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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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9th August 1173: Construction begins on the Leaning Tower of Pisa

21st November 1974: The Birmingham pub bombings kill 21 people and injure 182

17th March 1992: White South Africans vote to end apartheid in a referendum

16th August 1858: Queen Victoria sends the first transatlantic telegram

16th April 1902: The first purpose-designed movie theater opened as Thomas Tally’s Electric Theatre

15th April 1989: 96 Liverpool fans killed in the Hillsborough Disaster

14th April 1561: Nuremberg Celestial Phenomenon terrifies residents

13th April 1919: British troops commit the Amritsar Massacre

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

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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