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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