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1893 - Birth of Wolfgang Güttler, German WWI flying ace.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_G%C3%BCttler - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/germany/guttler.php
1899 - Birth of Joseph Marie Le Brix, French raid aviator.
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Le_Brix
1899 - Birth of Ronald Malcolm Fletcher, British WWI observer/gunner ace in two-seater fighters in conjunction with his pilot, Lt. S.F.H. Thompson.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Malcolm_Fletcher - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/england/fletcher.php
1900 - Birth of Paul Kollsman, American inventor who invented barometers and instruments for instrument flight in airplanes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kollsman
1912 - Fokker Aviatik G.m.b.H.is formed
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fokker
1912 - 1st pilot to exceed 100 miles per hour (161 km/h) is French Jules Vedrines in a Deperdussin monoplane near Pau, France.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_airspeed_record
1914 - Birth of Liu Chi-Sheng, Chinese Sino-Japanese war flying ace, leading ace of the Republic of China Air Force and high ranking officer post war
http://surfcity.kund.dalnet.se/china_chi-sheng.htm
1920 - Birth of Suranjan Das, Indian Air force test pilot.
http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/Personnel/Legends/314-Suranjan-Das.html
1921 - American James Herbert Knight, part of a relay team that flew 2,629 miles across the country, takes off in a de Havilland DH-4B from North Platte, Nebraska, for the 1st overnight transcontinental air mail delivery.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_H._Knight
1922 - Death of Dmitri Dmitrijewitsch Fjodorow, Soviet Aircraft designer.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Dmitrijewitsch_Fjodorow
1925 - 1st flight of The de Havilland DH 60 Moth Cirrus G-EBKT, British two-seat touring and training aircraft, carried out by Geoffrey de Havilland.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_DH.60_Moth
1925 - 1st flight of The Gloster Gamecock, british biplane fighter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloster_Gamecock - http://www.avionslegendaires.net/gloster-gamecock.php
1928 - Australian Bert Hinkler lands his Avro Avian, registration G-EBOV, at Fanny Bay in Darwin, Australia after 11,000-mile solo flight from England. He is the 1st to make such a trip, setting four other new records: longest solo flight, longest light plane flight, 1st nonstop flight from London to Rome and fastest journey from Britain to India.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert_Hinkler
1932 – During the Shanghai Incident, 3 Imperial Japanese Navy Nakajima A1 N2 fighters from the aircraft carrier Kaga score the 1st air-to-air kill in Japanese history, shooting down a Nationalist Chinese Boeing P-12 fighter piloted American volunteer Robert Short.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_aircraft_carrier_Kaga#Early_service_and_development_of_carrier_doctrine - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakajima_A1N#Operational_history
http://www.earnshaw.com/shanghai-ed-india/tales/t-short.htm
1934 - 1st flight of The Fairey S.9/30, british two-seat, single-engined biplane built to an Air Ministry call for a fleet reconnaissance aircraft. Although only one was built, it was the progenitor of the Fairey Swordfish.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairey_S.9/30
1934 - Death of António Jacinto Brito da Silva Paes, Portuguese raid pilot, killed in a crash.
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brito_Paes - http://www.alentejolitoral.pt/PortalRegional/ARegiao/PersonalidadesRegionais/Paginas/AntonioJacintodaSilvaBritoPais.aspx
1935 – Leland Andrews breaks Doolittle’s January record, completing a transcontinental transport flight in 11 hours 34 min flying a Vultee V-1A.
1938 - 1st flight of The Fleet 50 Freighter, twin-engine biplane Canadian general utility aircraft
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleet_50
1939 - 1st flight of The Yakovlev Yak-4 (Service names Yak-4, BB-22bis), Soviet twin engine high-speed reconnaissance aircraft transformed later in light bomber.
http://www.aviastar.org/air/russia/yak-2.php
1940 - 1st flight of 2nd and last prototype of The Gloster F.9/37 (or Gloster G.39), British twin-engined design for a cannon-armed fighter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloster_F.9/37
1942 - Death of August von Parseval, German airship designer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_von_Parseval
1943 - Pan-Am Boeing 314A 'Yankee Clipper' Flying boat crashed while attempting to land, when the left wingtip of the aircraft contacted the water of the River Tagus, Portugal, during a descending turn, killing 24 over 39.
http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19430222-0 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_314#Retirement
1948 - 1st flight of the LWD Junak (Junak 1), Polish trainer aircraft.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LWD_Junak
1952 - Birth of James Philip Bagian, American engineer and NASA scientific astronaut
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_P._Bagian
1959 - Death of Robert B.C. Noorduyn, Dutch engineer, businessman, aircraft designer and manufacturer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_B.C._Noorduyn
1969 - The Mil V-12, russian helicopter, lifted a payload of 31,030kg to 2951m (9,682 feet), breaking the records for maximum payload carried to 2000m.
http://www.aviastar.org/helicopters_eng/mi-12.php
1974 - Samuel Joseph Byck, American unemployed former tire salesman, attempted to hijack a DC-9, Delta Air Lines Flight 523, flying out of Baltimore-Washington International Airport intending to crash into the White House in the hope of killing U.S. President Richard Nixon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Byck
1974 - Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Barbara Ann Allen becomes the 1st woman pilot in the US Navy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Allen_Rainey
1975 - 1st flight of The Sukhoi Su-25 'Frogfoot', Soviet single-seat, twin-engine jet aircraft designed to provide close air support.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-25
1978 - NASA launches Navstar-1 (OPS 5111), 1st satellite in the Global Positioning System (GPS).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_(satellite) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPS_5111
1980 - Death of Sadaaki Akamatsu, Japanese Sino-Japanese war and WWII fighter ace.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadaaki_Akamatsu - http://www.cieldegloire.com/010_akamatsu_s.php
1986 - Ariane 1 launches Spot-1, French satellite for earth observation and Viking, Sweden's 1st satellite, Scientific satellite for the investigation of space plasma physics in the part of the magnetosphere close to the Earth, particularly in connection with the auroral phenomena.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPOT_(satellite) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_(satellite)
1987 - 1st flight of the Airbus A320-100, short- to medium-range, narrow-body, commercial passenger jet airliners.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A320_family - http://www.aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=6564
1993 - 1st flight of The McDonnell Douglas MD-90, American twin-engine, short- to medium-range, single-aisle commercial jet aircraft developped from the MD-80.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_MD-90
1996 - Launch of STS-75, Space Shuttle Columbia mission to carry the Tethered Satellite System Reflight (TSS-1R) into orbit and to deploy it, and also the United States Microgravity Payload (USMP-3) designed to investigate materials science and condensed matter physics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-75
2000 - STS-99, Space Shuttle Endeavour mission, is back on earth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-99
2009 - SkyAirWorld , Australian charter airline, ceased operations.