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1996 Cuba downs 2 U.S. planes

1993 1,000 Boeing 747 jumbo planes produced

1991 27 lost at sea when 2 U.S. Navy anti-submarine planes collide

1979 2 Russian passenger planes collide above Ukraine, 173 killed

1970 PLO hijacks 4 planes

1967 U.S. planes bomb Haiphong for 1st time during Vietnam War

1967 In the Vietnam War, U.S. planes bombed Haiphong for 1st time

1966 In the Vietnam War, U.S. planes bombed Hanoi and Haiphong for 1st time

1965 2 passenger planes collide above Danbury, Conn, 4 die

1962 U.S. U-2 planes locate missile launchers in Cuba

1958 French planes bomb Sakiet Tunisia, 75 die

1947 Radar for commercial and private planes 1st demonstrated

1945 American planes bombed Tokyo and damaged the Imperial Palace

1945 U.S. planes intercept Japanese fleet heading for Okinawa on a suicide superbattleship Yamato and four destroyers were sunk

1945 Allied planes bomb Dresden Germany; 135,000 die

1944 U.S. Captain David Mccampbell shoots down 9-11 Japanese planes in Gulf of Leyte

1943 RAF shoots down 14 German transport planes over Mediterranean Sea

1942 Battle of Santa Cruz: USS SD shoots down a record 32 enemy planes

1942 Japanese planes drop incendiary bombs on Oregon

1941 Citizen Register reports "Hostile planes reported nearing Westchester"

1941 Vichy-French planes bomb Tel Aviv, killing 20 Jews

1940 During WW II, German planes destroy most of Coventry, England

1940 German planes attack British ships in the Canal

1930 1st radar detection of planes, Anacostia DC

1926 Congress passes Air Commerce Act, licensing of pilots and planes

1924 2 U.S. Army planes end around-world flight, Seattle to Seattle, 57 stops

1924 4 planes leave Seattle on 1st successful around-the-world flight

1922 Arthur R Hawkins, U.S. pilot/captain, WW II, downed 14 Japanese planes

1917 1st night bombing of London by German fighter planes

1910 David McCampbell, U.S. pilot/captain, WW II-Pacific-downed 34 Japanese planes

1901 Patrick Aherne, England, actor, Bwana Devil, Botany Bay, Q Planes

1890 George Merritt, born in London, England, actor, I Monster, Q Planes


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