Vintage Memories That Make You Go AAH!
On December 24, 1968, the crew of Apollo 8, Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders became the first human beings to see the far side of the Moon with their own eyes (as opposed to seeing it on a photograph).
After launching on December 21, the crew took three days to travel to the Moon. […]
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The Model 76 Voyager was the first aircraft to fly around the world without stopping or refueling.
It was piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, who took off from Edwards Air Force Base’s 15,000 foot (4,600 m) runway in the Mojave Desert on December 14, 1986. Their flight ended successfully 9 days, 3 minutes and […]
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The Kempsey bus crash occurred in Australia in December, 1989 when two full tourist coaches collided head-on on the Pacific Highway 12 km north of Kempsey, New South Wales at an estimated speed of 100 km/h.
The collision killed both drivers instantly. Seats and passengers were thrown about the vehicles with a terrific amount of force, […]
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The Lockheed SR-71 is an advanced, long-range, Mach 3 strategic reconnaissance aircraft developed from the Lockheed YF-12A and A-12 aircraft by the Lockheed Skunk Works.
The SR-71 was unofficially named the Blackbird, and called the Habu (”snake”) by its crews. Although the predecessor A-12 first flew in 1962, the first flight of an SR-71 took […]
The Grumman F-14 Tomcat is a supersonic, twin-engine, two-seat, variable geometry wing aircraft. The F-14 was the United States Navy’s primary maritime air superiority fighter, fleet defense interceptor and tactical reconnaissance platform from 1974 to 2006.
The F-14 first flew on 21 December 1970, just 22 months after Grumman was awarded the contract, and reached Initial […]
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The Summit Tunnel fire occurred on a dangerous goods train passing through the Summit Tunnel on the Greater Manchester/West Yorkshire border, between Littleborough and Todmorden, England.
The fire occurred at 5.50 a.m. on December 20, 1984 when a goods train carrying more than a million litres (835 tonnes) of petrol in 13 tankers was approximately one-third […]
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SilkAir Flight 185 was a scheduled passenger service from Jakarta, Indonesia to Singapore. On December 19, 1997, the ill-fated flight was being operated by a Boeing 737-300, registration 9V-TRF. All 97 passengers and 7 crew, died when the aircraft, in a nearly vertical attitude, impacted the Musi River near Palembang, Sumatra following an abrupt descent.
The […]
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The Harrods Bombing was a car-bomb attack carried out by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) outside Harrods Department Store, London on December 17, 1983.
A warning of the bomb came when a man using an IRA code word telephoned the central London office of the Samaritans organisation at 12:44. The caller said there were […]
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Netscape Navigator, also known as Netscape, is a proprietary web browser that was popular during the 1990s. Once the flagship product of Netscape Communications Corporation and the dominant browser in usage share.
Beta versions of the web browser were freely downloadable in mid- to late-1994, and version 1.0 of the browser was released on December 15, […]
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The Silver Bridge was an eyebar chain suspension bridge built in 1928 and was named for the color of its aluminum paint. The bridge connected Point Pleasant, West Virginia and Gallipolis,Ohio over the Ohio River.
On December 15, 1967, the Silver Bridge collapsed while it was choked with rush hour traffic, resulting in the deaths of […]
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