riddle - This day in history I

THIS DAY IN HISTORY is a series of puzzles I intend to create in which I choose an event a certain amount of years ago. I need you to figure the event and tell me how many years ago it happened

From a great maker of bikes
Comes something the government likes
Took on this day
And now there's a lot in the place
Of which it originates

I will release the answer when the next one is released

Answer

Is it

The Wright Brothers making the first successful plane?

From a great maker of bikes

The Wright Brothers built the first working plane, but before that they made bikes

Comes something the government likes

The government uses planes a lot

Took on this day

Planes are used very often these days

And now there's a lot in the place Of which it originates

The first plane was made in North Carolina, and there are a lot of planes in North Carolina now

If so, it happened in

1903

So it happened around

116 years ago