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1836 - Birth of Wilhelm Kress, Austrian pioneer in aviations and aircraft designer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Kress
1879 - Birth of Erwin Böhme, German WWI flying ace, friend of Oswald Boelcke.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_B%C3%B6hme - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/germany/bohme.php
1890 - Birth of Arthur Reed Christie, american early aviator.
http://earlyaviators.com/echristi.htm
1896 - Birth of Clayton Lawrence Bissell, American WWI fighter ace and WWII High ranking officer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayton_Bissell - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/usa/bissell.php
1897 - Birth of Franz Rudorfer, Austro Hungarian WWI flying ace, volunteer in the Ukrainian Military Air Service, he took part on the Polish-Ukrainian war before escaping with his Nieuport 23 to Czechoslovakia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Rudorfer - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/austrhun/rudorfer.php
1900 - Birth of Mikhail Klavdievich Tikhonravov, Soviet pioneer of spacecraft design and rocketry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Tikhonravov
1904 - Birth of Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata, pioneer aviator and important businessman of India who launched Air India International as India's 1st international airline.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._D._Tata
1909 - 1st airplane flight in Sweden is made by French Georges Legagneux in his Voisin biplane in Stockholm.
http://www.hydroretro.net/etudegh/georgeslegagneux.pdf
1910 - Birth of Rhulin Albert Thomas, American aviator, 1st deaf pilot to successfully fly solo across the US, without crashing along the way.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=58880963
1918 - Death of Charles Gordon Bell, early british aviator and WWI flying ace, killed in a flying accident while testing a Vickers FB.16E.
http://earlyaviators.com/ebellgor.htm - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/england/bell1.php
1925 - 1st flight of the Blériot Bl-155, French 4 engine biplane airliner prototype (2 built and used by Air Union between Paris and London)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bl%C3%A9riot_155 - http://www.aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=1673
1926 - 1st flight of the Cierva C.6d, Spanish 2 seat autogyro prototype.
http://www.aviastar.org/helicopters_eng/cierva_profile.html
1930 - British airship R.100 makes a test flight to Montreal and back in 78 hours having covered the great circle route of 3,300 mi (5,300 km) at an average speed of 42 mph (68 km/h).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R100#Transatlantic_Voyage_to_Canada
1936 - Spanish civil war : German air force begins to carry the Nationalist Army from spanish Morocco to Spain in the world’s first major military airlift using Junkers Ju-52.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_involvement_in_the_Spanish_Civil_War
1937 - 1st flight of The Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra, more commonly known as the Lockheed 14, US twin engine civil passenger and cargo aircraft, outgrowth of the earlier Model 10 Electra.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Model_14_Super_Electra
1938 - The Arado Ar 79, German aerobatic two-seat trainer and touring aircraft, set a speed record on 2,000 km (1,242.8 mi) at 227.029 km/h (141.069 mph).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arado_Ar_79
1939 - Death of Saiji Kani, Japanese 2nd Sino-Japanese War flying ace, and Shoichi Suzuki, Soviet-japanese war japanese fighter ace,, Killed by I-16 swhile landing their KI-27s at Arai.
http://www.cieldegloire.com/010_kani_s.php - http://www.cieldegloire.com/010_suzuki_s.php
1939 - Deutsche Lufthansa Focke Wulf Fw-200 'Condor', lands in Bangkok in Siam coming from Berlin, inaugurating a regular service.
1943 - Death of Gustave Douchy, French WWI flying ace who served in WWII, killed in a flying accident in Madagascar.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Douchy - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/france/douchy.php
1949 - 1st flight of the SNCAC NC-860, French twin-engined 4 seat hign wing tourer aircraft prototype.
