One hundred years ago to-day.

Hands up who's heard of Giulio Gavotti, not too many I guess. Well Giulio Gavotti, became the first man to drop a bomb from an aircraft, on this day in 1911, true bombs had been dropped from balloons before. But the Hague Convention of 1899 wisely banned this practice, Unfortunately for millions of victims off these weapons, Italy decided this ban did not extend to aircraft.
It is fitting that this event happened during a long forgotten war, know as the Italo-Turkish War, This bomb was dropped on the Turkish troops, at the end of this war, The state of Libya was born yes the bomb was dropped on Libya.