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1877 - Birth of Giulio Laureati, Italian WWI pilot and raid aviator.
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giulio_Laureati
1886 - Birth of Ernest Thompson Willows, pioneer Welsh aviator and airship builder, 1st person in the United Kingdom to hold a pilots certificate for an airship.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Willows
1889 - Birth of Walter Richard Brookins, 1st pilot trained by the Wright brothers for their exhibition team and Wrights' 1st pilot instructor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Brookins
1891 - Birth of Joseph Sadi-Lecointe, french aviator who setted altitude and speed records.
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Sadi-Lecointe
1892 - Birth of Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, WWI pilot and senior commander in the Royal Air Force during WWII
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trafford_Leigh-Mallory
1893 - Birth of John Albert Page, Canadian WWI flying ace
http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/canada/page.php
1894 - Birth of Armond Jean Berthelot, French WWI flying ace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armond_J._Berthelot - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/france/berthelot.php
1894 - Birth of Edward Anderson 'Eddie' Stinson, Early american aviator and aircraft designer, founder of the Stinson Aircraft Company.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Stinson
1895 - Birth of Earl Stanley Meek, Canadian WWI flying ace
http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/canada/meek.php
1896 - Birth of Kenneth Burns Conn, Canadian WWI fighter ace, businessman who served as head of the Royal Canadian Air Force Historical Section during WWII.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Burns_Conn - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/canada/conn.php
1897 - Salomon August Andrée, Nils Strindberg and Knut Frænkel attempt an Arctic expedition to the North Pole with their hydrogen balloon 'Eagle' from Spitzbergen. He and two companions crash within three days but manage to survive for several months in the pack ice. Their remains are discovered in 1930 on White Island. It was possible to develop the located film material.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._A._Andr%C3%A9e%27s_Arctic_Balloon_Expedition_of_1897
1907 - 1st flight of The Blériot VI Libellule ("Dragonfly") , early French aeroplane built by Louis Blériot, his 1st experiment with the tandem wing configuration.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bl%C3%A9riot_VI
1910 - Birth of John Paul Stapp, career USAF officer, flight surgeon and pioneer in studying the effects of acceleration and deceleration forces on humans using rocket sleds, known as "the fastest man on earth"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stapp
1914 - Lincoln Beachy is the 1st pilot in Canada to Loop-the-loop and accomplish inverted flight. This was done at Winnipeg, Manitoba.
1914 - Reinhold Böhm lands his Albatros-biplane after a 24 hours and 12 minutes without refueling and nonstop.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Aviation/Historical_anniversaries/July_in_aviation/July_10
1915 - 1st two flying pupils, H. Strachan Ince and F. Homer Smith graduated from the Curtis Aviation School, Toronto Ont.
1915 - Birth of Colin Purdie Kelly, Jr. , American WWII bomber pilot, one of the 1st heroes of the war for sacrificing his own life to save his crew.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Kelly
1917 – RNAS Flight Lieutenant O. A. Butcher, manning a kite balloon lofted by the destroyer HMS Patriot off the Shetland Islands, sights the German submarine U-69 at a range of 28 nautical miles (52 km), allowing Patriot to intercept U-69 and sink her with depth charges.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM_U-69#Service_career
1918 - Death of Reginald Leach Johns, British WWI flying ace, killed in a flying accident in his Sopwith Camel.
http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/england/johns2.php
1932 - Death of Richard Burnard Munday, British WWI flying ace and balloon buster, notable for scoring Britain's 1st night air victory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Burnard_Munday - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/england/munday.php
1933 - 1st flight of The Dewoitine D.332 'Emeraude', French eight-passenger airliner.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewoitine_D.332 - http://aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=311
1934 - Howard Hughes Takes off from New York for a new distance record around the Northern Hemisphere with a Lockheed Electra 14.
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1938/1938%20-%202070.html
1935 - 1st flight of the Yakovlev AIR-10, Soviet trainer aircraft prototype, which entered production as the Yakovlev UT-2.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakovlev_UT-2
1935 - Laura Houghtaling Ingalls arrives in her Lockheed Model 9 Orion in Burbank, California after an 18-hour flight from Floyd Bennett Field, New York, making her the 1st woman to fly east to west across the United States.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Model_9_Orion#Operational_history
1938 - The Bayerische Flugzeugwerke is renamed Messerschmitt AG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Bf_109#Designation_and_nicknames
1939 - 1st flight of The Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.12 (Høver M.F.12), Norwegian seaplane military trainer aircraft prototype.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marinens_Flyvebaatfabrikk_M.F.12
1940 - Hans-Joachim Göring, nephew of Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, is shot down in his Messerschmitt Bf 110C twin-engined heavy fighter by a Hawker Hurricane flown by Squadron Leader John 'Johnie' Scatliff Dewar of No.87 Squadron.
http://www.wehrmacht-history.com/personnel/g/goering-hermann-wilhelm-luftwaffe-personnel-file.htm - http://daveg4otu.tripod.com/dorset/dorcrash.html
1942 - The longest-range daylight raid to date is carried out by 44 Avro Lancasters of RAF Bomber Command, when they attack shipyards at Danzig in Poland (1,750 mi).
