** db4o project started by Carl Rosenberger

** The Soviet Union announces that it has shipped rockets to North Vietnam.

** The U. S. steel industry has voluntarily reduced its energy intensity per ton of steel shipped by approximately 27 percent since 1990.

** Aegis SR1 ( First Apollo / DOMAIN systems shipped on March 27 )

** Gator, or Gator AdServ a piece of adware or spyware shipped with many pieces of peer to peer software

** USS Grapple ( shipped out August 31, arrived September 4 )

** Earliest day on which Caribana celebration can fall, celebrated on the first Weekend of August.

** Earliest day on which Emancipation Day can fall, celebrated on the first Monday of August.

** term " Christian " first used ( 11: 26 )

** Dusk first online Novel and Blog written under Artistic License 2. 0

** " ABC " ( Jin song ), Jin's first single off his 4th album " ABC " ( American-born Chinese )

** Folio 97 recto: The first stone, Jasper

** Museum Koenig where the Parlamentarischer Rat first met

** The reinforce band is only present if the cannon has two reinforces, and it divides the first reinforce from the second.

** Commodore PET, Commodores first full-featured computer, a home / personal computer first produced in 1977

** Cumberland Road, a historical road, also called the Great National Pike and the National Road, the first United States federal highway

** Soldiers ' ID card number and first letter of the powiat the soldier came from

** Surname, first name, middle initial

** Surname, first name, middle initial

** Surname, first name, middle initial

** The first day of Las Posadas ( Mexico, other Latin Americans )

** The first day of Simbang Gabi ( Philippines )

** Brownian dynamics, the occurrence of Langevin dynamics in the motion of particles in solution ( e. g. a grain in water, as was first seen by Brown ); its famous property is: MSD ~ t, where MSD is the mean squared displacement, and t is the time the process is seen

** Import substitution and nationalization, 1952 – 1966, during which the first program of industrialization in 1957 was established and led by the public sector in heavy industries such as iron and steel and chemical industries.

** Kumulipo by Keaulumoku ( 1700 ) an Ancient Hawaiian cosmogonic genealogy first published in ( 1889 )

** ( 1961 ), the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier

** " Rule 7: Substance first — then form.

** Adeline in The Romance of the Forest-“ Her wicked Marquis, having secretly immured Number One ( his first wife ), has now a new and beautiful wife, whose character, alas!

** JavaScript ( first named Mocha, then LiveScript )

** The first night of Ivan Kupala Day ( Poland, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine )

** 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 )

** Hans-Ulrich Rudel, German pilot ( d. 1982 )

** 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.