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October 15

• 2003 - Yang Liwei becomes the People's Republic of China's first man in space.

• 1933 - the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine is started for the first time.

• 1932 - Tata Sons opens an airmail route between Karachi and Madras, the first regular air service within India.

• 1925 - a de Havilland DH.53 Humming Bird is successfully launched from the British airship R.33

• 1923 – First British motor glider competition is flown, at Lympne, Kent.

• 1921 - the Spanish airline Compania Española de Trafico Aereo is established - it will eventually form part of Iberia Airlines.

• 1783, Pilâtre de Rozier and Marquis d'Arlandes rise into the air in a Montgolfière tethered to the ground in Paris. de Rozier becomes the first human passenger in a hot-air balloon, rising 26 m (84 ft).