2015 Event Nikki Haley, governor of South Carolina, supports removal of the Confederate flag from state grounds; however, the state legislature must first overturn a law requiring the flag to be flown at the Confederate Soldier Monument 2013 Event The body of former President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, is flown from Pretoria to the leader's ancestral village of Qunu, his final resting place 1998 Event 1st time the British flag is flown over Buckingham Palace 1979 Event Columbia flown on carrier aircraft lands at Kennedy Space Center 1973 Event 1st U.S. POWs in North Vietnam released; 116 of 456 flown to Philippine 1972 Event Spaceflight 71-2 launched; 1st flexible substrate photovoltaic flown 1972 Event 1st airship flown over Britain in 20 years (Europa) 1968 Event 1st supersonic airliner flown (Russian TU-144) 1954 Event 1st VTOL, Vertical Take-off and Land, flown 1950 Event 1st 407 U.S. soldiers flown to South Korea 1938 Event Boeing 314 Clipper flying boat 1st flown, Eddie Allen 1930 Event 1st seaplane glider flown, Port Washington, New York 1930 Event Cow flown and milked, milk sealed in paper containers and parachuted 1915 Event 1st all-metal aircraft (Junkers J-1) test flown at Dessau Germany 1913 Event 1st 4 engine aircraft built and flown (Igor Sikorsky-Russia) 1911 Event Britain's 1st twin-engine airplane (Short S.39) test flown 1909 Event 1st U.S. monoplane flown (Henry W Walden, Long Island, New York) 1865 Event Flag flown at full staff over White House, 1st time since Lincoln shot 1813 Event 1st U.S. flag flown in battle on the Pacific, frigate Essex
