2015 Event Delta Airlines states it will no longer transport wildlife trophies after the recent killing of a lion, Cecil, by an American who was reportedly unaware that the hunt was illegal; Delta formerly shipped such trophies if they were obtained legally 2014 Event Martin Salia, a U.S. doctor who contracted Ebola while working in Sierra Leone, dies today in a Nebraska hospital; Salia was already in critical condition upon his arrival after medical transport from West Africa 2014 Event Martin Salia, a U.S. doctor working in Sierra Leone, is being stabilized for transport to a Nebraska hospital after contracting the Ebola virus; Salia was not working in a hospital treating the virus, and the source of his infection is not clear 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 In India, a nationwide strike against rising gas prices closes shops and interrupts public transport across the country 2012 Event Justine Greening, the U.K. Secretary of State for Transport approves the HS2, a high-speed rail line that will link major cities in the U.K. to London 1994 Event Iran transport aircraft crashes in Azerbaijan, 32 killed 1992 Event Military transport plane crashes in Lagos, Nigeria killing 163 1991 Event Military transport plane crashes at Djakarta, 133 dies 1991 Death Kaganovitch, Russian minister of Transport for Stalin, dies 1990 Event C-5 transport plane crashes at Ramstein AFB, Germany, killing 13 1986 Event Haemers gang robs gold transport in Belgium of 35 million BF 1982 Event $9,800,000 in cash stolen from money transport car in New York City 1975 Event 1st supersonic transport service (U.S.S.R.-Tupolev-144) 1975 Event USAF transport carrying orphans from Saigon crashes killing 155 1962 Event Caribbean Air Transport Me NV (CLTM Airlines) forms 1957 Death Leslie Hore-Belisha, Lord Halifax, British Minister of Transport, dies at 63 1956 Event Dynamite transport explodes in Colombia; about 1200 die 1954 Event 1st coml jet transport plane built in U.S. tested (Boeing 707) 1950 Birthday Andre van de Berg, actor and director, Transport 1945 Event Nazi occupiers forbid food transport to West (The Netherlands) 1944 Event Last transport for Auschwitz arrives in Birkenau 1944 Event Last transport out camp Westerbork to Bergen Belsen 1944 Event 68th and last transport of Dutch Jews (Anne Frank) leaves to Auschwitz 1944 Event Last transport from Westerbork to Auschwitz 1944 Event Last transport of French Jews to nazi-Germany 1944 Event Transport nr 77 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany 1944 Event Transport nr 75 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany 1944 Event Transport nr 71 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany 1943 Event Transport 63 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany 1943 Event 1st RSHA transport out of Vienna reaches Birkenau camp 1943 Event 1st Jewish transport out of Rome reaches camp Birkenau 1943 Event Transport nr 58 departs with French Jews to nazi Germany 1943 Event RAF shoots down 14 German transport planes over Mediterranean Sea 1943 Event Transport nr 50 departs with French Jews to Maidanek/Sobibor 1943 Event 1st transport from Westerbork Netherlands to Sobibor concentration camp 1943 Event Transport nr 47 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany 1943 Event 1st transport of Jews from Amsterdam to concentration camp Vught 1942 Event Transport nr 45 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany 1942 Event Transport nr 44 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany 1942 Event Transport nr 36 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany 1942 Event Transport nr 35 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany 1942 Event Transport nr 31 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany 1942 Event Transport nr 29 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany 1942 Event Transport nr 28 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany 1942 Event Transport nr 25 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany 1942 Event Transport nr 24 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany 1942 Event Transport nr 23 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany 1942 Event Transport nr 22 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany 1942 Event Transport nr 20 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany 1942 Event Transport 16 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany 1942 Event Transport nr 6 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany 1942 Event 1st transport of Amsterdam Jews to Westerbork 1942 Birthday Roger Freeman, British minister of transport 1942 Event 1st transport of British/Dutch prisoners to South Burma 1942 Event 1st "Eichmann transport" to Auschwitz and Birkenau Camps 1942 Event 1st transport of French Jews to nazi-Germany 1941 Event 1st transport of Jews to concentration camps leave Plotsk, Poland 1937 Birthday J S Jennings, CEO, Shell Transport and Trading Co 1934 Event Helen Richey becomes 1st woman to pilot an airmail transport 1932 Birthday Peter Holmes, CEO, Shell Transport and Trading Company 1931 Birthday Alan Bailey, British sect, Department of transport 1929 Birthday Charles Lyon, General-Secretary, Transport Salaried Staffs Association 1927 Birthday Eli van der Merwe Louw, South Africa minister of Transport/Manpower 1924 Event London public transport strike ends 1919 Event 1st London-Amsterdam airline service (British Aerial Transport and KLM) 1916 Event Germans sink French transport ship Provence II, killing 930 1915 Event British transport Royal Edward sank by German U boat kills 1000 1907 Event Bolsheviks overthrows transport in Tiflis 1898 Event 1st U.S. troop transport to Manila leaves San Francisco 1893 Birthday Leslie Hore-Belisha, British Minister of Transport 1813 Event Congress authorizes use of steamboats to transport mail 1767 Event Gentlemen 17 forbid private slave transport India to Cape of Good Hope
