1905: Gabriel Voisin succeeds in lifting off from the river Seine in his box-kite glider when towed by a motorboat.
1920: Lieutenant John Wilson makes a world record parachute jump from 19,861 feet in San Antonio, Texas.
1921: The first flight of a U.S. Army Air Service pressurized cabin airplane is made with a D-9-A aircraft. This allows flying beyond the “comfortable” breathing altitude of about 8,000 feet.
1948: Air-India commences a regular Bombay-London service by Lockheed Constellation.
1959: First flight of the North American X-15 (unpowered).
1963: The National Museum of Naval Aviation opens at Naval Air Station Pensacola in Pensacola, Florida.
1965: Luna 6 - USSR Lunar Soft Lander launched. Missed the moon and is now in a solar orbit.
1966: A U.S. Air Force XB-70 Valkyrie bomber prototype is destroyed in a mid-air collision with a F-104 Starfighter chase plane.
1989: Soviet Air Force Mikoyan MiG-29 suffers a birdstrike during a display at the Paris Air Show. Pilot Anatoli Kvochur manages to prevent the plane from injuring anyone, and saves himself by ejecting at only 400 feet.