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1986 Mail carrier Patrick Sherrill, Edmond Ok, shot 14 fellow workers dead

1984 Soviet sub crashes into USS aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off Japan

1980 Corey Carrier, actor, Young Indiana Jones

1979 Columbia flown on carrier aircraft lands at Kennedy Space Center

1979 Columbia flies on Shuttle carrier aircraft to Kennedy Space Center

1972 46 sailors injured in race riot on aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk

1969 Australian aircraft carrier "Melbourne" slices U.S. destroyer "Frank E. Evans" in half, killing 74 (South Vietnam)

1969 25 members of U.S. aircraft carrier Enterprise die during maneuvers

1968 Aircraft carrier Charles Doorman sold to Argentina

1968 Mark Carrier, NFL safety, Chicago Bears, Detroit Lions

1967 Fire aboard carrier USS Forrestal in Gulf of Tonkin kills 134

1966 U.S. aircraft carrier Oriskany catches fire at Gulf on Tonken, 43 die

1965 Mark Carrier, NFL wide receiver for the Carolina Panthers

1964 Destroyer Voyager sinks off Australia after colliding with aircraft carrier Melbourne

1960 USS Enterprise, 1st nuclear power aircraft carrier, launches

1956 Aircraft carrier "Bennington" burns off RI, killing 103

1955 Worlds most powerful aircraft carrier, USS Saratoga launched

1955 Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga at Brooklyn launched

1955 British aircraft carrier Ark Royal sets sail

1952 1st aircraft carrier to sail around Cape Horn-Oriskany

1952 U.S. minesweeper "Hobson" rams aircraft carrier "Wasp," kills 176

1948 1st air squadron of jets aboard a carrier

1945 Kamikaze-Zero strikes U.S. aircraft carrier Enterprise

1945 U.S. aircraft carrier Franklin heavy damaged in Japanese air raid

1945 Battleship Admiral Scheer sinks British aircraft carrier

1945 U.S. jeep-aircraft carrier Ommaney Bay sinks after kamikaze attack

1944 U.S. aircraft carrier Princeton sinks at Philippines

1944 Japanese aircraft carrier Hijo sinks by U.S. air attack

1943 U.S. aircraft carrier Hornet launched

1942 U.S. aircraft carrier Enterprise reaches Noumea

1942 U.S. aircraft carrier Hornet sinks off Santa Cruz

1942 U.S. aircraft carrier Wasp torpedoed at Guadalcanal

1942 British aircraft carrier Eagle torpedoed and sinks

1942 U.S. aircraft carrier Yorktown leaves Pearl Harbor

1942 Aircraft carrier Lexington sunk by Japanese air attack at Coral Sea

1941 U-81 torpedoes British aircraft carrier Ark Royal

1941 U.S. aircraft carrier Lexington and 5 heavy cruisers leave Pearl Harbor

1941 Japanese carrier force left its base and moves east toward Pearl Harbor

1941 British aircraft carrier "Ark Royal" sank in Mediterranean

1940 Germany battle cruisers sink British aircraft carrier Glorious

1939 German U-29 sinks British aircraft carrier Courageous, 519 die

1936 1st common carrier license issued by ICC, Scranton, Pa

1933 1st genuine aircraft carrier christened, USS Ranger

1929 Cruiser Act: OKs construction of 19 new cruisers and an aircraft carrier

1922 1st electric power line commercial carrier in U.S., Utica, New York

1922 1st speed test of 1st genuine Japanese aircraft carrier Hosho

1922 USS Langley is commissioned, Navy's 1st aircraft Carrier

1914 W. H. Carrier patents air conditioner

1876 Willis Haviland Carrier, developed air-conditioning equipment


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