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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 US 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 US 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 US aircraft carrier Lexington/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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