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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]
January 13, 1963: A Delta Air Lines Douglas DC-7, registration N4875C, crashed into a parked USAF Fairchild C-123 Provider on an unfamiliar taxiway at night. At the time the DC-7 was carrying 5 occupants on board on during a ferrying/positioning flight and was taxiing for takeoff at then Memphis Municipal Airport when it struck the USAF airplane.
Eight of nine crew are killed aboard Consolidated B-24D-35-CO Liberator, 42-40144, c/n 1221, [28] of the 528th Bomb Squadron, 380th Bomb Group, Biggs Field, Texas, piloted by Charles C. Wylie, when it suffers engine failure that results in a stall/spin condition, coming down eight miles NW of Roswell, New Mexico, according to a crash report ...
[20] [21] The crash site was discovered on 13 January at about the 5,000-foot (1,500 m) level of Cajon Mountain. 13 January Former Navy pilot, now a test pilot for Douglas Aircraft Company , James B. Verdin , 36, is killed this date when he bails out of A4D Skyhawk , BuNo 137815, at 30,000 feet (9,100 m) during a test flight near Victorville ...
1950 First of only two prototypes of the Fairchild XNQ-1 Navy trainer contender, BuNo 75725, written off in a crash. [1]5 January A Boeing B-50A Superfortress, 46-021, [2] c/n 15741 [3] of the 3200th Proof Test Group out of Eglin AFB, crash lands in the Choctawhatchee Bay, northwest Florida, killing two of the 11 crew.
Tennessee (Memphis) Moore was struck by a Memphis police vehicle and died the next day. She apparently disobeyed several pedestrian conventions before she was hit. [138] 1993-01-07: Gutierrez, Steven (26) California (Oxnard) Gutierrez allegedly fired a shot at an off-duty police officer investigating a robbery at a restaurant.
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By 1961, 30 planes were landing per day, according to newspaper reports. By the mid-1960s, Interstate 40 was scheduled to cross the Island. Airport owners fought the I-40 Bridge, but in August, 1970, the last plane departed the island airport.