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The Day the Music Died. On February 3, 1959, American rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and "The Big Bopper" J. P. Richardson were all killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, together with pilot Roger Peterson. [a][1][2] The event became known as " The Day the Music Died " after singer-songwriter Don McLean referred to ...
Buddy and Bob. The Crickets. Charles Hardin Holley (September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959), known as Buddy Holly, was an American singer, songwriter and musician who was a central and pioneering figure of mid-1950s rock and roll. He was born to a musical family in Lubbock, Texas, during the Great Depression, and learned to play guitar and sing ...
The Aztec, New Mexico, UFO hoax (sometimes known as the "other Roswell ") was a flying saucer crash alleged to have happened in 1948 in Aztec, New Mexico. The story was first published in 1949 by author Frank Scully in his Variety magazine columns, and later in his 1950 book Behind the Flying Saucers.
74 (estimated) On January 31, 1957, a Douglas DC-7B operated by Douglas Aircraft Company was involved in a mid-air collision with a United States Air Force Northrop F-89 Scorpion and crashed into the schoolyard of Pacoima Junior High School located in Pacoima, a suburban area in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, California. [1][2][3]
Former director of Los Alamos National Laboratory dead after car crash in New Mexico 09/07/2024 18:48 -0400 LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) — A former top official in U.S. nuclear weapons research at Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos national laboratories has died from injuries after an automobile crash in New Mexico, authorities said.
A Martin 4-0-4 of Trans World Airlines. TWA Flight 260 was the Trans World Airlines (TWA) designation for a flight from Albuquerque, New Mexico to Santa Fe, New Mexico. On February 19, 1955, the 40-passenger Martin 4-0-4 prop plane used by TWA for that route crashed into the Sandia Mountains. Its deviation from the normal flight path, initially ...
TWA Flight 3 was a twin-engine Douglas DC-3-382 propliner, registration NC1946, operated by Transcontinental and Western Air (TWA) as a scheduled domestic passenger flight from New York, New York, to Burbank, California, in the United States, via several stopovers including Las Vegas, Nevada. [1] On January 16, 1942, at 19:20 PST, fifteen ...
Crash site of B-17. Early on the morning of May 16, 1946, a U.S. Army B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft crashed into White Hill (a.k.a. "White's Hill") near Fairfax, California. Two men were killed and six seriously injured. [1] There were reports that the B-17 was carrying nuclear weapons materials for the Operation Crossroads tests at Bikini ...