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Around 150 professors and educators from schools in the prefecture were in the area for a geological survey when a bolt bent and the suspension bridge collapsed, sending 33 people down into the Jinzu River. 29 people were killed or went missing and 4 people were injured.
Badiane died in a car crash. [27] Mirsada Bajraktarević: 1951 1976 25 years Bosnian singer car Ford Granada: Kolari, Smederevo, Yugoslavia: The car was reportedly travelling 130 km/h (80 mph), when it collided with a FAP truck. Her sister, Silvana Armenulić, died in the same crash. Tarnia Baker: 1967 2017 50 years South African politician ...
A tugboat containing spectators for the jump sailed to within a hundred yards of the bridge, with a rescue swimmer hired by Odlum on board. [10] Odlum jumped from the Brooklyn Bridge at 5:35 p.m. [2] A strong wind was blowing when Odlum jumped and seemed to turn him slightly in the air. As a result, he struck the water at an angle, hitting the ...
2018 New York City helicopter crash: aircraft 5 [147] 1991 Union Square derailment: rail 5 [42] [148] 1977 Pan Am Building helicopter crash: aircraft 5 [149] 1959 American Airlines Flight 514: aircraft 5 [150] 1952 1952 Queens plane crash: aircraft 5 [151] 1946 40 Wall Street plane crash: aircraft 5 [152] 1901 1901 Staten Island Ferry crash ...
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organised by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in December 2024 ) and then linked below. 2024
The bridge, then known as the East River Bridge, had opened just three years before Brodie's claimed jump. A swimming instructor from Washington, D.C. named Robert Emmet Odlum, the brother of women's rights activist Charlotte Odlum Smith, was killed while attempting the same stunt in May 1885. [4]
October 16 – Saudi Arabia – 2019 Medina bus crash. 35 people were killed and four were injured after a bus carrying Muslim pilgrims collided with a truck in Medina. [287] October 31 – Philippines – 19 people were killed and 21 others were injured after a rented truck fell into a ravine in Conner, Apayao. [288]
Tasker Oddie (1870–1950) – 12th Governor of Nevada and a United States Senator; born in Brooklyn [96] Dennis J. Patrick O'Grady (1943–1972) – Florida state senator; Ol' Dirty Bastard (1968–2004) – rapper (Fort Greene) Originoo Gunn Clappaz – hip-hop group (Brownsville) Dave Orr (1859–1915) – MLB player, born in Brooklyn