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2013 Event - Iran releases a new Qaher-313 combat jet which they claim can evade radar detection

2012 Event - The black box is recovered from the Russian passenger jet that carried 44 passengers and crashed in the Indonesian province of West Java, leaving no survivors

2011 Event - U.S. airlines continue increasing fares as a result of the high cost of jet fuel

2000 Event - A Concorde jet crashes outside of Paris after takeoff killing 113 passengers

1996 Event - New York Jet Nick Lowrey breaks Jan Stenerud NFL field goal record at 374

1996 Event - New York Jet Nick Lowrey ties Jan Stenerud with 373 NFL field goals

1996 Death - Frank A Whittle, inventor of the Jet engine, dies at 89

1995 Event - Emillio and Gloria Estefan's boat hits and kills a jet skiier

1994 Death - Laurence "Bill" Craigie, jet pioneer, dies at 92

1992 Event - NY Jet announcer Marty Glickman retires at 75

1992 Event - New York Jet Al Toon becomes 10th NFL to catch a pass in 100 straight games

1992 Event - El Al cargo jet crashes into apartment complex in Amsterdam (250 die)

1992 Event - Englishman Dave Gauder, 224 lbs, pulls 196 ton jumbo jet, 3 inches

1992 Event - F-16 jet crashes at residential district of Hengelo Netherlands (No deaths)

1991 Event - Former New York Jet Mark Gastineau wins 1st pro boxing fight in 12 seconds

1991 Event - U.S. Air and Skywest Fairchild jet collide at LA Airport killing 32

1989 Death - Roland Winters, actor (Jet Pilot, Meet Millie), dies at 84

1989 Event - U.S. F-14s shoot down 2 Libyan jet fighters over Mediterranean

1988 Event - New York bound Pan Am jumbo jet explodes over Scotland all 258 aboard die

1988 Event - 5 gunmen who hijacked Soviet Aeroflot jet, surrender in Israel

1987 Death - James Dobson, actor (Impulse, Jet Attack, Okinawa), dies

1987 Event - 10 die as Air Force jet crashed into a Ramada Inn near Indianapolis

1985 Event - Ken O'Brien's 96 yard TD pass (New York Jet record) to Wesley Walker

1985 Event - 58 die as Egyptian commandos storm hijack Egyptair jet in Malta

1984 Event - 6 day hijack of Kuwaiti jet ends

1983 Event - U.S. jet fighters strike Syrian anti-aircraft positions in Lebanon

1983 Event - Korean Boeing 747 strays into Siberia and is shot down by a Soviet jet

1982 Event - National Guard jet tanker crashes killing 27

1981 Event - 2 U.S. Navy F-14 jet fighters shoot down 2 Soviet-built Libyan SU-22

1981 Event - Marine jet crashes on flight deck of USS Nimitz, killing 14

1980 Event - Longest jump by a jet boat is set at 120'

1978 Event - Israeli jet fighters swooped over mostly Moslem West Beirut

1977 Event - Supersonic Concorde jet's 1st landing in New York City

1976 Event - Quarterback Joe Namath last game as a New York Jet

1976 Event - Russian pilot Belenko defects to Japan in a Mig 25 jet

1975 Event - 1st New York Jet to gain 1,000 yards rushing (John Riggins)

1973 Event - Observers aboard Concorde jet observe 72-minute solar eclipse

1972 Event - Eastern Tristar Jumbo Jet crashes near Everglades killing 101

1972 Event - Jet's Don Maynard becomes all time pro reception leader (632)

1972 Event - N.Y. Jet Joe Namath passes for 6 touchdowns vs. Baltimore Colts (44-34)

1971 Event - Air West filght 706 collides with Navy Phantom jet over LA, 50 die

1970 Event - Peruvian Airlines jet carrying 45 U.S. exchange students explodes

1969 Event - Peter, Paul and Mary's "Leaving on a Jet Plane" reaches #1

1969 Event - Boeing 747 jumbo jet 1st public preview (Seattle to New York City)

1969 Event - New York Jet Steve O'Neal punts 98 yards against Denver Broncos

1969 Event - 22-year-old man sneaks into wheel pod of a jet parked in Havana and survives 9-hour flight to Spain despite thin oxygen levels at 29,000 ft

