British Airways Concorde G-BOAD on the move from JFK to the Intrepid museum. (Photo by Michael F. McLaughlin)

2003 – The final flight of British Airways Concorde G-BOAD is flown from London Heathrow (LHR) to New York’s JFK, to deliver the aircraft to the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum. It was JFK’s very last Concorde movement.

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. The plane eventually lands in Cuba, where the hijackers are jailed by Fidel Castro.

1970 – The first of two Russian, unmanned lunar rovers, Lunokhod 1, was launched. As mission Luna 17, the craft was the first remote-controlled robot to land on another celestial body, sending back images and data to Russia until the following September.

1907 – Henri Farman makes the first flight in Europe of over one minute in his Voisin-Farman I biplane in France.

1907 – Louis Bleriot introduces what will become the modern configuration of the airplane. His “No.VII” has an enclosed or covered fuselage, a single set of wings (non-biplane), a tail unit, and a propeller in front of the engine.