1903: After several stationary stability trials, Ferdinand Ferber makes the first full trial of his glider No.6. It fails to take off in Nice, France.

1910: Robert Martinet wins the first cross-country air race, between Angers and Saumur, France (27 miles), in a Farman; he takes 31 minutes and 35 seconds.

1944: A huge airborne armada, nine planes wide and 200 miles long, carries American and British troops across the British Channel for the D-Day invasion of Europe.

1944: Alaska Airlines commences operations.

1964: Silver City Airways (British) announces that it has recorded the one-millionth car it has flown between the UK cross-Channel car ferry by air in 1948.

1964: A U.S. Navy RF-8A Crusader photographic reconnaissance aircraft is shot down over Laos, becoming the first U.S. Navy aircraft and first American fixed-wing aircraft lost over Indochina in the Vietnam War era.

1971: Soyuz 11 takes 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 1 space station.

1985: Soyuz T-13 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station.

2004: Alaska Airlines starts service between Denver and Anchorage and discontinues service between San Jose and Tucson.