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Downtown and Boyle Heights areas of Los Angeles, California: Official name: Sixth Street Bridge from the LA River: Other name(s) 6th Street Viaduct: Maintained by: City of Los Angeles and California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) ID number: 53C-1880 (City of Los Angeles), 53-0595 (Caltrans) Characteristics; Design: Viaduct: Material ...
1992 Los Angeles riots: Riot: Los Angeles County, California ~$1,000,000,000 [40] An incident of civil unrest sparked by the beating of Rodney King. It was the second deadliest incident of civil unrest in modern U.S. history since the New York City Draft Riots. 62 1960 Eastern Air Lines Flight 375: Accident – aircraft Boston, Massachusetts ...
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Louisiana before 1972, when capital punishment was briefly abolished by the Supreme Court's ruling in Furman v. Georgia. For people executed by Louisiana after the restoration of capital punishment by the Supreme Court's ruling in Gregg v.
Scott City roadway bridge collapse Scott City, Missouri: United States: 25 May 2013: Concrete road bridge A Union Pacific train T-boned a Burlington Northern Santa Fe train outside of Scott City, Missouri, at approximately 2:30 am. The impact caused numerous rail cars to hit a support pillar of a highway overpass, collapsing two sections of the ...
Robert Nixon (July 19, 1919 – June 16, 1939) was an American serial killer, born in the small town of Tallulah, Louisiana, who confessed to five murders and multiple assaults, including the Los Angeles "brick bat [2] murders" of 1937.
William Mulholland (September 11, 1855 – July 22, 1935) was an Irish American self-taught civil engineer who was responsible for building the infrastructure to provide a water supply that allowed Los Angeles to grow into the largest city in California.
The collapse sent shock waves across the country, sparked supply chain concerns and broke the hearts of locals who considered the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which stretches a mile-and-a-half and ...
At 2:53 a.m., [1] Amtrak's Sunset Limited train, powered by three locomotives (one GE Genesis P40DC number 819 in the front and two EMD F40PHs, numbers 262 and 312) en route from Los Angeles, California, to Miami, Florida, with 220 passengers and crew aboard, crossed the bridge at around 70 miles per hour (110 km/h) and derailed at the kink ...