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as a national necessity. In June of
the same year, 'The Barranquillazo' coup was attempted by followers of General
Ramón González Valencia
against the General
Jorge Holguín
who was designated the rank of
president of the republic after the resignation of the incumbent, General
Reyes.
The first flight of a
Colombian airplane occurred in Barranquilla in December 1912, the plane being
flown by the Canadian pilot George Schmitt.
On
December 10, 1919, the first commercial airline arrived in the Americas, and
second in the world;
Scadta
later became
Avianca.
In June 1919, U.S. pilot
William Knox Martin
and Mario Santo Domingo inaugurated
industrial airmail in Colombia with a flight between Barranquilla and
Puerto Colombia, where Santo Domingo
delivered the mail sack.
With the connections of the river and
seaport reach the country's interior and abroad, the city became in the second
half of the 19th century through the early decades of the 20th century, one of
the most cosmopolitan and multicultural cities of Colombia.
