1910: President Teddy Roosevelt becomes the 1st US president to fly when he is taken up in St. Louis.

1956: a Vickers Valiant of No. 49 Squadron RAF drops Britain's first air-dropped atomic bomb, over Maralinga, South Australia.

1990: First flight of the Rockwell/MBB X-31.

2006: New York Yankees baseball pitcher Cory Lidle's Cirrus SR20 aircraft crashes in New York City, killing Lidle and his flight instructor.