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By any calculation, St. Petersburg, Florida, had one heck of a New Year's Day celebration in 1914-brass band, parade, auction, and a march into the history books. Most of the three thousand people lining the waterfront had probably never so much as seen an airplane before and the clunky contraption of wood, wire and painted cloth bouncing in the water didn't look as though it could possibly get airborne. But the events of that day entitled future city leaders to install a plaque in the St. Petersburg International Airport with the proud proclamation: "The Birthplace of Scheduled Air Transportation."