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2002 Air China flight 129 crashes into a mountain near Pusan, South Korea killing 128
2002 Iran Air Tours flight 956 crashes into a mountain in Iran killing 119 2001 Eleven die after two trucks collide, head on, in a mountain tunnel in Switzerland 1995 Rosalind Cash, actress (Emma-Go Tell It on the Mountain), dies at 56 1995 Dottie Mochrie wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic at Stratton Mountain 1994 B737-400 flies into a mountain at Edremit East Turkey, 54 killed 1994 Carolyn Hill wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic at Stratton Mountain 1994 Peruvian Yak-40 crashes into mountain near Tingo Maria, kills 31 1993 Jakovlev-42 crashes into mountain at Ohrid Macedonia, 116 killed 1993 Antonov AN-124 flies in South Iran against mountain: 17 killed 1993 Boeing 727 crashes into mountain at Medellin Colombia, kills 132 1992 Boeing 734 crashes into mountain in China, kills 141 1992 Pakistani Airbus A-300 crashes into mountain at Kathmandu, 167 dies 1992 Thai Airbus crashes into mountain at Kathmandu, 113 die 1991 Boeing 747-200F of China Airlines crash into mountain at Taipei 1991 Melissa Mcnamara wins Stratton Mountain LPGA Golf Classic 1990 Cathy Gerring wins Stratton Mountain LPGA Golf Classic 1989 U.S. Boeing 707 crashes into Santa Maria mountain, 145 die 1988 New York City 1st case of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (9 year old Bronx boy) 1987 James Baldwin, writer (Go Tell it on the Mountain), dies at 63 1985 -30 degrees F (-34 degrees C), Mountain Lake Bio Station, Virginia (state record) 1983 Felix Pappalardi, rocker (Cream, Mountain), dies 1982 Brazilian B-727 flight crashes into mountain; 135 die 1981 180 dies as Yugoslav DC-9 jetliner slams into a mountain 1981 Yugoslavic DC-9 crashes into mountain at Corsica, 174 killed 1975 Space Mountain opens at Disneyland 1973 Israeli troops reconquer mountain Hermon 1972 Jude Law, born in Lewisham, England, actor, producer, director, Academy Award nominee for movie 'Cold Mountain' 1972 Uruguay to Chile plane crashes in Andes Mountain, (12 of 23 rescue) 1972 19 mountain climbers killed on Japan's Mount Fuji during an avalanche 1972 Danish airliner hit mountain in Sheikdom of Oman killing 112 1972 Sculpted figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E Lee, and Stonewall Jackson are completed at Stone Mountain Georgia 1971 Laura Moss, Kings Mountain, Ohio, actress, Amanda Cory-Another World 1971 Shane Conrad, actress, Cody-High Mountain Rangers 1971 Alaskan 727 crashes into Chilkoot Mountain, kills 109 (Alaska) 1970 Camille Spitaleri, born in Mountain View, California, female infielder, Silver Bullets 1970 Heather Simmons-Carrasco, Mountain View California, synchro swimmer, 1996 Olympics 1970 Tammi Terrell, rocker, Ain't No Mountain High Enough 1969 Leslie West and Felix Pappalardi form rock group Mountain 1968 Thomas Merton, French/U.S. priest and writer '7 Story Mountain', dies at 53 1967 Diane Madl, Mountain Top, Pennsylvania, field hockey forward/midfielder 1996 Olympics 1967 Opening ceremony of Tassajara Zen Mountain Center 1967 15,000 attend Fantasy Faire and Magic Mountain Music Festival, California 1967 Juli Furtado, born in New York City, mountain cyclist, world champion 1991, 92 1967 2 homemade buses collided on a mountain road in Terpate, Philippines plunging off a cliff, killing 84, injuring 140 1966 Chantal Daucourt, born in Bienne, Switzerland, mountain cyclist, world-bronze-95 1966 Melissa McNamara, Tulsa, Oklahoma, LPGA golfer, 1991 Stratton Mountain Classic 1965 27 copper miners die in avalanche, Granduc Mountain, British Columbia 1964 Christian Conrad, actor, Charley Hannah, High Mountain Rangers 1963 Jeff Brehaut, born in Mountain View, California, Nike golfer, 1994 NIKE Alabama-3rd 1960 William Sinnot, Scottish pop musician, Shamen-Move Any Mountain 1958 Giant splash caused by fall of 90 million tons of rock and ice into Lituya Bay, Alaska washes 1,800 feet up the mountain 1955 Betty Jameson wins LPGA White Mountain Golf Open 1952 Teddy Gentry, Fort Payne, Alabama, country music star, Alabama - Mountain Music 1950 John G Fletcher, U.S. poet (Burning Mountain), dies 1949 Randy Owen, Fort Payne, Alabama, country music star, Alabama - Mountain Music 1949 Jeff Cook, Fort Payne, Alabama, country guitar/vocalist, Alabama - Mountain Music 1948 Corky Laing, rocker, Mountain 1945 [Thomasina] Tammi Terrell, Montgomery, singer, Ain't