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2024-03-26

2024-03-26

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Francis Scott Key Bridge (Baltimore)
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Francis Scott Key Bridge (Baltimore)

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The Francis Scott Key Bridge was a highway bridge that crossed the lower Patapsco River and outer Baltimore Harbor/Port. It was opened on March 23, 1977, to carry the Baltimore Beltway between Dundalk and Hawkins Point.

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Indian Premier League
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The Indian Premier League (IPL) is a professional Twenty20 (T20) cricket league in India, organised by the Board of Cont…

Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse
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Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse
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On March 26, 2024, the main spans and the three nearest northeast approach spans of the Francis Scott Key Bridge across …

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On This Day

10 events
2010
Torpedo
An explosion, allegedly caused by a North Korean torpedo, sank the South Korean warship ROKS Cheonan near Baengnyeongdo in the Yellow Sea, killing 46 sailors.
2009
Tesla_Model_S
A prototype of the Tesla Model S, one of the most influential electric cars in history, was unveiled.
1999
Jack_Kevorkian
A jury began deliberations in the trial of Jack Kevorkian, an American practitioner of physician-assisted suicide who was charged with murder in the death of a terminally ill patient.
1997
Rancho_Santa_Fe,_California
Police in Rancho Santa Fe, California, discovered the bodies of 39 members of the religious group Heaven's Gate who had died in an apparent cult suicide.
1975
Biological_Weapons_Convention
The Biological Weapons Convention, the first multilateral disarmament treaty banning the production of an entire category of weapons, entered into force.
1953
Jonas_Salk
Jonas Salk announced the successful test of his polio vaccine on a small group of adults and children.
1942
SS_Dixie_Arrow
The American tanker Dixie Arrow is torpedoed and sunk off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, by the German U-boat U-71.
1939
Francoist_Spain
Nationalist forces began their final offensive of the Spanish Civil War, at the end of which they controlled almost the entire country.
1917
World_War_I
First World War: Attempting to advance into Palestine, the British were defeated by Ottoman troops at the First Battle of Gaza.
1913
First_Balkan_War
First Balkan War: After a five-month siege, Bulgarian and Serbian forces (artillery pictured) captured the Ottoman city of Adrianople.

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