2008 – A United States Air Force B-2 Spirit crashes at Anderson Air Force Base in Guam. It is the first operational loss of a B-2. The crew of two ejects safely, but the aircraft would be the most expensive write-off in history, written off, as each B-2 rings up to around $1.2 billion. The cause of the crash is later determined to have been moisture in the air-data pressure sensors that led to false speeds, therefore an early rotation and subsequent stall.

1997 – A small fire occurs in the Russian Space station, Mir, when a solid-fuel, oxygen-generating canister burst into flames. There are no injuries on-board.

1921 – A team of pilots completes an experimental coast-to-coast mail flight; flying by day and night, they have link San Francisco and Long Island in a day and half’s flying time.

1914 – Harry Busteed makes the first test flight of the Bristol Scout biplane at Larkhill training center in England.

1909 – Aviator John A. McCurdy flies the Aerial Experimental Association’s Silver Dart biplane 40 feet over the frozen Bras d’Or lake at Baddeck Bay, making the first flight of a heavier-than-air machine in Canada.