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Henry J. E. Reid appointed Engineer-In-Charge of National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory, a post he held until July 1960, when he retired as Director of NASA's Langley Research Center .

Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics formally established.

An American altitude record of 3S,704 feet was set by Lt. J. A. Macready (USAS) in an XCO5-A Liberty 400 at Dayton, Ohio.

Pratt & Whitney produced first Wasp engine, a nine-cylinder radial air-cooled engine of about 400 hp at 1,800 rpm.

Robert H. Goddard launched the world's first liquid-fueled rocket at Auburn, Mass., which traveled 184 feet in 21/2 seconds. This event was the "Kitty Hawk" of rocketry.

Inventor of sodium-filled valves for internal combustion engines, S. D. Heron, granted exclusive license for manufacture to Rich Tool Co., later part of Eaton Manufacturing Co.

The Department of Agriculture purchased its first cotton-dusting plane.

The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA analysis of basic aeronautical legislation was accepted by Joint Senate-House conferees, leading to the Air Commerce Act of May 20, 1920. This freed National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA of responsibility for regulation of civil aviation and permitted it to concentrate upon the conduct of aeronautical research.

Robert H. Goddard communicated the results of his successful liquid-propellant rocket flight of March 18 to the Smithsonian Institution.

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