Today in Pan American Airlines History
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Historical Events
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1927-03-08 - Pan American Airlines incorporates
1937-04-28 - 1st commercial flight across Pacific, Pan Am
1937-12-29 - Pan Am starts San Francisco-to-Auckland, New Zealand service
1939-05-20 - Pan Am begins transatlantic passenger & air mail service
1939-06-24 - Pan Am's 1st US to England flight
1939-06-28 - Pan Am opens southern route transatlantic air service (Dixie Clipper)
1942-01-06 - 1st around world flight (Pan Am "Pacific Clipper")
1942-01-06 - Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to schedule a flight around the world.
1947-06-17 - Pan Am Airways chartered as 1st worldwide passenger airline
1951-02-25 - 1st Pan American Games opens (Buenos Aires Argentina)
1959-10-10 - Pan Am begins regular flights around World
1963-12-08 - Pan Am Flight 214 crashes outsideElkton, Marylandwith a loss of 81 people.
1966-04-13 - Pan Am places $525,000,000 order for 25 Boeing 747s
1968-09-05 - 21 killed by hijackers aboard a Pan Am jet in Karachi Pakistan
1974-04-27 - Pan Am 707 crashes into mountains of Bali, killing 107
1976-04-26 - Pan Am begins non-stop flights NYC-Tokyo
1977-03-27 - 583 die in aviation's worst disaster KLM-Pan Am 747 crash on Tenerife
1977-05-16 - 5 die as NY Airway helicopter topples on Pan Am bldg in NYC
1977-05-27 - 2 Boeing 747s by Pan Am & KLM collide in Canary Islands, killing 582
1982-07-09 - Pan Am Boeing 727 crashes in Kenner La, killing 153
1988-12-21 - NY bound Pan Am jumbo jet explodes over Scotland all 258 aboard die
1991-11-14 - American and British authorities announce indictments against two Libyan intelligence officials in connection with the downing of the Pan Am Flight 103.
1991-12-04 - Pan American World Airways ceased operations
1998-08-24 - The Netherlands is selected as the site for the trial of the two Libyan suspects of the 1988 Pan Am bombing.
1999-04-05 - Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands.
2001-01-31 - In the Netherlands a Scottish court convicts a Libyan and acquits another for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 which crashed into Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.
2003-09-12 - The United Nations lifts sanctions against Libya after that country agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
Famous Birthdays
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1899-02-20 - Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, LI NY, founder (Pan Am Airways)
1912-01-11 - Roger Lewis, aviation exec (Lockheed, Curtiss Wright, Pan Am)
1952-04-01 - Abdel Basset Ali Al-Megrahi, Tripoli Libya, bomber (Pan Am 103)
1956-04-04 - Lamen Khalifa Fhimah, Suk Giuma Libya, bomber (Pan Am Flight 103)
Famous Deaths
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1981-04-03 - Juan Trippe, Airline entrepreneur and pioneer, Pan Am founder (b. 1899)
1987-11-12 - Roger Lewis, aviation exec (Lockheed, C Wright, Pan Am), dies at 75
