| United Airlines Flight 175 | ... 0 Aon employees present at the time managed to evacuate the building before | struck it twenty stories below them |
| first terrorist attack on | ... of the additional protocols to the Geneva Conventions in 1977. He faced the | a Swissair plane in Zarqa, Jordan in 1970. After retiring, he gave his opi ... |
| shooting rampage at the same airport | ... al Airport in Lod, Israel. The PFLP and the Japanese Red Army carried out a | , killing twenty-four civilians. Israel later claimed that the assassinati ... |
| Space Shuttle Challenger disaster | ... ssion was further delayed by the hiatus in launches that occurred after the | . New safety protocols introduced as a result of the disaster prohibited t ... |
| Altaigate Scandal | ... species have been alleged, together with accusations of corruption, in the | . The incident arose from the death of several Russian VIPs in a helicopte ... |
| Hubble Telescope | ... ades have sent space probes to study other planets in addition to using the | to probe the origins of the Universe some 14 billion years ago. Microwave ... |
| King Lear | ... d and starred, especially Romeo and Juliet (1935), Richard II (1937, 1953), | (1950, 1955), Much Ado About Nothing (1952, 1955, 1959) and his signature ... |
| Mohawk Airlines Flight 40 | On June 23, 1967, | crashed outside of Blossburg with a loss of all 34 passengers and crew. Fl ... |
| Southern Airways Flight 932 | The city is also near the location of the | aviation disaster. On November 14, 1970, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 airplane ... |
| United Airlines Flight 93 | ... nesses indicated these companions resembled Ziad Jarrah, the later pilot on | , and Said Bahaji, a then 26-year-old German-Moroccan member of the al-Qae ... |
| Diana was killed in a car crash in Paris | A year after the divorce, | on 31 August 1997. At the time, the Duke was on holiday at Balmoral with t ... |
| Space Shuttle Columbia disaster | ... erican astronaut with NASA. She was one of seven crew members killed in the | |
| Hubble Space Telescope | ... system has been extensively studied from ground-based observatories and the | as well. In 2002–03 the Keck telescope observed the system using adaptive ... |
| Othello | ... turned to the West End for Robeson's starring role in William Shakespeare's | , opposite Peggy Ashcroft as Desdemona. Essie's Paul Robeson, Negro was pu ... |
| United Airlines Flight 93 | ... tagon, was erected outside the Shanksville firehouse near the crash site of | |
| Macbeth | ... out Nothing which he first played in 1930 and revived throughout the 1950s, | and Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream twice, Romeo three times, and King ... |
| American Airlines Flight 191 | The DC-10 experienced another major accident with the crash of | on May 25, 1979. Flight 191 lost its number one (left wing) engine after t ... |
| Chernobyl disaster | ... the danger of graphite in power reactors (graphite fires in part led to the | ) has led to the discontinuation of graphite in standard reactor design |
| Doodlebug Disaster | On July 3, 1940 the | train wreck killed 43 people; the worst disaster in the history of the cit ... |
| Hubble Space Telescope | ... eption is the exoplanet Fomalhaut b, observed at visible wavelengths by the | . That planet was found to be surprisingly bright in visible light, possib ... |
| American Airlines Flight 191 | In 1979, it was the site of the | disaster, in which a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 lost an engine and wing mater ... |
| Air India Flight 182 | | was an Air India flight operating on the Montréal-London-Delhi-Bombay rout ... |
| Challenger | ... 1984, Discovery became the third operational orbiter following Columbia and | , and made its final touchdown at Kennedy Space Center on March 9, 2011 at ... |
| Shohola Train Wreck | ... n the location of twelve railroad accidents. By far the worst was the Great | of the United States Civil War on Friday, July 15, 1864. More than 300 sol ... |
| Love Canal | ... nsas with the fear of industrial pollution, similar to how New Yorkers view | |
| Air Florida Flight 90 | ... r with Pan Am. Air Florida ceased operations in 1982 following the crash of | |
| Castle Bravo | ... rshall Islands, including the largest nuclear test the U.S. ever conducted, | . In 1956, the Atomic Energy Commission regarded the Marshall Islands as " ... |
| United 175 | ... n, where he stayed at the Milner Hotel up until September 11. Upon boarding | , Shehhi and 4 other hijackers waited 30 minutes into the flight to make t ... |
