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1st November 1911: First ever aerial bombing from a plane takes place during the Italo-Turkish War

1st November 2019
Tagged as: Aircraft, Bomb, Italy, Libya, Ottoman Empire, Technology, Turkey, War

On the 1^st November 1911, the first aerial bombing using an aeroplane took place when Italian Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti dropped four grenades on Turkish troops in Libya.

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23rd October 1911: Italian Carlo Piazza pilots the first aircraft to be used in war

23rd October 2019
Tagged as: Aircraft, Italo-Turkish War, Italy, Libya, Technology, Turkey, War

Piazza made history’s first reconnaissance flight when he observed the Turkish lines from a Blériot XI aircraft.

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1st November 1911: First ever aerial bombing from a plane takes place during the Italo-Turkish War

23rd October 1911: Italian Carlo Piazza pilots the first aircraft to be used in war

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3rd February 1961: Operation Looking Glass begins its 29-year Cold War flight above the USA

10th October 1957: Eisenhower apologises to Ghanaian minister for racism in Delaware restaurant

7th November 1492: Oldest meteorite with a known date of impact

26th August 1789: Adoption of the Declaration of the Rights of Man in France

24th July 1911: Machu Picchu ‘rediscovered’ by US explorer Hiram Bingham III

23rd July 1914: Austria-Hungary presents ultimatum to Serbia ahead of the First World War

22nd July 1706: Terms of the Acts of Union 1707 agreed by commissioners from England and Scotland

21st July 1970: Construction of the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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