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John D. Silva (1920-2012), was the chief engineer for KTLA-TV in Los Angeles, California and is most famous for inventing the first telecopter, or a helicopter fitted with a TV camera in 1958. In 1942 he joined the Navy as a radar operator and was among the 91 wounded when the destroyer Shea was attacked by Japanese bombers during World War II .
Rio Vista is a small city in Solano County approximately 50 miles (80 km) south of Sacramento, on the Sacramento River in the Sacramento River Delta.. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 7.1 square miles (18 km 2), of which, 6.7 square miles (17 km 2) of it is land and 0.4 square miles (1.0 km 2) of it (5.68%) is water.
Rio Vista may refer to: Rio Vista, California; Rio Vista station, San Diego; Rio Vista (Fort Lauderdale), a neighborhood in Fort Lauderdale, Florida;
Kevin John Correia (born August 24, 1980), is an American former professional baseball pitcher, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Francisco Giants, San Diego Padres, Pittsburgh Pirates, Minnesota Twins, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Philadelphia Phillies.
The contractual partnership of The Beatles was formally dissolved, more than four years after John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr had performed together for the last time. [318] Soviet Olympic champion weightlifter Vasily Alekseyev set a new world record of 536.75 pounds (243.47 kg) in the super-heavyweight jerk. [319 ...
Murder of California Indians by militarized expeditionary band led by John C. Frémont, estimated Native American deaths range from several hundred to several thousand: 3: Bridge Gulch massacre: Trinity County: 1852: 150: Massacre of Wintu people in retaliation for killing of Col. John Anderson [227] 4: Yontoket massacre: Yontocket: 1853: 400–500
John Ronald Brown - surgeon who was convicted of second-degree murder; lived in Chula Vista while practicing medicine in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico [2] Richard "Cheeks" Buchanan - Mexican Mafia member; originally from Chula Vista's Otay neighborhood; Andrew Cunanan - murderer of Gianni Versace; attended Bonita Vista Middle School [3]
Real McCoy was a ferryboat that operated for 63 years from Rio Vista, California on the Ryer Island Ferry route as part of California State Route 84, and was the oldest and most reliable piece of equipment owned by the California Department of Transportation.