November 6, 1909
1909: The French government awards Orville and Wilbur Wright the Legion of Honor at its New York consulate.
November 3, 1959
1959: USAF successfully transports an ICBM by air for the 1st time by flying an Atlas D on a C-133B from San Diego to Francis E. Warren AFB.
November 2, 2001
2001: A 20th Special Operations Squadron MH-53 helicopter crew receives the Mackay trophy for rescuing crew of a 2nd MH-53 that had crashed in the Afghan mountains.
November 1, 1952
1952: The US Atomic Energy Commission explodes the first hydrogen bomb in the Pacific.
October 31, 1968
1968: President Johnson announces his decision to halt all bombing of North Vietnam.
October 30, 1961
1961: Operation STAIR STEP. The first of 216 ANG fighters from units mobilized on 1 October deploy across the Atlantic to European bases in response to the Berlin Wall crisis (On the ramp at Goose
October 27, 1954
1954: Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes USAF’s first African American general officer.
October 26, 1940
1940: First flight of the North American NA-73 (P-51 Mustang prototype) at Mines Field near Los Angeles; designed, built and flown in under 130 days.
October 25, 1973
1973: For 1st time since 1962 Cuban missile crisis, DoD imposes DEFCON 3 worldwide in response to Soviet reactions to the war between Israel and Egypt.
October 24, 1974
1974: The Space and Missile Systems Organization (SAMSO) launches an ICBM in the air, dropping a Minuteman I from a C-5A over the Pacific.