PRINTER'S NO. 891
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE RESOLUTION
No.
136
Session of
2021
INTRODUCED BY YAW, BROWNE, LANGERHOLC, VOGEL, J. WARD, FONTANA,
LAUGHLIN, STREET, ARGALL, MARTIN, BARTOLOTTA, COMITTA,
SCAVELLO, PHILLIPS-HILL, MASTRIANO, ROBINSON, COSTA, STEFANO,
HUTCHINSON AND SCHWANK, JUNE 14, 2021
REFERRED TO RULES AND EXECUTIVE NOMINATIONS, JUNE 14, 2021
A RESOLUTION
Recognizing August 19, 2021, 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 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
correspond with the birthday of Orville Wright, and this legacy
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