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 Today In History : 19 May  [1914]
Russian woman becomes the first female to execute a loop.

Performing aerobatics in a Morane-Saulnier monoplane over the hippodrome at Riga in the Russian Empire, the first Russian woman to earn a pilot's license, Lydia Zvereva, also becomes the first woman to execute a loop.