| Chappaquiddick incident | ... lobotomy, the assassinations of brothers John and Robert, the controversial | , and four airplane crashes (Joe, Jr., Kathleen, Ted and John, Jr.; all bu ... |
| Titus Andronicus | ... me Makes way, and run like swallows o'er the plain." from the second act of | . Shakespeare also references the annual migration of the species poetical ... |
| United Airlines Flight 93 | ... Group. During the September 11 attacks in 2001 he was a passenger on board | . Bingham died when the plane crashed into a field near Shanksville, Penns ... |
| STS-107 | ... crew members, shortly before it was scheduled to conclude its 28th mission, | |
| Dee bridge disaster | In late 1847 the | occurred when a bridge span collapsed as a train passed over the River Dee ... |
| an air crash at Ostend | ... and Duke of Hesse), her two young sons and her mother-in-law were killed in | ; Philip, then only sixteen years of age, attended the funeral in Darmstad ... |
| Space Shuttle Columbia disaster | ... made international headlines in February 2003, after receiving much of the | debris |
| Hubble Space Telescope | The Dawn Mission team was granted viewing time on the | in September 2007 for a once-in-twenty-year opportunity to view the astero ... |
| BOAC Flight 781 | ... no, the first production Comet, G-ALYP, broke up in mid-air while operating | and crashed into the Mediterranean off the Italian island of Elba with the ... |
| Dawson's Field | ... 5 September 1970, the PFLP hijacked five planes and landed three of them at | , located east of Amman. After the passengers were moved to other location ... |
| Macbeth | The earliest known literary use of the word assassination is in | by William Shakespeare (1605) |
| Korean Air Flight 007 | On September 1, 1983, the | , a South Korean civilian airliner, flew over Sakhalin and was shot down b ... |
| King Lear | ... he greatest actor of the period, Edmund Kean, restored the tragic ending to | ; Coleridge said that, “Seeing him act was like reading Shakespeare by fla ... |
| Flight 548 | ... craft became the first Boeing 707 to crash while in commercial service when | crashed while preparing to land at Brussels on 15 February 1961. The Unite ... |
| Macbeth | ... was her performance as Lady Macbeth in 1976. Nunn's acclaimed production of | was first staged with a minimalist design at The Other Place theatre in St ... |
| Project 4.1 | ... ll Islands are ongoing, and health effects from these nuclear tests linger. | was a medical study conducted by the United States of those residents of t ... |
| Macbeth | ... d States. He has also played the main role in the Shakespeare plays Hamlet, | , Romeo and Juliet, and Coriolanus. He is also a popular guest-host of Sat ... |
| Macbeth | ... o years later. At the Kotopouli-Rex Theatre, Mercouri starred in plays like | by William Shakespeare and L'Alouette by Jean Anouilh |
| 1986 Challenger disaster | ... een twice chosen as the "Return To Flight" Orbiter, first in 1988 after the | , and then for the twin "Return To Flight" missions in July 2005 and July ... |
| Hubble Space Telescope | ... rently active space missions dedicated to searching for extrasolar planets. | and MOST have also found or confirmed a few planets. The Gaia mission, to ... |
| ill-fated STS-107 mission | ... n January 16, 2003, Chawla finally returned to space aboard Columbia on the | . Chawla's responsibilities included the microgravity experiments, for whi ... |
| only crash | ... were subsidised by their governments to buy them. As a result of the type’s | on 25 July 2000 and other factors, its retirement flight was on 26 Novembe ... |
| Swissair Flight 111 | ... cer. In September 1998, his younger son Joseph LaMotta died in the crash of | off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada |
| Apollo 13 | ... er uses. The moon landings continued through 1972, but the near loss of the | astronauts in April 1970 served to further anti-NASA feelings. Plans for m ... |
| a plane crash | ... tion (FIGC). Torino were declared champions in the 1948-49 season following | near the end of the season in which the entire team was killed |
| Flight 93 | ... ial Park to honor Tom Burnett, a San Ramon resident, and other victims from | killed in the September 11 attacks of 2001. A plaque was installed at the ... |
| Othello | ... and Cardinal Wolsey in Henry VIII (1959) (although his 1960 performance as | was not a success). It became rumoured that Gielgud also provided the voic ... |
| B-52 aircraft broke up in mid air | ... ed accidentally on the village of Faro, 12 miles north of Goldsboro after a | . The two Mark39 weapons were released after the crew abandoned a B-52 bom ... |
| Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire | On March 25, 1911, the | in Greenwich Village killed 146 garment workers. The disaster eventually l ... |
| Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire | ... quarter of them women, marched on Washington Square Park to commemorate the | , which killed 146 workers on March 25, 1911. Many of the women wore fitte ... |
| American Airlines Flight 77 | ... The next morning, Nawaf al-Hazmi, along with four other terrorists, boarded | and hijacked the plane so that Hani Hanjour could pilot and crash the plan ... |
| Macbeth | ... The film was directed by Vishal Bhardwaj who earlier adapted Shakespeare's | as Maqbool. All characters in the film share the same letter or sound in t ... |
| Mexicana Flight 940 | ... gned to resemble an air traffic control tower. In March 1986, a Boeing 727, | , en route to caught fire in-flight and crashed in the mountains of wester ... |
| King Lear | ... his final radio performances in the title role of an All Star production of | in 1994 that was mounted to celebrate his 90th birthday. The cast included ... |
| United Airlines Flight 232 | Another major DC-10 crash was | disaster at Sioux City, Iowa, USA, on July 19, 1989. The number two (tail) ... |
| Korean Air Lines Flight 007 | ... Vietnam War. (Lucier also believed that survivors of the 1983 shoot-down of | were being held prisoner by the Soviets.) Helms stated that the "deeper st ... |
| Apollo 13 | ... he Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center's Space Works, who also restored the | Command Module. Two individual Lunar Modules and two Command Modules were ... |
| Hubble Space Telescope | ... drell Bank using their stellar intensity interferometer. In 2005, using the | , astronomers determined that Sirius B has nearly the diameter of the Eart ... |
| Julius Caesar | ... Merchant of Venice (1937), Angelo in Measure for Measure (1950), Cassius in | (1950) (which he immortalised in the 1953 film), Leontes in The Winter's T ... |
| plane crash | ... ucer Jerry Finn died of a cerebral hemorrhage, and Barker barely survived a | , sustaining second and third degree burns on his lower body and torso. Bo ... |
| Turkish Airlines Flight 981 | On March 3, 1974, an almost identical cargo door blow-out caused | to crash into a forest near the town of Ermenonville, France shortly after ... |
| American Airlines Flight 77 | ... l-Makki) (August 9, 1976 – September 11, 2001) was one of five hijackers of | , which was crashed into the Pentagon as part of the September 11 attacks |
| beam | The beam is a long, narrow | which is typically raised from the floor on a leg or stand at both ends. T ... |
| Titus Andronicus | ... s that Shakespeare was able to refer to it in the second scene of Act IV of | , quote from it in the first scene of Act II of Henry IV, Part 1 ("Homo is ... |
| Locomotion | ... ocomotive for the new railway: originally named Active, it was soon renamed | . It was followed by "Hope", "Diligence" and "Black Diamond". The Stockton ... |
| Mumbai train bombings of 2006 | ... rifles were a familiar sight throughout railway stations in India after the | and the November 2008 Mumbai attacks. They are also still seen in the hand ... |
| Kyshtym | After World War II, Hoover's mining work in the | area of Russia proved invaluable to American intelligence agencies. They h ... |
| United Airlines Flight 93 | On September 11, 2001, during the terrorist attacks on the United States, | crashed in a field in Stonycreek Township, north of the town of Shanksvill ... |
| Wien Air Alaska Flight 99 | On August 30, 1975, | crashed when trying to land in Gambell. 10 of the 32 passengers and crew o ... |
| Macbeth | ... roles as Ophelia in Hamlet, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and Lady Macbeth in | . She branched into film work, and won a BAFTA Award as Most Promising New ... |
| Wreck of the Old 97 | ... n Locust Lane and North Main Street at the train crash site. A mural of the | is painted on a downtown Danville building in memory of the historic wreck |
| Hubble Space Telescope | ... timately materialized into the world's first space-based optical telescope, | , which was launched on April 20, 1990 by the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS ... |
| Othello | ... roles which he never essayed on stage, such as Iago in a 1932 broadcast of | opposite Henry Ainley as the Moor, Buckingham (1954) and Cranmer (1977) in ... |
