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December 23 is the 357th day of the year ... killing 110 of the 111 people on board. ... Indonesia-born Dutch pilot and engineer, ...
1 – Martine Rothblatt (1954–), American lawyer, author, entrepreneur, business executive, & CEO of United Therapeutics. 2 – William Haines (1900–1973), American film actor and interior designer. 2 – M. Carey Thomas (1857–1935), American educator, linguist and women's suffragist. 4 – Dot-Marie Jones (1964–), American actress and ...
1997 – The Sid El-Antri massacre in Algeria kills between 50 and 100 people. [38] 1999 – Indian Airlines Flight 814 is hijacked in Indian airspace between Kathmandu, Nepal, and Delhi, India. The aircraft landed at Kandahar in Afghanistan. The incident ended on December 31 with the release of 190 survivors (one passenger is killed). [39]
December 17 is the 351st day of the year ... The Bears won 23–21. [9] ... Twenty passengers and crew on board as well as 32 people on the ground are killed.
March 23 is the 82nd day of ... 1913 – A tornado outbreak kills more than 240 people in the central United ... Sidney Hillman, Lithuanian-born American labor leader ...
1903 - Birth of John von Neumann, Hungarian-born mathematician (d. 1957) 1919 - Death of Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (b. 1854) 1944 - Birth of Kary Mullis, American chemist, Nobel laureate; 1981 - The first American test-tube baby, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, is born in Norfolk, Virginia; 2001 - Death of Samuel A. Goldblith, American food ...
2015 (Friday) 2014 (Thursday) December 18 is the 352nd day of the year (353rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 13 days remain until the end of the year.
887 – Berengar I is elected as king of Italy by the lords of Lombardy.He is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy at Pavia. [1]1481 – Battle of Westbroek: An army of 4,000 to 5,000 soldiers raised by David of Burgundy, Bishop of Utrecht, attacks an armed mob of people from nearby Utrecht who were trying to avenge the massacre of the inhabitants of Westbroek.