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CuriositiesIt happened today... on August 10th
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The events and anniverisaries: Report: 1913 - Second Balkan War ends: Delegates from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece sign the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the war. Report: 1916 -... more
CuriositiesIt happened today... on August 9th
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The events and anniversaries: Report: 1941 - F.D. Roosevelt and Churchill sign the Atlantic Charter in the Terranova Island. Military Aviation: 1945 - World War II: Nagasaki is devastated when an atomic... more
CuriositiesIt happened today... on August 8th
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The events and anniversaries: Report: 1888 - Battle of Saganeiti, Eritrea: the Italian column led by General Cornacchia is beaten by the Abyssinian irregular forces. Report: 1919 - The Polish Army... more
CuriositiesIt happened today... on August 7th
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The events and anniversaries: Report: 1942 - World War II: Battle of Guadalcanal begins - U.S. Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the... more
CuriositiesWhat is the best regional airline for Asia? Bangkok Airways!
Bangkok , Thailand - According to the survey "Skytrax" 2007
According to the survey "Skytrax 2007", the Thai airline Bangkok Airways is awarded the prizes “Best Regional Airline for Asia” and “Best Regional Airline for South East Asia”. The success of this ye... more
CuriositiesIt happened today... on August 6th
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The events and anniversaries: Military Aviation: 1945 - World War II: Hiroshima is devastated when an atomic bomb, "Little Boy", is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 90,000 people... more
CuriositiesIt happened today... on August 5th
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The events and anniversaries: Report: 1915 - World War I: Germans invade the city of Warsaw forcing the Russian units to withdraw in Poland. Report: 1963 - United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet... more
CuriositiesIt happened today... on August 4th
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The events and anniversaries: Report: 1914 - World War I: Germany invaded Belgium; in response, the United Kingdom declares war on Germany. The United States proclaims neutrality. Military Aviation:... more
CuriositiesIt happened today... on August 3rd
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The events and anniversaries: Report: 1914 - World War I: Germany declares war against France. Report: 1948 - Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.... more
CuriositiesIt happened today... on August 2nd
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The events and anniversaries: Report: 1934 - Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany. Report: 1945 - World War II: Potsdam Conference, in which the Allied Powers discuss the future... more
CuriositiesFiumicino: Veltroni's luggage remains in Rome
Rome, Italy - It left today from Milan
Last July 30 the mayor of Rome, Walter Veltroni, left together with his wife Flavia for the Maldives for a two-week holiday. After their arrival in the capital Male, Mrs Veltroni realized that one of... more
CuriositiesIt happened today... on August 1st
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The events and anniversaries: Report: 1498 - Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit Venezuela. Report: 1894 - The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.... more
CuriositiesAlitalia will participate to "Notte Bianca 2007"
Rome, Italy - Scheduled for next September 8
Alitalia is going to participate to "Notte Bianca 2007", a show at its fifth edition, which is scheduled for next September 8. All those who are willing to participate can reach Rome from the main Italian... more
CuriositiesIt happened today... on July 31
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The events and anniversaries: Report: 1919 - German national assembly adopts the Weimar constitution (to enter into force August 14) Aerospace: 1964 - Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first... more
CuriositiesGrandmother parachutist at 84
Warsaw, Poland - A youthful elderly woman
At the age of 84, miss Krystyna Zbyszynska decided to parachute for the first time. This made her the eldest parachuting ever in Poland. Shortly after the drop, the woman said: "I survived World War II... more
CuriositiesIt happened today... on July 30th
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The events and anniversaries: Report: 1945 - World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the "USS Indianapolis" (CA-35), killing 883 seamen. Report: 1945 - Pierre Laval, ex-leader of Vichy's Government,... more
CuriositiesIt happened today... on July 29th
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The events and anniversaries: Report: 1858 - United States and Japan sign the Harris Treaty. Report: 1957 - The International Atomic Energy Agency is established. Aerospace: 1958 - The U.S. Congress... more
CuriositiesIt happened today... on July 28th
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The events and anniversaries: Report: 1821 - Peru: Jose de San Martin declares independence from Spain. Report: 1914 - World War I begins: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia after it failed to... more
CuriositiesIt happened today... on July 27th
