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Passenger
1993
Suchoi-24 crashes into Tupolev passenger flight, 134 die
1990
Gas explodes on passenger train in Kumrahar India, 80 die
1989
Gas explodes near 2 passenger trains in U.S.S.R., kills 100s
1986
Israeli fighters intercept Libyan passenger plane
1981
Greatest passenger load on a commercial airliner-610 on Boeing 747
1979
2 Russian passenger planes collide above Ukraine, 173 killed
1977
Regular Concorde passenger service between New York and Europe begins
1976
Longest non-stop passenger airflight (Sydney to San Francisco 13h14m)
1975
2 passenger trains collided near Munich Germany killing 35
1972
Passenger train derails killing 48 (Rust Stasie South Africa)
1972
2 passenger trains collide head-on killing 76, Seville, Spain
1972
Passenger ship Queen Elizabeth destroyed by fire
1970
Russian passenger flight hijacked to Turkey
1969
Last wooden passenger subway cars retired at Brooklyn Myrtle Beach el
1965
2 passenger planes collide above Danbury, Conn, 4 die
1962
Wesley Snipes, born in Orlando, Florida, actor, New Jack City, Passenger 57
1962
Wesley Snipes, born in Bronx, New York, actor, Passenger 57, Money Train
1960
2 passenger trains collided at high-speed killing 110 (Czech)
1958
1st domestic (NY-Miami) passenger jet flight-National 707 flew 111
1958
Queen Juliana christens passenger ship Rotterdam
1957
Passenger train and oil train crash in Gambar West Pakistan, 300 die
1957
1st black pilot (PH Young) on a U.S. scheduled passenger airline
1957
Dodgers buy 44 passenger twin-engine airplane for $775,000
1955
Israeli passenger plane shot down above Bulgaria, 58 die
1953
1st helicopter passenger service, New York City
1953
1st passenger to fly commercially around the world < 100 hours
1953
Passenger ships Willem Ruys and Orange collide in the Red Sea
1952
1st scheduled jet airliner passenger service began with a BOAC Comet
1952
BOAC begins 1st passenger service with jets (London-Rome route)
1951
1st jet passenger trip made
1950
1st transatlantic jet passenger trip
1949
Luxury passenger ship Aquitania demolished in Garelock Scotland
1949
128 die as fire guts Canadian passenger steamer Noronic in Toronto
1947
192m long passenger ship Willem Ruys (Achille Lauro) launched
1947
Pan Am Airways chartered as 1st worldwide passenger airline
1941
Passenger ship Lurline sends radio signal of sighting Jap war fleet
1939
Netherlands KNSM passenger ship Simon Bolivar hits German mine, 86 die
1939
German U-boat torpedoes passenger ship
1939
German submarine U-30 sinks British passenger ship Athenia
1939
German U-boat sinks British passenger ship Athenia
1939
Pan Am begins transatlantic passenger and air mail service
1938
"Yankee Clipper" completes 1st passenger flight over Atlantic
1938
1st passenger ship equipped with radar
1936
Pan-Am Clipper begins regular passenger flights from San Francisco to Honolulu
1935
Pennsylvania Rail Road begins passenger service on new electric locomotive
1934
Luxury passenger ship Morro Castle for New Jersey catches fire, 133 die
1934
Union Pacific tests light-weight high-speed passenger train, Omaha
1930
Eastern Airlines begins passenger service
1928
Amelia Earhart leaves Nfld to become 1st woman (passenger) to fly Atlantic (as a passenger in a plane piloted by Wilmer Stultz)
1928
Amelia Earhart (as a passenger) is 1st woman to fly Atlantic Ocean
1928
Maddus Airlines starts 1st regular passenger flights between San Francisco and LA
1926
Imperial Airways begins England-India mail and passenger service
1920
French passenger ship Afrique sinks near La Rochelle; 553 die
1919
1st scheduled passenger service by airplane (Paris-London)
1919
America's 1st passenger flight (New York - Atlantic City)
1919
1st U.S. air passenger service starts
1915
Austrian submarine torpedoes Italian passenger ship (272 killed)
1914
Martha, last known passenger pigeon, dies at Cincinnati Zoo
1913
British passenger ship Volturno catches fire in Atlantic (136 kill)
1913
German passenger ship Imperator runs aground
1911
1st rescue of an air passenger by a ship, near Havana, Cuba
1910
Passenger on SS Arawatta throws bottle with note overboard, found June 6, 1983 in Queensland
1910
3 passenger trains buried at Steven's Pass in Cascade Range. 118 die. Worst snow slide in U.S. history
1908
Miss Pottelsberghe de la Pottery is 1st airplane passenger (Belgium)
1908
Paris advocate E Archdeacon is 1st passenger in a airplane
1908
1st passenger flight in an airplane
1907
Passenger ship Larchmont sinks by Block Island, 322 die
1906
Famous Cunard passenger liner Lusitania launches
1886
1st scheduled transcontinental passenger train reaches Pt Moody, BC
1876
11 passenger cars crash in a ravine near Ashtabula Ohio, 92 die
1849
1st passenger train service to Peekskill New York (New Haven Railroad)
1831
1st US-built locomotive to pull a passenger train makes 1st run
1830
1st passenger rail service in U.S. (Baltimore and Elliots Mill, Maryland)
1830
1st regular steam train passenger service starts
1828
Construction begins on B and O (Baltimore-Ohio) 1st U.S. passenger RR
1807
1st railway passenger service began in England
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