The Hindenburg disaster occurred on May 6th, 1937, in Manchester Township, New Jersey. The German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst. There were 35 fatalities (13 passengers and 22 crewmen) from the 97 people on board (36 […]
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On the very first trip for the ‘unsinkable’ ship from Southampton to New York, the passenger liner Titanic hit an iceberg and sank on this day. It is still regarded as the world’s worst peacetime shipping disaster. The ship was eleven stories high, a sixth of a mile long and weighed 46,328 gross tons. At […]
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Authorities in Texas told reporters a truck driver was not injured when tractor trailer truck caught fire on the interstate: but the flames destroyed a load of toilet paper. KTVT reported that an 18-wheeler carrying toilet paper crashed in Dallas County on Tuesday night. The truck then caught fire, which burned thousands of rolls of […]
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Less than 48 hours after being injured during a terrifying wreck in the final lap of the Daytona 500, Ryan Newman was released from the hospital. And he walked out under his own power. Roush Fenway Racing announced the news in a release, posting a photo of Newman walking from Halifax Medical Center while holding […]
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