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The explosion also led to fires in many parts of the city and the docks needed months of repair work to function again. July 17, 1944: Port Chicago Disaster. A munitions explosion that killed 320 people occurred at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in Port Chicago, California. Nov 27, 1944: RAF Fauld Explosion. Explosion of between 3500 and 4000 ...
Nikolay Gavrilovich Slavyanov (Russian: Никола́й Гаври́лович Славя́нов; 5 May [O.S. 23 April] 1854 – 17 October [O.S. 5 October] 1897) was an inventor from the Russian Empire who in 1888 introduced arc welding with consumable metal electrodes, or shielded metal arc welding, the second historical arc welding method after carbon arc welding invented earlier by ...
The founder of a pro-Russian militia group in eastern Ukraine, described by authorities in Kyiv as a “criminal mastermind”, has died following a bombing in central Moscow, according to Russian ...
Vladimir Vladimirovich Ipatieff, also a talented chemist, remained in the USSR and was punitively arrested after the defection of his father. While living in the USA, the Ipatieffs also adopted two Russian girls. Ipatieff died suddenly in Chicago in 1952. He held over 200 patents and published over 300 research papers. [3]
HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. (AP) — A vehicle plowed into a suburban Chicago highway toll plaza early Thursday, engulfing it and the plaza in flames and killing the motorist, police said.
Marat Yakovlevich Balagula (Russian: Мара́т Я́ковлевич Балагула; 8 September 1943 – 19 December 2019 [1]) was a Russian-American organized crime figure, crime boss, and close associate of the Lucchese crime family and Colombo crime family.
The company faces $312,518 in proposed penalties following the Wisconsin worker’s death, records show. ... Worker dies getting caught in machine that 3M Company knew was dangerous, feds say.
Pavel Loukianoff was born in San Francisco, California, on August 9, 1948, into an ethnic Russian family of Don Cossack ancestry, [1] who escaped to China after the Russian Revolution, and in the 1940s to the US after the Communist takeover. There he studied at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius Russian Church gymnasia and school.