Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
A man killed a woman at his home before fatally shooting an American history professor on the Delta State University campus. The shooter later committed suicide after a chase. [278] September 30, 2015 Harrisburg, South Dakota: 0 1 1: A principal was shot in the arm and wounded at Harrisburg High School after an argument with a student.
Rexroat died in June 2017 at the age of 99. [9] Immediately before her death she was the last surviving WASP in South Dakota and one of 275 living WASPs out of the original 1,074. [ 10 ] Several months after her death, the airfield operations building at Ellsworth Air Force Base was named after her.
American Airlines Flight 11: World Trade Center North Tower, New York City 9/11 hijacking by Mohamed Atta: Toivo Antikainen: Finland 1941 Communist leader, military officer Arkhangelsk, Soviet Union: Was allegedly killed in a plane crash, but some claim he died in Moscow under suspicious circumstances. Steve Appleton: United States 2012
A racist “Karen” was seen hurtling insults at an Indian-American family after a United Airlines flight Wedding photographer, Pervez Taufiq, at airport, with people and luggage in the ...
Native American Women: A Biographical Dictionary. Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, 2001. ISBN 978-0-203-80104-8. McClinton-Temple, Jennifer and Alan Velie. Encyclopedia of American Indian Literature. New York: Facts on File, 2007. ISBN 978-0816-05656-9. Porter, Joy and Kenneth M. Roemer, eds. The Cambridge Companion To Native American ...
Kalpana Chawla (March 17, 1962 – February 1, 2003) was an Indian American astronaut and aerospace engineer who was the first woman of Indian origin to fly to space. Chawla expressed an interest in aerospace engineering from an early age and took engineering classes at Dayal Singh College and Punjab Engineering College in India.
Coleman developed an early interest in flying, but African Americans, Native Americans, and women had no flight training opportunities in the United States, so she saved and obtained sponsorships in Chicago to go to France for flight school. She then became a high-profile pilot in notoriously dangerous air shows in the United States.
U.S. Air Force Lt. Heather "Lucky" Penney, an F-16 pilot at the time, was ordered into the air to intercept United Airlines Flight 93. Her father was a flight captain for United at the time.