Updated at December 11, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Lester J. Maitland |
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Birthdate | February 08, 1899 |
Birth Place | Milwaukee, WI |
Age (in 2024) | 125 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aquarius |
Occupation | Pilot |
Lester J. Maitland is best known as Pilot who has born on February 08, 1899 in Milwaukee, WI. Currently, Lester J. Maitland is 125 years, 10 months and 3 days old. Lester J. Maitland will celebrate 126th birthday on Saturday, 8th of February 2025. Below the countdown to Lester J. Maitland upcoming birthday.
The first pilot to successfully complete a flight from the United States mainland to Hawaii.
He joined the Air Service division of the U.S. Army at age nineteen. After World War I, he created publicity for the Army Air Corps by participating in air races and pioneering flights.
He piloted an Atlantic-Fokker C-2 plane nicknamed "The Bird of Paradise" on its inaugural voyage from California to Hawaii.
He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Before his famous flight, he worked as an aid to the visionary Air Force General Billy Mitchell.
Lester J. Maitland is 125 years old today.
Lester J. Maitland was born on February 08, 1899 in Milwaukee, WI.
Lester J. Maitland zodiac sign is Aquarius.
Lester J. Maitland was best known as Pilot.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Lester J. Maitland's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1971 | South Vietnamese ground troops launch an incursion into Laos to try to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail and stop communist infiltration. |
1974 | After 84 days in space, the crew of Skylab 4, the last crew to visit American space station Skylab, returns to Earth. |
1978 | Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time. |
1981 | Twenty-one association football spectators are trampled to death at Karaiskakis Stadium in Neo Faliro, Greece, after a football match between Olympiacos F.C. and AEK Athens F.C. |
1983 | The Melbourne dust storm hits Australia's second largest city. The result of the worst drought on record and a day of severe weather conditions, a 320 metres (1,050聽ft) deep dust cloud envelops the city, turning day to night. |
1983 | Irish race horse Shergar is stolen by gunmen. |
1986 | Hinton train collision: Twenty-three people are killed when a VIA Rail passenger train collides with a 118-car Canadian National freight train near the town of Hinton, Alberta, west of Edmonton. It is the worst rail accident in Canada until the Lac-M茅gantic, Quebec derailment in 2013 which killed forty-seven people. |
1989 | Independent Air Flight 1851 strikes Pico Alto mountain while on approach to Santa Maria Airport (Azores) killing all 144 passengers on board. |
1993 | General Motors sues NBC after Dateline NBC allegedly rigs two crashes intended to demonstrate that some GM pickups can easily catch fire if hit in certain places. NBC settles the lawsuit the next day. |
1993 | An Iran Air Tours Tupolev Tu-154 and an Iranian Air Force Sukhoi Su-24 collide in mid-air near Qods, Iran, killing all 133 people on board both aircraft. |
1996 | The U.S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act. |
2005 | Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil politician and former MP A. Chandranehru dies of injuries sustained in an ambush the previous day. |
2010 | A freak storm in the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan triggers a series of at least 36 avalanches, burying over 2 miles (3.2聽km) of road, killing at least 172 people and trapping over 2,000 travelers. |
2013 | A blizzard disrupts transportation and leaves hundreds of thousands of people without electricity in the Northeastern United States and parts of Canada. |
2014 | A hotel fire in Medina, Saudi Arabia kills 15 Egyptian pilgrims with 130 others injured. |
1985 | The birth of Jeremy Davis, American bass player and songwriter |
1985 | The birth of Brian Randle, American basketball player and coach |
1986 | The birth of Anderson Paak, American singer, songwriter, rapper, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist |
1987 | The birth of Javi Garc铆a, Spanish footballer |
1987 | The birth of Carolina Kostner, Italian figure skater |
1988 | The birth of Keegan Meth, Zimbabwean cricketer |
1989 | The birth of Zac Guildford, New Zealand rugby player |
1989 | The birth of Julio Jones, American football player |
1990 | The birth of Klay Thompson, American professional basketball player |
1991 | The birth of Nam Woo-hyun, South Korean singer |
1992 | The birth of Bruno Martins Indi, Portuguese-Dutch footballer |
1994 | The birth of Hakan 脟alhano臒lu, Turkish footballer |
1994 | The birth of Nikki Yanofsky, Canadian singer-songwriter |
1995 | The birth of Joshua Kimmich, German footballer |
1996 | The birth of Kenedy, Brazilian footballer |
2014 | The death of Els Borst, Dutch physician and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1932) |
2014 | The death of Maicon Pereira de Oliveira, Brazilian footballer (b. 1988) |
2014 | The death of Nancy Holt, American sculptor and painter (b. 1938) |
2015 | The death of Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde, Finnish physician and parapsychologist (b. 1939) |
2016 | The death of Amelia Bence, Argentine actress (b. 1914) |
2016 | The death of Nida Fazli, Indian poet and songwriter (b. 1938) |
2016 | The death of Margaret Forster, English historian, author, and critic (b. 1938) |
2016 | The death of Violette Verdy, French ballerina (b. 1933) |
2017 | The death of Peter Mansfield, English physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1933) |
2017 | The death of Rina Matsuno, Japanese idol singer (b. 1998) |
2017 | The death of Alan Simpson, English scriptwriter (b. 1929) |
2020 | The death of Robert Conrad, American actor (b. 1935) |
2021 | The death of Marty Schottenheimer, American football player and coach (b. 1943) |
2021 | The death of Mary Wilson, American singer (b. 1944) |
2023 | The death of Arto Heiskanen, Finnish professional hockey player (b. 1963) |
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