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Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight that crashed into an open field in Oak Creek, Wisconsin shortly after taking off from General Mitchell International Airport on September 6, 1985. The airplane, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9, was carrying 31 passengers and crew. None of them survived the crash.
Founded as Wisconsin Central Airlines in 1944 in Clintonville, Wisconsin, the company moved to Madison in 1947. This is also when the "Herman the duck" logo was born on Wisconsin Central's first Lockheed Electra 10A, NC14262, in 1948. [1] North Central's headquarters were moved to Minneapolis–St. Paul in 1952. [2]
Ohio, Wisconsin: 1978–1991: 16: Known as the "Milwaukee Cannibal" [16] David Van Dyke: Milwaukee 1979–1980 6 Burglar who murdered people after tricking them into letting him into their homes [17] Lorenzo Fayne: Wisconsin, Illinois: 1989–1993: 6: Serial killer and rapist who murdered one woman and five children in the states of Wisconsin ...
Walter Annenberg (1908–2002), creator of TV Guide and Seventeen magazines (Milwaukee) Antler (born 1946), poet ; Ruth Ball (1879–1960), sculptor (Madison) Annie Wall Barnett (1859–1942), writer, litterateur, poet (Richland County or Crawford County) Lynda Barry (born 1956), author and cartoonist (Richland Center)
Calvary Cemetery contains a monument dedicated to the approximately 430 people who died with the sinking of the Lady Elgin on Lake Michigan in 1860. Most of those lost in the tragedy were from Milwaukee's Third Ward Irish community and is the second greatest loss of life seen on the Great Lakes.
A committee appointed by members of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in 1847 established Forest Home Cemetery on what would later become Milwaukee's south side. When the land was selected it was located nearly two miles outside of the city limits along the newly built Janesville Plank Road (now Forest Home Avenue), in an area believed to be far enough from urban development to remain rural. [4]