| Minamata disease | ... ercury poisoning in humans occurred this way in Minamata, Japan, now called | |
| Space Shuttle Challenger disaster | ... nvironment of space. McNair's planned live performance was curtailed by the | on 28 January 1986. Consideration was given to the cancellation of the con ... |
| United Airlines Flight 93 | ... the passengers who attempted to storm the cockpit of the hijacked airliner | to try to prevent al-Qaeda terrorists from using the plane as a part of th ... |
| Seveso | ... nsion, leading to ecological disasters like the Vajont Dam collapse and the | chemical accident. The boom had also a huge impact on Italian society and ... |
| broke up during re-entry | On February 1, 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia | , depositing debris across Texas. Much of the debris landed in Nacogdoches ... |
| Munich air disaster | ... lan, one of the eight Manchester United players who lost their lives in the | of 6 February 1958, was born locally on 1 April 1935. He is buried in the ... |
| Chunky Creek Train Wreck of 1863 | ... Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War; the wreck is called the | . A Confederate regiment of Choctaw Indians camping nearby saved many live ... |
| Coriolanus | ... assical actor. In 1959 he appeared as Sicinius opposite Laurence Olivier in | at Stratford-upon-Avon, directed by Peter Hall. He then appeared in Shakes ... |
| Apollo 13 | Astronauts Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise are launched aboard | for America's third Moon landing mission. En route, an onboard explosion d ... |
| broke up | ... the key search areas for wreckage from the Space Shuttle Columbia after it | over Texas. Search teams recovered some of the remains of the shuttle and ... |
| Hindenburg disaster | ... and coal dust explosions have been caused by electrostatic discharges. The | has been attributed to spark discharge igniting flammable panels tainted w ... |
| Macbeth | ... th Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh in 1955 and a disastrous production of | with Ralph Richardson in 1952 |
| Othello | ... beson attended Somerville High School, where he performed in Julius Caesar, | , sang in the chorus, and excelled in football, basketball, baseball and t ... |
| United Airlines Flight 175 | ... d as Alshehhi) (May 9, 1978 – September 11, 2001) was the hijacker-pilot of | , crashing the plane into the South Tower of the World Trade Center as par ... |
| Othello | ... nce of Negro spirituals and the second black actor to portray Shakespeare's | with an otherwise all-white cast. (Ira Aldridge, who had played the role i ... |
| 1967 USS Forrestal fire | ... from aircraft carriers. During the Vietnam War, he was almost killed in the | . In October 1967, while on a bombing mission over Hanoi, he was shot down ... |
| Hubble Space Telescope | ... . It would also see the introduction of space based telescopes, such as the | . Operating outside the atmosphere’s turbulence, scattered ambient light a ... |
| Adria Airways | ... and is shared among several European airlines, including Austrian Airlines, | , Croatia Airlines, Lufthansa, Luxair, Swiss International Air Lines, and ... |
| Hubble Space Telescope | ... of this paper were disputed by observational astronomers, as even with the | images of the comet revealed no trace of a double nucleus. Also, while com ... |
| Hubble Space Telescope | ... nternational Space Station (ISS) assembly missions. Discovery also flew the | into orbit. Discovery was the first operational shuttle to be retired, fol ... |
| United Airlines Flight 93 | ... sville came to international attention during the September 11 attacks when | crashed in adjacent Stonycreek Township |
| Space Shuttle Challenger | ... as the Challenger Deep, the Challenger Society for Marine Science, and the | |
| American Airlines Flight 96 | ... tward-opening cargo door first became publicly known on June 12, 1972, when | lost its aft cargo door shortly after takeoff from Detroit, Michigan. Befo ... |
| Flight 175 | ... l Airport, accompanied by an unknown man, where he purchased his ticket for | . On September 9, the motel manager cleaning the room Shehhi had vacated f ... |
| Hubble Space Telescope | ... wavelength of light, and D is the diameter of the lens or mirror. Were the | , with a 2.4 m telescope, designed for photographing Earth, it would be di ... |
| Chernobyl disaster | ... t on 5 June that year. He toured Australia and South Africa. After the 1986 | , a hospice was named in his honour. In 1995 he was given the Freedom of t ... |
