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1920 - The Schneider Trophy race is flown at Venice, Italy. Lt. Luigi Bolgna in a Savoia S.12 is the only starter and reach a Speed of 172.6 km/h (107.3 mph).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schneider_Trophy - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savoia_S.12

1926 - Death of Paul Turck, German WWI flying ace

http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/germany/turck.php

1936 - A. B. Yumashev sets a record flight with a 12,000 kilograms (26,000 lb) payload to 2,700 metres (8,900 ft) with a Tupolev TB-3 (ANT-6).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_TB-3#Development

1939 - 1st RAF aerial victory of WWII. A Messerschmitt Bf 109 is shot down by a Fairey Battle gunner Sgt. F. Letchard of No.88 Squadron during a patrol near Aachen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairey_Battle#Operational_history - http://www.raf.mod.uk/history/rafhistorytimeline1939.cfm

1942 - 1st flight of The FFVS J 22, swedish single-engine fighter aircraft developed during WWII.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFVS_22

1943 - 1st flight of The de Havilland DH.100 Vampire, British jet-engine fighter.

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

1943 - 1st flight of The Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer, WWII and Korean War era patrol bomber of the US Navy derived from the Consolidated B-24 Liberator.

http://www.aviastar.org/air/usa/cons_privateer.php

1945 - An experimental Gloster Meteor with Rolls-Royce Trent engines makes the 1st turboprop-powered flight.

http://www.aviastar.org/air/england/gloster_trent-meteor.php - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turboprop#History

1947 - 1st flight of the Seibel S-3, American helicopter prototype with a two-bladed rotor system and a simplified transmission.

http://www.aviastar.org/helicopters_eng/seibel_s-3.php

1949 - 1st flight of the Blackburn B-54 (YA.7), British prototype carrier-borne Anti-submarine warfare aircraft.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackburn_B-54

1951 - 1st flight of The Grumman F9F/F-9 Cougar, America aircraft carrier-based fighter aircraft for the US Navy, based on the earlier Grumman F9F Panther.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_F-9_Cougar

1951 - 1st successful recovery of animals from a rocket flight. An instrumented monkey (Yorick aka Albert VI) and 11 mice survived an Aerobee flight to an altitude of 70.8 km from Holloman AFB.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkeys_and_apes_in_space#United_States - http://www.astronautix.com/fam/aerobee.htm

1952 - Pilot Officer Jean Lennox Bird of the Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF) Volunteer Reserve is The 1st woman to receive Royal Air Force (RAF) pilot's wings,

http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/history-of-aviation-timeline/interactive-aviation-timeline/british-military-aviation/1952.aspx

1955 - 1st flight of The Nord 1500 Griffon I, French experimental ramjet-powered fighter aircraft.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord_1500_Griffon

1958 - Rolls-Royce test pilot, Mr. K.R. Sturt, flying the prototype Avro Vulcan VX770 in an airshow at RAF Syerston pulls up too hard after a high-speed flyby and exceeds the airframe's structural limits, collapsing the plane's right wing. The craft spirals out of control and crashes, killing the entire aircrew and 3 people on the ground.

http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=55327

1959 - Death of Mario Stoppani, Italian WWI flying ace and record breaker.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Stoppani - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/italy/stoppani.php

1960 - Birth of James Anthony "Jim" Pawelczyk, American researcher of physiology and Kinesiology, and NASA astronaut.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Pawelczyk

1966 - Launch of Surveyor 2, 2nd lunar lander in the unmanned American Surveyor program to explore the Moon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveyor_2

1969 – An Air Vietnam Douglas C-54D-10-DC Skymaster collided on approach to landing with an American USAF McDonnell F-4 Phantom II near Da Nang, Vietnam. 77 died.

http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19690920-1

1970 - Luna 16, Soviet unmanned space probe, lands on the Moon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_16

1971 - 1st hovering flight of The VFW VAK 191B, experimental German VTOL nuclear strike fighter prototype.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VFW_VAK_191B

1973 - Musicians Jim Croce and Maury Muehleisen are killed in a Beechcraft E18S which collided with a tree at the end of the runway of Natchitoches Regional Airport.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Croce#Death - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maury_Muehleisen#Death

1981 - The People's Republic of China launches 3 satellites into orbit with a single-booster rocket, making this is the 1st multiple launch achieved by China

http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/history-of-aviation-timeline/interactive-aviation-timeline/world-aviation/1981.aspx

1989 - USAir Flight 5050 Boeing 737-401 aborts a takeoff in New York and slides into the East River. Two people are killed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USAir_Flight_5050

1992 - Space Shuttle Endeavour mission STS-47 is back on earth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-47

1993 - Death of Erich 'Bubi' Hartmann, WWII German fighter ace, highest-scoring fighter ace in the history of aerial warfare. 352 aerial victories (of which 345 were won against the Soviet Air Force, and 260 of which were fighters) in 1,404 combat missions

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Hartmann - http://www.luftwaffe.cz/hartmann.html

1994 - STS-64, Space Shuttle Discovery mission, is back on earth.

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

2000 - Death of Gherman Stepanovich Titov, Soviet air force pilot and cosmonaut.

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

2006 - Death of Dean Everett Wooldridge, American engineer in the aerospace industry.

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

2006 - 1st flight of the Boeing A/MH-6X Mission Enhanced Little Bird (MELB), American light helicopter gunship , enhhanced version of the ULB version.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_AH-6