After leaving Southampton, England (above) on Wednesday, 10 April 1912, Titanic stopped at Cherbourg in France and Queenstown (now Cobh) in Ireland before
heading westward on her journey across the Atlantic to New York.  

         
           April 9, 1979

The Alaska earthquake lasted nearly four minutes and was the most powerful
recorded quake in U.S. and North American history and the second most powerful
ever measured by a seismograph with a magnitude of 9.2, at the time making it the
second largest earthquake in recorded history.

 

Composer Dimitri Tiomkin won an Academy Award for his original score while 
his title song for the film “The High and the Mighty” was also nominated for 
an Oscar.  

Dimitri Tiomkin

An airline pilots cap from "The High and the Mighty (valued at $1,000 to
$1,500.