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Disasters and accidents. Two people are killed and 11 injured after an explosion at a Toyota Material Handling factory in Bologna, Italy. (Stato Quotidiano) Three people are found deceased and seven are hospitalized due to carbon monoxide poisoning at a care home in Swanage, Dorset, England. Health and environment
1963 Chualar bus crash, Chualar, California; 32 killed plus 25 injured. Remains the deadliest U.S. traffic accident to date and California's deadliest to involve a train; also one of a series of events that led to closer scrutiny of migrant labor conditions and fueled the emergence of the chicano and farmworkers labor movements [179] [180]
They were rebuilt as 2-cylinder SR U class and 3-cylinder SR U1 class 2-6-0s (respectively) following a railway accident at Sevenoaks, Kent in 1927. They continued in service with British Railways (BR) until the last was withdrawn in 1966. One K class rebuild (No. 31806) is preserved on the Swanage Railway in Dorset and still operational today.
Gov. Kim Reynolds ordered all flags in Iowa to fly at half-staff from sunrise to sunset on Saturday, Nov. 16, according to a news release. Why are flags in Iowa at half-staff on Saturday, Nov. 16?
On 12 June 2014, [15] 12 years to the day after the crash, Lewis's death was commemorated by a flypast over Swanage station by a Lynx from RNAS Yeovilton, and the renaming of the preserved British Rail Class 33 diesel-electric locomotive No. D6515 to Lt Jenny Lewis RN. Lewis was a fan of the class.
The cause of the crash was a track switch failure which caused the moving train to crash into the parked train on the same track. Thirty-one people were injured. [180] 28 September India – In Mathura, a MEMU train collided with a buffer at Mathura Junction railway station while the driver was drunk and watching his phone. The driver also put ...
The RAF temporarily grounds its Spitfire planes following the fatal crash two days earlier. [467] The FBI is reported to be investigating the sale of hundreds of British Museum artefacts to buyers in the United States. [468] 28 May – Diane Abbott is readmitted as a Labour MP, following her suspension the previous year. [469] 30 May
- Army officials today investigated the crash of a plane near Oak Ridge, Miss., in which 17 persons, two of them women, were killed." [ 85 ] The Biloxi Daily Herald reported on 16 June that the sole survivor was Sgt. R. L. Bullock of Somerset, New Jersey , an engineer on a B-17 stationed at Laredo , Texas, who was thrown clear when the plane ...