17 December 1913

On December 17, 1913, Captains Eduardo Barrón and Carlos Cifuentes attacked the village of Ben Carich in Spanish Morocco, dropping four "Carbonit" shrapnel bombs filled with explosives and steel balls from their Lohner Pfeilflieger biplane, to punish rebellious villages. Ten years after the Wrights' First Flight their creation was in use as a weapon of war.