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[245] The wreckage had not been located by 10 May. [246] Beechcraft C-45F (43-35681) of Air Materiel Command, Wright Field, Ohio, piloted by Maj. Dorence L. Van Fleet, was downed 37 miles north-northeast of Livingston. [247] The C-45 struck Lobo Peak in the Crazy Mountains in a snowstorm, killing all six on board. The wreckage burned, and the ...
Kelly Gissendaner. Kelly Renée Gissendaner ( née Brookshire; March 8, 1968 – September 30, 2015) was an American woman who was executed by the U.S. state of Georgia. Gissendaner had been convicted of orchestrating the murder of her husband, Douglas Gissendaner (December 14, 1966 – February 7, 1997). [1] [2] At the time of the murder ...
May 11, 1945 (Friday) USS Bunker Hill hit by two kamikazes. While supporting the Battle of Okinawa, the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) was badly damaged by Japanese kamikaze attacks and suffered about 600 casualties. The Battle of West Henan–North Hubei ended in tactical stalemate but a Japanese operational victory.
Marcelite J. Harris (January 16, 1943 – September 7, 2018) was an American who became the first African-American female general officer of the United States Air Force. Education and early career [ edit ]
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Crashed his car on May 15, 1970, and was ejected, suffering major head trauma. Died 11 months after the crash without regaining consciousness. Richard Bright: 1937 2006 68 years American actor pedestrian Manhattan, New York City Struck by a bus. Rolf Dieter Brinkmann: 1940 1975 35 years German poet pedestrian London, England Killed in a hit-and ...
Warren Cowan (March 13, 1921 – May 14, 2008) was an American film industry publicist. He co-founded the public relations company Rogers & Cowan in 1954 and founded his own company, Cowan & Associates, in 1994. [1] He was described as "one of Hollywood’s most powerful and innovative publicists" at the time of his death. [2] [3]
Donald J. Harris. Donald Jasper Harris, OM (born August 23, 1938) is a Jamaican-American economist and professor emeritus at Stanford University, known for applying post-Keynesian ideas to development economics. [ 1] Harris was raised in Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica, attending the University College of the West Indies before earning a Bachelor's ...