2013 Event In France, the Airbus A350 XWB makes its maiden flight from the Toulouse Blagnac Airport 2010 Event The Queen Mary 2 makes her first port call in China at the Port of Shanghai, since her maiden voyage in 2004 1993 Event Maiden flight of Ultrair (Houston to LA) 1992 Event "Death and the Maiden" closes at Brooks Atkinson New York City after 159 performances 1992 Event U.S. space shuttle STS-49 lands (maiden voyage of Endeavour) 1992 Event U.S. space shuttle STS-49 launched (maiden voyage of Endeavour) 1992 Event "Death and the Maiden" opens at Brooks Atkinson New York City for 159 performances 1989 Event Boeing B-22 Osprey VTOL aircraft makes maiden flight 1988 Event Soviet space shuttle makes unmanned maiden flight (2 orbits) 1984 Event Derek Underwood's maiden FC century after 22 years of trying 1981 Event Maiden voyage of space shuttle Columbia 1977 Event Space Shuttle above a Boeing 747 goes on it's maiden flight 1970 Event Boeing 747 makes its maiden voyage 1969 Event British liner Queen Elizabeth II leaves on maiden voyage to New York 1967 Birthday Gary Disarcina, Maiden, Massachusetts, infielder for the California Angels 1965 Event Doug Walters makes maiden Test ton in 1st Test, goes on to 155 1964 Birthday Michelle Obama, born in Chicago, Illinois, maiden name, Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, first African-American First Lady of the United States, husband to Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States, employed by Sidley Austin law firm and University of Chicago Medical Center 1964 Event Bapu Nadkarni 32-27-5-0 vs. England, 21 maiden overs in a row 1962 Event Savannah, world's 1st nuclear-powered ship, completes maiden voyage from Yorktown, Va, to Savannah, Ga 1962 Birthday Michael Wilton, born in San Francisco, California, guitarist, singer, member of Queensryche, progressive metal musician, influenced by Judas Priest, Van Halen, Iron Maiden, UFO 1961 Event Vasa, which sunk on her maiden voyage in 1628, is raised 1959 Birthday Paul Di'anno, rocker, Iron Maiden Chingford, London V Early Vocalist 1954 Birthday Dennis Stratton, born in London, England, rock guitarist, Iron Maiden 1954 Event B-52A bomber made its maiden flight 1950 Event Maiden flight by Canada's Avro Canada CF-100 military plane 1944 Event Harry Crosby takes 1st rocket airplane, MX-324, for maiden flight 1942 Event Bell P-59 Airacomet fighter, 1st U.S. jet, makes maiden flight 1941 Event Maiden flight by Canada's Avro Lancaster military plane 1940 Event Caproni-Campini CC-2, experimental jet plane, maiden flight (Milan) 1938 Event Graf Zeppelin II, world's largest airship, makes maiden flight 1936 Event Queen Mary completes its maiden voyage, arriving in New York 1936 Event RMS Queen Mary leaves Southampton for New York on maiden voyage 1935 Event Maiden flight by Canada's Hawker Hurricane military plane 1935 Event French liner Normandie begins its maiden voyage 1922 Event White Star Line Majestic completes 5 day maiden voyage 1915 Event 40th Preakness: Douglas Hoffman aboard Rhine Maiden wins in 1:58 1912 Event The RMS Titanic collided with an iceberg at 11:40pm about 375 miles south of Newfoundland; it was the fourth day of her maiden voyage from Southampton, UK to New York City 1912 Event World's 1st flying boat's maiden flight, (Glenn Curtiss in New York) 1888 Birthday Owen Nares, actor-manager, Maiden Erleigh 1860 Event Maiden voyage of 1st steamship owned by 1 man (C Vanderbilt) 1838 Event Steamship "Great Western" maiden voyage (Bristol England to New York City) 1817 Event 1st Mississippi "Showboat," leaves Nashville on maiden voyage 1815 Death Matthias Claudius, pseudonym, Asmus, writer, poet, poem, Death and the Maiden, used by Franz Schubert, dies at 74 1812 Event Lord Byron makes his maiden speech in House of Lords 1740 Birthday Matthias Claudius, born in Reinfeld, Germany, pseudonym, Asmus, writer, poet, poem, Death and the Maiden, used by Franz Schubert 1603 Death Elizabeth I Tudor, Maiden Queen, U.K. queen (1558-1603), dies at 69
