Antonov An-255 Mriya, the largest airplane in the world, flew for the first time.
The Island Express train derailed on the Peruman Bridge in India.
Iran Air flight 655 is shot down by a US Navy ship.
Flight attendant Clarabelle 'C.B.' Lansing was blown out of Aloha Airlines Flight 243.
Kanellos Kanellopoulos flies across the Aegean Sea in a human-powered aircraft.
The American Motors Corporation, best known for creating the Jeep, was bought out by Chrysler.
193 people die when a ferry capsizes in the North Sea.
The Rutan Voyager became the first plane to fly around the world without stopping for fuel.
The crew aboard Japan Airlines Flight 1628 sighted three potential UFOs above Alaska.
The Wreck of the sunk ship Titanic is found in the North Atlantic Ocean.
Richard Branson's attempt at obtaining the fastest Atlantic crossing ended when his speed boat crashed.
Iberia Airlines Flight 610 crashes.
NASA intentionally crashed a Boeing 720 aircraft to test new safety technology.
Colonel Joseph William Kittinger II completed the first-ever trans-Atlantic crossing in a helium balloon.
The Danube-Black Sea Canal was opened.
Orly Airport attack.
The first shaft of the world's longest tunnel is completed.
A British Airways jumbo jet experiences a sudden total engine failure.
John Bull becomes the oldest operable locomotive.
The Solar Challenger became the first solar-powered airplane to cross the English Channel.
The world's first stealth-oriented aircraft, the Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, took its first flight.
The iconic DeLorean sports car began production in Northern Ireland.
The world's longest traffic jam from Lyon to Paris, France, extended a lengthy 104 miles (167 km).
American Airlines flight 191 crashes shortly after takeoff.
US Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that police can't stop cars just to check the driver and their registration.
Factory Plane Crash in China.
Varig Flight 967 disappeared thirty minutes after taking off from Tokyo.
Soviet air defense shoots down Korean Air Lines Flight 902.
A B747 plane by Air India flying from Bombay, India to Dubai, UAE, crashed with no survivors.
Two Boeing 747 planes collided in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.
Formula 1 driver Niki Lauda crashed in the German Grand Prix and was hospitalized with near-fatal burns.
Concorde takes off on its first scheduled flights.
A London underground train crashes into the end of the tunnel at Moorgate station.
All 345 people on board a Turkish Airlines jet die as it plunges to the ground near Paris, France.
Terrorists attacked Rome's Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino International Airport, leaving thirty dead.
When 65 cars collided during thick fog on the New Jersey Turnpike, nine people were killed.
Concorde made its first nonstop trip across the Atlantic from Washington, DC, to Paris, France, in a record-breaking time of 3 hours and 32 minutes.
The world's first supersonic airliner crashes.
Plane crash survivors of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 were rescued.
118 die in the Staines Air Disaster.
Flight attendant Vesna Vulović survived the world's highest fall without a parachute after falling 33,330 feet.
D.B. Cooper hijacked a Boeing 727 and extorted a ransom of $200,000 before parachuting out of the plane with the money and was never seen again.
The Dahlerau train disaster, the deadliest railway accident in West Germany, claimed 46 lives.
Amtrak began operating as the United States' passenger railroad company.
The Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.
The Boeing 747 takes off on its first scheduled flight.
Sir Robin Knox-Johnston completed the world's first non-stop, single-handed global circumnavigation.
The Concorde airplane was tested for the first time in Toulouse, France.
The Boeing 747 flies for the first time.
Queen Elizabeth II officially reopened London's Euston Railway Station.
