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2011 Event - A 26-year old American citizen is arrested by the FBI for a plot to fly remote-controlled planes filled with explosives into the U.S. Capitol and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C.

2011 Event - On a mission to destroy Muammar Gaddafi's forces, NATO jets fly over Tripoli and knock out three television stations

2001 Event - Dennis Tito becomes the first space tourist by paying $20 million to fly on a Soyuz mission to the International Space Station.

1998 Event - NASA announces John Glenn, 76, may fly in space again

1996 Death - Jessica Dubroff, hoped to be youngest to fly across U.S., crashed at 7

1995 Event - RAF-pilot Jo Salter is 1st woman to fly in a tornado

1994 Event - 1st Jordanian plane to fly over Israeli airspace (King Hussein pilot)

1993 Death - Vincent Price, actor (Raven, Fly), dies of lung cancer at 82

1993 Event - Long fly ball by Indians' Carlos Martinez bounces off Jose Canseco's head and goes over fence for a home run

1991 Event - Senate votes to allow women to fly combat aircraft

1990 Event - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Bayakoa, Fly So Free, In The Wings, Meadow Star, Royal Academy, Safely Kept, Unbridled

1985 Event - Christa McAuliffe chosen 1st school teacher to fly space shuttle

1984 Event - Dave Kingman's fly ball never comes down (stuck in Metrodome ceiling)

1984 Death - Mabel Mercer, English/US singer (Fly me to the moon), dies at 84

1980 Event - Jaromir Wagner is 1st to fly Atlantic standing on wing

1973 Event - Super Fly Meets Shaft by John and Ernest hits #31

1972 Birthday - Jeremy London, actor, I'll Fly Away, Party of Five

1972 Event - Penny Marshall appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Fly Unfriendly Skies"

1969 Birthday - R Kelly, singer, I Wish I Could Fly

1968 Birthday - Jay Underwood, actor, Boy Who Could Fly

1968 Event - Beatles George Harrison and John Lennon and wives fly to India for transcendental meditation study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

1967 Event - Phillip and Jay Kunz fly a kite a record 28,000 feet

1965 Event - Zond 3 launched to fly by Moon, enters solar orbit

1965 Event - JPL proposes modified Apollo flight to fly around Mars and return

1964 Event - Mariner 4 launched; 1st probe to fly by Mars

1964 Event - Jerrie Mock becomes 1st woman to fly solo around the world

1964 Event - Geraldine Mock of U.S. is 1st woman to fly solo round the world

1962 Event - Mariner 2 launched; 1st probe to fly by Venus

1960 Birthday - Susan Cowsill, Newport, Rhode Island, rock vocalist, Cowsills-We Can Fly

1959 Event - 1st aviator to fly a million miles (1.61 M km) in a jet (MC Garlow)

1958 Death - Walter Kingsford, actor (My Favorite Blonde, Fly by Night), dies at 76

1957 Event - 1st President to fly in helicopter - Dwight Eisenhower

1956 Birthday - John Cowsill, born in Newport, Rhode Island, rock drummer, Cowsills-We Can Fly

1954 Birthday - Barry Cowsill, Newport, Rhode Island, rock bassist, Cowsills-We Can Fly

1953 Event - Charles E Yeager fly > 2,575 kph in Bell X-1A

1953 Event - 1939 sacrifice fly rule restored: no time at bat for sac fly

1953 Event - 1st passenger to fly commercially around the world < 100 hours

1952 Birthday - Paul Cowsill, Newport, Rhode Island, rock keyboardist, Cowsills-We Can Fly

1952 Birthday - Jeff Goldblum, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, actor, Fly, Jurassic Park, Independence Day

1952 Birthday - Veronica "Randy" Crawford, U.S. vocalist, One Day I'll Fly Away

1950 Birthday - Wally Lamb, born in America, author, novelist, featured in Oprah's Book Club, books include 'The Hour I First Believed' 'I'll Fly Away: Further Testimonies from the Women of York Prison', 'She's Come Undone', 'I Know This Much is True'

