MAY19
1886 - Birth of William Henry Hubbard, Canadian WWI flying ace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Hubbard - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/canada/hubbard2.php
1886 - Birth of Richard Bell Davies, British WWI fighter pilot and Royal Navy officer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bell-Davies
1890 - Birth of Donat Aduiovich Makeenok, Russian WWI flying ace who also served during the Russo-Polish War.
http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donat_Makijonek - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/russia/makeenok.php
1891 - Birth of Oswald Boelcke, WWI German fighter ace and one of the most influential patrol leaders and tacticians of the early years of air combat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Boelcke - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/germany/boelcke.php
1893 - Birth of Karl Thom, German WWI fighter ace who also served in WWII
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Thom - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/germany/thom.php
1895 - Birth of Charles Alfred Quette, French WWI flying ace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Quette - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/france/quette.php
1895 - Birth of Ernest Leslie "Feet" Foot, British WWI flying ace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Foot - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/england/foot.php
1896 - Birth of Arthur Rowe Spurling, Bermudian WWI flying ace and WWII ferry pilot who operated post WWII a taxi fleet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Spurling - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/england/spurling.php
1897 - Birth of Frank Luke Jr., WWI American fighter ace, ranking 2nd among U.S. Army Air Service pilots to Captain Eddie Rickenbacker in number of aerial victories during WWI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Luke - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/usa/luke1.php
1899 - Birth of John Denis Breakey, British WWI flying ace and WWII RAF high ranking officer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Denis_Breakey - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/england/breakey.php
1908 - 1st US military office to pilot a modern aircraft is Thomas Etholen Selfridge. He took to the air alone in AEA's newest craft, White Wing, traveling 100 feet on his 1st attempt and 200 feet on his 2nd.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Etholen_Selfridge - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AEA_White_Wing
1910 - Birth of Jean Niland (Aka James Williams), French early parachutist and record setter.
http://paramag.nuxit.net/archives/n231/images/pdf/HISTORIQUE.pdf
1911 - 1st flight of The Lakes Waterbird, British early aeroplane, sometimes known as the Avro Curtiss type.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakes_Water_Bird
1912 - 1st official mail flight service of the Deutschen Reichspost between Mannheim and Heidelberg.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luftpost
1918 - Death of Karl Pech, German WWI flying ace, colliding in his Pfalz D.III into a S.E.5a.
http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/germany/pech.php
1918 - Death of Gervais Raoul Lufbery, French-American WWI fighter ace, commander of the 94th (Hat in the Ring) Aero Squadron and 2nd highest scoring American ace with 17 victories, killed in his Nieuport 28 in an attempt to intercept a German Rumpler reconnaissance aircraft.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raoul_Lufbery - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/usa/lufbery.php
1918 - Death of Richard Plange, German WWI flying ace, Killed in his Fokker DR.I by an Armstrong Whitworth F.K.8.
http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Plange - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/germany/plange.php
1918 - South African WWI fighter ace Andrew Frederick Weatherby "Proccy" Beauchamp-Proctor, scored 5 victories on that single day with his S.E.5a
http://theaerodrome.com/aces/safrica/beauchamp.php
1924 - 1st aerial circumnavigation of Australia is carried out, by an RAAF crew in a Fairey IIID, British reconnaissance biplane.
1928 - Major Charles A. Lutz, USMC, won the curtiss Marine Trophy Race at Anacostia in an F6C-3, making a speed of 157.6 m.p.h. over the 100-mile course.
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/calutz.htm
1933 - 1st flight of the Vought V-80P (Export version for Peruvian Air Force), biplane scout and observation aircraft.
http://www.aviastar.org/air/usa/vought_v-80.php
1934 - 1st flight of the Tupolev Ant-20 Maxim Gorkii, Soviet 8-engine aircraft, at this time the largest aircraft in the world. Capable of carrying 80 passengers, it was used mainly as a mobile propaganda office.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_ANT-20
1936 - Death of Harry Palmerston Williams, American businessman, noted aviation owner of the Wedell-Williams Air Service Corporation that dominated air racing in the United States during the so-called Golden Age of Aviation, returning from Baton Rouge where he had a conference with Governor Richard Leche, and flying with the company's chief pilot, John Adolph 'Red' Worthen, their Beechcraft Model 17 Staggerwing crashed on takeoff, killing both men instantly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Palmerston_Williams#Death_and_aftermath
1939 - Birth of Francis Richard "Dick" Scobee, American astronaut who was killed commanding the Space Shuttle Challenger, which suffered catastrophic booster failure during launch of the STS-51-L mission.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Scobee
1940 - Death of Herwig Knüppel, German Flying ace of the Spanish war and WWII, killed in action in his Me-Bf109.
