Out of the mouths of babes

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French aviator and writer (The Little Prince), was born on this day in 1900.

"Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves," he wrote, "and it's tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them."

Creeping along on all fours

The first commercial around-the-world flight began on this day in 1947. And on this day in 1972, the Watergate scandal was uncovered.

"The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded." -- Gustave Flaubert.

There's something evil in the air

The first trans-Atlantic air service began on this day in 1939.

“The conquest of the air, so jubilantly hailed by general opinion, may turn out the most sinister event that ever befell us.” -– John Galsworthy.