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The crowd crush is the worst recorded accident to have occurred in Sabarimala. In the past on 14 January 1952, 66 Ayyappa pilgrims were burnt to death when two fireworks sheds caught fire, while on the same day in 1999, 52 pilgrims were killed following a crowd crush during their return after witnessing the Makara Jyothi at Pamba.
On July 26, 1974, the decomposing body of a woman was found by a 12-year-old girl in Provincetown, Massachusetts. The woman, who is believed to have died from a blow to the head, was missing both hands, a forearm, and several teeth. The body was exhumed in 1980, 2000, and 2013 in unsuccessful efforts to identify the woman.
Wednesday's plane crash that killed a yet-unknown number of U.S. figure skating team members recalls memories of another tragedy nearly 64 years ago.
Then-33-year-old Phil Bradley was the sole survivor in the 1959 crash of Piedmont Airlines Flight 349 near Crozet, Virginia. The earliest known sole survivor is Lou Foote. On 17 March 1929, as the pilot of a Jersey sightseeing flight, he attempted to force land the monoplane when it suffered an engine failure shortly after takeoff.
Lucy Ann Johnson (born October 14, 1935) is an American-Canadian woman who was reported missing in May 1965, [1] after not having been seen since September 1961. Johnson was found alive in July 2013 [ 2 ] after the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) reopened the investigation into her disappearance.
(The lone heroes in this story were the high schoolers who recognized Zapeta-Calil later in the day, at the Jay Street-Metrotech station, and called police.) Not too long ago, an atrocity like ...
September 1, 1961: Eritrea (green) begins 29 year fight for independence from Ethiopia September 18, 1961: UN Secretary-General Hammarskjöld killed in plane crash September 9, 1961: USS Long Beach, world's first nuclear-powered surface ship, commissioned September 17, 1961: Turkey's ex-premier Menderes revived from drug overdose, then hanged
Sabena Flight 548 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Idlewild Airport in New York City to Brussels Airport in Belgium. On 15 February 1961, the Boeing 707-329 operating the flight crashed on approach to Brussels Airport, killing all 72 people on board and one person on the ground.