October 9th
Clement Ader achieved the first powered flight in an aircraft on this day, decades before the Wright Brothers. Ader later built very interesting motorcycles.
Clement Ader
The Motor Cycle writes of A New French Two-stroke Lightweight, the Gratieux built in Billancourt.
Gratieux Motocyclettes
Che Guevara died this day in La Higuera, Bolivia. A theoretician and tactician of guerrilla warfare, prominent in the Cuban Revolution, he had been an ardent motorcyclist in earlier years.
50-years-since-che-guevara-was-murdered
Acclaimed Australian artist Alan Puckett died this day, aged 86.
Alan Puckett