1783: In Annonay, France, the Montgolfier brothers, Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Etienne, give the first public demonstration of their hot-air balloon by sending up a large model made of linen lined with paper.
1784: Madame Elisabeth Thible of Lyons, France, is the first woman to make an untethered balloon flight.
1927: The first non-stop flight from New York to Eisleben, Germany is made by Americans Clarence D. Chamberlain and Charles A. Levine in a Bellanca monoplane. They fly 3,905 miles in 42 hours, 15 minutes.
1942: Battle of Midway is fought, the turning point in the Pacific War. Japan loses four carriers, Akagi, Kaga, Sōryū, and Hiryū. America loses USS Yorktown.
1959: Max Conrad flies a Piper Comanche from Casablanca to New York, setting a new lightplane distance record of 7,683 miles (12,365 km).
1969: The USAF Thunderbirds perform their first show with the Mc-Donnell-Douglas F-4 Phantom II.
1974: Construction of OV-101, the first Space Shuttle, begins. It later will be named Enterprise.