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Ron Brown (U.S. politician) - Wikipedia  Ronald Harmon "Ron" Brown (August 1, 1941  April 3, 1996) was the United States Secretary of Commerce, serving during the first term of President Bill Clinton. He was the first African American to hold this position. He was killed, along with 34 others, in a 1996 plane crash in Croatia. ... While at Middlebury College, Ron Brown became the first African-American...
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Pa. town 'in a daze' after teens, teachers are killed - usa today  Oct 23, 1996 ... The jet taking his high school French Club to Paris had crashed. ... The father said simply, "I have bad news, a bunch of our kids were on that plane." ... 18 family members, two ministers and three school administrators on board. ... spread over the whole town here on the banks of the Susquehanna River.
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Jeopary Questions page 1815 - STUPID ANSWERS - TriviaBistro.com  IN THE YEARBOOK: A 1996 plane crash claimed the life of this cabinet member, seen here in a 1962 college yearbook  WORLD FLAGS: The design of this...
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Ted Kennedy - Wikipedia  Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy (February 22, 1932  August 25, 2009) was a United States Senator from Massachusetts and a member of the Democratic Party. He was the second most senior member of the Senate when he died and ... Kennedy entered the Senate in a November 1962 special election to fill the seat once...
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5 things you didn't know about the crash of TWA 800 - CNN.com  Jul 15, 2014 ... On July 17, 1996, TWA Flight 800 took off from JFK Airport headed for Paris. ... Safety Board dashed the hopes of a documentary film team claiming to have ... Here, a section of the wing of TWA Flight 800, seen here a couple of days ... TWA Flight 800  A member of the U.S. Coast Guard pulls a piece of...
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DAG HAMMARSKJLD: The UN years ...  Dag Hammarskjld was the Secretary General of the United Nations from 1953 to 1961. ... 1961 when he died in a plane crash while on a peace mission in the Congo. ... The fourth son of Hjalmar Hammarskjld, Prime Minister of Sweden during ... was appointed Adviser to the Cabinet on financial and economic problems.
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UN secretary-general Dag Hammarskjold dies in plane crash  Aug 17, 2011 ... When the plane carrying the United Nations secretary-general ... United Nations secretary-general Dag Hammarskjold four years before his death in ... 19 September 1961 ... the previous year from newly independent Congo - a move opposed ... In 1969, a former Swedish air force crash investigator again...
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Volatile Pakistan  Volume 13 Issue 08 October 2007 Volatile Pakistan ... of Musharraf's leadership has come ... For almost 60 years it has ... 1971 Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto becomes president, before becoming prime minister two years later. ... 1988 Zia ul-Haq dies in plane crash. ... chief minister of Punjab, becomes prime minister following election...
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U-2 Spy Incident - Cold War - HISTORY.com  An international diplomatic crisis erupted in May 1960 when the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) shot down an American U-2 spy plane in Soviet air space and captured its pilot, Francis Gary Powers (1929-77).
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UN poised to open fresh inquiry into 1961 Dag Hammarskjld crash ...  Dec 14, 2014 ... Swedish resolution cites new evidence and asks for release of documents about air crash in which UN secretary-general died. ... Dag Hammarskjld's plane crashed near Ndola while he was trying to broker a peace deal between the Congolese government and rebels. Photograph: Rex. Julian Borger...
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Life and Death Aboard a B-17, 1944 - EyeWitness to History  Launching Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortresses" and Consolidated B-24 ... Up to 1,000 of these heavy bombers would take part in a raid - the planes flying in a three dimensional formation in which boxes of aircraft were stacked one above the other to .... or two hundred German fighters swarmed over us as we headed for home.
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Vice President Hubert Horatio Humphrey - LBJ Presidential Library  He attended the Capitol College of Pharmacy in Denver, Colorado, and ... He served as the Senate Democratic Whip from 1961 to 1964. ... He returned to the U.S. Senate in 1971, and he won re-election in 1976. He died January 13, 1978 of cancer. After Humphrey's death, the governor of Minnesota appointed Humphrey's...
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The Day the Music Died - Wikipedia  Flight origin, Mason City Municipal Airport, Iowa. Destination, Hector Airport, North Dakota. On February 3, 1959, rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson were killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, .... The right wing tip had struck the ground first, sending the aircraft...
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Pilot of infamous U-2 spy-plane flight shot down in 1960 over the ...  Jun 9, 2012 ... Fifty-two years after his U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union, ... worked as a test pilot for Lockheed and then as a helicopter traffic reporter ... Powers was later killed while flying a KNBC helicopter in Van Nuys, California ..... dad but Raine Spencer became a confidante of the troubled princess.
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Comedian killed in Corvair crash - Jan 13, 1962 - HISTORY.com  On this day in History, Comedian killed in Corvair crash on Jan 13, 1962. ... Ralph Nader's groundbreaking 1965 book Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In ... The publicity surrounding GM's actions helped make Unsafe at Any Speed a ... sanction to the military order known as the Knights Templar, declaring it to be an...
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Jeopary Questions page 489 - PAPER CLIPS - TriviaBistro.com  PAPER CLIPS: The Times, Jan. 25, 1965: this man "Dies"; "the Greatest Englishman of His Time"  THE CABINET: Dang, this department's Risk Management...
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U-2 Overflights and the Capture of Francis Gary Powers, 1960 ...  U-2 Overflights and the Capture of Francis Gary Powers, 1960. On May 1, 1960, the pilot of an American U-2 spyplane was shot down while flying though Soviet airspace. ... Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev refused the proposal, continuing the established Soviet policy of rejecting international inspections in any form.
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Wiley Post And Will Rogers Killed In Airplane Crash - AvStop  On August 15, 1935, a private plane flown by both Wiley Post and Will Rogers, crashed just after take-off. ... The aircraft crashed into the water at Walakpi, near Point Barrow, Alaska. ... On August 15, 1935, Post and American humorist Will Rogers were killed when Post's plane crashed on ...
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The Ron Brown Plane Crash - Did CIA Hawks Assassinate Ron ...  Whenever an American politician dies in a suspicious plane crash, the skeptical and discerning citizen will look first in the direction of the CIA. ... "In the late 1970s, I also participated in the Senate's investigation of the CIA and our ... On April 3, 1996, Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and 34 others were killed when their Air...
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Air Force One: The Graphic History - AIGA  Feb 24, 2009 ... The 707-based Air Force One of 1962 with Loewy scheme; The 747 ... the president, working on the floor with scissors and rubber cement. ... seated in his rocking chair, watched and made suggestions. ... After President Kennedy's death she was instrumental in having .... (There are two of these, actually.).
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Cabinet Crisis of 1964 - Wikipedia  The Cabinet Crisis of 1964 in Malawi occurred in August and September 1964 shortly after independence .... In the nine months between his return and the declaration of a State of .... Full independence was gained (and the country's name became Malawi) on 6 ...... Jump up ^ Chirwa obituary, Independent 22 October 1992,...