1929: The French airline Air Union starts to operate a nightly service from Paris to London.

1953: Navy XF2Y-1 Sea Dart, an experimental delta-wing jet seaplane with hydroskis, made first flight at San Diego. Read more...

1959: NASA names 1st 7 astronauts for Project Mercury. Read more...

1960: The giant Tupolev Tu-114 Rossiya sets a new world speed record for propeller-driven airplanes of 545.07 mph. It was carrying a 55,116-pound payload at the time and flew around an official 3,107-mile closed circuit in the USSR. Read more...

1964: First flight of the de Havilland Canada DHC-5 Buffalo. Read more...

1965: BAC One-Eleven enters service with British United Airways. Read more...

1967: First flight of the Boeing 737-100. Read more...

1969: The first U.K.-assembled supersonic transport, Concorde 002, makes a successful first flight in England.

1976: Air France opens its second supersonic service, from Paris to Caracas, Venezuela; the Concorde takes six hours, including a stop at the Azores.

1980: Soyuz 35 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6. Read more...