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2012 Event - After losing power three days ago due to an engine room fire, the Costa Allegra cruise ship arrives at the Seychelles

2012 Event - Following an engine room fire, the cruise ship costa Allegra is left adrift in the Indian Ocean near the Seychelles

2011 Event - The 8th largest search engine in the world, Russia's Yandex, marks its first venture outside the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) by expanding into Turkey

2009 Event - The engine on an airbus A320 plane catches fire at Paris-Orly airport, eight people are injured

1996 Death - Frank A Whittle, inventor of the Jet engine, dies at 89

1988 Death - Felix Wankel, developer of Wankel rotary engine, dies

1985 Event - STS-51-F launch scrubbed at T -3s because of main engine shutdown

1975 Event - 1st Space Shuttle main engine test at National Space Tech Labs, Miss

1962 Death - Jesse G Vincent, engineer designed 1st V-12 engine, dies at 82

1954 Event - Chevrolet unveils V-8 engine

1951 Event - 1st North Pole flight in single engine plane-CF Blair

1950 Birthday - William H. Macy, born in Miami, Florida, actor, Homicide, Water Engine

1947 Event - 1st 4 engine jet propelled fighter plane tested, Columbus, Oh

1944 Event - 1st B-29 bombing raid; 1 plane lost due to engine failure

1935 Event - 1st U.S. streamlined electric RR engine begins service

1932 Event - Ford publicly unveils its V-8 engine

1930 Event - Clessie Cummins sets diesel engine speed record of 129.39 kph

1930 Event - 1st diesel engine automobile trip (in a Packard sedan) completed

1925 Death - Clement Ader, French engineer (steam engine airplane), dies at 84

1913 Event - 1st 4 engine aircraft built and flown (Igor Sikorsky-Russia)

1907 Birthday - Frank A. Whittle, England inventor, jet engine

1902 Birthday - Felix Wankel, Germany, inventor, Wankel rotary-piston engine

1897 Event - 1st submarine with an internal combustion engine demonstrated

1891 Death - Nicholaus Otto, auto pioneer (internal combustion engine), dies

1883 Death - Wilhelm Siemens, German/British physicist (steam engine), dies

1880 Birthday - Jesse G Vincent, Arkansas, engineer designed 1st V-12 engine

1877 Birthday - Ole Evinrude, inventor, outboard marine engine

1872 Event - George B Brayton patents gasoline powered engine

1854 Birthday - Dugald Clerk, inventor, engine operating the 2-stroke cycle

1853 Event - 1st practical fire engine (horse-drawn) in U.S. enters service

1850 Event - 1st Hawaiian fire engine

1850 Event - Knickerbocker Engine Co Number 5 organized

1850 Event - Empire Engine Company No 1 organized

1841 Event - 1st U.S. steam fire engine tested, New York City

1831 Event - 1st U.S. steam engine train run (Albany to Schenectady, New York)

1826 Event - Samuel Mory patents internal combustion engine

1813 Birthday - Henry Bessemer, engineer/inventor, Bessemer engine

1755 Birthday - Oliver Evans, pioneered high-pressure steam engine

1755 Event - 1st steam engine in America installed, to pump water from a mine

1753 Event - 1st steam engine arrives in U.S. colonies

1736 Birthday - James Watt, Scotland, inventor, steam engine

1663 Birthday - Thomas Newcomen, English co-inventor, steam engine













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