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The 1967 Toledo riot was one of 159 race riots that swept cities in the United States during the "Long Hot Summer of 1967". The riot occurred in Toledo, Ohio , beginning on July 23, 1967. Tensions were high across the midwest that week as the 1967 Detroit riots in nearby Detroit had been escalating since Sunday July 23.
Five of the eight injured workers were hospitalized. The gas company's accident records indicated that this 24-inch pipeline had experienced 12 previous failures since it was constructed. [193] April 20 – A series of explosions, and a fire, struck a Sunoco pipeline terminal in Toledo, Ohio. Some nearby residents fled their homes, and ...
The CSX 8888 incident, also known as the Crazy Eights incident, was a runaway train event involving a CSX Transportation freight train in the U.S. state of Ohio on May 15, 2001.
The pilot, 36-year-old Isaac Lee Santos of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, was pronounced dead at the scene, state troopers said. Helicopter crashes near I-70 in Ohio, killing pilot and causing minor ...
The fatal crash is under investigation, police said. Troy is in northern Pennsylvania, about 190 miles northwest of Philadelphia. ‘Devoted’ history teacher hit and killed by rolling school bus ...
September 10 – A gas explosion in Cleveland, Ohio killed one person and injured 50 others. [33] October 18 – The 20 inch "Big Inch" gas transmission pipeline exploded near Uniontown, Pennsylvania, causing a massive fire that burned five acres of cornfields, and opened an 18 foot deep crater. There were no injuries reported.
Tributes to the victims of a deadly Ohio bus crash that killed six people have flooded in. The teenagers – Katelyn Owens, 15, Jeffery Worrell, 18, and John Wyatt Mosely, 18 – were killed in ...
1891 – United States – John William Lambert was involved in the first recorded automobile crash in American history. The crash occurred in Ohio City, Ohio. Lambert's vehicle—the first single-cylinder gasoline automobile—was carrying Lambert and James Swoveland when it hit a tree root, causing the car to careen out of control and smash ...