1859 – Charles Darwin publishes “On the Origin of Species”

1924 – General Feng Yu-Hsiang, a warlord from the north of China, turns on his allies and seizes Peking

1954 – Air Force One, 1st US Presidential airplane, christened

1955 – 1st test flight of Fokker’s F-27 Friendship

1981 – 1st air-launched cruise missile tested