March 18, 1965 — Gene Seski crashes a truckload of bananas in Scranton, Pennsylvania
Gene Seski was an experienced truck driver who, on the 18th of March, 1965, was driving a semi-trailer load of...
June 4, 2017
Business & Economics
October 21, 1966 — A Coal Tip falls on the Welsh village of Aberfan killing 144 people
Up until 1966, the National Coal Board had allowed the excavations from the Aberfan mine to be piled up on...
May 14, 2017
June 22, 1969 — The Cuyahoga River catches fire. Again.
Between 1868 and 1969, there were thirteen separate fires on the Cuyahoga River, the worst occurring in 1952. It was...
December 14, 2016
November 17, 1969 — Rupert Murdoch begins publishing “The Sun”
Rupert Murdoch was already a media magnate in his native Australia, and in New Zealand as well, when he entered...
November 4, 2016
July 22, 1971 — The Tamano oil spill
Early in the morning of July 22, 1971, the oil tanker Tamano briefly ran aground in Casco Bay, Maine. No...
August 9, 2016
June 12, 1977 — Victoria’s Secret is founded
Founded by Roy and Gaye Raymond, Victoria’s Secret grew, although slowly, over its first five years. In 1982, when the...
September 29, 2015
August 23, 1977 — Jared Fogle born
Jared was not especially exceptional until he managed to lose a lot of weight, something he attributed to eating at...
September 18, 2015
March 6, 1982 — Ayn Rand dies
The first prophet of Objectivism, the author of “Atlas Shrugged” and “The Fountainhead”, and one of the least recognised fantasy...
February 17, 2015
January 24, 1984 — Michael Jackson films an ad for Pepsi
In the early Eighties, getting a rock star to advertise your fizzy sugar drink was the done thing. Both Pepsi...
December 29, 2014
December 3, 1984 — The Union Carbide plant at Bhopal explodes
The Bhopal disaster (also referred to as the Bhopal gas tragedy) is the worst industrial catastrophe in the history of...
November 19, 2014
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