This Day in FAA History: October 19th

Full FAA Chronology at this link.
19271019: Pan American Airways began its operations with an air mail flight between the United States and Cuba, accomplished with a rented plane to meet a contract deadline. The company began regular air mail service between Key West and Havana on October 28, and scheduled passenger service on the route on January 16, 1928.
19361019: The Bureau of Air Commerce commissioned the Detroit air route traffic control center on this date, followed by the Pittsburgh center on November 16.
19671019: FAA type-certificated the Grumman Gulfstream II, a two-engine corporate jet with a crew of two and a maximum capacity of 19 passengers in the corporate seating arrangement.
19671019: FAA retitled the Office of Management Services the Office of Management Systems, to reflect a shift in the primary responsibility of the office from providing specific administrative support services to the development of agencywide systems and methods for solving management problems.
20071019: FAA announced the expansion of Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) coverage into Canada and Mexico, increasing capacity at thousands of general aviation airports across the North American continent. WAAS had already improved the accuracy and integrity of Global Positioning System satellite signals, and provided highly precise approaches that could be used regardless of the weather. Nine new international wide-area reference stations were brought online under the expansion. The Canadian locations included Goose Bay, Gander, Winnipeg, and Iqaluit. The Mexican locations included Mexico City, Puerto Vallarta, Merida, Tapachula, and San Jose del Cabo. Cooperation on the expansion project was carried out with Canadian and Mexican aviation authorities under the auspices of the North American Aviation Trilateral Agreement. (See March 24, 2006.)
20091019: FAA officials helped break ground on the Aviation Research Technology Park located adjacent to the William J. Hughes Technical Center in Atlantic City, NJ. The Park will be a high-technology aviation facility that provides the opportunity for FAA partners to perform research, development, testing, integration and verification of new technologies for the Next Generation Air Transportation System. The seven-building, multi-million dollar project is expected to create more than 2,000 jobs.
20101019: FAA’s Air Traffic Organization announced its workforce engagement (WE) effort with the launch of the WE website. The ATO contracted with Gallup, a leader in employee engagement, to support ATO’s long-term effort to create a better place to work. On December1, ATO invited its employees to take a short, 15 question survey to establish a baseline of employee engagement, which would be used to help measure progress as the WE initiatives progressed.
20151019: Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx and FAA Administrator Michael Huerta announced the creation of a task force to develop recommendations for a registration process for UAS. Comprising the task force were 25 to 30 diverse representatives from the UAS and manned aviation industries, the federal government, and other stakeholders who would advise the Department of Transportation on which aircraft should be exempt from registration due to a low safety risk (toys and certain other small UAS were included in this evaluation). The task force also explored options for a streamlined system that would make registration less burdensome for commercial UAS operators. Secretary Foxx directed the group to deliver its report by November 20, 2015. On that date, DOT published information on the establishment of the task force and an explanation on the need for registration of UAS in the Federal Register on this date. (See October 24, 2015; October 29, 2015.)
20201019: A 7.5 magnitude earthquake, centered near Sand Point, Alaska, and a subsequent tsunami warning disrupted air traffic in the region for a short period. The quake was felt widely in communities along the southern coast, including Sand Point, Chignik, Unalaska, and the Kenai Peninsula, according to the Alaska Earthquake Center, which reported a magnitude 5.2 aftershock 11 minutes later.