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12
Aug
PAST EVENTS THAT ARE TODAY’S HISTORY
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06
May
“THE PRIDE OF GERMANY” WAS LOST IN 1937
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 this day in 1937.
Radio announcer Herb Morrison
(1905 – 1989).
Morrison who came to Lakehurst to record a routine radio
report for an NBC newsreel, immortalized the Hindenburg
disaster in a famous on-the-scene description in which he
emotionally declared, “Oh, the humanity!”
The recording of Morrison’s commentary was immediately
flown to New York, where it was aired as part of one of the
first coast-to-coast radio news broadcasts in the United
States.
Lighter-than-air passenger travel rapidly fell out of favor
after the Hindenburg disaster, and no rigid airships
survived World War II.
19
Sep
FIRST-EVER UNDERGROUND NUCLEAR TEST
On September 19, 1957, the United States detonated a 1.7-
kiloton nuclear weapon in an underground tunnel at the
Nevada Test Site, a 1,375-square-mile research center
located 65 miles north of Las Vegas.
The test, known as Rainier, was the first fully contained
underground detonation and produced no radioactive
fallout. A modified W-25 warhead weighing 218 pounds
and measuring 25.7 inches in diameter and 17.4 inches
in length was used for the test.
Rainier was part of a series of 29 nuclear weapons and
nuclear weapons safety tests known as Operation
Plumbbob that were conducted at the NTS between
May 28, 1957, and October 7, 1957.
17
Jul
A TRAGIC EXPLOTION ON THIS DSAY IN 1944
On July 17, 1944, the Port Chicago Naval Magazine near San
Francisco experienced a catastrophic explosion when two
ammunition ships, the SS E.A. Bryan and the SS Quinault
Victory, detonated while loading munitions for Pacific troops.
The explosion killed 320 sailors and civilians, making it the
worst home-front disaster of World War II. The incident also
highlighted issues of racial inequality in the military, as a
large percentage of the victims were African American
sailors working under unsafe conditions.
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27
Apr
STILL THE LARGEST MARITIME DISASTER
The steamboat Sultana exploded on the Mississippi River near
Memphis, killing 1,700 passengers including many discharged
Union soldiers. The accident is still considered the largest
maritime disaster in U.S. history in terms of lives lost.
The Sultana was launched from Cincinnati in 1863. The boat
was 260 feet long and had an authorized capacity of 376
passengers and crew.
It was considered one of the most modern vessels of its era
and was soon employed to carry troops and supplies along
the lower Mississippi River.
On April 25, 1865, the Sultana left New Orleans with 100
passengers. It stopped at Vicksburg, Mississippi, for repair
of a leaky boiler.
R. G. Taylor, the boilermaker on the ship, advised Captain J.
Cass Mason that two sheets on the boiler had to be replaced,
but Mason ordered Taylor to simply patch the plates until the
ship reached St. Louis.
The only known photograph of the Sultana taken on the last
day of its fateful voyage in Helena, Arkansas on April 27,
1865.
Model of Sultana by artist & Lincoln Shrine docent Ken Jolly.
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