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5. Donald Joel Aronow (March 3, 1927 – February 3, 1987) was an American designer, builder, and racer of Formula, Donzi, Magnum Marine, Cary, and Cigarette Racing Team speedboats. Aronow built speedboats for the Shah of Iran, Charles Keating, Robert Vesco, Malcolm Forbes, George H. W. Bush, and Lyndon B. Johnson.
On 4 September 2006, Australian zookeeper, conservationist, and television programmer Steve Irwin was killed by a stingray while filming in the Great Barrier Reef. The stingray's barb pierced his chest, penetrating his thoracic wall and heart, causing massive trauma. [ 1 ][ 2 ] He was at Batt Reef, near Port Douglas, Queensland, taking part in ...
The mutiny and mass murder on Lurongyu 2682 (Chinese: 鲁 荣 渔2682号), a Chinese squid - jigging trawler, took place in the South Pacific Ocean between June and July 2011. A group of crewmen from the ship, led by Liu Guiduo, seized control of the ship from their captain. Of the 33 men on board, 16 were killed and 6 jumped overboard (and are ...
In the 1960s and 1970s, the major biker gang in British Columbia were the Satan's Angels gang based in the Lower Mainland. [1] In 1981, Yves Buteau, the national president of the Hells Angels, approached Satan's Angels with an offer to "patch over", made conditional on the Satan's Angels eliminating the other biker gangs as Buteau insisted that there be no competition with any Hells Angels ...
Launched as a 10-gun sloop at Rotherhithe in 1789, the ship served as a convict hulk from 1818 until scrapped in February 1834. [1] Prison ship Success[2] at Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. A prison ship, often more accurately described as a prison hulk, is a current or former seagoing vessel that has been modified to become a place of substantive ...
Ludwick was released from New York State prison in Otisville, where he had been inmate number 17A4448, on January 12, 2022. [37] He was 49 years of age. [ 6 ] Ludwick had to be released from custody by law, due to the fact that he had served five years in prison in total.
Karl Dönitz (sometimes spelled Doenitz; German: [ˈdøːnɪts] ⓘ; 16 September 1891 – 24 December 1980) was a German navy officer who, following Adolf Hitler's suicide, succeeded him as head of state of Nazi Germany in May 1945, holding the position until the dissolution of the Flensburg Government following Germany's unconditional surrender to the Allies days later.
Death of Jeffrey Epstein. On August 10, 2019, guards found American financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein unresponsive in his jail cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City, where he was awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. After prison guards performed CPR, he was transported in cardiac arrest to the ...