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** The Giotto spacecraft flies past Comet 26P / Grigg-Skjellerup, gathering measurements about the comet.
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** Gemini 1 is launched, the first unmanned test of the 2-man spacecraft.
** An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station Mir.
** The Soviet Union successfully launches the Luna 1 spacecraft from Baikonur Cosmodrome.
** The Pioneer 10 spacecraft is launched from Cape Kennedy, to be the first man-made satellite to leave the solar system.
** Soviet space probe Venera 3 crashes on Venus, becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.
** Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U. S. spacecraft to soft-land on another world.
** Lunar Orbiter 1, the first U. S. spacecraft to orbit the moon, is launched.
** The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.
** U. S. spacecraft Mariner 2 flies by Venus, becoming the first probe to successfully transmit data from another planet.
** NASA's Explorer 1, the first American satellite and Explorer program spacecraft, reenters Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit.
** The USSR's Venera 7 becomes the first spacecraft to land successfully on Venus and transmit data back to Earth.
** After a successful mission aboard Salyut 1, the world's first manned space station, the crew of the Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply leaks out through a faulty valve.
** Apollo 1: U. S. astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward Higgins White, and Roger Chaffee are killed when fire breaks out in their Apollo spacecraft during a launch pad test.
** Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.
** The Soviet manned space mission Soyuz 18a ends in failure during its ascent into orbit when a critical malfunction occurs in the second and third stages of the booster rocket during staging, resulting with the cosmonauts and their Soyuz spacecraft having to be ripped free from the vehicle.
** The U. S. Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn, when it passes the planet at a distance of 21, 000 km.
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** Roald Amundsen flies over the North Pole.
** Sikorsky R-4 first flies, in the United States ; it will become the first mass-produced helicopter.
** US Eighth Air Force inauspiciously flies its first mission in Europe using borrowed British planes and bombs targets in the Netherlands, such as De Kooy airfield attached to Den Helder naval base.
** Larry Walters, a. k. a. Lawn Chair Larry, flies above Long Beach, California in a lawn chair with weather balloons attached.
** STS-109: Space Shuttle Columbia flies the Hubble Space Telescope service mission, penultimate flight before its ill-fated STS-107 mission.
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** During a single 12-hour period, the U. S. Army Air Forces Eleventh Air Force flies 112 sorties against Japanese bases in the Aleutian Islands, dropping 180, 000 pounds ( 81, 653 kg ) of bombs on Kiska and 4, 000 pounds ( 1, 814 kg ) on Attu.
** Royal Air Force Bomber Command flies the last raid of its " Battle of the Ruhr " campaign against the Ruhr region of Germany.
** The U. S. Army Air Forces Eleventh Air Force flies 135 sorties against Kiska in the Aleutian Islands, dropping 304, 000 pounds ( 137, 893 kg ) of bombs.
** A U. S. Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator flies the first Allied photographic reconnaissance mission against Truk Atoll, Japans main base in the South Pacific Ocean, making a 1, 700-nautical mile ( 3, 148-km ) flight from Bougainville.
** To protest against pilots having had to parade on foot at the July 14 Bastille Day World War I victory parade on the Champs-Elysées in Paris, French pilot Charles Godefroy flies his Nieuport fighter under the arches of the Arc de Triomphe, the first time this has been accomplished.
** In the United Kingdom, Cameron Balloons flies the worlds first airship lifted by hot air.
** The United States Air Force flies the final B-52 Stratofortress mission of the Vietnam War.
** The U. S. Air Force flies its final mission over Cambodia.
** Wilbur Wright at Camp d ' Auvours, 11 kilometres ( 6. 8 miles ) east of Le Mans, France, flies in 1 hour 54 minutes 2 / 5 second, rising to an altitude of 110 meters ( 360 feet ) – a new world record.
** American aeronaut and aerial photographer Melvin Vaniman flies a steel-tube-frame triplane he designed and built himself a distance of 150 meters ( 492 feet ) above the parade ground at Issy-les-Molineaux, France.
** Louis Blériot flies his Blériot VII monoplane, the ancestor of modern tractor monoplanes.
** Henry Farman becomes the first European to be airborne in a powered heavier-than-air machine for longer than Wilbur Wright's 59-second flight of 17 December 1903 when he flies for 1 minute 14 seconds.
** Simuliidae-black flies and buffalo gnats
** Whatsit – A superhero that flies.
** " Lord of the Flies ", also by Syme, has Eddie in an electric chair surrounded by two giant flies.
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