It's easy to get to many places around the world these days-we can just fly there. But in the early 1900s, it wasn't so simple. But the Wright brothers were up to the challenge of figuring out how people could fly. Learn about the impact of the first flight on the history of aviation. Events that Changed Your World When we get sick, our doctors give us medicine. When we want to visit our grandparents across the country, we hop on a plane. And when we want something in our community to change, we vote for people who share our ideas. A lot of the things we have and do now began as strange or challenging ideas-or even accidents! Discover the history behind events that changed your world-and the people who made them possible.