March 19, 1909 (Friday)
- The first airplane-manufacturing company was formed as Glenn Curtiss partnered with Augustus M. Herring to create the Herring-Curtiss Company. After parting ways with Herring the next year, Curtiss formed Curtiss Aeroplane Company, which later merged into Curtiss-Wright.
- In Germany, Zeppelin I ascended with 26 passengers and made the longest controlled airship flight to that time, for 90 minutes.
- Born: Louis Hayward, British film actor, in Johannesburg, South Africa (d. 1985)
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Famous quotes containing the word march:
“At the earliest ending of winter,
In March, a scrawny cry from outside
Seemed like a sound in his mind.
He knew that he heard it,
A bird’s cry, at daylight or before,
In the early March wind.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)