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1998 1st time the British flag is flown over Buckingham Palace

1979 Columbia flown on carrier aircraft lands at Kennedy Space Center

1973 1st U.S. POWs in North Vietnam released; 116 of 456 flown to Philippine

1972 Spaceflight 71-2 launched; 1st flexible substrate photovoltaic flown

1972 1st airship flown over Britain in 20 years (Europa)

1968 1st supersonic airliner flown (Russian TU-144)

1954 1st VTOL, Vertical Take-off and Land, flown

1950 1st 407 U.S. soldiers flown to South Korea

1938 Boeing 314 Clipper flying boat 1st flown, Eddie Allen

1930 1st seaplane glider flown, Port Washington, New York

1930 Cow flown and milked, milk sealed in paper containers and parachuted

1915 1st all-metal aircraft (Junkers J-1) test flown at Dessau Germany

1913 1st 4 engine aircraft built and flown (Igor Sikorsky-Russia)

1911 Britain's 1st twin-engine airplane (Short S.39) test flown

1909 1st U.S. monoplane flown (Henry W Walden, Long Island, New York)

1865 Flag flown at full staff over White House, 1st time since Lincoln shot

1813 1st U.S. flag flown in battle on the Pacific, frigate Essex



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