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On July 16, 1999, John F. Kennedy, Jr.; his wife, Carolyn
Bessette Kennedy (above) and her sister, Lauren Bessette,
died when the single-engine plane that Kennedy was piloting
crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near Martha’s Vineyard,
Massachusetts.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr., was born on November 25,
1960, just a few weeks after his father and namesake was
elected the 35th president of the United States.

President John F. Kennedy and son
JFK Jr.(‘John John’)

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

ED DANAHUE

Apollo 8 crew (from left) Frank Borman, William Anders, and James Lovell.

Glenn Miller (March 1, 1904 – December 15, 1944)    
    
    
    
    
    
 

General James Doolittle of the United States Army Air Forces
(USAAF), hero of the daring “Doolittle Raid” on mainland Japan
and later the unified commander of Allied air forces in Europe
in World War II, offered the following high praise to one of his
staff officers in 1944: “Next to a letter from home, Captain Miller,
your organization is the greatest morale builder in the European
Theater of Operations.”