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On This Day: November 17

Aviation events for November 17

1906: The Daily Mail of London offers a £10,000 prize for the 1st flight from London to Manchester.
 
1956: First flight of the Dassault Mirage III
 
1962: President John F. Kennedy dedicates the Dulles International Airport in Herndon, Virginia.
 
1965: Venera Program: The Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe toward venus, the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.
 
1973: Skylab Program: NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral for an 84-day mission.
 
1997: ValuJet Airlines terminated operations after merging to AirTran Airways.
 
2013: Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363, a Boeing 737, crashes at Kazan International Airport, Russia during a go-around, killing all 50 people on board.
 
 
 

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