1909: The first international Zeppelin (airship) show is held in Frankfurt, Germany.

1911: Denise Moore crashes and dies on a solo flight in a Farman airplane, the first woman killed in a plane.

1919: Anthony Fokker founds the Dutch Aircraft Company at Schipol, near Amsterdam.

1946: a McDonnell XFD-1 Phantom executes the first intentional and controlled landing by a purely jet-powered aircraft aboard a US aircraft carrier, USS Franklin D. Roosevelt.

1980: The F-16 is officially nicknamed the Fighting Falcon in a ceremony.

2001: First flight of the XCOR EZ-Rocket, flown by Dick Rutan.