Harvard-Boston Aero Meet Disaster occurs.

As some 5,000 spectators gathered around Dorchester Bay watch in horror, pilot Harriet Quimby and passenger William A.P. Willard, the organizer of the third annual event, are thrown from their Bleriot monoplane and plunge 1,000 feet into the water to their death. Ironically, the plane then rights itself, glides down onto the waters of the bay, and is barely damaged. The accident causes the meet to be canceled after this year.