2000 A Concorde jet crashes outside of Paris after takeoff killing 113 passengers
1996 New York Jet Nick Lowrey breaks Jan Stenerud NFL field goal record at 374
1996 New York Jet Nick Lowrey ties Jan Stenerud with 373 NFL field goals
1996 Frank A Whittle, inventor of the Jet engine, dies at 89
1995 Emillio and Gloria Estefan's boat hits and kills a jet skiier
1994 Laurence "Bill" Craigie, jet pioneer, dies at 92
1992 NY Jet announcer Marty Glickman retires at 75
1992 New York Jet Al Toon becomes 10th NFL to catch a pass in 100 straight games
1992 El Al cargo jet crashes into apartment complex in Amsterdam (250 die)
1992 Englishman Dave Gauder, 224 lbs, pulls 196 ton jumbo jet, 3 inches
1992 Jet Travolta, daughter of John Travolta and Kelly Preston
1992 F-16 jet crashes at residential district of Hengelo Netherlands (No deaths)
1991 Former New York Jet Mark Gastineau wins 1st pro boxing fight in 12 seconds
1991 US Air and Skywest Fairchild jet collide at LA Airport killing 32
1989 Roland Winters, actor (Jet Pilot, Meet Millie), dies at 84
1989 U.S. F-14s shoot down 2 Libyan jet fighters over Mediterranean
1988 NY bound Pan Am jumbo jet explodes over Scotland all 258 aboard die
1988 5 gunmen who hijacked Soviet Aeroflot jet, surrender in Israel
1987 James Dobson, actor (Impulse, Jet Attack, Okinawa), dies
1987 10 die as Air Force jet crashed into a Ramada Inn near Indianapolis
1985 Ken O'Brien's 96 yard TD pass (New York Jet record) to Wesley Walker
1985 58 die as Egyptian commandos storm hijack Egyptair jet in Malta
1984 6 day hijack of Kuwaiti jet ends
1983 US jet fighters strike Syrian anti-aircraft positions in Lebanon
1983 Korean Boeing 747 strays into Siberia and is shot down by a Soviet jet
1982 National Guard jet tanker crashes killing 27
1981 2 U.S. Navy F-14 jet fighters shoot down 2 Soviet-built Libyan SU-22
1981 Marine jet crashes on flight deck of USS Nimitz, killing 14
1980 Longest jump by a jet boat is set at 120'
1978 Israeli jet fighters swooped over mostly Moslem West Beirut
1977 Supersonic Concorde jet's 1st landing in New York City
1976 QB Joe Namath last game as a New York Jet
1976 Russian pilot Belenko defects to Japan in a Mig 25 jet
1975 1st New York Jet to gain 1,000 yards rushing (John Riggins)
1973 Observers aboard Concorde jet observe 72-min solar eclipse
1972 Eastern Tristar Jumbo Jet crashes near Everglades killing 101
1972 Jet's Don Maynard becomes all time pro reception leader (632)
1972 N.Y. Jet Joe Namath passes for 6 touchdowns vs Balt Colt (44-34)
1971 Air West filght 706 collides with Navy Phantom jet over LA, 50 die
1970 Peruvian Airlines jet carrying 45 U.S. exchange students explodes
1969 Peter, Paul and Mary's "Leaving on a Jet Plane" reaches #1
1969 Boeing 747 jumbo jet 1st public preview (Seattle to New York City)
1969 New York Jet Steve O'Neal punts 98 yards against Denver Broncos
1969 22-year-old man sneaks into wheel pod of a jet parked in Havana and survives 9-hr flight to Spain despite thin oxygen levels at 29,000 ft
1969 1st Test flight of Boeing 747 jumbo jet
1968 New York Jet Jim Turner kicks 6 field goals to beat Buffalo 25-21
1968 21 killed by hijackers aboard a Pan Am jet in Karachi Pakistan
1967 Clifton C Williams Jr, astronaut, dies at 35, in T-38 jet crash
1966 Charles A Bassett II, astronaut, dies at 34, in a crash of T-38 jet
1966 Elliot McKay See Jr, astronaut, dies at 38 in T-38 jet crash
1964 Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet)
1964 Theodore C Freeman, astronaut, dies at 34 in a T-38 jet air crash
1964 Lyndon Baines Johnson reveals U.S. secretly developed the A-11 jet fighter
1963 Jet Li, Chinese Actor
1963 1st flight of Boeing 727 jet
1959 1st aviator to fly a million miles (1.61 M km) in a jet (MC Garlow)
1959 1st transcontinental coml jet flight (American) (LA to New York for $301)
1958 1st domestic (NY-Miami) passenger jet flight-National 707 flew 111
1958 PanAm flies 1st transatlantic jet trip - New York to Paris
1957 USAF Capt Joe B Jordan reaches 31,513 m in F-104 jet fighter
1957 Ryan X-13 Vertijet becomes 1st jet to take-off and land vertically
1955 1st magnesium jet airplane flies
1954 1st coml jet transport plane built in U.S. tested (Boeing 707)
1953 1st jet transcontinental nonstop scheduled service
1953 Eastern Airlines enters jet age, uses Electra prop-jet
1953 1st west-to-east jet transatlantic nonstop flight
1953 Ted Williams safely crash-lands his damaged Panther jet
1952 1st nonstop transpacific flight by a jet
1952 1st scheduled jet airliner passenger service began with a BOAC Comet
1951 Jet magazine founded by John H. Johnson
1951 1st North Pole jet crossing
1951 1st jet passenger trip made
1950 In the Korean War, 1st jet battle takes place
1950 1st transatlantic jet passenger trip
1949 1st British-produced jet bomber, Canberra, makes its 1st test flight
1948 Jet Black, rocker, Stranglers-Dreamtime
1947 1st 4 engine jet propelled fighter plane tested, Columbus, Oh
1947 73rd Kentucky Derby: Eric Guerin aboard Jet Pilot wins in 2:06.8
1947 XB-45, 1st U.S. 4-engine jet bomber, makes 1st test flight, Muroc, California
1944 Walter Nowotny, German combat/jet fighter pilot, dies
1944 1st British jet fighter used in combat, Gloster Meteor
1944 1st jet fighter used in combat, Messerschmitt 262
1944 Messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel, 1st jet bomber, makes 1st flight
1944 Air Force announces production of 1st U.S. jet fighter, the Bell P-59
1943 Emerson Boozer, NFL running back, New York Jet, /sportscaster
1943 1st jet fighter is tested
1942 Bell P-59 Airacomet fighter, 1st U.S. jet, makes maiden flight
1942 Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe, 1st jet fighter, takes 1st flight
1940 Caproni-Campini CC-2, experimental jet plane, maiden flight (Milan)
1939 1st jet plane, Heinkel He 178, demonstrated to German Air Ministry
1939 Heinkel He-178 makes 1st manned flight with rocket/jet propulsion
1939 Jet Harris, born in London, rock bassist, Drifters
1934 Wiley Post discovers jet stream
1929 1st high-speed jet wind tunnel completed Langley Field Ca
1925 Mel Torme, born in Chicago, Illinois, jazz singer "Velvet Fog", Jet Set, Night Court
1925 Mai Zetterling, Sweden, actress, Witches, Offbeat, Jet Storm
1918 John H Johnson, U.S., publisher, Negro Digest, Ebony, Jet
1907 Frank A. Whittle, England inventor, jet engine
1902 William Lear, engineer/manufacturer/CEO, Lear Jet Corp
1902 Laurence "Bill" Craigie, jet pioneer
1898 Jay C. Flippen, born in Little Rock, Arkansas, actor, Jet Pilot, Killing, Thunder Bay
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