November 19th, 2008

Today in History

1977:
Transportes Aereos Portugueses Boeing 727 crashes in Madeira islands killing 130

1973:
American football player Lance Rentzel is arrested for exposing himself to a ten-year-old girl; he is later sentenced to five years' probation.

1961:
Michael Rockefeller, son of New York governor Nelson Rockefeller, disappears in the jungles near Atsj, Papua New Guinea.

1941:
World War II: The Royal Australian Navy cruiser HMAS Sydney and the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran sink each other off the coast of Western Australia, with the loss of 645 Australians and about 77 German seamen.

1881:
A meteorite lands near the village of Großliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.