in a hot-air balloon. It happened in Château de la Muette gardens, Paris.
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Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-François_Pilâtre_de_Rozier