No Mountain High Enough 1945 Dodgers open spring training at Bear Mountain, New York 1944 Kenesaw Mountain Landis, judge/baseball commisioner, dies at 78 1944 Reinhold Messner, Italian mountain climber, Mount Everest 1943 John Denver, New Mexico, singer, 'Rocky Mountain High', 'Thank God He's a Country Boy' 1943 Ral Donner, Ralph Stuart, Black Mountain, North Carolina, singer, Starfires 1941 Naomi Uemura, mountain climber, 1st Japanese to scale Everest 1938 Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis frees 74 St. L Cardinals minor leaguers 1937 Battle of of P'ing-hsin-kuan Wutai Mountain 1935 Jakusho Kwong, Santa Rosa California, head of Sonoma Mountain Zen Center 1934 John Storey Bonington, UK, mountain climber, Annapurna I in 1970 1934 Kenesaw Mountain Landis denies Joe Jackson's appeal for reinstatement 1930 Gary Snyder, Japhy Ryder, beat poet, Rip Rap and Cold Mountain Poems 1929 Jim Whittacker, mountain climber, 1st American to climb Mount Everest 1926 Kenesaw Mountain Landis renewed 7-years as baseball commissioner 1925 Walter Mittelholzer is 1st to flies over Demawend mountain, Iran 1922 Babe Ruth and Bob Meusel, suspended on October 16, 1921, by Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis, return to the New York lineup and go hitless 1922 Kenesaw Mountain Landis resigns his judgeship to work for baseball 1921 AL votes to return to best-of-7 World Series, while NL votes best-of-9 Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis casts deciding vote for best-of-7 1921 Mountain Autonomous Republic established in RSFSR 1921 Kenesaw Mountain Landis becomes 1st commissioner of baseball 1920 Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis elected 1st baseball commissioner 1917 -32 degrees F (-36 degrees C) in Mountain City, Tennessee (state record) 1915 Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado established 1910 Highest mountain in North America, Alaska's Mount McKinley climbed 1908 Gerd Gaiser, German writer, Ship in the Mountain 1907 41st Belmont: G Mountain aboard Peter Pan wins 1907 32nd Preakness: G Mountain aboard Don Enrique wins in 1:45.4 1906 Alberta adopts Mountain Standard Time 1904 Dick Powell, Mountain View, Arkansas, actor, Cry Danger, Dick Powell Theater 1903 Limestone slides at Turtle Mountain kills 9 (Frank Alberta) 1895 Anita Stewart, New York, actress, South of Hell Mountain 1886 Musical fantasy "Night on Bald Mountain," performed in Russia 1886 Modest Mussorgsky's "A Night on Bald Mountain," premieres in Russia 1886 George Mallory, England, mountain climber, "because it is there" 1866 Kenesaw Mountain Landis, judge/1st commissioner of baseball 1864 Battle of Droop Mountain, WV (Averell's Raid) 1864 Atlanta Campaign-Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia 1864 Battle of Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia, Pine Mt, Pine Knob, Golgotha 1863 Battle of Chattanooga, Columbia and Lookout Mountain begins in Tennessee 1863 Battle at Battle Mountain, Virginia 1862 Battle at South Mountain: Union troops chases away Confederates 1862 Skirmish at Mountain MD (Boonesboro, Crampton's Gap, Fox's Gap) 1862 Battle of Cedar Mountain Virginia (Slaughter Mountain, Southwest Mountain) 1861 Battle at Cheat Mountain, Elkwater West Virginia 1861 Skirmish at Taylor Mountain, (W)Virginia - CS General Wise retreats 1861 Battle of Laurel Mountain Virginia - General Morris forces retreat of rebels 1861 Battle of Rich Mountain, Virginia - Rosecrans forces rebels to surrender 1850 Annie S Peck, mountain climber/explorer/diplomat 1822 2nd eruption of Galunggung (Java) destroys summit of mountain 1804 James Bridger, scout, fur trader and mountain man par excellance 1797 1st ascent of "Great Mountain" (4,622') in Adirondack New York (C Broadhead) 1780 British defeated by American militia near Kings Mountain, SC 1777 Battle of Bennington-New England's Green Mountain Boys rout Brits 1775 Green Mountain Boys capture Ft. Ticonderoga NY-American Revolution 1632 Frederick V, king of Bohemia (White Mountain), dies at 36 1620 Battle of White Mountain, Prague 1609 Johan Willem, duke of Julich/Cleef/Mark/Mountain/Ravensberg, dies 1596 Frederik V, king of Bohemia, White Mountain 1568 Christian I, ruler of Anhalt-Bernburg, Battle of White Mountain 1540 Hernando de Soto crosses Appalachian Mountain, 1st European to do so 1296 Adolf VII, earl of Mountain (1259-96), dies |
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