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B-52


1991 President Bush decides to end full-time B-52 bombers alert

1985 Ricky Wilson, rock guitarist (B-52's), dies of AIDS at 32

1980 "Rock Lobster" by B-52's hits #56

1977 Jimmy Carter cans B-1A bomber later "B-1's the B-52"

1969 U.S. B-52's drop 3,000 ton bombs at Cambodian boundary

1968 U.S. B-52 bomber with nuclear bomb crashes in Greenland

1966 1st B-52 bombing on North Vietnam

1966 B-52/KC-135 tankers crash near Spanish coast at Palomares, 7 die

1965 1st bombing by B-52 (50 km north of Saigon)

1959 X-15 makes 1st unpowered flight, from a B-52 at 11,500 m

1957 B-52 bombers begin full-time flying alert in case of U.S.S.R. attack

1957 Cindy Wilson, Athens Georgia, rock vocalist, B-52's-Love Shack

1957 3 B-52's set record for around-the-world flight, 45 hr 19 min

1953 Julian Keith Strickland, Athens, Georgia, drummer, B-52's-Rock Lobster

1953 Ricky Wilson, born in Athens, Georgia, rock guitarist, B-52's-Love Shack

1952 1st B-52 prototype test flight

1951 Fred Schneider, born in Newark, Georgia, vocalist and guitarist, B-52's-Rock Lobster

1948 Katie Pierson, born in New Jersey, vocals/guitarist, B-52's-Rock Lobster, Love Shack



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