Vintage Memories That Make You Go AAH!
EgyptAir Flight 990 (MSR990) was a regularly-scheduled Los Angeles-New York-Cairo flight being flown in a Boeing 767-366ER aircraft. On October 31, 1999 Flight 990 was carrying 14 crew members and 203 passengers from seven countries. at around 1:50 a.m. EST, Flight 990 dived into the Atlantic Ocean, about 60 miles south of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, […]
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Jesse Martin at age 17, departed Melbourne, Australia on December 7, 1998 to begin his solo, non-stop journey around the world in his 34-foot (10 m) sloop Lionheart-Mistral. Approximately 11 months later, on 31 October, 1999, after circumnavigating the world he arrived back in Melbourne and (literally) sailed into the record books at age 18. […]
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American Eagle Flight 4184 was en route from Indianapolis International Airport, Indiana to O’Hare International Airport, Chicago, Illinois. Bad weather in Chicago caused delays, prompting air traffic control to hold Flight 4184 over the nearby LUCIT intersection at 10,000 ft (3,000 m)
While holding, the plane encountered freezing rain — a dangerous icing condition where supercooled […]
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Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi was the Prime Minister of India for three consecutive terms from 1966 to 1977 and for a fourth term from 1980 until her assassination in 1984. She was India’s first and to date only female prime minister.
Indira Gandhi had numerous bodyguards, two of whom were Satwant Singh and Beant Singh, both Sikhs. […]
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Mountjoy Prison, nicknamed The Joy, is a closed, medium security prison located in Phibsboro in Dublin city centre, Republic of Ireland. on 31 October 1973, members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) hijacked a five-seater Alouette II helicopter and landed it in the prison’s exercise yard where they picked up three senior republicans that were […]
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An October surprise is American political jargon describing a news event with the potential to influence the outcome of an election, particularly one for the presidency. It is so called because Election Day in the U.S. is the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, and events shortly before the election have greater potential to […]
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The Indiana State Fair Coliseum (now Pepsi Coliseum) is an 8,200-seat multi-purpose arena in Indianapolis, Indiana. The current arena was built in 1939, replacing a previous coliseum that was built in 1907.
On Halloween night, October 31, 1963 Inside the Coliseum, 4327 people were enjoying the final moments of the “Holiday on Ice” show. At 11:04 […]
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Mount Rushmore National Memorial, near Keystone, South Dakota, is a monumental granite sculpture by Gutzon Borglum. It is located within the United States Presidential Memorial that represents the first 150 years of the history of the United States of America with 60-foot (18 m) sculptures of the heads of former United States presidents.
Between October 4, […]
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USS Reuben James (DD-245), a post-World War I four-stack Clemson-class destroyer, was the first United States Navy ship sunk by hostile action in World War II. Based at Hvalfjordur, Iceland, she sailed from Naval Station Argentia, Newfoundland on 23 October 1941, with four other destroyers to escort eastbound convoy HX-156. While escorting that convoy at […]
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The Battle of Britain is the name given to the sustained strategic effort by the German Luftwaffe during the summer and autumn of 1940 to gain air superiority over the RAF’s Fighter Command. The name derives from an 18 June 1940 speech in the House of Commons by Prime Minister Winston Churchill, “The Battle of […]
