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1783 - 1st free or untethered human flight takes place when french Jean Francois Pilatre de Rozier flies with François Laurent le Vieux d'Arlandes as high as 500 feet and travels 5 miles over Paris in a Montgolfier hot-air balloon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Pil%C3%A2tre_de_Rozier
1843 - Birth of Gaston Tissandier, Brother of André Tissandier, French chemist, meteorologist, aviator and editor.
1887 - Birth of Clarence Leonard Tinker, Osage Indian, WWII pilot, 1st American Indian in U.S. Army history to attain the rank of Major General and 1st American General killed in WWII
1891 - Birth of Alan Machin Wilkinson, British WWI fighter ace who also served in WWII
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Wilkinson_(aviator) - http://theaerodrome.com/aces/england/wilkinson.php
1893 - Birth of Stefan Stanislaw Stec, Polish flying ace, WWI and Polish-Ukrainian War military pilot, one of the pioneers of the Polish aviation credited as the designer of the Polish Air Force's insignia, the checkerboard.
1897 - Birth of Charles Cecil Blizard, British WWI flying ace (observer/gunner)
1897 - Birth of John Joseph Seerley, Jr., American WWI flying ace who also served in WWII
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8507556 - http://theaerodrome.com/aces/usa/seerley.php
1899 - Birth of Arthur Stuart Draisey, British WWI flying ace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Draisey - http://theaerodrome.com/aces/england/draisey.php
1909 - Birth of Helen Richey, American pioneering female aviator and 1st woman to be hired as a pilot by a commercial airline in the USA.
http://www.women-in-aviation.com/cgi-bin/links/detail.cgi?ID=387
1914 - Birth of Mikhail Nikitovich Zhukov, Soviet Winter War and WWII flying ace.
1914 - 3 RNAS Avro 504s bomb the Zeppelin sheds at Friedrichshafen.
1916 - 1st flight of The Breguet 14, French biplane bomber and reconnaissance aircraft, noteworthy for becoming the 1st aircraft in mass production to use large amounts of metal rather than wood in its structure
1917 - Death of Rudolf von Eschwege, German WWI flying ace, Killed in his Albatross D.III by the explosion of a captive balloon he was attacking. The balloon had been fitted with a dummy observer and 500 pounds of high explosives; the booby trap was command detonated.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_von_Eschwege - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/germany/eschwege.php
1917 - 1st fligth of the Zeppelin LZ59 (L20), taking off for a journey through Africa.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Zeppelins -
1929 - 1st flight of the Albert A-20, French High wing monoplane 2 seat twin engine transport prototype.
http://www.aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=9734 - http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9_anonyme_des_Avions_Albert
1930 - 1st flight of the Dewoitine D-33 'Trait d'union', French single-engine low-wing monoplane for long-distance records
http://www.aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=335
1933 - Birth of Henry Warren "Hank" Hartsfield, Jr., USAF pilot and NASA astronaut
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Hartsfield
1935 - Vladimir Konstantinovich Kokkinaki sets an unofficial world record for ceiling in a Polikarpov I-15 fighter, reaching the altitude of 14,575 meters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Kokkinaki#Records
1941 - 1st flight of the Lioré et Olivier LeO-48, French twin engine 4 seat experimental aircraft to study lift transverse phenomenas.
http://www.aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=3949
1943 - No. 1426 (Enemy Aircraft) Flight RAF, nicknamed "the Rafwaffe" is formed to evaluate captured enemy aircraft and demonstrate their characteristics to other Allied units.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._1426_Flight_RAF
1944 - USAF B-29 Superfortress 'Ding Hao' is damaged during a raid on an aircraft factory at Omura Japan and forced to divert to Vladivostok in the Soviet Union. It was not returned and used in the Tu-4 Bull development effort.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_B-29_Superfortress#Soviet_copying_of_the_B-29
1945 - 1st flight of The VL Pyörremyrsky, Finnish fighter prototype.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VL_Py%C3%B6rremyrsky
1952 - 1st flight of The Percival Pembroke, British high-wing twin-engined light transport aircraft (later Hunting Percival).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percival_Pembroke
1959 - Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 202 Douglas DC-4 crashed into the side of a hill at hills of Aramoun near Beirut 2 minutes after takeoff killing 24 over 27.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariana_Afghan_Airlines_Flight_202
1970 - Operation Ivory Coast : 56 U.S. Army Special Forces soldiers landed by helicopter in the Son Tây prisoner-of-war camp located only 23 miles (37 km) west of Hanoi, North Vietnam. The mission's objective was the recovery of 61 American prisoners of war thought to be held at the camp, situated in an area where 12,000 North Vietnamese troops were stationed within 5 miles (8.0 km). The mission failed when it was found during the raid that all the prisoners had been previously moved to another camp.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ivory_Coast
1973 - Death of Alfred Hubert Roy Fedden, British engineer who designed most of Bristol Engine Company's successful aircraft engine designs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Fedden
1985 - Soyuz T-14, Soviet space mission to Salyut 7, is back on earth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_T-14
1987 - Launch of TV-SAT 1, West German communications satellite.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV-SAT_1
1990 - 1st flight of The Hongdu JL-8 (Nanchang JL-8 or Karakorum-8), People's Republic of China two-seat intermediate jet trainer and light attack aircraft designed
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hongdu_JL-8
2000 - Launch of ANIK F1, Canadian geosynchronous communications satellite, most powerful communications satellite ever built at that time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anik_(satellite)#Anik_F1
2004 - China Eastern Airlines Flight 5210 Bombardier CRJ-200LR crashed into a park shortly after take off, killing all 53 and 2 on ground.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Eastern_Airlines_Flight_5210
2007 - Parachute World's largest canopy formation (100) is set in Lake Wales, Florida, USA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parachuting#Records
2008 - Death of Alexander John 'Al' Lilly, Canadian airliner pilot, WWII Chief Test Pilot of RAF Ferry Command during WWII, Vice president of Canadair, 1st Canadian to break the sound Barrier.
2009 - Death of Konstantin Petrovich Feoktistov, Soviet cosmonautand eminent space engineer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Feoktistov
2012 - Yemen Air Force Antonov AN-26 crashed in the Sana'a, capital of Yemen, killing all 10.
http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20121121-0