Showing posts with label mishaps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mishaps. Show all posts
Mar 31, 2013

Forgotten US airship crash recalled 80 years later

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  (AP) History buffs will gather this week near the New Jersey coast to commemorate a major airship disaster. No, not that one. Newsr...
Mar 28, 2013

Three Mile Island

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  (Wikipedia) - The Three Mile Island accident was the most significant accident in the history of the American commercial nuclear power ...
Feb 28, 2013

Fatal Cruise of the USS Princeton

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  (Navy History) On a late February day in 1844, a long line of black carriages drew up to the wharf at the Washington Navy Yard and dro...
Feb 26, 2013

Buffalo Creek Flood

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(Wikipedia) The Buffalo Creek Flood was an incident that occurred on February 26, 1972, when the Pittston Coal Company's coal slurry i...
Feb 7, 2013

The Great Baltimore Fire

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"Sunday morning, February 7th, about half-past 10 o'clock, while half of Baltimore was on its way to church, fire broke out in the...
Jan 27, 2013

The Knickerbocker Blizzard

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  (Wikipedia) The Knickerbocker Storm was a blizzard that occurred on January 27–28, 1922 in the upper South and middle Atlantic United S...
Jan 4, 2013

Tragedy at Chase

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(Wikipedia) The Maryland train collision occurred at 1:04 pm on January 4, 1987, on Amtrak's Northeast Corridor main line in the Chase ...
Nov 18, 2012

The Dust Bowl: Tonight on PBS

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Watch The Dust Bowl Intro on PBS. See more from The Dust Bowl.
Sep 2, 2012

The Wreck of the Faithful Steward

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(discoversea.com) The Faithful Steward, bound from Londonderry, Ireland to Philadelphia with 249 passengers, ran aground near Indian Ri...
Jul 17, 2012

The Great Train Wreck of 1856

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(Wikipedia) The Great Train Wreck of 1856 occurred between Camp Hill and Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, on July 17, 1856. Two trains, tra...
Apr 14, 2012

Titanic sinks

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(LoC) On this day, at about 11:40 PM, April 14, 1912, the R.M.S. Titanic struck an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland and sank to the bot...
Apr 9, 2012

"It hit an iceberg and it sank"

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(NYTimes) What doomed the Titanic is well known, at least in outline. On a moonless night in the North Atlantic, the liner hit an iceberg an...
Feb 12, 2012

July 1919: "Big Dirigible, C-8, Explodes, Injuring 80, After Landing at Camp Holabird, Baltimore"

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(NYTimes) BALTIMORE, July 1 - The big navy dirigible [blimp] C-8, which made a landing here on the way from Cape May, N. J., to Washington, ...
Feb 7, 2012

The Great Baltimore Fire of 1904

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"Sunday morning, February 7th, about half-past 10 o'clock, while half of Baltimore was on its way to church, fire broke out in the ...
Feb 2, 2012

Great Bel Air Fire remembered 40 years later

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(Aegis) Thursday is the 40th anniversary of an event that has reverberated up and down Main Street in Bel Air to this day. What some in town...
Jan 27, 2012

The Knickerbocker Storm

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(Wikipedia) - The Knickerbocker Storm was a blizzard that occurred on January 27–28, 1922 in the upper South and middle Atlantic United Stat...
Dec 8, 2011

Pan Am Flight 214

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(Wikipedia) - Pan Am Flight 214, a Boeing 707-121 registered as N709PA, was a domestic scheduled passenger flight from Baltimore to Philade...
Nov 6, 2011

The Storm That Nearly Lost the War

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(NYTimes) During the first week of November 1861 the worst storm in years struck the Atlantic Seaboard. Lacking modern meteorological equipm...
Oct 25, 2011

Was the Union disaster at the Battle of Ball's Bluff caused by a simple lack of maps?

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(NYTimes) The Battle of Ball’s Bluff does not loom large in our memory of the Civil War. Yet it was the second-largest battle in the eastern...
Oct 2, 2011

The Doctors Who Killed a President

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(NYTBR) ... Garfield’s medical “care” is one of the most fascinating, if appalling, parts of Millard’s narrative. Joseph Lister had been dem...