| Southern Airways Flight 932 | The city is also near the site of the | aviation disaster. In 1970, a plane carrying the Marshall University footb ... |
| Hubble Space Telescope | Discovery was the shuttle that launched the | . The second and third Hubble service missions were also conducted by Disc ... |
| Soyuz 11 | ... ons. This would have problems of its own, especially the tragic loss of the | crew in July 1971 and the near-loss of the Soyuz 18a crew during launch in ... |
| Locomotion No 1 | ... and Robert Stephenson, including the Killingworth locomotive Blücher (1814) | ;(1825); and the Lancashire Witch (1828) |
| Hubble Space Telescope | data from the | obtained in 2007 as well as the observations by the Keck telescope in 2003 ... |
| Air France Concorde crash | The | of 2000 was attributed to a fragment of titanium that fell from the thrust ... |
| Space Shuttle Columbia disaster | Chawla died in the | which occurred on February 1, 2003, when the Space Shuttle disintegrated o ... |
| Chappaquiddick incident | ... 1964 and was reelected seven more times before his death. The controversial | on July 18, 1969, resulted in the death of his automobile passenger Mary J ... |
| Delta Air Lines Flight 191 | ... concern due to aircraft accidents caused by microburst wind shear, such as | . Microburst radar was developed as an aid to safety during landing, givin ... |
| United Airlines Flight 93 | On September 11, 2001, he boarded | at the last minute, on his way to San Francisco to be an usher in his frat ... |
| Three Mile Island accident | Daniel Dennett uses the case of the | as an example of the difficulty in calculating happiness. Was the near-mel ... |
| Braathens SAFE Flight 139 | When | was hijacked, the hijacker demanded to speak with Willoch |
| American 11 | ... r control as pilot, and at 9:03 a.m., 17 minutes after Mohamed Atta crashed | into the North Tower, 23-year-old Shehhi crashed the Boeing 767 into the S ... |
| Ramstein airshow disaster | ... eir songs are inspired by real life events. These songs include Rammstein ( | ), Mein Teil (The Meiwes Case), Wiener Blut (Fritzl case), and Donaukinder ... |
| Mud Run Disaster | ... agedy in 1888 when 37 inhabitants were killed in a train wreck known as the | . As is true in much of Pennsylvania, the mining of coal was a key industr ... |
| Custer Creek train wreck | ... wn as the Pacific Extension through the town in the early 20th century. The | , the worst rail disaster in Montana history, occurred near Terry along th ... |
| 1960 U-2 incident | ... antage of possibly being intercepted by aircraft or missiles such as in the | |
| Hubble Space Telescope | ... t launched in 1976, was made by Lockheed, the same contractor who built the | . HST has a 2.4 metre telescope mirror and is believed to have had a simil ... |
| Macbeth | ... Jeux de massacre (1971), Macbett (1972, a free adaptation of Shakespeare's | ) and Ce formidable bordel (1973) |
| Space Shuttle Columbia disaster | ... States Lieutenant Colonel (USAF) and NASA astronaut, who was killed in the | when the craft disintegrated after reentry into the Earth's atmosphere |
| K-129 | ... l is likely from events surrounding the sinking and subsequent salvaging of | |
| King Lear | ... themes of blind and unnatural fatherhood and the retribution it invokes, in | ) and in ruling out the comic element. The fact that, let us say, Act II s ... |
| King Lear | ... cbeth and Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream twice, Romeo three times, and | four times (as well as taking on the part for a final time in a radio broa ... |
| STS-107 | In 2000 she was selected for her second flight as part of the crew of | . This mission was repeatedly delayed due to scheduling conflicts and tech ... |
| Chester General rail crash | ... forms but once had fourteen. The station lost its original roof in the 1972 | . In September 2007 extensive renovations took place to improve pedestrian ... |
| 1960 U-2 incident | ... ch activists wanted. Eisenhower was also criticized for his handling of the | and the international embarrassment, the Soviet Union's perceived leadersh ... |
| Forrestal fire | ... 9, 1967, McCain, by then a lieutenant commander, was near the center of the | . He escaped from his burning jet and was trying to help another pilot esc ... |
| Tay Bridge disaster | ... ture maintenance costs, calculations for wind pressures made evident by the | and the effect of temperature stresses on the structure |
| 2001 shoe bomb plot | ... executed or planned terrorist acts of the early 2000s, most notably in the | and the 2005 London Underground bombings. Several detection devices have b ... |