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The events and anniversaries: Report: 1941 - Japanese troops occupy French Indo-China. Report: 1943 - World War II: Pietro Badoglio decides the dissolution of Fascist Party. Report: 1953 - Korean... more
CuriositiesIt happened today... on July 26th
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The events and anniversaries: Report: 1936 - The Axis Powers decide to intervene in the Spanish Civil War. Report: 1941 - World War II: In response to the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China,... more
CuriositiesIt happened today... on July 25th
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The events and anniversaries: Report: 1866 - The U.S. Congress passes legislation authorizing the rank of General of the Army (now called "5-Star General") Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant becomes... more
CuriositiesGoogle buys ImageAmerica to empower its Maps service
Los Angeles, USA - The society is specialized in the realization of air pictures
ImageAmerica, a society that products modern cameras to realize air pictures, has been bought by Google to empower its Maps service. Google has not specified the economic details of operation. ImageAmerica... more
CuriositiesIt happened today... on July 24th
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The events and anniversaries: Curiosities: 1911 - Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu "The Lost City of the Incas". Report: 1923 - The "Treaty of Lausanne", settling the boundaries of modern... more
CuriositiesIt happened today... on July 23
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The events and anniversaries: Report: 1929 - Fascist government in Italy ban the use of foreign words. Report: 1952 - Establishment of the European Coal and Steel community. Report: 1952 - General... more
CuriositiesIt happened today... on July 22
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The events and anniversaries: Report: 1942 - Holocaust: The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto begins. Report: 1946 - King David Hotel bombing: Irgun bombs King David Hotel in Jerusalem,... more
CuriositiesIt happened today... on July 21th
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The events and anniversaries: Report: 1944 - World War II: battle of Guam - American troops land on Guam starting the battle (ends on August 10). Report: 1954 - First Indochina War: the Geneva Conference... more
CuriositiesNick Nolte a special beggar at the Kauai airport in Hawaii
Kauai, Hawaii - Reckoned and snapped laying on the ground and in bad shape
Last Monday the famous Nick Nolte looked more like an inebriated homeless man than Hollywood actor, collapsed on the ground and in very bad shape. He has been snapshot by his fans while he was waiting... more
CuriositiesIt happened today... on July 20th
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The events and anniversaries: Report: 1917 - World War I: The Corfu Declaration, which leads to the creation of the post-war Kingdom of Yugoslavia, is signed by the Yugoslav Committee and Kingdom of... more
CuriositiesIt happened today... on July 19th
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The events and anniversaries: Report: 1885 - The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York. Report: 1953 - Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are put to death at Sing Sing, in New York. Aerospace: 1976 - Viking... more
CuriositiesIt happened today... on July 18th
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The events and anniversaries: Report: 1898 - Marie and Pierre Curie announce the discovery of a new element and proposed to call it polonium. Military Aviation: 1942 - World War II: The Germans test... more
CuriositiesA name for the pilot whose remains have been found in an airplane in the Modena province
Mirandola, Italy - Thanks to his identification tag
The German pilot whose body was found in a World War II airplane (a Messerschmitt) in an area of Mirandola (Bologna) last July 9 (see AVIONEWS) has now a name: marshal Maximilian Volke, born in Munich... more
CuriositiesIt happened today... on July 17th
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The events and anniversaries: Report: 1936 - Spanish Civil War: An Armed Forces rebellion against the recently-elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain starts the Spanish civil war. Report:... more
CuriositiesHere is John Pendry, or "The invisible man".
Genoa, Italy - The English physicist studies how the objects can "Disappear" altering the light
"The idea of invisibility is simple, realizing it less". A Herbert G. Wells' saw? The opening words of an Harry Potter's joke? Neither: the sentence is of John Pendry, called "The invisible man" by the... more
CuriositiesIt happened today... on July 16th
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The events and anniversaries Report: 1862 - American Civil War: David G. Farragut becomes the first United States Navy rear admiral. Report: 1918 - Russian Revolution: the Bolshevists execute the... more
CuriositiesIt happened today... on July 15th
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The events and anniversaries: Report: 1789 - Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette, by acclamation, named colonel-general of the new National Guard of Paris. Curiosities: 1799 - Rosetta Stone is... more
CuriositiesIt happened today... on July 14th
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The events and anniversaries: Report: 1789 - French Revolution: citizens of Paris storm the Bastille and free seven prisoners. Report: 1948 - Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party,... more
CuriositiesSuperstitious Americans...
