First manned flight

According to Official Guinness Records,

Frenchman François Pilâtre de Rozier is widely regarded as the first person ever to have flown. On 15 October 1783 he rose 26 m (84 ft) into the air in a tethered hot air balloon built by the inventors Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier (France).
On 21 November he and the Marquis d'Arlandes became the first humans to make a free manned flight when they took off from the Bois de Boulogne, Paris, and made a 25 minute flight.

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