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Igor Sikorsky was born in Kiev, Russian Empire (now Kyiv, Ukraine), on May 25, 1889. [6] [10] [11] He was the youngest of five children.His father, Ivan Alexeevich Sikorsky, was a professor of psychology in Saint Vladimir University (now Taras Shevchenko National University), a psychiatrist with an international reputation, and an ardent Russian nationalist.
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1915 – Death of Denys Corbett Wilson, pioneering Irish aviator, Killed with his observer during a reconnaissance mission in a Morane Parasol when their aircraft was struck by an enemy shell. 1913 in aviation|1913 – First flight of the Sikorsky Russky Vityaz , or Russian Knight, also called Le Grand, first four-engine aircraft in the world ...
The National Helicopter Museum traces the evolution of the rotary wing from early predecessors like the boomerang and Chinese tops to designs by Leonardo da Vinci and George Cayley to early motorized experiments to modern helicopters of today. Igor Sikorsky's first helicopter success in Stratford on September 14, 1939 is documented as well as ...
Florida's new death penalty statute, the first to be passed in the United States since the U.S. Supreme Court decision that declared all existing capital punishment laws unconstitutional, went into effect. [5] The Oregon Minimum Deposit Law took effect, as Oregon became the first state to require a deposit on all beverage containers, including ...
Kobe Bryant, former Los Angeles Lakers player, among 9 fatalities of helicopter crash in Calabasas. On Sunday, January 26, 2020, at approximately 9:06 a.m. PST (17:06 UTC), [3] 9 passengers and crew departed from John Wayne Airport (SNA) in Orange County, California, in a 1991 Sikorsky S-76B helicopter, registration N72EX.
1972 – Igor Sikorsky, Ukrainian-American engineer and academic, founded Sikorsky Aircraft (b. 1889) 1973 – Semyon Budyonny, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1883) 1974 – Bidia Dandaron, Russian author and educator (b. 1914) 1976 – Deryck Cooke, English musicologist and author (b. 1919) [34]
The first free flight of Igor Sikorsky's Vought-Sikorsky VS-300 helicopter is made in the United States. May 27 – WWII: Le Paradis massacre: 97 retreating British soldiers of the Royal Norfolk Regiment are executed by German troops of 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf after surrendering in France. May 28 – WWII: