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1912 - Jules Vedrines wins the Gordon Bennett cup by flying a world record speed of 173kph (108mph) in his Monocoque Deperdussin monoplane at Chicago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_airspeed_record - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Bennett_Trophy_(aeroplanes)

http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/history-of-aviation-timeline/interactive-aviation-timeline/world-aviation/1912.aspx

1912 - Birth of Felipe del Río Crespo, Spanish Republican flying ace of the civil war

http://surfcity.kund.dalnet.se/spain_delriocrespo.htm

1913 - 1st German Navy airship, Zeppelin LZ14 (L1), crashes into the North Sea off Heligoland, killing most of the 20 crew.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Zeppelins#Zeppelins_finished_before_World_War_I

1916 - 1st flight of The Bristol F.2 Fighter (often simply called the Bristol Fighter or popularly the "Brisfit" or "Biff"), British two-seat biplane fighter and reconnaissance aircraft of WWI flown by the Royal Flying Corps

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_F.2_Fighter

1920 - 1st flight of the SPAD S-37, small French biplane airliner prototype issued from the S-27

http://aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=146

1922 - Cpt Frank Barnard wins the 1t King's Cup air race, flying from Croydon, England to Scotland and back in 6 hours 32 minutes in a de Havilland DH.4.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s_Cup_Race

1923 - 1st flight of The Curtiss C2R, American racing aircraft designed for the US Navy, single-seater biplane with a monocoque fuselage and staggered single-bay wings of unequal span braced with I-struts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtiss_R2C

1929 - 1st flight of The de Havilland DH.80A Puss Moth, British three-seater high-wing monoplane used for a number of record breaking flights.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Puss_Moth

1929 - 1st flight of the Fernic T-9, Romanian 8 seat twin engine monoplane.

http://www.aviastar.org/air/usa/fernic_t-9.php

1932 - 1st flight of the Bloch MB.92 Grand Tourisme, French Twin seat single engine high wing monoplane, issued from the MB-90.

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloch_MB.90 - http://www.aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=10159

1942 - A Japanese Yokosuka E14Y 'glen' floatplane is launched from a Japanese submarine (I-25), The pilot Nobuo Fujita dropped two incendiary bombs with the intention of starting a forest fire on the Oregon Mountains, near Brookings, Pacific Ocean.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lookout_Air_Raid

1942 - 1st aircraft carrier to escort an Arctic convoy : HMS Avenger (D14) joins Convoy PQ 18, bound from Loch Ewe, Scotland, to Archangel in the Soviet Union, as an escort.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Avenger_(D14)#Convoy_PQ_18

1943 - Death of Kurakazu Goto, Japnese WWII flying ace, killed in action.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_War_II_aces_from_Japan

1943 - Italian battleship Roma is sunk by two Ruhrstahl/Kramer Fritz X1 radio controlled glide bombs dropped from 6 Dornier Do217s from f Kampfgeschwader 100, while the battleship Italia is damaged. The 2 ships were on their way to Malta to surrender.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_X - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_battleship_Roma_(1940)#Loss

1943 - Death of Federico Martinengo, Italian WWI flying ace (serving with Regia Accademia Navale), Instructor and Battleship officer in WWII, Killed at the helm of his ship, fighting German ships in an action near Gorgona.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_Martinengo - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/italy/martinengo.php

1948 - John Douglas Derry is thought to have probably exceeded the speed of sound in a shallow dive from 40,000 ft (12,195 m) to 30,000 ft (9,145 m) in a de Havilland DH 108 'Swallow'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_DH_108

1949 - 1st flight of The Lavochkin La-200, Soviet two-seater, swept winged, Night and Bad Weather Jet Interceptor Fighter prototype.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavochkin_La-200

1949 - Canadian Pacific Airline Douglas DC-3 exploded in mid-flight en route from Quebec City to Baie-Comeau as the result of an onboard bomb, killing all 23 on board

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Pacific_Airlines#Accidents_and_incidents

1952 - Birth of Lee Miller Emile Morin, US Navy pilot and NASA astronaut.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Morin

1956 - Birth of Anatoly Pavlovich Artsebarsky, Soviet Air force pilot and cosmonaut.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly_Artsebarsky

1961 - 1st flight of The Bölkow Bo 103, German small experimental helicopter flown to research new rotor systems.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%B6lkow_Bo_103

1962 - Death of Vladimir Iakovlevitch Klimov, Russian aircraft engine designer.

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Klimov

1962 - Death of Chen Huai-sheng, Republic of China (Taiwan) pilot, flying a Lockheed U-2C for a mission on military deployment in Jiangxi region, shot down by SA-2 fired by PLAAF 2nd Surface-to-Air Guided Missile Battalion over Nanchang.

http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20051102_1.htm

1964 - 1st flight of the Ye-155-P1, Soviet supersonic fighter interceptor prototype of the Mig-25 Foxbat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-25#Designing_a_new_interceptor

1964 - 1st flight of The Beechcraft King Air, American twin-turboprop aircraft.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beechcraft_King_Air

1967 - Death of Huang Jung-Bein, Republic of China (Taiwan) pilot, flying a Lockheed U-2C over the Jiangsu province, Shanghai and Hangzhou, shot down by Chinese-made Red Flag 2 by PLAAF 14th Surface-to-Air Guided Missile Battalion over Jiaxing.

http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20051102_1.htm

1969 – Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31 collides in flight with a Piper PA-28 and crashes near Fairland, Indiana, killing 83.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegheny_Airlines_Flight_853

1970 – BOAC Flight 775 Vickers VC10 coming from Bahrain is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and flown to Dawson's Field in Jordan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawson%27s_Field#BOAC_Flight_775

1972 - USAF Capt Charles Barbin “Chuck” DeBellevue becomes the 1st Air Force Weapon Systems Officer (WSO) to become a flying "Ace", shooting down his 5th and 6th MIG-19

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_B._DeBellevue#September_9.2C_1972.2C_.22Ace_Day.22.2C_MiG_Kills_5_and_6

1973 - Death of Sergei Konstantinovich Tumansky, Soviet aircraft engine designer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Tumansky

1975 - Launch of Kiku-1, 1st of a serie of Japanese Navigation technology satellite.

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiku#Kiku-1

1975 - Launch of Viking 2, NASA spacecraft to Mars.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_2

1977 - Death of Rita Maiburg, German airliner pilot, 1st woman airline captain.

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Maiburg

1977 - Maxie Anderson, Ben Abruzzo, and Ed Yost depart Marshfield, Massachusetts, in the balloon 'Double Eagle' in an attempt to make the 1st crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in a balloon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Eagle_(balloon)

1978 - Launch of Venera 11, USSR unmanned space mission to explore the planet Venus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera_11

1980 - Island Air (officially Hawaii Island Air, Inc.), independent American commuter airline based in Hawai, begins opertaions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_Air

1983 - Birth of Deanna Marie 'Dee' Brasseur, Canadian military officer and one of the 1st 2 female CF-18 Hornet fighter pilots in the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dee_Brasseur - http://www.deebrasseur.com/

1988 - Vietnam Airlines Flight 831 Tupolev Tu-134, Probably strucked by lightning, crashed in a rice field near Samafahkarm Village, Kukod, Lam Luk Ka, Pathum Thani, Thailand, Killing 76 over 90.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_Airlines_Flight_831

1990 - Death of Rimantas Antanas-Antonovich Stankiavicius, Lithuanian test pilot cosmonaut, Buran Test Pilot, killed in the crash of a Su-27 fighter at an air show at Treviso, Italy.

http://www.astronautix.com/astros/staicius.htm

1992 - Launch of Hispasat 1A, Spanish communication satellite.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispasat

1994 - A Tupolev Tu-134AK collided over Zhukovsky, Russia, with a Tupolev 22M3-LL aerodynamics research aircraft while acting as a chase aircraft to photograph. 7 Where killed in the crash of the Tu-134 while the Tu-22 managed to land safely.

http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19940909-1

1994 - Launch of STS-64, Space Shuttle Discovery mission to perform multiple experiment packages.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-64

1995 - Death of Reinhard Alfred Furrer, German physicist and astronaut, killed in the crash of a Messerschmitt BF-108 Taifun during a flight show on the Johannisthal Air Field (Berlin)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhard_Furrer

1998 - Keiko, male orca / actor who starred in the film Free Willy, is flown from the Oregon Coast Aquarium at Newport, Oregonto to Klettsvik Bay in Vestmannaeyjar in Iceland with a Boeing C-17 Globemaster

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiko_(orca)

1995 - Diana Britten becomes the 1st woman to win the British Aerobatic Championship with an Extra 260.

http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/history-of-aviation-timeline/interactive-aviation-timeline/british-civil-aviation/1995.aspx

2005 - Air Kasaï Antonov An-26B crashed in neighbouring Congo Brazzaville killing all 13.

http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20050909-1&lang=en

2006 - Launch of STS-115, Space Shuttle Atlantis mission to the International Space Station (ISS), 1st assembly mission to the ISS after the Columbia disaster.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-115

2006 - 1st flight of The Boeing 747 Large Cargo Freighter (LCF) or Dreamlifter, American wide-body cargo aircraft and the world's longest cargo loader, Constructed by drastic modifications to an existing Boeing 747-400.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_747_Large_Cargo_Freighter

2012 - Launch of SPOT 6, French high-resolution, optical imaging Earth observation satellite system operating from space.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPOT_(satellite)#SPOT_6_and_SPOT_7