PRINTER'S NO. 1808
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE RESOLUTION
No.
340
Session of
2020
INTRODUCED BY YAW, BARTOLOTTA, ARGALL, BREWSTER, DINNIMAN,
J. WARD, LEACH, BLAKE, PHILLIPS-HILL, MARTIN, KILLION,
TARTAGLIONE, MENSCH, BROWNE, COSTA, IOVINO, PITTMAN,
HUTCHINSON, AUMENT, BAKER, LANGERHOLC, MASTRIANO, SCAVELLO,
DiSANTO, REGAN, VOGEL, SCHWANK, STEFANO AND ARNOLD,
JUNE 23, 2020
REFERRED TO RULES AND EXECUTIVE NOMINATIONS, JUNE 23, 2020
A RESOLUTION
Recognizing August 19, 2020, as "Aviation Day" in Pennsylvania.
WHEREAS, In 1903, brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright left
their hometown of Dayton, Ohio, and traveled to the sands of
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina; and
WHEREAS, In Kitty Hawk, the Wright brothers made the first
controlled, sustained flight of a powered, heavier-than-air
aircraft, and in the process they established a tradition of
excellence in innovation that endures to this day; and
WHEREAS, Declared in 1939 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt,
"National Aviation Day" celebrates the history and development
of aviation; and
WHEREAS, This annual event provides an ideal time to pay
tribute to the many pioneering individuals who have dared to
reach for the heavens; and
WHEREAS, The date of August 19 was selected specifically to
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