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12 June 1909 (France) — Louis Blériot flies his Blériot XII monoplane at Issy-les-Moulineaux with two passengers, Alberto Santos-Dumont and André Fournier. This is the first time a pilot has flown with two passengers.
12 June 1919 (France) — France’s Baroness Raymonde de Laroche breaks the women’s altitude record by flying to a height of 16,896 feet.
12 June 1942 (Romania) — Twelve B-24 "Liberators" made the first attack against the Ploie?ti refineries.
12 June 1979 (England/France) — The first man-powered aircraft to cross the English Channel is the "Gossamer Albatross," designed and built under the leadership of Paul MacCready. Flown by bicyclist Bryan Allen, it crosses from Folkestone, England to the French coast in two hours, 49 minutes.
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