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

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

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

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

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

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

1963 Albert Plesman, aviation pioneer, dies

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

1955 Robert Blackburn, British aviation pioneer, dies at 70

1955 Louis Breguet, French aviation pioneer, dies at 75

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

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

1947 Convention on International Civil Aviation goes into effect

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

1944 Convention on International Civil Aviation drawn up in Chicago

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

1936 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 Aviation gasoline 1st produced commercially Paulsboro, New Jersey

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

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

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

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

1921 Geo Mestdagh, Belgian aviation pioneer, dies

1921 Peter Horsley, CEO, Osprey Aviation

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

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

1910 Leon Delagrange, French aviation pioneer, dies

1899 Wiley Post, Texas, aviation pioneer

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

1894 Walter Mittelholzer, Swiss aviation pioneer, Swiss Air

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

1885 Robert Blackburn, British aviation pioneer

1883 Jan Olieslagers, Belgian aviation pioneer, Antwerp Devil

1880 Louis Breguet, French aviation pioneer

1879 Billy Mitchell, aviation hero Gen, WW I

1874 Henry Farman, French aviation pioneer, double decker

1808 Louis Napoleon signs 1st Dutch aviation law

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


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