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Chicago Tribune
25-05-2025
- Politics
- Chicago Tribune
Today in History: 273 people killed in American Airlines Flight 191 at Chicago's O'Hare Airport
Today is Sunday, May 25, the 145th day of 2025. There are 220 days left in the year. Today in history: On May 25, 1979, 273 people died when an American Airlines DC-10 crashed just after takeoff from Chicago's O'Hare Airport. Vintage Chicago Tribune: American Airlines Flight 191 crashed near O'Hare airport 45 years ago. These are the 273 on this date: In 1787, the Constitutional Convention began at the Pennsylvania State House (Independence Hall) in Philadelphia after enough delegates had shown up for a quorum. In 1946, Transjordan (now Jordan) became a kingdom as it proclaimed its new monarch, Abdullah I. In 1961, President John F. Kennedy told Congress: 'I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.' In 1964, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, ordered the Virginia county to reopen its public schools, which officials had closed in an attempt to circumvent the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka desegregation ruling. In 1977, 'Star Wars' was released by 20th Century Fox; it would become the highest-grossing film in history at the time. In 2008, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander arrived on the Red Planet to begin searching for evidence of water; the spacecraft confirmed the presence of water ice at its landing site. In 2012, the private company SpaceX made history as its Dragon capsule became the first commercial spacecraft to dock with the International Space Station. In 2018, Harvey Weinstein was arrested and charged in New York with rape and another sex felony in the first prosecution to result from the wave of allegations against him. (Weinstein would be convicted of two felony counts in 2020, but an appeals court would overturn the conviction in 2024. A retrial on the charges began in April 2025.) In 2020, George Floyd, a Black man, was killed when a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee on Floyd's neck for 9 1/2 minutes while Floyd was handcuffed and pleading that he couldn't breathe; Floyd's death, captured on video by a bystander, would lead to worldwide protests, some of which turned violent, and a reexamination of racism and policing in the U.S. Today's Birthdays: Actor Ian McKellen is 86. Country singer Jessi Colter is 82. Actor-singer Leslie Uggams is 82. Filmmaker and puppeteer Frank Oz is 81. Actor Karen Valentine is 78. Actor Jacki Weaver is 78. Rock singer Klaus Meine (Scorpions) is 77. Actor Patti D'Arbanville is 74. Playwright Eve Ensler is 72. Actor Connie Sellecca is 70. Musician Paul Weller is 67. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., is 65. Actor-comedian Mike Myers is 62. Actor Octavia Spencer is 55. Actor Cillian Murphy is 49. Football Hall of Famer Brian Urlacher is 47. Olympic gymnastics gold medalist Aly Raisman is 31.
Chicago Tribune
25-05-2025
- Chicago Tribune
Today in Chicago History: ‘Spider' Dan Goodwin scales the Sears Tower, then the world's tallest building
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on May 25, according to the Tribune's archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago) 1950: A Chicago Transit Authority Green Hornet streetcar slammed into a gas truck on State Street near 62nd Street in what remains the worst traffic accident in Chicago history and the worst streetcar accident in the United States. The streetcar's doors did not have emergency pulls to open them, which are now required on all CTA vehicles, so 33 passengers died trapped inside. The gas truck driver also died. The streetcar's motorman was blamed for failing to slow down to negotiate a switch. 5 things you might not know about Chicago native Ted Kaczynski — the 'Unabomber'1978: 'Unabomber' Ted Kaczynski left his first known bomb in a parking lot at the University of Illinois Chicago. A passerby picked it up and returned it to the person Kaczynski listed on the return address as the sender. That person, a Northwestern University professor, was suspicious about the package and turned it over to security there. A public safety officer at Northwestern suffered minor injuries when he opened the package and it exploded. 1979: At the start of Memorial Day weekend, 271 people aboard American Airlines Flight 191 died after the DC-10 aircraft they boarded crashed just 31 seconds after takeoff from O'Hare International Airport. Two more people on the ground also died in the crash that impacted an open field about 4,600 feet northwest of the departure end of the runway. It's still the deadliest passenger airline accident on U.S. soil. 1981: 'Spider Dan' Goodwin scaled the Sears Tower, which was then the world's tallest building. At least 200 people showed up to watch the 25-year-old Goodwin, clad in a blue-and-orange suit, scale the west side of the building using suction cups and a 'home-welded claw,' the Tribune reported. 