2015 Event A SpaceX cargo rocket explodes shortly after launch; the unmanned vessel was carrying over two tons of food, provisions, supplies and equipment for the International Space Station 2015 Event Apple will begin a web TV service in September, carrying broadcast networks such as CBS, Fox and ABC; the service will offer 25 channels and will likely cost less than current cable television packages 2015 Event The Ezadeen, an abandoned ship carrying 450 Syrians, is rescued from choppy waters and brought safely to shore in Italy; the ship is the second to be abandoned by human traffickers off the nation's coast in the last four days 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 174 people have been rescued from a South Korean ferry that capsized off the coast; the ferry was carrying 476 people, mainly students; rescue efforts are ongoing 2013 Event The PSLV-XL rocket carrying the Mars Orbiter Mission probe is launched by India's Space Research Organization; the will eventually be sent to Mars 2013 Event In Wisconsin, two planes carrying nine skydivers collide in midair; the skydivers used their parachutes to steer themselves clear of the debris, and the two pilots survived with minor injuries 2013 Event A boat carrying asylum seekers capsizes north of Christmas Island; Australian authorities rescue 88 people and 9 are feared dead 2013 Event The Soyuz capsule safely lands in Kazakhstan, carrying Expedition 35 astronauts Thomas Marshburn of the U.S., Chris Hadfield of Canada and Roman Romanenko of Russia back from the International Space Station 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