New York, USA - Their fears related to the number 13, even in the aviation world
It's not like none of us is superstitious: anyone more or less has their fears (for instance in Italy Friday 17th, black cats or salt, oil or wine spilled). But Americans are particularly superstitious... more
CuriositiesDropped from the airplane because a mother doesn't give a soporific to her son
New York, Usa - A flight assistant drives mother and son away
What to do if your excited son can't be quiet during the take off operations? According to a flight assistant of a Continental ExpressJet airplane in Houston, the only solution was to give him some drops... more
CuriositiesIt happened today... on July 13th
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The events and anniversaries: Report: 1900 - Boxer Rebellion: In China, Tientsin is retaken by European Allies from the rebelling Boxers. Sport Aviation: 1919 - The British airship R-34 lands in Norfolk,... more
CuriositiesA man flights for 9 hours attached 105 helium balloons
Portland , USA - The mad, wonderful flight of a Oregon 40 year-man
Last week-end, an extravagant man of Oregon, Kent Couch, 47, gas station-owner, attached 105 helium-filled balloons to an ordinary lawn chair and took off. Couch loaded his lawn chair with the requisite... more
CuriositiesLOT-EK, refurbished airplane fuselages for a new Library
Guadalajara , Mexico - Tons of discarded fuselages from the American deserts
New York’s urban architect recyclers, LOT-EK, has recently designed a library in Guadalajara made entirely of refurbished airplane fuselages. Apparently when airplanes are put to rest, most of their p... more
CuriositiesIt happened today... on July 12th
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The events and anniversaries: Report: 1920 - Vilnius is recognized as the capital of Lithuania. Report: 1935 - The war of Chaco end thanks to he armistice between Paraguay and Bolivia. Report: 1950... more
CuriositiesIt happened today... on July 11th
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The events and anniversaries: Report: 1776 - Captain James Cook begins third voyage. Report: 1798 - The United States Marine Corps is re-established; they had been disbanded after the American Revolutionary... more
CuriositiesIt happened today... on July 10th
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The events and anniversaries: Sport Aviation: 1938 - Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91 hour airplane flight around the world. Military Aviation: 1940 - World War II: Vichy France... more
CuriositiesOverfly the Atlantic with a little hot-air balloon powered by helium
London, United Kingdom - The last exploit by David Hempleman-Adams
David Hempleman-Adams, the weird English businessman, has realized his last exploit: to overfly the Atlantic Ocean with a little hot-air balloon powered by helium. Left on last Monday for Terranova island... more
CuriositiesIt happened today... on July 9th
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The events and anniversaries: Report: 1943 - World War II: Operation Husky - Allied forces perform an amphibious invasion of Sicily. Report: 1955 - The "Russell-Einstein Manifesto" was released by... more
CuriositiesIt happened today... on July 8th
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The events and anniversaries: Report: 1947 - Reports are broadcast that a UFO has crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico. Defense: 2003 - Sudan Airways aicraft, Flight 39, with 117 people on board, crashes... more
CuriositiesIt happened today... on July 7th
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The events and anniversaries: Report: 1898 - History of United States overseas expansion: President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.... more
CuriositiesIt happened today... on July 6th
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The events and anniversaries: Report: 1942 - World War II: Nazi troops set fire to the Lidice village in Czech’s Republic, as reprisal for the murder of Reinhard Heydrich. Report: 1944 - World War I... more
CuriositiesIt happened today on July 5th
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The events and anniversaries: Report: 1940 - World War II: the United Kingdom and the Vichy France government break off diplomatic relations. Report: 1941 - World War II: German troops reach the Dniepr... more