http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/jul42.html
1944 - Death of Izidor Kovarik, Slovak WWII fighter ace who served on the Eastern front with the Axis Forces, Killed with the student he was training in the crash of their Gotha Go-145 biplane trainer.
http://en.valka.cz/viewtopic.php/t/58714
1946 - TWA Flight 513 Lockheed L-049 Constellation 'Star of Lisbon' crashed during a training flight near Reading, Pennsylvania, Killing 5 over 6. Electrical wiring in the baggage compartment arced, starting a fire. The smoke and intense fire created made it impossible for the pilots to maintain control of the aircraft.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Flight_513
1950 - Birth of James "Larry" DeLucas, American biochemist and NASA Astronaut.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_J._DeLucas
1952 - 1st flight of the F-500 'Monitor' I, french 2 seat single engine monoplane trainer prototype.
http://www.aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=6645
1957 - The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight is formed at RAF Biggin Hill, as the 'Historic Aircraft Flight', when 3 Supermarine Spitfire PR Mk XIXs (PM631, PS853 and PS915) arrive from Woodvale via Duxford, to join the sole surviving Hawker Hurricane (LF363).
1961 - United Airlines Flight 859 Douglas DC-8-20 crashed during landing at Stapleton International Airport, Denver, Colorado, slamming into several airport vehicles, including construction equipment, catching fire, killing 18 (including one on the ground) and injuring 104 from a total of 122 people on board. Due to Hydraulic failure, one of the reverser bucket did not rotate to the closed position.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_859
1962 - Telstar 1 relayed its 1st, and non-public, television pictures (a flag outside Andover Earth Station) to Pleumeur-Bodou.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telstar#In_service
1963 - 1st flight of The Grumman American AA-1, American light, 2-seat aircraft which will lead to the AA-1 Yankee Clipper and AA-1A Trainer, the Grumman American AA-1B Trainer and TR-2 and the Gulfstream American AA-1C Lynx and T-Cat, and later to the AA-5 family (Traveler/Cheetah/Tiger)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_American_AA-1
1965 - USAF Lockheed EC-121H Warning Star ditched 160 km (100 mls) off Nantucket, MA, USA after engine N° 2 & 3 got problems, one catching fire. 16 were drowned over 19.
http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19650711-0
1969 - 1st flight of the SAAB MFI 15 (SE-301) SAFARI, Swedish prototype two/three-seat civil/military trainer or general utility aircraft.
http://www.aviastar.org/air/sweden/saab_safari.php
1973 - Death of Giulio Lega, Italian WWI flying ace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giulio_Lega - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/italy/lega.php
1973 – Varig Flight 820, operated by a Boeing 707 crashes near Paris on approach to Orly Airport as a fire broke out in a lavatory, killing 123 of the 134 on-board.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varig_Flight_820
1979 - Garuda Indonesia Fokker F28 airliner struck Mount Sibayak at 5,560 feet (1,690 m) on approach to landing at Polonia International Airport, Medan, killing all 59 on board.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_Garuda_Fokker_F28_crash
1979 – America's 1st space station, Skylab (unmanned launch of space station), is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylab#Re-entry
1979 – 2nd Lockheed Have Blue stealth testbed is lost at Groom Lake, Nevada on its 52nd flight when a hydraulic leak set the aircraft on fire. The pilot, Lieutenant Colonel Ken Dyson, ejected safely, but the prototype was destroyed when it impacted 35 miles NW of Groom Lake.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Have_Blue#HB1002
1983 - TAME Boeing 737–2V2 Advanced crashed into a hill during final approach just one mile (1.6 km) from Mariscal Lamar Airport in Cuenca, killing all 119 people on board
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAME_737-200_crash
1989 - Death of Francisco Tarazona Toran, Mexican Spanish-born Republican flying ace of the civil war and Mexican commercial pilot postwar
http://adar.es/index/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=68 - http://aces.safarikovi.org/victories/mexico-sp.html
1991 - Nigeria Airways Flight 2120 DC-8-61 crashes during an emergency landing at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing 261 pilgrims.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria_Airways_Flight_2120
1992 - Death of Harrison Allen 'Stormy' Storms, Jr., American aeronautical engineer best known for his role in managing the design and construction of the command module for the Apollo program.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Storms - http://www.astronautix.com/astros/storms.htm
1997 - Cubana de Aviacion Antonov An-24RV flight 787 crashes into the Caribbean off southeast Cuba, killing 44
http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19970711-0
2002 - 1st flight of The Adam A500, six-seat civil utility aircraft, pod-and-boom, push-pull configuration.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_A500
2011 - Angara Airlines Flight 5007 Antonov An-24RV ditched into the Ob River, Russia, after a fire developed in the port engine in flight, 7 people were killed among 33.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angara_Airlines_Flight_5007
2012 - Swiss pilot Carlo Schmid, take off in a Cessna 310 from Dubendorf, switzerland for a solo round the world flight attempt.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Schmid_(Swiss_pilot) - http://www.rtw2012.com/
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