Our History
July 30, 1908 - Tunguska Blast of 1908.
July 17, 1996 - TWA Flight 800 departed Kennedy International Airport in New York bound for Paris but exploded in mid-air 12 minutes after takeoff then crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Long Island about 8:45 p.m. All 212 passengers and 17 crew members on board the Boeing 747 were killed. The exact cause of the disaster has not been determined, although investigators have ruled out terrorism and know that the center fuel tank exploded. NTSB Photos
May 27, 1941 - British Navy Sinks the German battleship Bismark (WWII).
Click here for Roger's review of William L. Shirer's account of the sinking of this powerful warship.
May 22, 1960 - 9.5 Magnitude earthquake struck Chile at 19:11 UTC.
April 20, 1889 - Adolf Hitler was born.
April 18, 1775 - Paul Revere rode to alert the Minute Men that "The British are coming, the British are coming".
Also, in 1942, The Doolittle raid took place wherein 16 bombers flew off from the Aircraft Carrier Hornet to bomb Tokyo, Japan.
March 28, 1964 - 9.2 Magnitude earthquake struck Prince William Sound, Alaska. The earthquake struck at 5:36 P.M. local time and the ground motion lasted between four to five minutes.
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We wish to thank HistoryPlace.com for a great deal of the information contained herein. Also deserving credit: BBC and our resident arm-chair-historian: Roger D. Noriega.
