Yesterdate: This day from Kolkata’s past, May 9, 1924

On this day, The Northern Times, a newspaper published from Carnarvon in Australia, reported on an international flier having arrived in Calcutta.

The news item titled “DOISY REACHES CALCUTTA”, reported from London and dated May 6, said that lieutenant Pilchet Doisy, the French flier, had arrived at Agra from Karachi and gone on to Calcutta.

He covered the distance in 396 minutes. The distance, the report said, was about 730 miles as the crow flies.

In a previous report titled “Frenchman’s Burst of Speed”, the newspaper had announced that the “French air man” Doisy “has passed Purlu, in the Rajputana Desert… and has reached… Central India”.