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American Airlines Flight 1420 was a flight from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) to Little Rock National Airport in the United States. On June 1, 1999, the McDonnell Douglas MD-82 operating as Flight 1420 overran the runway upon landing in Little Rock and crashed. Nine of the 145 people aboard were immediately killed—the captain ...
The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis , in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus , the Governor of Arkansas .
USS Little Rock (CL-92/CLG-4/CG-4) is a Cleveland-class light cruiser and one of 27 completed for the United States Navy during or shortly after World War II.She is one of six to be converted to guided missile cruisers and the first US Navy ship to be named for Little Rock, Arkansas.
A shooting at a shopping center in Little Rock, Arkansas left two people injured on Friday afternoon, police said. The incident occurred shortly before 1:45 pm local time at the Park Plaza Mall ...
After occupying Camden on April 15, his men began withdrawing on April 26, and returned to Little Rock on May 2. [71] The Camden Expedition was the final Union offensive in Arkansas. [ 72 ] In September 1864, Price led an expedition into Missouri , but the campaign was a disaster and ended with a Confederate defeat.
Jefferson Allison Thomas (September 19, 1942 – September 5, 2010) was one of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African-American students who, in 1957, were the first black students ever to attend classes at Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Davin Chance Bizzell-Holmes was only 15 years old when he was shot and killed on Oct. 14, 2023. His mother LaTracy Bizzell remembers that day and all the following.
The Battle of Bayou Fourche, also known as the Battle of Little Rock, [1] was a battle of the American Civil War fought between Union and Confederate forces on September 10, 1863, in Pulaski County (present-day Little Rock and North Little Rock), Arkansas. It was the final battle of the Little Rock Campaign, resulting in the Federal occupation ...