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The Chinese invent kites which carried men to scout troops.
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A man in Constatinaple, turkey fashioned sail-like wings from a fabric gathered into pleats and folds. He plummeted from the top of the ower and died.
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The wright brothers make their first glider flight.
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First internationale avaition competition in Rheims, France.
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Bessie Coleman becomes the first African American woman to receive federation aeronitic internationale (FAI) pilots license.
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SGT Randall L. bose and PVT author bergo make a delayed parachute jump to 1,500 FT to demonstrate that falling persons remain concious.
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Tiros 1: First weather satelite lauched
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The Tu-144, the first soviet super sonic transport, flew.
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Terrorists fly three boeing airlines into New York Twin Towers and the pentagon - a fourth aircraft crashes in Pennsylvania changing history and aviation security in the 21st century.
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NASA's last hubble space telescope mission and the final non-ISS shuttle flight.