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The Oppenheimer Stadium disaster, or Orkney Disaster, was a crowd crush that occurred on 13 January 1991, claiming the lives of 42 people, at the Oppenheimer Stadium in the city of Orkney (200 kilometres (120 mi) from Johannesburg) in South Africa's North West province. It was the second-worst sporting incident in South African history.
da. ^ World War II Note: as of March 31, 1946, there were an estimated 286,959 dead of whom 246,492 were identified; of 40,467 who were unidentified 18,641 were located {10,986 reposed in military cemeteries and 7,655 in isolated graves} and 21,826 were reported not located. As of April 6, 1946, there were 539 American Military Cemeteries which ...
During World War II, 1.2 million African Americans served in the U.S. Armed Forces and 708 were killed in action. 350,000 American women served in the Armed Forces during World War II and 16 were killed in action. [343] During World War II, 26,000 Japanese-Americans served in the Armed Forces and over 800 were killed in action. [344]
Oppenheimer Stadium disaster; P. Port Said Stadium riot; Q. Querétaro–Atlas riot This page was last edited on 21 September 2024, at 00:51 (UTC). Text is ...
In July, Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” premiered in theaters, and viewers got an intimate look at J. Robert Oppenheimer’s journey to developing the atomic bomb. But the film also ...
One year on from the Kanjuruhan football stadium disaster that killed more than 130 people in Indonesia, families of the victims are calling on authorities to reopen investigations and declare the ...
Kayseri Atatürk Stadium disaster football stadium hooliganism: Kayseri, Central Anatolia, Turkey 43: 11 April 2001 Ellis Park Stadium disaster, football match crush Johannesburg, South Africa 42: 13 January 1991 Oppenheimer Stadium disaster, football match crush Orkney, South Africa 39: 29 May 1985 Heysel Stadium disaster football stadium ...
The Picture of the Last Man to Die (1945) by Robert Capa. The Picture of the Last Man to Die is a black and white photograph taken by Robert Capa during the battle for Leipzig, depicting an American soldier, Raymond J. Bowman, aged 21 years old, after being killed by a German sniper, on 18 April 1945, shortly before the end of World War II in Europe. [1]