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On This Day…..
U.S. Navy’s Worst Wartime Loss at Sea…… July 30, 1945…….. After the USS Indianapolis was sunk by a Japanese torpedo, the survivors were stranded for three and half days in shark-infested waters. Only 316 of the 1,195-man crew survived the ordeal. This was the greatest single loss of life at sea, from a single ship, in the…
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Forrestal Disaster…… July 29, 1967……. Fire on USS Forrestal kills 134 people. While the ship was preparing to launch attacks on Vietnam, a rocket from one of its own F-4 Phantom jet fighters accidentally launched and struck several parked A-4 Skyhawk jets which were waiting to take off. One of the parked Skyhawks was piloted by John McCain,…
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Bomber Crashes Into Empire State Building…… July 28, 1945…… A U.S. B25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building. Fourteen people were killed, including the pilot and his two crew members. A female elevator operator survived a 75-story elevator plunge, which still stands as the Guinness Record for the longest survived elevator fall.…
This Weekend In History…..
Greensboro Sit-In…… July 25, 1960……. Woolworth’s opens its lunch counters to blacks when the store manager asked three black employees to order a meal at the counter, officially desegregating the Woolworth’s lunch counter. The company had lost $200,000 since February, when protests started after four black college students, known as the “Greensboro Four”, refused to move…