1909: Wright Company is incorporated with a capital stock of $1,000,000. Formed to manufacture airplanes, the company’s president is Wilbur Wright and his brother Orville is the vice president.
1955: Soviet Tupolev Tu-16 drops the first Soviet thermo-nuclear bomb RDS-37 in Siberia.
1989: Air Force SR-71 program officially terminated.
1993: Qatar Airways is founded.
2003: The DHL A300 shootdown incident in Baghdad.