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ROSS SIMPSON

Ground Zero Cleanup To End May 30 - CBS News

              
                            

The last steel beam that was standing from one of the World Trade Centre towers leaves ground zero
The last steel beam that was standing from one of the World
Trade Centre towers is driven up West Street between rows
of New York City Fire and Police Department officers.
   

   

 Debra Burlingame: The 9/11 Memorial Museum Held Hostage | 9/11 ...  
In New York, a ceremony was held to officially mark the end
of the clean up from the World Trade Center terrorist attacks
on September 11, 2001.     

    
  

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SANDY KOZEL

Werner Doehner, last survivor of the Hindenburg Zeppelinairship ...

Werner Doehner, last survivor of the Hindenburg disaster, dies at ...

Hindenburg Disaster - real footage of the terrible crash 1937 ...

Chronicle Covers: When the Hindenburg burst into flames ...

6: Filling the Hindenburg With Hydrogen - 10 of the Worst ...

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MIKE GRACIA

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Patsy Cline (born Virginia Patterson Hensley)
(September 8, 1932 – March 5, 1963)

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Patsy Cline Plane Crash Site Inscription.

  
    

       
         

       

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Clear Lake, IA: 43.22037n -93.37556w Buddy holly Richie Vallens Big bopper memorial site
Crash site as it looks today is located west of intersection of 315th
Street and Gull Avenue., Clear Lake, IA.

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This 1947 Beechcraft Model 35 Bonanza is the same type aircraft in which Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper were killed.
 

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SANDY KOZEL

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On January 28, 1986, the
NASA Space Shuttle orbiter undertaking mission
STS-51-L and the tenth flight of Space Shuttle Challenger  broke apart 73
seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members aboard: five NASA
astronauts, one payload specialist, and a civilian school teacher.

The spacecraft disintegrated over the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of
Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 11:39 a.m. EST.

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Space Shuttle Challanger crew: Back row from left to right…Ellison
S. Onizuka, Sharon Christa McAuliffe, Greg Jarvis, and Judy Resnik.
In the front row from left to right: Michael J. Smith, Dick Scobee,
and Ron McNair.

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President Reagan delivers a nationwide speech following the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

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Challenger shuttle memorial in Arlington cemetery, Washington DC.

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