{"id":6203,"date":"2026-07-25T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6203"},"modified":"2025-12-14T21:21:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T02:21:43","slug":"louis-bleriot-flew-across-english-channel-in-1909","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6203","title":{"rendered":"Louis Bleriot Flew across English Channel in 1909"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10504\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10504\" class=\"wp-image-10504 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Bleriot-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Louis Bleriot before take-off\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10504\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Louis Bleriot before take-off<\/p><\/div>\n<p><b>Louis Bleriot became the first person to fly a plane across the English Channel<\/b>. He left Les Baraques, France, in 1909 and landed in Dover, England. The trip took 36 minutes 30 seconds. The <i>Daily Mail<\/i>, a British newspaper, had offered a reward of \u00a31000 to the first successful aviator. Bleriot received the reward, and he instantly became famous. Children could read the 1984 Caldecott Medal book\u00a0<i>The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot, July 25, 1909<\/i>\u00a0by Alice Provensen and Martin Provensen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louis Bleriot became the first person to fly a plane across the English Channel. He left Les Baraques, France, in 1909 and landed in Dover, England. The trip took 36 minutes 30 seconds. The Daily Mail, a British newspaper, had offered a reward of \u00a31000 to the first successful aviator. Bleriot received the reward, and <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6203' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5458,857,237,262,408,5741,856,855],"class_list":["post-6203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5458","tag-dover","tag-england","tag-english-channel","tag-france","tag-july-25","tag-les-baraques","tag-louis-bleriot","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6203"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29582,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6203\/revisions\/29582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}