10/7 Milestones 2

1903: Langley's airplane makes a trial flight over the Potomac River near Ward's Water, Virginia, but the apparatus fails, plunging pilot Manly into the water, uninjured. 1913: Henry Ford begins assembly line production at his Highland Park plant. 1919: KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is founded. 1933: Air France is founded. 1936: The Red First Army, Red Second Army, and Red Fourth Army of the Chinese Red Army converge at Huining, Gansu, marking the end of the Long March. 1938: Second Sino-Japanese War: Chinese forces launch a general offensive in the Battle of Wanjialing. 1944: The Holocaust: Members of a commando work unit at Auschwitz concentration camp revolt upon learning they are to be killed; though a few escape, most are massacred the same day. 1949: The German Democratic Republic is proclaimed in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany, with its capital in East Berlin. 1957: The Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps is established. 1958: NASA approves Project Mercury, America's first manned spaceflight program.