** The West German historians Klaus Hildebrand, Gerhard Ritter, and Andreas Hillgruber rejected the Sonderweg view, while the British historian A. J. P. Taylor and the West German historians Hans-Ulrich Wehler, Wolfgang Mommsen, Hans Mommsen and Fritz Fischer supported it.

** 16th Panzer Division ( Generalmajor Hans-Ulrich Back )

** George Sponhaltz, John Coveney ( producers ), Julius Rudel ( conductor ), Beverly Sills, Alan Titus & the New York City Opera Orchestra for Lehár: The Merry Widow

** George Sponhaltz, John Coveney ( producers ), Julius Rudel ( conductor ), Beverly Sills, Alan Titus & the New York City Opera Orchestra for Lehár: The Merry Widow

** Altenberg, the German name for Vieille Montagne (" old mountain " in French ), the former zinc mine in Kelmis, Moresnet

** This German publication is both one of the most comprehensive general introductions to the life and works of the philosopher and physician Avicenna ( Ibn Sīnā, d. 1037 ) and an extensive and careful survey of his contribution to the history of science.

** Langer Eugen, since 2006 the centre of the United Nations Campus, formerly housing the offices of the members of the German parliament

** The Bunsen – Kirchhoff Award, a German award for spectroscopy

** Between Basel SBB and Basel Badischer Bahnhof – Basel Badischer Bahnhof, and all other railway property and stations on the right bank of the Rhine belong to DB and are classed as German customs territory.

** Commodore ( Germany ) or Kommodore, in German naval forces

** State Diet ( In German: Landtag ), state parliament of most of the German federated states

** The Diet of the Empire ( In German: Reichstag ), legislative assembly of the German Empire 1871 – 1917

** The Federal Diet ( In German: Deutscher Bundestag ), federal parliament of Germany

** Ruodlieb ( Latin ), by a German author

** Nibelungenlied ( Middle High German )

** Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach-( Middle High German )

** Old High German literature ( 750-1050 )

** Middle High German literature ( 1050 – 1300 )

** Late medieval German literature / Renaissance ( 1300 – 1500 )

** Eighteenth-and 19th-century German literature

** 20th century German literature

** Contemporary German literature ( 1989 -)

** The Kingdom of Prussia became part of the German Empire.

** The Pferdestärke PS ( German translation of horsepower ) is a name for a group of similar power measurements used in Germany around the end of the 19th century, all of about one metric horsepower in size.

** German gold mark, coinage of the German Empire from 1873 to 1914

** German Papiermark, German coinage from 1914 to 1929

** db4o shipped to first pilot customer

** 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.

** Mohamed Atta, Egyptian pilot and airplane hijacker ( b. 1968 )

** Ziad Jarrah, Lebanese pilot and airplane hijacker 93 ( b. 1975 )

** Frank Linke-Crawford, Austro-Hungarian fighter pilot ( b. 1893 )

** Roland Garros, French fighter pilot ( b. 1888 )

** Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraqi military escorts on board an UNSCOM helicopter try to physically prevent the UNSCOM pilot from flying the helicopter in the direction of its planned destination, threatening the safety of the aircraft and their crews.

** Three armed men hijack the Cathay Pacific passenger plane Miss Macao and shoot the pilot ; the plane crashes, killing 26 of 27 people on board.

** Werner Moelders, German fighter pilot ( d. 1941 )

** Boone Guyton, American test pilot ( d. 1996 )

** Heinkel test pilot Helmut Schenk becomes the first person to escape from a stricken aircraft with an ejection seat.

** Endel Puusepp, Soviet Estonian World War II pilot ( b. 1909 )

** Boone Guyton, American test pilot ( b. 1913 )

** Elly Beinhorn, German pilot ( d. 2007 )

** Cold War: Soviet Air Force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate, on the island of Hokkaidō in Japan, and requests political asylum in the United States.

** A chartered plane transporting musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper and pilot Roger Peterson goes down in foggy conditions near Clear Lake, Iowa, killing all 4 occupants on board.

** Roger Peterson, pilot ( b. 1937 )

** The trial of the American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers begins in Moscow.

** Cold War: In Moscow, the American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to 10 years in prison for espionage.

** 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 ).

** Milburn G. Apt, American test pilot ( b. 1924 )

** Fraser Barron, New Zealand bomber pilot during WWII ( died 1944 )

** U. S. Navy pilot John McCain is shot down over North Vietnam and made a POW.

** Test pilot Michael Adams is killed when his X-15 rocket plane tumbles out of control during atmospheric re-entry and disintegrates.