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Baldwin Hills Reservoir after 1963 failure, view south. The gash through the dam corresponds to the alignment of a fault. The Baldwin Hills Dam disaster occurred on December 14, 1963 (61 years ago) () in the Baldwin Hills neighborhood of South Los Angeles, when the dam containing the Baldwin Hills Reservoir suffered a catastrophic failure and flooded the residential neighborhoods surrounding it.
Dam wall burst due to pressure of accumulated rain water. [16] To protect the earthen dam from the flow of water, concrete blocks were used instead of steel-reinforced concrete due to a steel shortage. Baldwin Hills Reservoir: 1963-12-14 Los Angeles: United States 5 Subsidence caused by over-exploitation of local oil field. Two hundred and ...
December 14 – Baldwin Hills Dam disaster floods South Los Angeles, causing five deaths. December 25 – Walt Disney releases his 18th feature-length animated motion picture, The Sword in the Stone, about the boyhood of King Arthur. It is Disney's final animated film to be released during his lifetime, before his death in 1966.
1963 establishments in California (149 P) E. ... Baldwin Hills Dam disaster; C. Chualar bus crash; D. Douglas v. California; K. Ker v. California
These photos from our archives show the immediate aftermath of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination by Lee Harvey Oswald, 59 years ago this week. JFK assassination: Photos from Star ...
1963 Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum gas explosion; B. Baldwin Hills Dam disaster; C. Chualar bus crash; R.
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In October 2021, while filming a scene for the movie "Rust," Alec Baldwin fired a gun that contained a live round killing Halyna Hutchins, 42. The movie will have its premiere at a Polish film ...