Butch Cassidy
Butch Cassidy, real name Robert LeRoy Parker, was a deadly train robber in the Old West. He was also the leader of the “Wild Bunch” a criminal outlaw organization, and he was eventually forced to flee the country with his accomplice Alonzo Longbaugh, or “The Sundance Kid,” and his wife Etta Pace, who was also a member of the Wild Bunch. The story became widespread when Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were thought to have been killed in a shootout with the Bolivian Army in 1908. Cassidy has become a mythical figure in the American Wild West.
The Wright Brothers
Orville and Wilbur Wright were two brothers who learned mechanics by working on various inventions at their Dayton, Ohio, business. They would later design and build the world’s first successful motor-driven airplane. The Wright brothers took their first flight in the Wright Flyer on December 17, 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The Wright brothers are credited for not only putting humans in the air, but also with creating aircraft controls that made fixed-wing powered flight a possibility.