1950 Birthday - Richard Cowsill, Newport, Rhode Island, rocker, Cowsills-Hair, We Can Fly

1948 Event - 1st jets to fly across Atlantic, 6 RAF de Havilland Vampires

1948 Event - Wright Flyer, 1st plane to fly, returns to U.S. from England

1948 Birthday - Bill Cowsill, Newport, Rhode Island, rock guitarist/vocals, Cowsills-We Can Fly

1947 Death - Willem H Fly, typographer/co-founder (SDAP), dies at 84

1947 Birthday - Ronald Townson, rock singer, 5th Dimension-We Can Fly

1944 Birthday - Torben Jensen, Denmark, actor, Taxa, Hayfever, Watch Me Fly, Guldregn

1943 Birthday - Burt Rutan, born in Estacada, Oregon, Elbert Leander Burt Rutan, inventor, aerospace engineer, created the Voyager, the first plane to fly around the world without stopping or refueling, and SpaceShipOne, which entered space two times in fourteen days

1943 Event - Premier Churchill and General Marshall fly from U.S. to North Africa

1943 Birthday - David Cronenberg, Toronto, Ontario, director, Shivers, Fly, Brood

1942 Event - Robert Sullivan becomes 1st pilot to fly Atlantic 100 times

1942 Event - Premier Churchill and General Marshall fly to Florida

1937 Death - Amelia Earhart Putnam, Dutch pilot/1st female to fly Atlantic, dies at 40

1935 Event - Airplanes are no longer permitted to fly over the White House

1932 Event - Englishman James Mollisson is 1st to fly east to west over Atlantic

1932 Event - Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland 1st woman fly solo across Atlantic

1932 Event - Amelia Earhart is 1st woman to fly solo cross the Atlantic

1931 Birthday - George Baker, born in Bulgaria, actor, Goodbye Mr. Chips, Curse of the Fly

1930 Event - 1st woman to fly from England to Australia solo, lands (Amy Johnson)

1930 Event - 1st woman to fly solo from England to Australia takes-off (Amy Johnson)

1928 Event - Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland to become 1st woman (passenger) to fly Atlantic (as a passenger in a plane piloted by Wilmer Stultz)

1928 Event - Charles Kingsford-Smith and Charles Ulm are 1st to fly across the Pacific when they end their flight from California to Brisbane

1926 Birthday - Lee Richardson, Chicago, actor, Sweet Lorraine, Fly 2, Tiger Warsaw

1926 Event - Airship Norge is 1st vessel to fly over North Pole

1923 Event - U.S. lt Al Williams fly 392.2 KPH (record)

1920 Event - New York Times editorial (falsely) reports rockets can never fly

1913 Event - Roland Garros is 1st to fly over Mediterranean Sea

1913 Birthday - Nelly Aenders, Petronella Meyer, Dutch actress, Spanish Fly

1912 Event - J Verdrines becomes 1st to fly over 100 mph (107 mph/172 kph)

1911 Birthday - Vincent Price, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, House on Haunted Hill, Fly, Laura

1910 Event - JWEL Hilgers is 1st Dutchman to fly above Dutch territory

1909 Birthday - Jean Batten, New Zealand air pioneer, 1st woman to fly solo England to Australia

1908 Birthday - John Sutton, Rawalpindi India, actor, Tower of London, Return of Fly

1908 Event - Sacrifice fly adopted (repealed in 1931, reinstated 1954)

1908 Event - French pilot Henry Farman is 1st European to fly roundtrip

1904 Event - Orville and Wilbur Wright fly a circle in their Flyer II

1903 Birthday - Michael Kalatozov, Russian producer, When the Cranes Fly

1902 Event - Lyman Gilmore is 1st person to fly a powered craft

1902 Birthday - Charles Lindbergh, born in Detroit, Michigan, pilot, 1st fly solo across Atlantic

1900 Birthday - Mabel Mercer, English cabaret vocalist, Fly Me to the Moon

1897 Event - 1st indoor fly casting tournament opens, at Madison Square Garden

1872 Birthday - Louis Bleriot, 1st man to fly an airplane across English Channel

1871 Event - Millions of birds fly over western SF, darkens sky

1841 Birthday - Clement Ader, French inventor, 1st to fly a heavier-than-air craft

1784 Event - Mme Thible becomes 1st woman to fly, in a balloon













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