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August 18 – Airbourne 2000 show ( Eastbourne, East Sussex, England) – former Red Arrows pilot Ted Girdler was killed when his Aero L-29 Delfín jet failed to pull up from a diving roll and crashed into the English Channel. [1] June 18 – Willow Grove 2000 Sounds of Freedom Air Show ( Willow Grove, Pennsylvania) – Two crew members of an F ...
On November 12, 2022, two World War II –era aircraft, a B-17 Flying Fortress and a Bell P-63 Kingcobra, collided mid-air and crashed during the Wings Over Dallas air show at Dallas Executive Airport in Dallas, Texas, United States. [1] The air show, which coincided with Veterans Day commemorations, was organized by the Commemorative Air Force .
Trinity was the code name of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon, conducted by the United States Army at 5:29 a.m. MWT (11:29:21 GMT) on July 16, 1945, as part of the Manhattan Project.
Summary of scheduled executions[edit] As of July 3, 2024 [update], a total of 38 people are scheduled to be executed in the United States. [1] All of these executions are scheduled over four calendar years in six U.S. states. [2] There are a total of 12 pending motions to set an execution date across seven states. [3] Year. Executions. 2024.
60–100 homes [5] On September 13, 2018, excessive pressure in natural gas lines owned by Columbia Gas of Massachusetts caused a series of explosions and fires to occur in as many as 40 homes, with over 80 individual fires, in the towns of Lawrence, Andover, and North Andover, all within the Merrimack Valley, in Massachusetts, United States.
Nuclear reactor accidents continued into the 1960s with a small test reactor exploding at the Stationary Low-Power Reactor Number One in Idaho Falls in January 1961 resulting in three deaths which were the first fatalities in the history of U.S. nuclear reactor operations. [6] There was also a partial meltdown at the Enrico Fermi Nuclear ...
However, outages were reported hours after the explosion, with significant service disruptions in the area by around noon. Cellular, wireline telephone, internet, and U-verse television service were affected, as were multiple local 9-1-1 and non-emergency phone networks in the region, along with Nashville's COVID-19 community hotline and some ...
On 23 October 1989 at approximately 1:05 PM Central Daylight Time, a series of explosions occurred at Phillips Petroleum Company's Houston Chemical Complex (HCC) in Pasadena, Texas, near the Houston Ship Channel. The initial blast registered 3.5 on the Richter scale, and the resulting fires took 10 hours to bring under control, as efforts to ...