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March 25, 1999 [ 1] The Three Mile Island accident was a partial nuclear meltdown of the Unit 2 reactor (TMI-2) of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station on the Susquehanna River in Londonderry Township, near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The reactor accident began at 4:00 a.m. on March 28, 1979, and released radioactive gases and ...
March 28 is the 87th day of the year (88th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 278 days remain until the end of the year. Events. Pre-1600. AD 37 – ...
Catalyst to pass Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, also known as simply the March on Washington or the Great March on Washington, [ 1][ 2] was held in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963. [ 3] The purpose of the march was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of ...
131 killed. The 1964 Alaskan earthquake, also known as the Great Alaskan earthquake and Good Friday earthquake, occurred at 5:36 PM AKST on Good Friday, March 27, 1964. [2] Across south-central Alaska, ground fissures, collapsing structures, and tsunamis resulting from the earthquake caused about 131 deaths. [3]
March 1, 1964 (Sunday) Eighty-five people were killed when Paradise Airlines Flight 901 crashed into a mountain in while on its way to Tahoe Valley, California, a ski resort town across the border from casinos in Nevada. Wreckage of the plane, a propeller-driven Lockheed Constellation, was located the next day on an 8,700-foot (2,700 m) ridge ...
March 4, 1981 (Wednesday) Six days after he had come into possession of $1.2 million in cash that had fallen from an armored car, Joey Coyle was arrested at JFK International Airport, where he had been preparing to fly to Mexico City. Coyle was acquitted of theft less than a year later. He committed suicide on August 15, 1993, a month before ...
March 15, 1939 (Wednesday) Adolf Hitler and Emil Hácha met in the Reich Chancellery after midnight. Hitler announced that the German army had orders to invade Czechoslovakia at 6:00 a.m. and unless Hácha ordered the Czechoslovakian military to refrain from offering any resistance, the country would face massive destruction.
March 18, 1945 (Sunday) An air battle was fought in the skies over Berlin when 1,329 Allied bombers and 700 long-range fighters were met by the Luftwaffe using the new Me 262s and air-to-air rockets. The U.S. Eighth Air Force lost six Mustangs and 13 bombers while the Luftwaffe only lost two planes in return despite being outnumbered 32 to 1.