(Variety) – Terry Carter, who played sergeant Joe Broadhurst
on the TV series "McCloud" and detective Colonel Tigh on
the original "Battlestar Galactica," died at his home in New
York, N.Y., Tuesday morning.
(Variety) – Terry Carter, who played sergeant Joe Broadhurst
on the TV series "McCloud" and detective Colonel Tigh on
the original "Battlestar Galactica," died at his home in New
York, N.Y., Tuesday morning.
Nixon was the 37th president of the United States, serving
from 1969 to 1974.
On April 22, 1994, the former president died after suffering a
stroke four days earlier.
On April 21, 1865, a train carrying the coffin of assassinated
President Abraham Lincoln left Washington, D.C. on its way
to Springfield, Illinois, where he would be buried on May 4.
President Lincoln’s Funeral Train, Interior – Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper Drawing.
Millions of Americans bade farewell to the assassinated president as his body made a 1,700-mile journey home.
An authentic replica of the coffin President Abraham Lincoln
was buried in sits on display at the Barboursville Public
Library in 2019.
Soviet aircraft forced a Korean Air Lines passenger jet to land
in the Soviet Union after the jet veers into Russian airspace.
Two people were killed and several others injured when the jet
made a rough landing on a frozen lake about 300 miles south
of Murmansk.
The jet was on a flight from Paris to Seoul when the incident
occurred.
On April 20, 1999, two teenage gunmen killed 13 people in a
shooting spree at Columbine High School in Littleton,
Colorado, south of Denver.
At approximately 11:19 a.m., Dylan Klebold, 17, and Eric Harris,
18, dressed in trench coats, began shooting students outside
the school before moving inside to continue their rampage. By
11:35 a.m., Klebold and Harris had killed 12 fellow students and
a teacher and wounded another 23 people. Shortly after noon,
the two teens turned their guns on themselves and died by
suicide
.
The event prompted a national debate on gun control and school
safety, as well as a major investigation to determine what
motivated the teen gunmen. In the days immediately following
the shootings, it was speculated that Klebold and Harris
purposely chose jocks, minorities and Christians as their
victims.