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March 24

• 1993 - South Africa abandons its nuclear weapons programme. President de Klerk announces that the country's six warheads had already been dismantled in 1990.

• 1992 - The United States Department of Transportation announces that it will sign open skies treaties with any states that wish to reciprocate. The first open skies treaty is signed between the U.S. and the Netherlands later in the year.

• 1932 - 24-28 - Jim Mollison sets a new speed record between the United Kingdom and Cape Town, taking 4 days 17 hours in a de Havilland Puss Moth

• 1919 - Igor Sikorsky (pictured} flees Europe for the United States

• 1918 - Captain J.L. Trollope of No. 43 Squadron RFC shoots down six German aircraft in a day.

• 1843 - William S. Henson and John Stringfellow filed articles of incorporation for the world's first air transport company, the Aerial Transit Company