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNCAC_NC.860 - http://aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=9618
1949 - 1st flight of The SNCAC NC.1080, french prototype single-seat carrier-based jet fighter aircraft.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNCAC_NC_1080
1950 - A BEA Vickers Viscount makes the 1st turboprop-powered passenger flights between London and Paris, and London and Edinburgh.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickers_Viscount#Prototype_aircraft
1952 - A USAF North American RB-45C Tornado completes the 1st non-stop transpacific flight by jet aircraft, , having been refueled twice by KB-29s along the way. Maj Lou Carrington and his crew of the 91st Reconnaissance Wing flew from Alaska to Japan in 9hrs 50mins, winning the MacKay Trophy for their achievement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_B-45_Tornado#Post_war
1953 - Death of Richard William Pearse, New Zealand aviation pioneer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pearse
1954 - 1st flight of The Morane-Saulnier MS.760 Paris, French four (or six) seat jet trainer and liaison aircraft.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morane-Saulnier_MS.760_Paris - http://aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=9856
1958 - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is formed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA
1960 - Death of Hon. Dame Mary Bailey (born Westenra), British aviatrix.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Bailey_(aviator)
1960 - 1st flight of Max Holste MH.260 Super Broussard, French twin-prop high-wing airliner prototype evolution of the MH.250 ,which will lead to the Nord 262.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%C3%A9rospatiale_N_262
1960 - Launch of Mercury-Atlas 1 (MA-1), 1st launch attempt of a Mercury capsule, to conduct a suborbital test flight and reentry of the spacecraft. The capsule had live posigrade separation rockets, but dummy retro rockets.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-Atlas_1
1963 - 1st flight of the Tupolev Tu-134 'Crusty', Soviet twin-engined airliner, similar to the French Sud Aviation Caravelle and the later-designed American Douglas DC-9.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-134
1967 – While sailing off the coast of Vietnam, a malfunction in an F-4 Phantom II jet on the deck of the USS Forrestal causes a rocket to fire inadvertently. The rocket hits another aircraft on the deck (possibly one occupied by Lt. Cmdr. John McCain) without exploding, but does rupture the plane’s fuel tank. The subsequent fire that would eventually ravage the ship destroying 21 aircraft, killing 134 sailors and injuring 161 others.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_USS_Forrestal_fire
1969 - 1st flight of the Mudry CAP-20, French aerobatic competition single seater monoplane.
http://aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=9572
1969 - Embraer, Brazilian aerospace conglomerate, is founded.
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embraer
1971 - 1st flight of the Robin HR-200, French 2 seat trainer and general aviation aircraft.
http://www.aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=2551
1972 - 2 Avianca Douglas C-53s collide in mid-air over the Las Palomas Mountains killing 38 on both planes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avianca#Incidents_and_accidents
1978 - Death of Josef Carl Peter Jacobs, 4th German WWI fighter ace and post WWI Aircraft manufacturer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Jacobs - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/germany/jacobs.php
1982 - Salyut 6, Soviet orbital space station, is deorbited
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salyut_6
1982 - 1st flight of the Aérospatiale AS-332 F1 'Super Puma Naval', French rescue and Anti Submarine helicopter.
http://www.aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=9930
1984 - Soyuz T-12 (also known as Salyut 7 EP-4), 7 th manned spaceflight to the Soviet space station Salyut 7 is back on earth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_T-12
1984 - Death of Ewald Rohlfs, german test pilot.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewald_Rohlfs
1985 - 1st flight of The Kawasaki T-4 , Japanese subsonic intermediate jet trainer aircraft, used by the JASDF's Blue Impulse aerobatic team.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawasaki_T-4
1985 - Launch of STS-51-F (also known as Spacelab 2), 19th flight of NASA's Space Shuttle program, and the 8th flight of Space Shuttle Challenger. While STS-51-F's primary payload was the Spacelab-2 laboratory module, the payload which received the most publicity was the Carbonated Beverage Dispenser Evaluation, which was an experiment in which both Coca-Cola and Pepsi tried to make their carbonated drinks available to astronauts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-51-F
1996 - 1st flight of The Mitsubishi MH 2000, Japanese 7/12 seat light utility helicopter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_MH2000
2002 - Vanguard Airlines ceases operations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanguard_Airlines
2003 - 1st manned captive flight of SpaceShipOne, American suborbital air-launched spaceplane.