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2008 Northwest Airlines and Delta Air Lines merge
1999 Earthquake kills 17,000 in northwest Turkey 1993 Northwest Airlink plane crashes in Minn, killing 18 1992 Northwest and KLM introduce a new joint logo "Worldwide Reliability" 1991 A new cancer drug is announced, which can only be found in bark of a rare tree in the Pacific Northwest 1989 Joan Woodbury, actress (Super Sleuth, Northwest Trail), dies 1987 Northwest Airlines 255 plane crashes in Detroit, 156 die (1 lives) 1972 Jessie Royce Landis, actress (North by Northwest), dies at 67 1971 Dan "DB" Cooper parachutes from a Northwest AL 727 with $200,000 1967 Pacific Northwest Sports awarded AL expansion franchise (Seattle) 1954 1st passage of McClure Strait, fabled Northwest Passage completed 1920 Saul Bass, born in New York City, New York, graphic designer, filmmaker, created title sequences for 40 years, famous for The Man with the Golden Arm, kinetic typography in North by Northwest, Vertigo 1920 Royal Canadian Mounted Police forms as Royal Northwest Mounted Police merge with Dominion Police 1904 Jessie Royce Landis, Medbury, Chicago, actress, North by Northwest 1904 Cary Grant, born in England, actor, 'Arsenic and Old Lace', 'North by Northwest' 1870 Hudson's Bay and Northwest Territories transferred to Canada 1870 Manitoba and Northwest Territories incorporated 1850 Investigator, 1st ship to effect northwest passage, leaves England 1806 Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis from Pacific Northwest 1789 Spanish capture British schooner Northwest America near Vancouver I 1787 Congress establishes Northwest Territory (excludes slavery) |
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