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2005 New York City union members shut down subway and bus services for 3 days

1996 Vito Scotti, actor (Nude Bomb, Get Shorty, Big Bus), dies at 78

1996 "Bus Stop" closes at Circle in Sq Theater New York City after 29 performances

1996 "Bus Stop" opens at Circle in Sq Theater New York City for 29 performances

1995 New York MTA raises subway and bus fares from $1.25 to $1.50

1995 Alan Barton, singer (Smokie, Black Lace), dies in a bus crash

1995 Bus crashes in Luzon Philippines, 29 killed

1994 Petrus HJ van Doorne, bus manufacturer/owner (BOVA), dies at 58

1994 Palestinian bomb attack on bus in Tel Aviv, kills 22

1994 Bus crashes into a tree at Gdansk Poland, 30 killed

1992 California Angels, are involved in a bus crash, in New Jersey

1992 25 die in a bus bombing in Sri Lanka

1991 Greyhound Bus ends bankruptcy

1991 Creditors vote to support Greyhound Bus reorganization plan

1991 Greyhound Bus posts $195 million loss for 1990

1990 Greyhound Bus files bankruptcy

1990 Greyhound Bus hires new drivers to replace strikers

1990 Bus accidentally touches high voltage wire in Karagpur India; 21 die

1990 Singer Gloria Estefan breaks her collarbone in a bus accident

1990 Greyhound Bus goes on strike

1989 George Coulouris, actor (Papillon, Runaway Bus), dies at 85

1988 "Les Miserables," opens a Bus and Truck tour in Tampa

1988 9 hard/software manufacturers announce EISA computer bus in New York

1988 Brooklyn dedicates a bus depot honoring Jackie Gleason

1987 Greyhound Bus buys Trailways Bus for $80 million

1987 Fred Currey acquires Greyhound Bus Company

1986 Cliff Burton, bass player (Metallica), dies in a bus crash at 24

1986 Cliff Burton, rock bassist (Metallica), dies in bus crash at 24

1985 Ruth Gordon, actress (Big Bus), dies of a stroke in her sleep at 88

1983 A bomb planted on a bus in Jerusalem explodes, kills 6 Israelis

1982 Car/bus collision near Beaune, France, 53 die

1978 Gunmen open fire on an Israeli El Al Airline bus in London

1976 36-hr kidnap of 26 school children and their bus driver in California

1975 Worst motor vehicle disaster in U.K.; bus full of elderly women plunges Dibble's Bridge Yorkshire, killing 38

1974 69 die when packed bus strikes heavy truck, Belem, Brazil

1973 78 drown as flash flood sweeps a bus into a river, India

1972 Bus plunges into Nile River killing 50 pilgrims. (Minia Egypt)

1972 Overloaded South Korean bus plunges into reservoir, killing 77

1971 A commuter bus plunges into Panama Canal, killing 38 of 43 aboard

1970 Arab terrorists kill 9 children and 3 adults on a school bus

1967 Beatles' Magical Mystery Bus driven around England

1964 Yankee Phil Linz plays harmonica on bus despite Yogi Berra's orders

1963 Train struck makeshift bus full of migrant workers, killing 32

1962 69 killed in bus crash (Ahmedabad India)

1962 Bus boycott starts in Macon, Georgia

1961 Freedom Riders attacked by white mob at bus station in Miss

1961 Bus with 1st group of Freedom Riders bombed and burned in Alabama

1961 13 Freedom riders began bus trip through South

1960 60 people die when bus plunges off bridge into Turvo River, Brazil

1956 Washington-Jackson cable line replaced by bus service

1956 Bus boycott begins in Tallahassee, Florida

1955 Historic bus boycott begins in Montgomery Alabama by Rosa Parks

1955 Rosa Parks (black) arrested for refusing to move to the back of bus

1955 William Inge's "Bus Stop," premieres in New York City

1951 Richard B. Shull, U.S. actor, Hail to the Chief, Big Bus

1950 New York City bus fare rises to 10 cents equal to subway fare, combo fare at 15 cents

1948 New York City subway fare goes to 10 cents, bus fare to 7 cents and combo fare at 12 cents

1946 9 Spokane baseball players (Western League), die in a bus crash

1945 During snow storm, school bus crashes, kills 15 (Washington)

1944 Bus falls off bridge into Passaic River New Jersey, killing 16

1944 Stockard Channing, born in New York City, actress, Grease, Big Bus, Without a Trace

1942 Train crashes into bus, killing 16 and injuring 20 (Detroit Michigan)

1938 School bus and train collide in Salt Lake City Utah

1937 Bus blew a tire, going out of control, killing 18 (Salem Illinois)

1937 Miami-to-Tampa bus overturned in a canal, kills 13

1935 Belinda Lee, born in Devon, England, actress, Who Done It, Runaway Bus

1932 Richard Mulligan, born in Bronx, New York, actor, Soap, Empty's Nest, Big Bus

1929 Don Murray, born in California, actor, Bus Stop, Advise and Consent, Endless Love

1924 George Segal, New York, sculptor lifelike mixed-media figures, Bus Driver

1923 Harold Gould, Schenectady, New York, actor, He and She, Martin-Rhoda, Big Bus

1922 George Axelrod, playwright, Breakfast at Tiffany, Bus Stop

1921 Frankie Howerd, actor, That Was The Week That Was, Runaway Bus

1914 Carl Wickman begins Greyhound, the 1st U.S. bus line, in Minnesota

1914 Greyhound Bus Co begins in Minnesota

1913 Betty Field, born in Boston, Massachusetts, actress, Kings Row, Bus Stop

1913 Rosa Lee Parks, civil rights activist, bus protestor

1910 1st commercially successful electric bus line opens (Hollywood)

1904 World's 1st subway, IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit), opens in New York City, subway/bus fare is set at one nickel (Brooklyn bridge-145 and Bdwy)

1903 George Coulouris, Manchester England, actor, Runaway Bus

1897 1st British bus service opens

1866 George Shillibeer, pioneer of London's 1st bus service, dies

1849 Leonard PJ du Bus de Gisignies, Governor-General of Neth-Indies, dies at 69

1836 Dutch garrison evacuates fort Du Bus New Guinea

1828 Dutch army takes Fort Du Bus in New Guinea

1780 Leonard PJ du Bus de Gisignies, gov-general of Netherlands Indies, 1826-30



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