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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.
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
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 ...
29th Street (1991) – comedy drama film based on the true-life story of actor Frank Pesce, who won the first New York State Lottery in 1976 [84]; A Triumph of the Heart: The Ricky Bell Story (1991) – biographical drama television film recounting the life of Ricky Bell, a Tampa Bay Buccaneers running back sickened with dermatomyositis, and Ryan Blankenship, a physically impaired child [85]
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 ...
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.
Mary Brave Bird, also known as Mary Brave Woman Olguin and Mary Crow Dog (September 26, 1954 – February 14, 2013 [2]) was a Sicangu Lakota writer and activist who was a member of the American Indian Movement during the 1970s and participated in some of their most publicized events, including the Wounded Knee Incident when she was 18 years old.
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.