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Mar 29

[VIDEO] Mar. 27, 1964 | Alaska Earthquake Newsreel

Mar. 29, 1964 - A destructive, death-dealing earthquake struck the city of Anchorage and several smaller Alaskan towns this week. In...

Mar 28

Tidal Waves Wreck Business District of Crescent City, California

Mar. 28, 1964 - Tidal waves 12 to 15 feet high, set off by the Alaskan earthquake, swept out of the Pacific early today and wrecked the...

Mar 27

Massive Earthquake Strikes Alaska

Mar. 27, 1964 - A destructive, death-dealing earthquake struck the city of Anchorage and several smaller Alaskan towns today. In Juneau,...

Oct 31, 2023

🚨At Least 62 Killed in Indiana Coliseum Explosion

Oct. 31, 1963 - At least 62 persons were killed and hundreds were injured tonight in an explosion during the opening performance of the...

Jul 7, 2023

Navy Jet Crashes into Boys’ Camp, 7 Dead

July 7, 1963 - A flaming Navy Fury jet fighter crashed into a crowded boys’ day camp in Willow Grove, Pa., today, killing at least 7,...

May 18, 2023

27 Drown in Florida Bus Disaster

May 18, 1963 - At least 27 men, women, and children drowned today when a bus carrying migrant farm workers plunged into a canal 80 miles...

Apr 18, 2023

Yetta Wallenda Plunges to Death Before 5,000 Horrified Spectators

April 18, 1963 - A third member of the Flying Wallenda circus family plunged to her death tonight from a swaying pole before 5,000...

Apr 11, 2023

JFK Hails Lost Men of the Thresher

Apr. 11, 1963 - President Kennedy today hailed the 129 men (some of whom are pictured below) who perished in the submarine Thresher as...

Apr 10, 2023

🚨Submarine Thresher is Lost, 129 Feared Dead

🚨Apr. 10, 1963 - The U.S. Navy’s nuclear-powered submarine Thresher, with 129 men aboard, was lost today in storm-tossed waters a mile...

Mar 29, 2023

“Texas Ruby” of Grand Ole Opry Dies in Fire

Mar. 29, 1963 - Mrs. Ruby Fox (right in 1944), known as “Texas Ruby” to Grand Ole Opry audiences, burned to death in a house trailer fire...

Mar 21, 2023

Over 1,000 Reported Dead in Balinese Volcano

Mar. 21, 1963 - Balinese Government officials said today more than 1,000 people are believed to have died under foaming lava and deluges...

Mar 8, 2023

Fire Destroys School in Bellport, 55 Injured

Mar. 8, 1963 - A small circle of flame mushroomed with explosive fury today and raced through an old two-story wing of a high school in...

Dec 15, 2022

Air Freighter Crashes in L.A., 4 Bodies Recovered So Far

Dec. 15, 1962 - A Flying Tiger Constellation air freighter with five persons aboard crashed in a dense fog last night while attempting to...

Dec 1, 2022

Plane Crash at Idlewild, 25 Dead

Dec. 1, 1962 - An airliner carrying 51 persons crashed and burned while landing in heavy fog last night at New York’s Idlewild Airport....

Nov 15, 2022

New Book on ’17 Explosion in Canada

Nov. 15, 1962 - On December 6, 1917, a French freighter loaded with more than 2,500 tons of explosives collided with another vessel in...

Oct 3, 2022

N.Y.C. Fireman Loses Fiancee in Explosion

Oct. 3, 1962 - New York City fireman Robert Roth, 22, a strong man, a brave man, wept. The place was the medical examiner’s mortuary, 520...

Oct 3, 2022

Twenty-One Killed in Steam Boiler Explosion at N.Y. Telephone Company

Oct. 3, 1962 - At least 21 persons were killed and 95 injured today when a steam boiler exploded in a building of the New York Telephone...

Jun 20, 2022

Settlement in 1960 Dumbbell Death

June 20, 1962 - Martin Gabel and his wife Arlene Francis (pictured with their son Peter in 1953) have agreed to pay $185,000 to the widow...

Jun 3, 2022

Tragedy Hits the Bevington Family

June 3, 1962 - The three small children of Mr. and Mrs. E.M. Bevington have one parent alive today — their father — because their parents...

Jun 3, 2022

Cause of Paris Plane Crash a Mystery

June 3, 1962 - The destruction of an Air France Boeing 707 jet today at Orly Airport took place in bright sunlight and with barely a...