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    1960:    Soviet air defenses shoot down a U-2 flying from Pakistan to Norway, capturing CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers.

1995:    OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING. A powerful car bomb levels a federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 169 and wounding 400 people. USAF airlifts firefighters, search and rescue teams, investigators, and medical personnel to Oklahoma. Units

  1903:   Orville Wright makes the first sustained, controlled power airplane flight in the Kill Devil Hills, near Kitty Hawk. In the fourth, and longest flight of the day, flown by Wilbur, the Wright Flyer

1972:   Prompted by a massive North Vietnamese invasion, US discards previous Rules of Engagement, thus ending previous restrictions on US air power and leading to Operations Linebacker I and II.

  1994:   Op DENY FLIGHT: Two F-16s from Ramstein shoot down 4 Serbian Jastreb-Galeb aircraft over Bosnia, the first aerial combat in NATO history.

1956:    MACKAY TROPHY. At Edwards AFB, Capt Iven C. Kincheloe sets altitude record of 126,000 for manned flight in Bell X-2 rocket-powered aircraft.