<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre_Blanchard" id="mwZw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Jean-Pierre Blanchard">Jean-Pierre Blanchard</a> becomes the first person to fly in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloon" id="mwaA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Balloon">balloon</a> in the United States.<sup about="#mwt74" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-12"}}' id="cite_ref-12" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./January_9#cite_note-12" id="mwaQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 12;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwag">[12]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-12"><cite about="#mwt71" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFRobert_Sears1845">Robert Sears (1845). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=vyNRAAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=PA327" id="mwCB4" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwCB8">Sears' Guide to Knowledge</i></a>. Edward Walker. p.<span id="mwCCA" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>327.</cite><span about="#mwt71" class="Z3988" id="mwCCE" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Sears%27+Guide+to+Knowledge&amp;rft.pages=327&amp;rft.pub=Edward+Walker&amp;rft.date=1845&amp;rft.au=Robert+Sears&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DvyNRAAAAYAAJ%26pg%3DPA327&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJanuary+9"></span></span>