World History

This Day In History

Nov. 25 – In 1986, the Iran-Contra affair erupted as President Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese…
Nov. 26 – In 1942, President Roosevelt ordered…
Nov. 27 – In 1973, the Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who’d resigned.
Nov. 28 – In 1943, President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin met in Tehran during World War II…
Nov. 18 – In 1976, Spain’s parliament approved a bill to establish a democracy after 37 years of dictatorship.
Nov. 19 – In 1863, President Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania.
Nov. 20 – In 1945, 24 Nazi leaders went on trial before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany….
Nov. 21 – n 1995, the presidents of three rival Balkan states agreed to make peace in Bosnia, ending nearly four years of terror and ethnic bloodletting that have left a quarter of a million people dead in the worst war in Europe since World War II…
Nov. 22 – In 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas…
Nov. 24 – In 1963, Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded…

World Airlines

Berlin Blockade

June 26, 2014

Lufthansa - Geschich Berliners watch a C-54 Skymaster land at Tempelhof Airport, 1948…

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History of American Airlines

June 17, 2012

Airline History Museum in Kansas An airline is a company that provides air transport services for traveling passengers and freight. Airlines lease or own…

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American Export Airlines

June 17, 2012

The Sikorsky VS-44 was a large four-engined flying boat built in the USA…

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Delta Air Lines

June 17, 2012

Delta through the Decades - The Evolution of an Air Line, highlights some…

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Northwest Airlines

June 17, 2012

Brief company produced promo film. 82 years of airline history in 140 seconds.…

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United Airlines

June 17, 2012

The History of passenger airliners and United Airlines, from the early 1970s. From…

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American Airlines

June 17, 2012

American Airlines mid-1970's Promotional Film One of the 1970's vintage Chet Huntley American Airlines…

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History of Airline

June 17, 2012

Airline History Museum in Kansas City. An airline is a company that provides air transport services for traveling passengers and freight. Airlines lease or…

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