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The Memphis 13 are the group of young children who integrated the schools of Memphis, Tennessee. On October 3, 1961, 13 African-American first grade students were enrolled in schools that were previously all white. The schools that the students attended were Bruce, Gordon, Rozelle, and Springdale elementary schools. [1]
January 13, 1963: A Delta Air Lines Douglas DC-7, registration N4875C, crashed into a parked USAF Fairchild C-123 Provider on an unfamiliar taxiway at night. At the time the DC-7 was carrying 5 occupants on board on during a ferrying/positioning flight and was taxiing for takeoff at then Memphis Municipal Airport when it struck the USAF airplane.
[20] [21] The crash site was discovered on 13 January at about the 5,000-foot (1,500 m) level of Cajon Mountain. 13 January Former Navy pilot, now a test pilot for Douglas Aircraft Company , James B. Verdin , 36, is killed this date when he bails out of A4D Skyhawk , BuNo 137815, at 30,000 feet (9,100 m) during a test flight near Victorville ...
[3] [4] This was the 20th CF-101 crash since they entered Canadian service in 1961, resulting in 16 fatalities. [5] 14 March A C-130H Hercules transport plane, 74–2064, was engaged in a logistics mission out of Adana-Incirlik Air Base to several U.S. military installations in Turkey.
Dwania Kyles, one of three students who integrated Bruce Elementary in 1961, looks back at a mural painted of her by muralist Jamond Bullock at Bruce Elementary on Friday Jan. 17, 2020.
Douglas A-20 Havoc, 39–735, modified as prototype Douglas XP-70 night fighter, assigned to the 349th Night Fighter Squadron, 50th Fighter Group (Special), crashes on takeoff from Kissimmee Army Airfield, Florida, [19] coming down 1/2 mile NW of the field, [13] killing pilot James H. Toal. The Army Air Force decides at the end of March that ...
Three women are dead after a five-vehicle crash in Hickory Hill Tuesday night. A car ran a red light while fleeing from police, the department said. Three dead, seven injured after driver flees ...
Imperial Airlines Flight 201/8 was a charter flight by the United States Army to transport new recruits to Columbia, South Carolina for training. [3] [4] On November 8, 1961, the aircraft crashed as it attempted to land at Byrd Field, near Richmond, Virginia.