1969 Event - 1st Test flight of Boeing 747 jumbo jet

1968 Event - New York Jet Jim Turner kicks 6 field goals to beat Buffalo 25-21

1968 Event - 21 killed by hijackers aboard a Pan Am jet in Karachi Pakistan

1967 Death - Clifton C Williams, Jr., astronaut, dies at 35, in T-38 jet crash

1966 Death - Charles A Bassett II, astronaut, dies at 34, in a crash of T-38 jet

1966 Death - Elliot McKay See, Jr., astronaut, dies at 38 in T-38 jet crash

1964 Event - Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet)

1964 Death - Theodore C Freeman, astronaut, dies at 34 in a T-38 jet air crash

1964 Event - Lyndon Baines Johnson reveals U.S. secretly developed the A-11 jet fighter

1963 Birthday - Jet Li, born in Beijing, China, Li Lianjie, Chinese martial artist, actor, international film star, appeared in Lethal Weapon 4, with Jackie Chan in The Forbidden Kingdom, Wushu champion, studied Changquan, among other arts

1963 Event - 1st flight of Boeing 727 jet

1959 Event - USAF Captain Joe B. Jordan reaches 103,395 feet in F-104 jet fighter

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

1959 Event - 1st transcontinental coml jet flight (American) (LA to New York for $301)

1958 Event - 1st domestic (NY-Miami) passenger jet flight-National 707 flew 111

1958 Event - PanAm flies 1st transatlantic jet trip - New York to Paris

1957 Event - Ryan X-13 Vertijet becomes 1st jet to take-off and land vertically

1955 Event - 1st magnesium jet airplane flies

1954 Event - 1st coml jet transport plane built in U.S. tested (Boeing 707)

1953 Event - 1st jet transcontinental nonstop scheduled service

1953 Event - Eastern Airlines enters jet age, uses Electra prop-jet

1953 Event - 1st west-to-east jet transatlantic nonstop flight

1953 Event - Ted Williams safely crash-lands his damaged Panther jet

1952 Event - 1st nonstop transpacific flight by a jet

1952 Event - 1st scheduled jet airliner passenger service began with a BOAC Comet

1951 Event - Jet magazine founded by John H. Johnson

1951 Event - 1st North Pole jet crossing

1951 Event - 1st jet passenger trip made

1950 Event - In the Korean War, 1st jet battle takes place

1950 Event - 1st transatlantic jet passenger trip

1949 Event - 1st British-produced jet bomber, Canberra, makes its 1st test flight

1948 Birthday - Jet Black, rocker, Stranglers-Dreamtime

1947 Event - 1st 4 engine jet propelled fighter plane tested, Columbus, Oh

1947 Event - 73rd Kentucky Derby: Eric Guerin aboard Jet Pilot wins in 2:06.8

1947 Event - XB-45, 1st U.S. 4-engine jet bomber, makes 1st test flight, Muroc, California

1944 Death - Walter Nowotny, German combat/jet fighter pilot, dies

1944 Event - 1st British jet fighter used in combat, Gloster Meteor

1944 Event - 1st jet fighter used in combat, Messerschmitt 262

1944 Event - Messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel, 1st jet bomber, makes 1st flight

1944 Event - Air Force announces production of 1st U.S. jet fighter, the Bell P-59

1943 Birthday - Emerson Boozer, NFL running back, New York Jet, sportscaster

1943 Event - 1st jet fighter is tested

1942 Event - Bell P-59 Airacomet fighter, 1st U.S. jet, makes maiden flight

1942 Event - Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe, 1st jet fighter, takes 1st flight

1942 Birthday - Tony Meehan, born in New End, England, born Daniel Joseph Anthony Meehan, musician, drummer, founding member of the Shadows with Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Jet Harris

1940 Event - Caproni-Campini CC-2, experimental jet plane, maiden flight (Milan)

1939 Event - 1st jet plane, Heinkel He 178, demonstrated to German Air Ministry

1939 Event - Heinkel He-178 makes 1st manned flight with rocket/jet propulsion

1939 Birthday - Jet Harris, born in London, rock bassist, Drifters

1934 Event - Wiley Post discovers jet stream

1929 Event - 1st high-speed jet wind tunnel completed Langley Field Ca

1925 Birthday - Mel Torme, born in Chicago, Illinois, jazz singer "Velvet Fog", Jet Set, Night Court

1925 Birthday - Mai Zetterling, Sweden, actress, Witches, Offbeat, Jet Storm

1907 Birthday - Frank A. Whittle, England inventor, jet engine

1902 Birthday - William Lear, engineer/manufacturer/CEO, Lear Jet Corp

1902 Birthday - Laurence "Bill" Craigie, jet pioneer

1898 Birthday - Jay C. Flippen, born in Little Rock, Arkansas, actor, Jet Pilot, Killing, Thunder Bay

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