** Flight dynamics, the science of aircraft and spacecraft design

** Flight of the Wild Gander: Explorations in the Mythological Dimension: Select Essays 1944-1968 New World Library, 3rd ed.

** Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crashes off the California coast into the Pacific Ocean, killing 88.

** TAP Portugal Flight 425 crashes at Madeira Airport, Funchal, Portugal, killing 131 and leaving 33 survivors.

** Malaysia Airlines Flight 653 is hijacked and crashes in Tanjung Kupang, Johor, Malaysia, killing all 100 passengers and crew on board.

** Pacific Air Lines Flight 773 crashes near San Ramon, California, killing all 44 aboard ; the FBI later reports that a cockpit recorder tape indicates that the pilot and co-pilot had been shot by a suicidal passenger.

** Asiana Airlines Flight 733 crashes into Mt.

** Korean Air Flight 801 crash lands west of Guam International Airport, resulting in the deaths of 228 people.

** An air crash in Indonesia ( likely caused by smoke rising from numerous forest fires in the area ) kills 235 people ( see Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 ).

** The U. S. Navy blimp L-8 ( Flight 101 ) comes ashore near San Francisco, eventually coming down in Daly City ( the crew is missing ).

** Avianca Flight 52 crashes into Cove Neck, Long Island, after a miscommunication between the flight crew and JFK Airport officials, killing 73 people on board.

** At Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Northwest Airlines Flight 1482 ( a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 ) collides with Northwest Airlines Flight 299 ( a Boeing 727 ) on the runway, killing 8 passengers and 4 crewmembers on Flight 1482.

** Faucett Flight 251 in route from Lima to Rodriguez Ballon airport crashes into a mountain near Arequipa ; all 123 people on board are killed.

** Paris and Rome-bound TWA Flight 800 ( Boeing 747 ) explodes off the coast of Long Island, New York, killing all 230 on board.

** Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 125.

** A McDonnell Douglas MD-11 airliner ( Swissair Flight 111 ) crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia, after taking off from New York City en-route to Geneva ; all 229 people on board are killed.

** Trans-Canada Airlines Flight 831, a Douglas DC-8 carrying 118, crashes into a wooded hillside after taking-off from Dorval International Airport near Montreal, killing all on board ( the worst air disaster for many years in Canada's history ).

** A lightning strike causes the crashing of Pan Am Flight 214 near Elkton, Maryland, killing 81 people.

** Cubana Flight 455 crashes due to a bomb placed by anti-Fidel Castro terrorists, after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados.

** American Airlines Flight 320, a Lockheed L-188 Electra heading from Chicago to New York City, crashes into the East River, killing 65 of the 73 people on board.

** Thai Airways Flight 311 operated by Airbus A310-300 crashes into a mountain north of Kathmandu, Nepal killing all 113 people on board.

** China General Aviation Flight 7552 bound for Xiamen crashes soon after taking off from Nanjing Dajiaochang Airport, killing 108 of the 116 people on board.

** A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into the side of the mountains near the Venezuelan border, killing 143.

** Governors, Lieutenant Governors and Administrators of Indian States and Union Territories

** Albert Walsh, Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland ( d. 1958 )

** The U. S. Navy's Commander Leroy Heath ( the pilot ) and Lieutenant Larry Monroe ( the bombardier / navigator ) establish a world flight-altitude record of 91, 450 feet ( 27, 874 m ), with payload, in an A-5 Vigilante twinjet bomber carrying a 1, 000 kilogram payload, and they better the previous world record by over four miles ( 6 km ).

** U. S. Lieutenant Colonel William R. Higgins, serving with a United Nations group monitoring a truce in southern Lebanon, is kidnapped ( he is later killed by his captors ).

** Iran-Contra Affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.

** John Shelton Wilder, American politician, former Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee ( died 2010 )

** Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai massacre.

** U. S. Army Lieutenant William Calley is found guilty of 22 murders in the My Lai massacre and sentenced to life in prison ( later pardoned ).

** Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after a military coup in which General Fred Akuffo is overthrown.

** Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire ( d. 1563 )

** John I Stanley of the Isle of Man, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, King of the Isle of Man ( b. 1350 )

** Lieutenant Governor of New South Wales

** Lieutenant Governor of Alberta

** Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia

** Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba

** Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick

** Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador

** Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia

** Lieutenant Governor of Ontario

** Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island

** Lieutenant Governor of Quebec

** Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan

** Graduated As No. 5378 and commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant

** Lieutenant R. Alcaraz

** Lieutenant S. Nuval