1895 – Birth of Geoffrey Forrest Hughes, Australian World War I flying ace.
1929 – First flight of the Dornier Do X, a German flying boat powered by twelve engines mounted in six tower nacelles on the wing.
1944 – The first allied jet fighter, the Gloster Meteor Mk. 1 (shown above), entered service with the Royal Air Force’s 161 Squadron.
1957 – President Dwight “Ike” Eisenhower becomes the first president to fly in a helicopter when he is flown from the White House to an unnamed military post in a U.S. Air Force Bell UH-13 J.
1983 – Death of Erich Warsitz, a German World War II test pilot; he is remembered as the first person to fly an aircraft under liquid-fueled rocket power and the first to fly an aircraft under turbojet power.
1994 – A Royal Air Force C-130 Hercules flies the 10,000th United Nations relief flight into Sarajevo, the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina.