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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]
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.
A clipper that ran aground near Pigeon Point. "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.
The list of shipwrecks of Humboldt County, California lists the ships which sank on or near the coast of Humboldt County from the Del Norte county line to the north, the marine area around Cape Mendocino and south to the Mendocino County line to the south, as well as within Humboldt Bay itself. If survivors or casualties arrived or were ...
Wednesday night's plane crash outside Washington, D.C., that killed a yet-unknown number of U.S. figure skaters, coaches and family members was devastating news for the skating community. It also ...
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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.
The crash on Tuesday near El Centro, California, a dozen miles from the US-Mexico border, left 13 people dead. A big rig collided in an intersection with a Ford Expedition that was packed with 25 ...