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January 1

• 1987 - US Coast Guard HH-65 Dolphins and US Navy H-3 Sea Kings help rescue people trapped inside the Dupont Plaza hotel Puerto Rico after a fire there on New Year's Eve

• 1978 - British Aircraft Corporation, Hawker Siddeley, and Scottish Aviation are absorbed into British Aerospace

• 1960 - Fiji Airways is reconstituted, becoming equally owned by BOAC, QANTAS, and Tasman Empire Airways.

• 1946 - a British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian becomes the first commercial flight to depart Heathrow Airport

• 1945 - the Luftwaffe begins targeting Allied airfields in Europe as "Operation Bodenplatte"

• 1929 - Polish airline LOT formed.

• 1929 - 1-7 – Carl Spaatz, Ira Eaker, and Elwood Quesada set an endurance record of 151 hours aloft in a Fokker F.VIIa-3m.

• 1925 - French airline CIDNA is formed.

• 1914 - The St. Petersburg/Tampa Airboat Line starts services, becoming the first airline to provide regular services, with Anthony Jannus conveying passengers in a Benoist flying boat. A.C. Pheil is the first airline passenger.