The first commercial flight of the Concorde supersonic airliner took place with one departing Heathrow in British Airways colors and another departing Orly Airport in Paris in Air France colors. The British jet flew to Bahrain and the French one to Brazil.
The plane remained in service until 2003.
On the same day communist forces in Angola established the People's Air Force of Angola.
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The Junkers J 1 made its first flight. The aircraft was an experimental craft that was the first practical all metal aircraft. Only one was built.
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Eugene Burton Ely landed a Curtiss biplane on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania.
Michael Collins resigned from his employment in London at the Guaranty Trust Company n order to return to Ireland. He was already a clandestine Irish revolutionary.
Severe flooding caused dikes to burst at Zuiderzee, Netherlands.
The Royal Flying Corps ordered that reconnaissance planes have an escort of at least three fighters flying in close formation with them, and that a reconnaissance aircraft must abort its flight if even one of the three fighters becomes detached from the formation for any reason, due to highly losses from Fokker Eindeckers.
Deutsche Luft Hansa (DLH), the predecessor of Lufthansa, was formed.
It ceased operations in April, 1945, but it's personnel later reformed the company as Lufthansa in 1955.
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