2015 Event A SpaceX cargo rocket explodes shortly after launch; the unmanned vessel was carrying over two tons of food, provisions, supplies and equipment for the International Space Station 2015 Event Commercial space company SpaceX successfully launches its Falcon 9 rocket, which has released the Dragon cargo ship into orbit to the International Space Station; the rocket returned to Earth after releasing the Dragon but had a rough landing 2014 Event Orbital Sciences Corp. launches its second cargo rocket to the International Space Station; Orbital and competitor Space X each have contracts for space supply delivery 2014 Event Space station astronauts received an Easter Day delivery in the form of the SpaceX Dragon cargo spaceship filled with food, supplies, equipment and care packages; the space station delivery was the fourth for the commercial space technology company 2013 Event In Cebu, Philippines, 200 are missing and at least 26 are dead after a cargo ship and the ferry MV Thomas Aquinas collide 2011 Event The cargo ship MV Swanland sinks off of north wales due to gale force weather, with two of eight crew members are rescued 2011 Event Over 88 containers from the MV Rena, New Zealand's stranded cargo ship, fall into the Bay of Plenty 2011 Event The Japanese launch the H-II Transfer Vehicle HTV-2 Resupply Craft, in a mission to deliver cargo to the International Space Station 2010 Event Qantas, British Airways, Japan Airlines, Air France and seven other carriers were fined millions of euros for fixing the price of air cargo between 1999 and 2006 2010 Event Somali pirates seize a North-Korean flagged cargo ship south of Yemen 1992 Event El Al cargo jet crashes into apartment complex in Amsterdam (250 die) 1992 Event El Al cargo plane crashes at Amsterdam Bijlmer, 43 die 1991 Death Jean Rogers, actress (Flash Gordon, Hot Cargo), dies at 74 1986 Event Russian cargo ship crashes into cruise ship Admiral Nakhimov; 398 die 1979 Death June Nash, actress (Strange Cargo, Dynamite), dies at 68 1978 Event 6 masked men bound 10 employees at Lufthansa cargo area at New York Kennedy Airport and made off with $5.8 M in cash and jewelry 1973 Death Crane Wilbur, dir/writer (Bat, Canon City, Yellow Cargo), dies at 86 1962 Death Frank Borzage, U.S., director (7th Heaven, Strange Cargo), dies at 69 1955 Birthday William Andrews, actor, Sealed Cargo 1949 Event Cargo airlines 1st licensed by U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board 1942 Event Nazi U-boat sinks American cargo ship at mouth of Mississippi River 1916 Event 1st cargo submarine to cross Atlantic arrives in U.S. from Germany 1906 Birthday Louis Borell, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, actor, Over the Moon, Queer Cargo 1904 Birthday Bramwell Fletcher, born in Yorkshire, England, actor, White Cargo, Mummy 1893 Birthday Frank Borzage, born in Salt Lake City, director, 7th Heaven, Strange Cargo 1887 Event Cliff House damaged when schooner "Parallel"'s powder cargo explodes 1886 Birthday Crane Wilbur, Athens, New York, dir/writer, Bat, Canon City, Yellow Cargo 1882 Event 1st cargo of frozen meat leaves New Zealand for Britain, on SS Dunedin 1872 Event U.S. cargo ship Mary Celeste set sail from New York on a journey which ended when it is found mysteriously abandoned the following month 1864 Birthday Henri de Vries, Van Walterop, Dutch actor, Cleopatra, White Cargo 1863 Event 1st cargo of lumber leaves Burrard Inlet (Vancouver, BC area) 1812 Event 1st cargo arrives in New Orleans by steam, from Natchez 1630 Event New Amsterdam's governor buys Gull Island from Indians for cargo, renames it Oyster Island, it is later known as Ellis Island
