Rowan County NC issued the following announcement on Aug. 19.
DYK is #NationalAviationDay? Whether you've received an overnight shipment, travelled by air, or worked in the aerospace industry, aviation touches all of our lives every day.
In 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued the first presidential proclamation designating August 19 as National Aviation Day, the birthday of Orville Wright, one half of the legendary Wright Brothers who invented the airplane.
Original source can be found here.