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Statistics. Deaths. 50. Injured. Approx 60. The 1896 Atlantic City rail crash occurred soon after 6:30 pm on July 30, 1896, at a crossing just west of Atlantic City, New Jersey, crushing five loaded passenger coaches, killing 50 people and seriously injuring approximately 60.
Hugo Vihlen (born November 13, 1931) is a single-handed sailor who set world records by crossing the Atlantic Ocean in two tiny sailboats in 1968 and 1993. 1968 transatlantic crossing [ edit ] On March 29, 1968, Vihlen departed Casablanca, Morocco , in his 5-foot, 11-inch (1.8 m) sailboat April Fool .
In 1985, American boatbuilder, Al Grovers, Sr., made the first outboard crossing of the Atlantic. In 1994, Guy Delage was the first man to allegedly swim across the Atlantic Ocean (with the help of a kick board, from Cape Verde to Barbados). Controversy followed because of lack of supervision and the time spent drifting on a support vessel.
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1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge. The Atlantic City Railroad was a Philadelphia and Reading Railway subsidiary that became part of Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines in 1933. At the end of 1925, it operated 161 miles (259 km) of road on 318 miles (512 km) of track; that year it reported 43 million ton-miles of revenue freight and 204 ...
The bears that have been documented crossing the river in recent years are involved in studies of bear behavior in Louisiana and Mississippi. They were captured and outfitted with ear tags and GPS ...
Hurricane Diana was a deadly tropical cyclone which made landfall in Mexico in August 1990. The fourth named storm and second hurricane of the season, Diana developed from a tropical wave in the southwestern Caribbean on August 4.
Atlantic City Expressway. The Atlantic City Expressway, officially numbered, but unsigned, as Route 446 and abbreviated A.C. Expressway, ACE, or ACX, and known locally as the Expressway, is a 44.19-mile (71.12 km) controlled-access toll road in the U.S. state of New Jersey, managed and operated by the South Jersey Transportation Authority (SJTA).