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1994 Dennis Morgan, actor (Cattle Town, Canyon Pass), dies at 83

1993 Trish Johnson wins Las Vegas LPGA at Canyon Gate Golf Tournament

1986 52 die in plane and helicopter collision over Grand Canyon

1981 Laurel Canyon California murders (4 die, 1 wounded)

1980 Richard Kallman, actor (Verboten, Hell Canyon Outlaws), dies at 46

1976 Flash flood in Big Thompson Canyon Colorado on Route 34, kills 139

1974 Fall of earth and rocks kill 200 (Quebrada Blanca Canyon, Colombia)

1973 Ted de Corsia, actor (Police Chief Hegedorn-Steve Canyon), dies at 69

1972 Ferde Grofe, U.S. composer (Grand Canyon Suite), dies at 80

1968 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Canyon Ladies Golf Classic

1967 Oil tanker Torrey Canyon hits a rock and spills oil

1959 River Canyon extending man-made Lake Hebgen by 5 miles. (Montana)

1956 United DC-7 and TWA collide over Grand Canyon killing 128

1938 Robert "Evel" Knievel, motorcycle daredevil, Snake River Canyon

1931 Ferde Grofe's "Grand Canyon Suite," premieres

1919 Congress forms Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona

1911 Reed Hadley, born in Petrolia, Texas, actor, Racket Squad, Shock, Grand Canyon

1910 Dennis Morgan, actor, Cattle Town, Canyon Pass, Waterfront

1903 Ted de Corsia, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Police Chief Hegedorn-Steve Canyon

1902 John Wesley Powell, U.S. geologist (Grand Canyon), dies at 68

1862 Battle of La Glorieta Pass, New Mexico Territory (Apache Canyon, Pigeon's Ranch)


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