1919 - British Army Captain John Alcock and Lt. Arthur Brown take off, from St. John's Nfld, in their Vickers Vimy bomber, a two-motor biplane, to make the first nonstop transatlantic flight; their 3,100 km flight ends 16 hours later with a nose-down landing in a Clifden, County Galway, Ireland peat bog; they win the £10,000 prize offered by the London Daily Mail, and are both awarded knighthoods.
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