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2011 Event - Due to a range of safety concerns, all Tiger Airways flights in Australia are grounded until July 9th by the country's Civil Aviation Safety Authority

1994 Death - BAM "Bob" Schreiner, airline owner (S Aviation Group), dies at 79

1994 Death - Johan Block, Dutch aviation pioneer (Martinair/Transavia), dies at 64

1991 Death - Leigh Watson, U.S. aviation pioneer/air force general, dies at 93

1987 Death - Roger Lewis, aviation executive (Lockheed, C Wright, Pan Am), dies at 75

1981 Death - Donald W. Douglas, U.S. aviation pionieer/builder, dies at 88

1977 Event - 583 die in aviation's worst disaster KLM-Pan Am 747 crash on Tenerife

1963 Death - Albert Plesman, aviation pioneer, dies

1958 Death - Henry Farman, French aviation pioneer (double decker), dies at 84

1955 Death - Robert Blackburn, British aviation pioneer, dies at 70

1955 Death - Louis Breguet, French aviation pioneer, dies at 75

1953 Death - Albert Plesman, Dutch aviation pioneer/founder (KLM), dies at 64

1948 Death - Orville Wright, U.S. aviation pioneer, dies at 76

1947 Event - Convention on International Civil Aviation goes into effect

1947 Event - U.N.'s International Civil Aviation Organization forms

1944 Event - Convention on International Civil Aviation drawn up in Chicago

1937 Death - Walter Mittelholzer, Swiss aviation pioneer, dies in crash at 43

1936 Birthday - Richard Bach, born in Oak Park, Illinois, writer, author, best-sellers include, 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull', 'Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah', genres include aviation, fantasy, philosophy

1936 Event - Aviation gasoline 1st produced commercially Paulsboro, New Jersey

1935 Death - Wiley Post, aviation pioneer, killed in plane crash in Alaska at 36

1930 Death - Glenn Hammond Curtiss, aviation pioneer/airplane builder, dies at 52

1929 Birthday - Johan N Block, aviation pioneer, Martinair/Transavia/Air Holland

1927 Event - Parks College, America's oldest aviation school, opens

1921 Death - Geo Mestdagh, Belgian aviation pioneer, dies

1921 Birthday - Peter Horsley, CEO, Osprey Aviation

1912 Death - Wilbur Wright, U.S. aviation pioneer, dies

1912 Birthday - Roger Lewis, aviation executive, Lockheed, Curtiss Wright, Pan Am

1910 Death - Leon Delagrange, French aviation pioneer, dies

1899 Birthday - Wiley Post, Texas, aviation pioneer

1895 Birthday - Reginald J "R" Mitchell, English aviation manufacturer, Spitfire

1894 Birthday - Walter Mittelholzer, Swiss aviation pioneer, Swiss Air

1889 Birthday - Albert Plesman, aviation pioneer/founder/director, KLM

1885 Birthday - Robert Blackburn, British aviation pioneer

1883 Birthday - Jan Olieslagers, Belgian aviation pioneer, Antwerp Devil

1880 Birthday - Louis Breguet, French aviation pioneer

1879 Birthday - Billy Mitchell, aviation hero Gen, WW I

1874 Birthday - Henry Farman, French aviation pioneer, double decker

1808 Event - Louis Napoleon signs 1st Dutch aviation law

1785 Event - 2 French balloonists die in world's 1st fatal aviation accident

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