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    Matilde Josephine Moisant (September 13, 1878 – February 5, 1964) was an American pioneer aviator, the second woman in the United States to obtain a pilot's...
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  • and politician Matilde Hidalgo (1889–1974), Ecuadorian politician Matilde Ladrón de Guevara (1910–2009), Chilean poet Matilde E. Moisant (1878–1964), American...
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  • Moisant may refer to: John Bevins Moisant (1868–1910), American aviation pioneer and brother of Matilde Matilde E. Moisant (1878–1964), American aviation...
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    immigrants. His siblings include: George Moisant (1866–1927); Ann Marguerite Moisant (1877–1957); Matilde Moisant (1878–1964) who was the second American...
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    Smith. Matilde Moisant, the second American woman to earn her pilot certificate—two days after her friend, journalist Harriet Quimby. In 1911, Moisant let...
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    she met John Moisant, a well-known aviator and operator of a flight school, and his sister Matilde. Quimby learned to fly at the Moisant Aviation School...
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    The aviator Matilde Moisant wearing a swastika square medallion in 1912. The symbol was popular as a good luck charm with early aviators....
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    skills at this school, among them Harriet Quimby first American pilot, Matilde E. Moisant, John's and Alfred's sister and the second woman to obtain a pilot's...
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  • 31 – Louis Allen, logger and murder victim (born 1919) February 5 – Matilde Moisant, aviator (born 1878) February 15 – Robert L. Thornton, American businessman...
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    John Bevins Moisant (1868–1910), won the Statue of Liberty Race in 1910; first to carry a passenger across the English Channel. Matilde Moisant (1878–1964)...
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    altitude record and the Rodman-Wanamaker trophy, subsequently won by Matilde Moisant, at the Nassau Boulevard airfield meeting in Garden City, New York...
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    daughter of daughter of Alexander II of Russia (d. 1959) September 13 – Matilde Moisant, American pilot (d. 1964) September 16 – Karl Albiker, German sculptor...
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  • (1970) Vicente Miniet Ginarte, general of the army of liberation (1956) Matilde Moisant, female aviator (2011) Antonio Mompo, cellist with Havana Philharmonic...
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  • Italian producer, director and screenwriter (born 1899) February 5 – Matilde Moisant, American pilot (born 1878) February 6 – Emilio Aguinaldo, Filipino...
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    John Moisant and his sister Matilde. John and his brother Alfred operated a flight school in Long Island, New York. Quimby, and Matilde Moisant both decided...
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    was 77. "Matilde Moisant, Early Flyer, Dies. Second Woman in Country to Get Pilot's License". The New York Times. February 7, 1964. "Miss Moisant Wins License...
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    airplane the following year. Thirteen days after Quimby, her friend Matilde E. Moisant an American of French Canadian descent was licensed and began flying...
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  • – Robert von Lieben, Austrian physicist (died 1913) September 13 – Matilde Moisant, American pilot (died 1964) October 1 – Helen Mayo, Australian pediatrician...
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  • grants Harriet Quimby the first U.S. pilot's license issued to a woman. Matilde Moisant soon follows and becomes the country's second certified female pilot...
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    Aero Club of America, 1911-1921 37 Harriet Quimby, first woman 44 Matilde Moisant, second woman 55 Norman Prince, early member of the Lafayette Escadrille...
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  • manufacturing executive Olive Ann Beech (1949-1954), and pioneer aviator Matilde Moisant (1954-). There was even a junior division of the WIAA, formed in 1931;...
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    John Bevins Moisant (1868–1910), American aviator Matilde E. Moisant (1878–1964), American pioneer aviator and sister of John Bevins Moisant Paco Nathan...
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    in Indiana, established in 2008. Earl Park was the birthplace of Matilde E. Moisant, the second woman in the United States to receive a pilot's license...
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  • mathematician. Gillian Reid, Scottish-born inorganic chemist February 5 – Matilde E. Moisant (born 1878), American pioneer aviator. February 20 – Verena Holmes...
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    Matilde E. Moisant became the 3rd woman licensed airplane pilot in history. Unlike the first two, Raymonde de la Roche and Harriet Quimby, Moisant avoided...
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