On this date in 2006…
Comair Flight 5191 crashed on takeoff from Blue Grass International Airport in Lexington, Kentucky bound for Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia. Of the passengers and crew, 49 of 50 were confirmed dead from the crash. Only the flight’s first officer survived.
Other Years:
1667 – The earliest recorded hurricane in North America struck Jamestown, Virginia.
1782 - Patriot forces repelled British foraging parties during the seige of Charleston at the Battle of the Combahee River near Beaufort, South Carolina
1861 – The Battle of Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina began.
1862 – The Battle of Second Manassas, Virginia began.
1881 – A hurricane struck Florida and the Carolinas. It is estimated that more than 700 people were killed.
1955 – While visiting family in Mississippi, fourteen-year-old Chicago resident Emmett Till was beaten, shot, and dumped in the Tallahatchie River for lewd behavior.
1965 - WTVI TV channel 42 in Charlotte, North Carolina began broadcast
1973 - The remains of the USS Monitor were discovered off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina
1986 – Texas baseball legend Nolan Ryan, while playing for the Houston Astros, earned his 250th career win against the Chicago Cubs.
2020 - Hurricane Laura made landfall in Louisiana near the Texas border as a Category 4 storm with 150 mph winds and killed at least 16 people
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