Avionews, Italy

Curiosities

11:56 am – Friday

It happened today… on September 21st

Rome, Italy – Voyage in the history
(WAPA) – The events and anniversaries:

Military Aviation: 1942 – The Boeing B-29
Superfortress aircraft makes its maiden flight.
Report: 1950 – George Marshall sworn in as the 3rd
Secretary of Defense of United States.
Defense: 1964 – Malta becomes independent from the
United Kingdom.
Military Aviation: 1964 – The XB-70 Valkyrie, the
world’s first bomber aircraft to reach the speed of
Mach 3, makes its maiden flight from Palmdale,
California.
Defense: 1965 – Singapore admitted as a part of the
United Nations.
Defense: 1972 – In the La Maddalena island, Sardinia
(Italy) is establishes the US base for the nuclear
submarines.
Report: 1984 – Brunei is granted full independence
from the United Kingdom.
Report: 1991 – Armenia is granted independence from
Soviet Union.
Report: 1993 – Russian President Boris Yeltsin
suspends parliament and scraps the then-functioning
constitution, thus triggering the Russian
constitutional crisis of 1993.
Aerospace: 2003 – Galileo mission terminated by
sending the probe into Jupiter’s atmosphere, where it
is crushed by the pressure at the lower altitudes.
Report: 2007 – UN International Day of Peace, as
propagated by Peace One Day.