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This week in history: Theodore Roosevelt

by David Tollen | Oct 14, 2019 | The Early Modern Age

This week in 1910, former President Theodore Roosevelt became the first U.S. chief executive to fly in an airplane. More than 10,000 people attended the event at Kinloch Field in St. Louis. The pilot, Archibald Hoxsey, flew Roosevelt around the field twice, for a...
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