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"On the night of June 6, 1853, the clipper ship Carrier Pigeon ran aground 500 feet off shore of the central California coast. The area is now called Pigeon Point in her honor. The Carrier Pigeon was a state-of-the art, 19th Century clipper ship. She was 175 feet long with a narrow, 34 foot beam and rated at about 845 tons burden.
The Memphis 13 are the group of young children who integrated the schools of Memphis, Tennessee. On October 3, 1961, 13 African-American first grade students were enrolled in schools that were previously all white. The schools that the students attended were Bruce, Gordon, Rozelle, and Springdale elementary schools. [1]
This list of California beaches is a list of beaches that are situated along the coastline of the State of California, US. The information in this article draws extensively from the California Coastal Access Guide , a comprehensive resource that provides detailed information on over 1150 public access points along California's extensive 1271 ...
A survey ship that served in the United States Coast Survey, a predecessor of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey R.P. Resor United States: 28 February 1942 Torpedoed by U-578: Rusland: Struck wreck of Adonis. San Saba: Struck a naval mine. Sindia: 1901 Ran aground on the beach of Ocean City. USS St. Augustine United States Navy: 6 ...
On March 13, 1961, Dominator was en route to Los Angeles from Vancouver with a cargo of wheat and beef when she ran aground off Palos Verdes, California. [6] For two days, the Coast Guard and tugboats attempted to refloat her, but heavy seas and high winds only forced her higher onto the rocks. After two days the crew abandoned ship.
March 13 – United Kingdom – M4 motorway crash. 10 people died in a 45 vehicle pile up in foggy conditions on the M4 motorway near Hungerford. July 31 – United States – A bus carrying about 60 Girl Scouts overturned on a desert mountain road near California Highway 111 , not far from Palm Springs , killing eight people.
Dangerous waves brought down part of the Santa Cruz Pier on Monday and prompted multiple water rescues from the Pacific Ocean this week as waves up to 60 feet are forecast along the shores of ...
Douglas R5D-2 Skymaster, BuNo 39116, 'WC 116', on flight from MCAS El Toro, California to NAS Alameda, in low overcast and drizzle, strikes Sunol Ridge on ranch c. 3.5 miles (5.6 km) north of Niles, California at 13:45. Aircraft broke up and burned, killing 35, all but one of them Marines.