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1994 Event - Oil tank/airship crash at Bosporus (huge fire/15+ killed)

1984 Event - French airship capsizes

1972 Event - 1st airship flown over Britain in 20 years (Europa)

1962 Event - Maria Oeljanov, 1st airship with nuclear missiles, arrives in Cuba

1943 Event - Airship Canadian Star torpedoed and sinks

1940 Event - German U-47 sinks airship Balmoral

1938 Event - Graf Zeppelin II, world's largest airship, makes maiden flight

1936 Event - Harry Froboess dives 110 m from airship into Bodensee and survives

1936 Event - 1st flight of airship Hindenburg, Germany

1935 Event - Great airship, USS Macon, crashes into Pacific Ocean

1932 Event - U.S. airship Columbia crashes during storm in Flushing, New York

1930 Event - British airship crashes in storm at Beauvais France, 48 die

1930 Event - Airship R100, 1st passenger-carrying flight from England to Canada

1929 Event - German airship Graf Zeppelin ends a round-the-world flight

1929 Event - 1st airship flight around Earth flying eastward completed

1929 Event - German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight

1928 Event - Graf Zeppelin sets airship distance record of 6384 km

1928 Event - Umberto Nobile flies airship over North Pole again

1926 Event - Airship Norge is 1st vessel to fly over North Pole

1926 Event - Umberto Nobile flies airship over North Pole

1926 Event - Airship Norge leaves Spitsbergen for 1st air crossing of Arctic Ocean

1925 Event - Goodyear airship "Pilgrim" makes 1st flight (1st with enclosed cabin)

1922 Event - Airship Rome explodes at Hampton Roads Virginia; 34 die

1921 Event - British airship R-38 crashes in Humber, 44 die

1919 Event - British R-34 lands in New York, 1st airship to cross Atlantic (108 hours)

1916 Event - French airship sinks British submarine D3

1910 Event - 1st airship in service "Germany"

1901 Event - Santos-Dumont proves airship maneuverable by circling Eiffel Tower

1900 Event - Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin 1st airship LZ-1, flies

1850 Event - Airship Elizabeth leaves in storm for Fire Island, crashes (42 die)













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