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The National Aviation Day (August 19) is a United States national observation that celebrates the development of aviation.
The holiday was established by a presidential proclamation in 1939, which designated the anniversary of Orville Wright's birthday to be National Aviation Day.
Flight: 100 Years of Aviation by R. G. Grant
Flight: A History of Aviation in Photographs by T. A. Heppenheimer
Book of Flight: The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum by Judith E. Rinard
How We Invented the Airplane: An Illustrated History
by Orville Wright
Wilbur and Orville: A Biography of the Wright Brothers-Fred Howard
The Bishop's Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright by Tom D. Crouch
West With the Night by Beryl Markham
Apollo by Charles Murray, Catherine Bly Cox
Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond by Gene Kranz
The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space by Eugene Cernan
Eugene Cernan
A Man on the Moon by Tom Hanks, Andrew Chaikin
Hubble: Imaging Space and Time by David Devorkin Robert Smith
Universe by Martin Rees
Planetology: Unlocking the Secrets of the Solar System by Tom Jones, Ellen Stofan
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Flight (other topics)The Bishop's Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright (other topics)
How We Invented the Airplane: An Illustrated History (other topics)
A Man on the Moon (other topics)
Planetology: Unlocking the Secrets of the Solar System (other topics)
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