1913 – Birth of Yoshi-o Fukui, Sino-Japanese War and World War II Japanese flying ace.
1918 – Death of Walter Göttsch, German World War I fighter ace, killed in action in his Fokker Dr.I triplane.
1926 – Charles Lindberg becomes chief pilot for Robertson Aircraft Corp., flying a St. Louis-to-Chicago mail route.
1981 – First flight of the Aermacchi S-211 (shown), an Italian jet-powered military trainer.
1981 – Japan Air Lines carries its 10 millionth passenger.
2006 – A Kenyan Airforce Harbin Yunshuji Y-12-II crashes into a hillside on approaching an airstrip in Kenya, killing 14.
