2014 Event Ford Motor Company begins using aluminum instead of steel in the body of its most popular truck, the F-150; the change has cost the company time and money in conversion of production lines but will make the vehicle more fuel efficient 2014 Event 16-year-old Cole Custer wins the NASCAR Truck Series, becoming the youngest winner of the race 2014 Event Russia sends roughly 215 trucks of humanitarian supplies into Ukraine without permission from Kiev; the truck contents were inspected by neither Ukrainian officials nor Red Cross members as agreed to by Ukraine and Russia, but Kiev did not protest 2013 Event Anchorage, Alaska begins the 1,000 mile, 2013 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race; winners receive a new truck and $50,400 in prize money 2009 Event Nearly 100 people are killed by a runaway truck at a market in Kogi State, Nigeria 1995 Death John Rodolph, wheelchair-race world record holder, hit by truck at 31 1995 Event Truck bomb at Federal Building in Oklahoma City, kills 168 1994 Event Truck carrying millions of bees overturns on New York parkway 1992 Event 28 killed in truck bombing of Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina by Islamic Jihad 1991 Event 93 cars and 11 truck accident near San Francisco during a dust storm, 17 die 1988 Event 2 robbers wearing police uniforms rob armored truck of $3 Million in New Jersey 1988 Event "Les Miserables," opens a Bus and Truck tour in Tampa 1983 Event A truck bomb explodes at U.S. Embassy in Kuwait 1983 Event Suicide terrorist truck bomb kills 241 U.S. personnel in Beirut 1981 Event 3 members of Weather underground arrested for armored truck robbery 1981 Event British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, a truck driver later convicted of "Yorkshire Ripper" murders of 13 women 1978 Event Terrorists attack mail truck at Tel Aviv, 45 killed 1975 Event 3 truck pile up kills 10, injures 26 on French highway 1975 Event Farm truck packed with wedding party struck by a train, killing 66 in truck, 40 miles south of Poona, India 1975 Event 4 mail truck assault on El Al B-747 in Paris, escape to Iraq 1974 Event 69 die when packed bus strikes heavy truck, Belem, Brazil 1974 Event Mail truck terrorists take school in Maalot, 30 killed 1966 Event Rocker Jan Berry crashes his corvette into a parked truck 1962 Event U.S. mail truck in Plymouth, Mass robbed of more than $1.5 million 1955 Event RCA Victor's best investment paying $25,000 to Sun Records and Sam Philips for rights to Elvis Presley, a truck driver from Tupelo Miss 1945 Event General "Vinegar Joe" Stillwell and truck convoy reopen Burma Road to China 1940 Event 27 killed, 15 injured when truck full of migrant workers collides with a train outside McAllen, Texas 1864 Birthday Ransom Eli Olds, auto, Oldsmobile, and truck, REO, manufacturer
