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First German aerial bombing of Britain, by two Zeppelins, thereby opening up a new era in the exploitation of aeronautics. During World War I, a total of 50 tons of aerial bombs was dropped on London and 214 tons on the rest of Britain.

U.S. Patent Office granted patent (No. 1142754) to Glenn H. Curtiss covering the arrangement of a step or ridge incorporated in the hull of flying boats.

First aircraft takeoff in United States with permanently installed JATO rocket powerplant, an A-20A at Muroc Army Air Base, Calif.

NASA requested eight Redstone-type launch vehicles from the Army to be used in Project Mercury development flights.

"Rocket Fuels and Their Possibilities" a paper by William Lemkin is delivered at the American Museum of Natural History to the members of the American Interplanetary Society .

''NASA Administrator Charles Bolden's Statement on the Shooting of Congresswoman Giffords'' NASA Administrator Charles Bolden issued the following statement Saturday about the shooting in Tucson, Ariz., of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and several others: "We at NASA are deeply shocked and saddened by the senseless shooting of Representative Giffords and others at Saturday’s public event in ...

''RELEASE: 10-159'' ''NASA CEREMONY HONORS SHUTTLE EXTERNAL TANK WORKFORCE'' WASHINGTON -- NASA and Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company paid tribute to the workforce who built the external tanks for the space shuttle fleet on Thursday at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. ET-138, the last newly manufactured tank to roll out of the assembly building, served as a backdrop for ...

A.V. Cleaver delivers lecture to the BIS ''Using Hydrogen Peroxide'' and S. Allen talks about ''Liquid Oxygen as a Rocket Propellant'', both at Caxton Hall St James London W.H.T. Davison talks to the BIS in Birmingham about '"Spectroscopy in Astronautics''.

The first meeting of the Canadian Astronautical Society takes place at de Havilland Missile Division in Downsview Ontario. Fourteen people attend and elect Philip A. Lapp as president.

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