Taken aboard Apollo 8 by Bill Anders, this iconic picture
shows Earth peeking out from beyond the lunar surface
as the first crewed spacecraft circumnavigated the Moon,
with astronauts Anders, Frank Borman, and Jim Lovell
aboard. (Willian Anders/NASA)

FRIDAY HARBOR, Wash. (AP) — Retired Maj. Gen. William
Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic
“Earthrise” photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue
marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when the plane
he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San
Juan Islands in Washington state. He was 90.

William Alison Anders
(October 17, 1933 – June 7, 2024)

The airship Hindenburg, the largest dirigible ever built and the
pride of Nazi Germany, burst into flames upon touching its
mooring mast in Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 36 passengers
and crew-members, on May 6, 1937. 

The Hindenburg above New York City before the disaster.

On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, carrying
227 passengers and 12 crew members, lost contact with
air traffic control less than an hour after taking off from 
Kuala Lumpur, then veers off course, disappears and
most of the plane, and everyone on board, were never 
seen again.

About an hour after Flight 370 was scheduled to land in
Beijing, Malaysia Airlines announced it was missing.

Prior to the aircraft’s mysterious disappearance, it had
been flying seemingly without incident.

There were no distress signals from the plane, reports
of bad weather or technical problems.

In 2015, French police officers carried a piece of airplane
debris on the island of Réunion which later proved to
have been from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

More debris from Flight 370 found.

MIKE GRACIA

A plane similar to the one in which Patsy Cline died.

A Kansas City resident named Mildred Keith snapped what
is believed to be one of the last photographs of the country music star.

Soviet Colonel Rudolf Abel         Francis Gary Powers
                                                    

On February 10, 1962, American spy pilot Francis Gary Powers 
was released by the Soviets in exchange for Soviet Colonel
Rudolf Abel, a senior KGB spy who was caught in the United
States five years earlier.

The Glienicke bridge (known as the Bridge of Spies) just
after the Powers swap.

Francis Gary Powers
(August 17, 1929 – August 1, 1977)

Powers later worked as a helicopter pilot
for KNBC in Los Angeles and died in a
1977 helicopter crash.