2014 Event A ship carrying 900 Syrians is intercepted and safely brought to shore by the Italian coast guard; the ship had been manned by human traffickers who abandoned the vessel after setting the navigation system on a collision course with the Italian coast 2014 Event Comedian Tracy Morgan is hospitalized in critical condition after his bus is hit by a speeding semi trailer; fellow comedian James McNair, known as Jimmy Mack, did not survive the collision 1998 Death Johann Hoelzel Falco, musician, singer, songwriter, hip pop, new wave, electro pop genres, hits include 'Der Kommissar', 'Rock Me Amadeus', dies at age 40 in Puerta Plata, Dominican Republic, from injuries received in a collision with a bus 1997 Death Eugene Shoemaker, astronomer, co-discoverer of the Shoemaker-Levy comet that had a spectacular collision with Jupiter in 1994, dies at 69 1991 Event 42 die in a train collision is Japan 1986 Event 52 die in plane and helicopter collision over Grand Canyon 1982 Event Car/bus collision near Beaune, France, 53 die 1981 Event CERN achieves 1st proton-antiproton beam collision (570 GeV) 1981 Event Olympic Glory tanker at Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 1 million gallons of oil in a ship collision 1976 Event Train collision at Goes, Netherlands, 7 die 1976 Event Train collision at Schiedam Netherlands, kills 24 1974 Event Head-on collision between two buses kills 21 (Ankara, Turkey) 1973 Event Heavy fog causes 65 car collision killing 9 on New Jersey Turnpike 1964 Event Australian destroyer "Voyager" sinks in collision, killing 82 1956 Event 51 die in collision of "Andrea Doria" and "Stockholm" (Cape Cod) 1937 Birthday Barrington J[ohn] Bayley, born in UK, sci-fi author, Collision Course 1927 Event U.S. submarine 'S-4' sinks after collision kills all 34 aboard 1912 Event 1st accident (collision) in Londoner Underground: 22 injured person 1910 Event 1st 2 aircraft collision (Milan Italy) 1895 Birthday Immanuel Velikovsky, writer, Worlds in Collision 1895 Event SS Elbe sinks after collision in North Sea, 332 killed 1878 Event French SS Byzantin sinks after collision in Dardanellen, 210 killed 1837 Event Collision of river boat Monmouth and Trement on Miss; 300 die
