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

NOV 7 -1910 – The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse

ON THIS DAY

Dec 28, 1917 – Alfred Edwin McKay, Canadian World War One flying ace dies.

Dec 28, 1948 – The DC-3 airliner NC16002 disappears 50 miles south of Miami, Florida.