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2012 Event - Egypt's minister of transport, Mohamed Rashad Al Matini, resigns after a school bus carrying 60 schoolchildren is hit by a train near Manfalut, 230 miles south of Cairo

2012 Event - As part of a continued tightening on world sanctions on Iran, a Chinese company that insures ships will stop indemnifying tankers carrying Iranian oil

2011 Event - The 2011 Syrian uprising continues as Turkey seizes a Syrian ship that is possibly carrying weapons to the Syrian Army

2011 Event - Two suspected Al-Quaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb members are arrested in Tunisia for carrying bombs and explosives near the city of Ramada

2010 Event - Eastern Japan braces itself as Typhoon Chaba heads its way, carrying winds of up to 162 kilometers per hour near its center

2010 Event - Bronislaw Komorowski becomes Acting President of Poland after a plane carrying President Lech Kaczynski and top Polish officials crashes, leaving no survivors

2009 Event - An Australian navy ship intercepts a boat carrying 60 suspected asylum seekers

2009 Event - Eight people are killed, several injured, after gunmen attack a bus carrying Sri Lankan cricketeers in Lahore, Pakistan

1994 Event - Truck carrying millions of bees overturns on New York parkway

1987 Event - "Bobro 400," a barge carrying 3,200 tons of garbage, set sail from NY, beginning an unsuccesful 8-week search for a dumping site

1985 Event - U.S. fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, gunmen are placed in custody

1975 Event - USAF transport carrying orphans from Saigon crashes killing 155

1972 Event - 22-car train carrying 2,000 pilgrims derails, kills 208 in Mexico

1970 Event - Plane carrying Wichita State University football team crashes killing 30

1970 Event - Bowie Kuhn suspends Denny McLain for carrying a gun

1970 Event - Peruvian Airlines jet carrying 45 U.S. exchange students explodes

1969 Event - Apollo 11, carrying 1st men to land on Moon, launched

1960 Event - Chartered C46 carrying California State's football team crashes, kills 16

1957 Event - Soviet Union launches, Sputnik II, carrying a dog named Laika

1952 Event - Operations begin at United Suriname Workers of Netherlands which flew from London to Johannesburg carrying 36 passengers

1948 Event - Operation Magic Carpet - 1st plane from Yemen carrying Jews to Israel

1947 Event - Ship carrying Jewish immigrants driven away from Palestine

1945 Event - Liberty ship at Bari Italy carrying aerial bombs explodes, kills 360

1940 Event - Patria, carrying illegal immigrants, sinks in port of Haifa, 200 die

1935 Event - China Clipper (flying boat) took off from Alameda, California, carrying 100,000 pieces of mail on 1st trans-Pacific airmail flight

1929 Event - USCG vessel sank Canadian schooner suspected of carrying liquor

1915 Event - 1st U.S. ship lost in WW I, William P Frye (carrying wheat to UK)

1906 Event - Louis H. Perlman patents a demountable tire carrying rim for cars

1897 Event - 1st ship arrives in Seattle carrying gold from Yukon

1876 Birthday - Ian Hay, Scotland, novelist/playwright, PIp, Carrying On

1865 Event - 1st U.S. underground pipeline for carrying oil is laid in Pennsylvania

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