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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.
Dec. 14 marked 11 years since my son Daniel was killed alongside 19 of his classmates and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newtown, Conn. As any parent of a murdered child will ...
From the Sandy Ground Project which strives to build 26 playgrounds, one to honor each victim, to the 26 people who biked from Newtown to Washington, D.C. for a rally in support of gun control ...
On December 14, 1963, a crack appeared in the Baldwin Hills Dam impounding the Baldwin Hills Reservoir. Within a few hours, water rushing through the crack eroded the earthen dam, gradually widening the crack until the dam failed catastrophically at 3:38 p.m.
1963 establishments in California (149 P) E. ... Baldwin Hills Dam disaster; C. Chualar bus crash; D. Douglas v. California; K. Ker v. California
1963 Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum gas explosion; B. Baldwin Hills Dam disaster; C. Chualar bus crash; R.
The Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial is a memorial in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, that honors the twenty children and six educators who were victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting on the morning of December 14, 2012. The memorial is located at 32A Riverside Road in the woods adjacent to the reconstructed Sandy Hook Elementary School ...
The land was previously the Baldwin Hills Reservoir, which failed catastrophically in the 1963 Baldwin Hills Dam disaster. In 1988, four years after it opened, the Los Angeles Times noted that: Few Southern Californians seem to know about a park in Baldwin Hills, but the clean, well-developed park is no secret to nearby residents, who enjoy ...