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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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