Timeline (HTML Version)

Bessie Coleman’s Lifetime Events
January 26, 1892	Bessie Coleman was born in Atlanta, Texas
1894-1916	Grew up in Waxahachie, Texas
1908-1909	Attended Agricultural & Normal School in Langston, Oklahoma
1916	Moved to Chicago and worked as manicurist in the White Sox Barber Shop
November 20, 1920	Left United States for France (sailed from New York on the USS Imparator)
June 15, 1921	Received pilot’s license from Federation Aeronautique Internationale (Paris)
1921-1926	Stunt flying and barnstorming
April 30, 1926	Fatal airplane crash, Jacksonville, FL
1995	United States stamp with her picture produced
1995	International Women in Aviation Organization indited her into the Pioneer Aviators Hall of Fame
Aviation and Historical Events
1000 BC	Chinese invented the kite
1783	Montgolfier Brother’s Balloon Flight
December 17, 1903	Flight of the Wright Brothers Flyer
1912	First woman to fly English Channel (Harriet Quimby)
1914-1918	World War I
1918	First airplane crosses the Atlantic Ocean
1963	First woman in space (Tereshkova – USSR)
1983	First United States woman in space (Sally Ride)
African American Inventions
December 10, 1846	Sugar refining process by Norbert Rillieux
November 4, 1879	Refrigerating apparatus by T. Elkins
1880’s	Clothes Wringer by Ellen Elgin
April 26, 1892	Ironing board by Sarah Boone
November 15, 1898	New & improved hairbrush by Lyda Newman
December 12, 1899	Golf tee by G. F. Grant
1900	An airship by J.F. Pickering
November 12, 1923	Traffic Signal by Garret Morgan
April 14, 1987	Digital Toaster by Ruane Jeter