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January 16 - John Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth, resigns from the space program and announces the next day that he will seek the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator from Ohio.
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 English_Channel
On 7 January 1785 Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travelled from Dover to Calais in a gas balloon, becoming the first to cross the English Channel by air.
In 1909, Louis Blériot (France) was the first person to fly over the English Channel in a heavier-than-air aircraft.
On August 23, 1910, John Moisant flew the first aircraft flight with a passenger across the English Channel.
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 John Moisant
Stock yards for cattle were later put on the land where Moisant met his fate.
The owners wanted to honor John Moisant, so they called the stock yards the Moisant Stock Yards, or MSY for short.
The city of New Orleans later bought the stock yards for airfield construction and named the completed project Moisant Field.
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