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6th May 1937: The Hindenburg airship disaster in New Jersey

6th May 2019
Tagged as: Aircraft, Explosion, Germany, Tourism, Transport, USA

On the 6^th May 1937, the German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg experienced a mid-air explosion at Lakehurst, New Jersey and was engulfed in flames in just 32 seconds.

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2nd May 1952: World’s first passenger jet plane takes off from London

2nd May 2019
Tagged as: Aircraft, Britain, South Africa, Technology, Tourism, Transport

On 2^nd May 1952, the world’s first passenger jet aircraft took off to carry 36 passengers from London to Johannesburg.

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6th May 1937: The Hindenburg airship disaster in New Jersey

2nd May 1952: World’s first passenger jet plane takes off from London

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27th July 1940: Bugs Bunny makes his cartoon debut in A Wild Hare

8th February 1904: Russo-Japanese War triggered by Japanese torpedo attack on Port Arthur

18th February 1885: Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” published in the United States

2nd December 1954: US Senator Joseph McCarthy censured by the Senate

21st February 1613: Romanov dynasty begins under Michael I of Russia

20th February 1472: Orkney and Shetland Isles given to Scotland as a wedding dowry

19th February 1913: Pedro Lascurain began the world’s shortest ever presidency in Mexico

18th February 1885: Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” published in the United States

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

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