2003 Sheb Wooley, singer/actor, ", One-eyed, One-horn Flying Purple People Eater, ", dies at 82
2002 Ian McNaughton, director, Monty Python's Flying Circus, dies at 76
1995 Grady Sutton, actor (Come Blow Your Horn, Flying Blind), dies at 87
1994 "Flying Karamzov Brothers..." opens at Helen Hayes New York City for 50 performances
1994 Jean Borotra, [Flying Basque], Fr tennis star (Davis Cup), dies at 95
1994 Dhirendra Bhramachari, [Flying Swami], hindu leader, dies at 70
1994 "Flying Karamzov Brothers" closes at Helen Hayes New York City after 50 performances
1990 SR-71 sets a transcontinental record, flying 2,404 miles in 1:08:17
1986 Farthest thrown object-an "Aerobie" flying ring, 383 m (1,257')
1982 Larry J Blake, actor (Earth vs the Flying Saucers), dies at 68
1978 "Flying High," debuts on CBS
1976 George Baxter, actor (Flying Saucer, Lili, Caged), dies at 71
1975 Jean Del Val, actor (Sainted Devil, Flying Deuces), dies at 83
1974 "Monty Python's Flying Circus" last shown on BBC
1973 Paavo "Flying Finn" Nurmi, who won 6 Olympic gold medals, dies at 76
1973 John Cleese's final episode on "Monty Python's Flying Circus," on BBC
1969 Monty Python's Flying Circus begins airing on BBC
1969 BBC orders 13 episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus
1966 Tea Leoni, New York City, actress, Flying Blind, Naked Truth
1964 Morris Ankrum, actor (Kronos, Earth vs Flying Saucers), dies at 67
1962 2 members of Flying Wallendas' high-wire act killed when their 7-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit
1958 Gibson patents Flying V Guitar
1957 B-52 bombers begin full-time flying alert in case of U.S.S.R. attack
1954 Ted Williams fractures collarbone in 1st game of spring training after flying 39 combat missions without injury in Korean War
1952 Flying Enterprise sinks
1951 Flying Enterprise in difficulty in Canal
1950 RE Wayne awarded 1st Distinguished Flying Cross in Korea
1949 Norah Ellen O'Neill, airline pilot, Flying Tigers
1947 Tom O'Brien, actor (Flying Fool), dies at 56
1946 Sally Field, born in Pasadena, California, we really like her, Gidget, Flying Nun
1945 1st Japanese flying bombs (ochas) attack Okinawa
1945 Almost 1000 Flying Fortresses drop 3000 ton bombs on Berlin
1944 Former Washington 3rd baseman Buddy Lewis wins Distinguished Flying Cross
1944 32nd CFL Grey Cup: Montreal HMCS defeat Hamilton Flying Wildcats, 7-6
1944 Flying Fortresses of U.S. 8th Air Force attack Leipzig/Dessau
1944 500 15th Air Force Liberators/Flying Fortresses bomb Munich vicinity
1944 Greenwich Observatory damaged by WW II flying bomb
1944 2500+ killed in London and South East England by German flying bombs
1943 31st CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Flying Wildcats defeat Winn Bombers, 23-14
1943 German occupiers forbid flying of kites (6 month jail sentence)
1943 RAF scatters 1st copies of "The Flying Hollander"
1943 Leo Frankowski, U.S., sci-fi author, High Tech Knight, Flying Warlord
1942 Assault of U.S. B-17 Flying Fortresses on airport at Sidi Ahmed
1942 Erica Jong, born in New York City, author, Fear of Flying
1942 1st cadets graduated from flying school at Tuskegee
1941 1st U.S. Army flying school for black cadets dedicated
1941 Graham Chapman, England, comedian, Monty Python's Flying Circus
1940 Batman Comics, mobsters rubbed out a circus highwire team known as the Flying Graysons, leaving their son Dick (Robin) an orphan
1938 Boeing 314 Clipper flying boat 1st flown, Eddie Allen
1935 China Clipper (flying boat) took off from Alameda, California, carrying 100,000 pieces of mail on 1st trans-Pacific airmail flight
1934 Dickie Goodman, parody singer, Flying Saucer
1933 Norman Bailey, British bass-baritone, Flying Dutchman
1932 Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, 1st joint movie (Flying Down to Rio)
1929 1st airship flight around Earth flying eastward completed
1927 Charles Lindbergh is awarded the 1st Distinguished Flying Cross
1925 51st Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Flying Ebony wins in 2:07.6
1923 Bobby Jordan, born in New York, actor, Bowery Champs, Kid Dynamite, Flying Wild
1923 Flying Scotsman goes into service
1921 1st transcontinental flight in 24 hours flying time arrives Florida
1919 1st transatlantic flight ends; U.S. Navy flying boat takes 11 days
1918 England's Royal Flying Corps replaced by Royal Air Force
1918 Vito Scotti, born in San Francisco, California, actor, Flying Nun, Barefoot in the Park
1912 Royal Flying Corps forms in England
1912 Royal Flying Corps forms (later RAF)
1912 World's 1st flying boat's maiden flight, (Glenn Curtiss in New York)
1911 "Come Josephine in My Flying Machine" hits #1
1910 Clement van Maasdijk gives flying demonstration
1909 Orville Wright tests 1st U.S. Army airplane, flying 1h12m40s
1908 1st flying club, Aeronautical Society of New York, opens
1905 George Baxter, born in Paris, France, actor, Flying Saucer, Lili, Caged
1898 Cruys Voorbergh, Dutch actor and director, Flying Dutchman
1897 Morris Ankrum, Illinois, actor, Kronos, Half Human, Earth vs Flying Saucers
1891 Jean Del Val, [Gautier], France, actor, Sainted Devil, Flying Deuces
1888 George Hubert Wilkins, Aust, polar explorer, Flying the Arctic
1882 James Gleason, New York City, writer and actor, Bishop's Wife, Flying Fool
1859 Jules Leotard performs 1st Flying Trapeze circus act (Paris) He also designed garment that bears his name
1857 U.S. issues flying eagle cents
1813 Richard Wagner, Leipsig Germany, composer, Ring, Flying Dutchman
1704 John Kay, England, machinist, invented flying shuttle
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