http://surfcity.kund.dalnet.se/germany_knuppel.htm
1942 - RCAF No. 162 (BR) Bomber Reconnaissance Squadron was formed at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia with Canso A aircrafts.
http://www.rcaf.com/Squadrons/squadronDetail.php?No.-162-Squadron-52
1943 - Death of Max Constant, Air racer and test pilot for Northrop, Killed in the crash of the Northrop N-9M-1, one-third scale flying testbed for the Northrop XB-35 flying wing design.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_N-9M#Operational_history - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0176016/
1945 - 1st flight of Tupolev TU-10, soviet twin-engine Soviet high speed daylight bomber, evolution of the TU-2.
http://www.aviastar.org/air/russia/tu-10.php
1946 - 1st flight of The Handley Page (Reading) H.P.R.1 Marathon (Initially Miles M.60 Marathon), British civil 20-passenger 4 engine light transport aircraft.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handley_Page_Marathon
1947 - 1st flight of The Cunliffe-Owen Concordia, British twin-engined small airliner.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunliffe-Owen_Concordia
1948 - Birth of Jean-Pierre Haigneré, French Air Force officer and former CNES astronaut.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre_Haigner%C3%A9
1949 - A Martin JRM Mars, four-engined cargo transport seaplane, sets a new record of 308 for the largest number of people to be carried on a single aircraft.
http://www.aviastar.org/air/usa/martin_mars.php
1951 - RCAF No. 410 Squadron began re-equipping with North American Sabre fighters, 1st RCAF squadron to receive this new fighter.
1951 - 1st flight of The Fokker S-14 Machtrainer, Dutch two-seater military training jet aircraft.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fokker_S.14_Machtrainer
1952 - 1st flight of The Grumman XF10F Jaguar, American prototype swing-wing fighter aircraft.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_XF10F_Jaguar
1955 - Birth of Pierre Joseph Thuot, US Navy test pilot and NASA astronaut
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_J._Thuot
1956 - 1st flight of The Aerfer Sagittario 2, Italian prototype all-metal single-seat lightweight fighter aircraft, 1st Italian aircraft to break the sound barrier in controlled flight.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerfer_Sagittario_2
1956 - Death of Cecil Frederick Charles Wilson, Welsh WWI flying ace
http://theaerodrome.com/aces/wales/wilson1.php
1961 - Venera 1, 1st planetary probe launched to Venus by the Soviet Union, passed within 100,000 km of Venus and entered a heliocentric orbit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera_1
1967 - 1st flight of the Dassault Mirage 5, french supersonic attack aircraft.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dassault_Mirage_5 - http://www.aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=3985
1971 - Launch of Mars 2, Soviet unmanned lander and orbiter, 1st human artifacts to impact the surface of Mars.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_2
1971 - 1st flight of the Learjet model 26 (American ten seat, twin-engined, high speed business jet aircraft), a model 25 with new engines which will lead to the Model 35
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learjet_25#Learjet_26
1977 - Launch of Kosmos 909, Russian satellite used as a target for tests of anti-satellite weapons.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmos_909
1993 - SAM Colombia Flight 505, en route from Panama City, Panama, to Medellín, Colombia, hit Mt. Paramo de Frontino at 12,300 ft. while on approach to José María Córdova International Airport (SKRG). The aircraft descended into mountainous terrain before actually reaching the Abejorral non-directional beacon. The VHF Omni-directional radio Range/Distance Measuring Equipment (VOR/DME) had been sabotaged by terrorists and was not in service. All 132 passengers (including a group of Panamanian dentists on their way to a convention) were killed
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAM_Colombia_Flight_505
1996 - Canadian astronaut Marc Garneau blasted off from Cape Canaveral in the shuttle Endeavour for his 2nd trip into space with STS-77.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-77
2000 - Death of Yevgeni Vassilyevich Khrunov, Soviet cosmonaut.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Khrunov
2000 - Launch of STS-101, Space Shuttle mission Atlantis to the International Space Station (ISS).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-101
2001 - Death of Alexey Petrovich Maresyev, Soviet WWII fighter ace who flew half of the war with his 2 legs amputated below the knees.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Petrovich_Maresiev - http://russiapedia.rt.com/prominent-russians/space-and-aviation/aleksey-maresyev/
2008 - 1st flight of the Sukhoi Superjet 100 , russian modern fly-by-wire regional jet in the 75- to 95-seat category.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Superjet_100
2012 - Death of Phillip 'Phil' John Lamason, RNZAF WWII bomber pilot who rose to prominence as the senior officer in charge of 168 Allied airmen taken to Buchenwald concentration camp, Germany.