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1990 Raf Reymen, Flemish actor, dies

1984 Arthur Travors Harris, marshal of British RAF, dies

1977 West German RAF terrorist kills policeman in Utrecht

1977 RAF kidnap West German work chairman Schleyer

1974 Jean-Paul Sartre visits RAF leader Andreas Baader in prison

1972 West German police arrested RAF leader Ulrike Meinhof

1950 John C Smuts, co-found British RAF/South African Prime Minister 1919 - 1948, dies at 80

1948 1st jets to fly across Atlantic, 6 RAF de Havilland Vampires

1946 Keith Mans, born in England, politician, born Keith Douglas Rowland Mans, Member of Parliament for Wyre, educated at the RAF College Cranwell and the Open University

1945 New world air speed record 606 mph (975 kph) set by HJ Wilson of RAF

1945 1st food drop by RAF above nazi-occupied Holland (operation Manna)

1945 RAF bomb cuts railway link Hannover-Hamm

1945 RAF bombing error hits The Hague killing 511

1944 RAF sink German battleship "Tirpitz" at Tromso Fjord Norway

1944 RAF bombs Dinteloord, 54 killed

1944 RAF bombs West Kapelse

1944 RAF bombs Munich

1944 RAF bombs census bureau in The Hague

1944 RAF Sergeant Nickolas Alkemade survives a jump from his Lancaster bomber from 18,000 feet without a parachute

1944 RAF drops 2300 ton bombs on Berlin

1943 RAF begins air bombing of Berlin

1943 RAF bombs Hamburg

1943 RAF bombs Fokker airplane factory in Amsterdam

1943 RAF bombs Hamburg (20,000 dead)

1943 RAF bombs Germany rocket base Peenemunde

1943 RAF discovers Werner von Brauns V1/V2-base in Peenemunde

1943 RAF scatters 1st copies of "The Flying Hollander"

1943 RAF bombs Mohne and Eder (Battle of Ruhr)

1943 RAF shoots down 14 German transport planes over Mediterranean Sea

1943 RAF bombs Essen Germany

1942 RAF bombs Philips factory (150 die)

1942 RAF drops 100,000 bombs on Dusseldorf

1942 RAF bombs Hamburg

1942 British RAF staged a 1,000 bomb raid on Bremen Germany (WW II)

1942 1,047 bombers bomb Cologne in RAF's raid of WW II

1942 234 RAF bombers attack Lubeck

1941 Dutch Prince Bernhard becomes an RAF pilot

1941 Greece Army surrenders to German Nazis RAF brings Greek king George II to Egypt

1940 RAF bombs Munich

1940 RAF drops 1st anti-nazi pamphlets on Netherlands

1940 Tide turns in Battle of Britain in WW II, RAF beats Luftwaffe

1940 RAF bombs Germany

1939 RAF bombs Wilhelmshafen

1929 Lord Craig of Radley, marshal, RAF

1928 Keith Williamson, British RAF marshal

1926 Raf Reymen, Flemish actor

1924 Raf de Linde, Raphael van Hecke, author, Vaarwel on Gertrude

1923 Michael Beetham, Marshal, RAF

1922 1st skywriting over US-"Hello USA"-by Captain Turner, RAF

1922 Captain Cyril Turner (RAF) gives 1st skywriting exhibition (New York City) Turner spelled out "Hello USA. Call Vanderbilt 7200." 47,000 called

1921 B M Ducat-Amos, Air Commandant/director, RAF Nursing Service

1916 Raf Vallone, Tropea Italy, actor, El Cid, 2 Women, Greek Tycoon

1912 Royal Flying Corps forms (later RAF)

1904 Dermot Boyle, marshal, RAF

1902 Leonard Hirsch, British violinist and orchestra leader, RAF Symph Orch

1892 Arthur Harris, Cheltenham, Marshal of the RAF

1866 Raf[ael] Verhulst, Koen Ravestein, Flemish writer, Jesus of Nazarus


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