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Continental Airlines Flight 11, registration N70775, was a Boeing 707 aircraft which exploded in the vicinity of Centerville, Iowa, United States, while en route from O'Hare Airport, Chicago, Illinois, to Kansas City, Missouri, on May 22, 1962.
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
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Centerville is a city in and the county seat of Appanoose County, Iowa, United States. [3] The population was 5,412 in the 2020 census, a decline from 5,924 in 2000. [4] After the turn of the 20th century Centerville's coal mining industry attracted European immigrants from Sweden, Italy, Croatia, and Albania. [5]
The following notable deaths in the United States occurred in 2025.Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order. A typical entry reports information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth and subsequent nationality (if applicable), what subject was noted for, year of birth (if known), and reference.
The Daily Iowegian was a two-day (Tuesday and Friday) newspaper published in Centerville, Iowa and covering Appanoose and Wayne counties in Iowa and Putnam county in Missouri. It was owned by CNHI, LLC [2] The newspaper also published a Wednesday newspaper/shopper called Ad Express and has more than five times the circulation of the other days ...
Centerville was platted in 1855, but the town's growth soon failed to meet the expectations of its founders. [2] The town's mill was destroyed in 1858, and the Centerville dwindled in importance. [3] By 1914, Centerville contained but a "half dozen houses". [4]
The first true courthouse was a 24-by-20-foot (7.3 by 6.1 m) structure built in 1848 for $160 in Centerville. [4] After the county outgrew this building, court sessions were held in the Methodist and Presbyterian churches while another courthouse was built. It was a two-story, brick building built for $23,000. [3]