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Haisal – On 27 December the passenger ferry sank after being rammed from behind by a cargo ship on the Dhaleshwari River killing 200 people. [32] 200 1987 United Kingdom: Herald of Free Enterprise – Capsized and sank on 6 March due to taking on water just minutes after leaving the harbour at Zeebrugge in Belgium. The doors to the car decks ...
In 2020, Luxembourg became the first country to provide free public transport across its entire territory. [1] Free public transport, often called fare-free public transit or zero-fare public transport, is public transport which is fully funded by means other than collecting fares from passengers. It may be funded by national, regional or local ...
These included the battleships HMS Queen Elizabeth and Valiant (damaged in the harbour of Alexandria on 18 December 1941), and 111,527 long tons (113,317 t) of merchant shipping. The Xª MAS used a particular kind of torpedo, the SLC ( Siluro a Lenta Corsa ), whose crew was composed of two frogmen, and motorboats packed with explosives, called ...
5 December: The Russian invaders begin heavy attacks on the Mannerheim line. The Battles of Kollaa and Suomussalmi begin. 7 December: Italy, Norway and Denmark again declare their neutrality in the Russo-Finnish war. Sweden proclaims "non-belligerency", by which it could extend military support to Finland, without formally taking part in the ...
December 6, 1993 (Monday) December 6, 1993: NASA astronaut Kathryn C. Thornton jettisons a damaged HST solar panel into space during STS-61 EVA #2. STS-61: Astronauts Musgrave and Hoffman began the mission's third extravehicular activity at 10:34 p.m. EST. [7] Between 10:00 p.m. on December 6 and 1:00 a.m. on December 7, 46-year-old Lynn Marie ...
As of December 2008, 70 Pechora-2M upgraded ramp-launched missiles had been ordered by Egypt. [122] AA Range = 35 km, AA Ceiling = 18 km, Speed = Mach 3.1 Kub: SA-6: 56 [123] Purchased from the Soviet Union after the disastrous 6 Day War and was used to great effect in the Yom Kippur War virtually denying the entire air space of Egypt to Israel ...
Timeline for the day of the September 11 attacks. The hijacked United Airlines Flight 175 approaching the South Tower (left) as the North Tower (right) burns next to it. The September 11 attacks of 2001, in addition to being a unique act of terrorism, constituted a media event on a scale not seen since the advent of civilian global satellite links.
Juneteenth became one of five date-specific federal holidays along with New Year's Day (January 1), Independence Day (July 4), Veterans Day (November 11), and Christmas Day (December 25). Juneteenth is the first new federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was declared a holiday in 1986.