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# When was the Wright Brothers' first successful flight?
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/wright_brothers_day_1612091255/
- Published: 2009-12-16T00:55:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-15T12:36:38.000Z
- Description: Congress designated December 17 as Wright Brothers Day, marking Orville and Wilbur Wright's first successful flight of a heavier-than-air, mechanically propelled airplane near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and asked the President to proclaim it each year.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Miscellaneous, Health News, #vivvo-import

Wright Brothers Day commemorates the first successful flight in a heavier than air, mechanically propelled airplane. [Orville and Wilbur Wright](http://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/todays-doc/index.html?dod-date=1217&ref=foodconsumer.org) made the flight on December 17, 1903, near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

The [U.S. Congress](http://answers.usa.gov/cgi-bin/gsa%5Fict.cfg/php/enduser/std%5Fadp.php?p%5Ffaqid=1399&p%5Fsid=Mqki5zPj&p%5Flva=7974&ref=foodconsumer.org), by a joint resolution approved December 17, 1963, designated December 17 of each year as Wright Brothers Day, and has authorized and requested the [President](http://answers.usa.gov/cgi-bin/gsa%5Fict.cfg/php/enduser/std%5Fadp.php?p%5Ffaqid=1303&p%5Fsid=Mqki5zPj&p%5Flva=7974&ref=foodconsumer.org) to issue annually a proclamation inviting the people of the United States to observe that day with appropriate ceremonies and activities.

You may wish to view information on the [Wright Brothers National Memorial](http://www.nps.gov/wrbr/?ref=foodconsumer.org) from the [National Park Service (NPS)](http://answers.usa.gov/cgi-bin/gsa%5Fict.cfg/php/enduser/std%5Fadp.php?p%5Ffaqid=7725&p%5Fsid=Mqki5zPj&p%5Flva=7974&ref=foodconsumer.org).

**Additional Resources:**

- [Wright Brother History](http://www.centennialofflight.gov/wbh/index.htm?ref=foodconsumer.org)
- [The Wright Brothers and The Invention of the Aerial Age](http://www.nasm.si.edu/wrightbrothers/?ref=foodconsumer.org)
- [Re-Living the Wright Way](http://wright.nasa.gov/discoveries.htm?ref=foodconsumer.org)