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November 1

• 1984 - British Airways and some other international airlines begin relief flights carrying food and supplies to Ethiopia.

• 1980 - British Airways terminates Concorde services to Bahrain and Singapore

• 1966 - Air Canada begins the first North American air services to the Soviet Union

• 1955 - United Airlines Flight 629, a Douglas DC-6, is destroyed by a bomb planted by a man attempting to cash in his mother's life insurance policies. 58 people are killed

• 1924 - Lt Dixie Kiefer makes the first night catapult launch from a ship, the USS California.

• 1920 - the US Post Office awards a contract for international air mail to Aeromarine West Indies Airways.

• 1918 - the end of the First World War. The RAF suffered 16,623 casualties, while the German Air Service suffered in excess of 15,000.

• 1911 - 2nd Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti of the Italian Air Flotilla drops several small bombs on Turkish troops during the Italo-Turkish War. This was the first time bombs had been dropped from an aeroplane in war.