On this day – Historic aviation facts

Understood

I agree – I did not mean to suggest it should be closed, I was only expressing my opinion of it. One of the joys of this forum is the diversity of threads contributed.

Not really.

But the forum topics are the preserve of the contributors, and if one gets some enjoyment from pasting lists of events then, as long as it does not stray too far off topic, there is no reason to supress it.

Moggy
Moderator

This is not of the most enlightening threads on this forum…….:(

James has it.

The destruction of Coventry is on its own the subject for some discussion, but who is going to bother when they know that the next day it will be diluted by postings about obscure Americans.

And as James said – as you are cutting and pasting – let’s credit the source.

Moggy

Hi Nitro – a few items of feedback for you, meant constructively.

The whole thing would work better if you did a single dated post per day; e.g. ‘Nov 14 – On this day – Historic aviation facts’. Then you might get some discussion, which would relate to the date.

You’d only have to make about 365 posts, too…

There are places you an get this info if you want it. As this is evidently not your own work, perhaps you’d like to credit the source? Likewise it’s evidently heavily US-interest biased; a bit more outside the Anglosphere would be good – a lot harder to do. However if there was a separate post per day it might encourage other people to contribute, such as our French, Italian, German and Argentinian contributors. Then it would be a collaborative and much more useful resource.

All bold. No. Bold some, none or headings. But not all. Thanks!

Keep it aviation only, as discussed. Obscure connections, on the other hand, would be interesting.

On the other hand; good retention of non-English symbols, interesting mix, it’ll be worth seeing if with some modification the idea can ‘fly’.

Hope that may be of use,

Regards,

Nov 14 – 1910 – Aviator Eugene Ely performs the first take off from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia. He took off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.

Nov 14 – 1930 – Edward White, American astronaut born.

Nov 14 – 1933 – Fred Haise, American astronaut born.

Nov 14 – 1940 – World War II: In England, the city of Coventry is heavily bombed by German Luftwaffe bombers. Coventry Cathedral is almost completely destroyed.

Nov 14 – 1941 – World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinks due to torpedo damage from U-81 sustained on November 13.

Nov 14 – 1944 – Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, English RAF Officer dies.

Nov 14 – 1965 – Vietnam War: The Battle of the Ia Drang begins – the first major engagement between regular American and North Vietnamese forces.

Nov 14 – 1969 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second manned mission to the surface of the Moon.

Nov 14 – 1970 – Southern Airways Flight 932 crashes in the mountains near Huntington, West Virginia, killing 75, including members of the Marshall University football team.

Nov 14 – 1991 – American and British authorities announce indictments against two Libyan intelligence officials in connection with the downing of the Pan Am Flight 103.

And AK47’s have what to do with Historic Aviation exactly???
Please keep to items of Historical Aviation only or this thread will be moved or deleted.
Peter,

Nov 13 – 1941 – World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is torpedoed by U 81, sinking the following day.

Nov 13 – 1947 – Russia completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles

Nov 13 – 1971 – The American space probe, Mariner 9, becomes the first spacecraft to orbit another planet successfully, swinging into its planned trajectory around Mars.

Nov 13 – 1982 – The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. after a march to its site by thousands of Vietnam War veterans.

Nov 12 – 1944 – World War II: The Royal Air Force launches 29 Avro Lancaster bombers in one of the most successful precision bombing attacks of war and sinks the German battleship Tirpitz, with 12,000 lb Tallboy bombs off Tromsø, Norway.

Nov 12 – 1976 – Mikhail Iosifovich Gurevich, Russian aircraft designer dies.

Nov 12 – 1980 – The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn and takes the first images of its rings.

Nov 12 – 1981 – Space Shuttle program: Mission STS-2, utilizing the Space Shuttle Columbia, marks the first time a manned spacecraft is launched into space twice.

Nov 12 – 1996 – A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane collide in mid-air near New Delhi, killing 349. The deadliest mid-air collision to date.

Nov 12 – 2001 – In New York City, American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 en route to the Dominican Republic, crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on board and five on the ground.

Nov 12 – 2006 – General Jacob E. Smart, US Air Force leader World War II dies.

Nov 11 – 1921 – The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.

Nov 11 – 1934 – The Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, Australia is opened.

Nov 11 – 1940 – World War II: Battle of Taranto – The Royal Navy launches the first aircraft carrier strike in history, on the Italian fleet at Taranto.

Nov 11 – 1966 – NASA launches Gemini 12.

Nov 11 – 2006 – Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II unveils the New Zealand War Memorial in London, United Kingdom, commemorating the loss of soldiers from the New Zealand Army and the British Army.

Nov 10 – 1888 – Andrei Tupolev, Russian aircraft designer born.

Nov 10 – 1895 – John Knudsen Northrop, American airplane manufacturer born.

Nov 10 – 1908 – Charles Merritt, Canadian Army officer and Victoria Cross recipient born.

Nov 10 – 1919 – Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian inventor born.

Nov 10 – 1933 – Ronald Evans, American astronaut born.

Nov 10 – 1954 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington National Cemetery.

Nov 10 – 1970 – The Soviet Lunar probe Lunokhod 1 is launched.

Nov 10 – 1972 – Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham, Alabama is hijacked and, at one point, is threatened with crashing into the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After two days, the plane lands in Havana, Cuba, where the hijackers are jailed by Fidel Castro.

NOV 9 – 1906 – Arthur Rudolph, German rocket engineer born.

NOV 9 – 1918 – Thomas Ferebee, Enola Gay bombardier over Hiroshima born.

NOV 9 – 1967 – Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft atop the first Saturn V rocket from Cape Kennedy, Florida.

NOV 9 – 1979 – Nuclear false alarm: the NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early warning radars, the alert is cancelled.

NOV 9 – 2005 – The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan

Yes, I know it is cheating but ! 😉
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_8

Historical event fascist! 😀

I’ve changed the thread title slightly – this thread can be used as a general ‘on this day’, but for Historic Aviation only please! Ken Dodd indeed….

Bruce

November 8th 1940
Hitler declares he will beat ‘The English’
http://ww2today.com/8th-november-1940-hitler-declares-he-will-beat-the-english

November 8th 1942
Operation Torch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_torch

November 8th 1939

Hitler escapes assasination attempt.
http://ww2today.com/8-november-1939-hitler-escapes-assassination

November 8th 1927
Ken Dodd Born . . 😀

nov-8-1935 lady southern cross goes missing near Burma taking with her Charles kingsford smith and Tommy Pethybridge