'Spider Dan' wowed Chicagoans with his scaling of skyscrapersGoodwin finished a little before 10:30 a.m. and was promptly taken into police custody. He and partner in crime James Hackett were charged with disorderly conduct and bonded out the next day, with Goodwin walking out of the downtown jail still in his superhero suit. Hours later, Goodwin was holding court and dining on trout at the Ambassador East Hotel in the Pump Room's famed Booth One. Two weeks later, Goodwin and Hackett appeared in court. Goodwin pleaded guilty and was fined $35. Hackett had his charge dismissed. Goodwin went on to scale the John Hancock Center in November 1981. 1982: Fergie Jenkins became the seventh MLB pitcher to strike out 3,000 batters in the Chicago Cubs' 2-1 loss at San Diego. Jenkins reached the milestone by striking out Garry Templeton in the third inning. Vintage Chicago Tribune: Oprah Winfrey — 10 moments from her Chicago years2011: The final episode of 'The Oprah Winfrey Show,' which was filmed in Chicago, aired. Subscribe to the free Vintage Chicago Tribune newsletter, join our Chicagoland history Facebook group, stay current with Today in Chicago History and follow us on Instagram for more from Chicago's past.
Boston Globe
25-05-2025
- Boston Globe
Today in History: May 25, George Floyd killed by Minneapolis police
Advertisement In 1946, Transjordan (now Jordan) became a kingdom as it proclaimed its new monarch, Abdullah I. In 1961, President John F. Kennedy told Congress: 'I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.' In 1964, the US Supreme Court, in Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, ordered the Virginia county to reopen its public schools, which officials had closed in an attempt to circumvent the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka desegregation ruling. In 1977, 'Star Wars' was released by 20th Century Fox; it would become the highest-grossing film in history at the time. Advertisement In 1979, 273 people died when an American Airlines DC-10 crashed just after takeoff from Chicago's O'Hare Airport. In 2008, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander arrived on the Red Planet to begin searching for evidence of water; the spacecraft confirmed the presence of water ice at its landing site. In 2012, the private company SpaceX made history as its Dragon capsule became the first commercial spacecraft to dock with the International Space Station. In 2018, Harvey Weinstein was arrested and charged in New York with rape and another sex felony in the first prosecution to result from the wave of allegations against him. (Weinstein would be convicted of two felony counts in 2020, but an appeals court would overturn the conviction in 2024. A retrial on the charges began in April 2025.) In 2020, George Floyd, a Black man, was killed when a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee on Floyd's neck for 9 1/2 minutes while Floyd was handcuffed and pleading that he couldn't breathe; Floyd's death, captured on video by a bystander, would lead to worldwide protests, some of which turned violent, and a reexamination of racism and policing in the US.
Yahoo
29-03-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
Table Rock wildfire grows over 8,600 acres, no containment
PICKENS COUNTY, S.C. (WSPA) – The Table Rock fire has grown to more than 8,600 acres, according to the South Carolina Forestry Commission. The Table Rock fire approximately quadrupled in size from Wednesday to Friday. State and Federal agencies are working against the wind to try to get control of the fire, keeping first responders, the public, and properties on the forefront of their minds. 'Lord we thank you that you are continuing to bless us with the resources, the mindset, and all the things necessary to control this threat that we are under,' Chaplin Stoddard, with the SC Army National Guard prayed. Various containment lines are in place. Crews said the lines have kept the fire away from homes. The South Carolina Forestry Commission said the lines are constructed by bulldozers, where they remove vegetation down to bare soil. 'Down here along this Highway 11 corridor this is where a lot of focus was put early on,' Derrick Moore, Operations Section Chief for the Southern Area Blue Team with Federal Incident Management showed on a map. The focus areas are continually monitored as crews say burnout operations, controlled burns that essentially take the fuel away before the fire reaches that area have also been successful thus far, and will continue. 'A priority for us is this Northeast line up in here,' Moore said. 'Particularly coming up from the lake and behind these structures.' The South Carolina National Guard, in Pickens County, said their main focus is attacking the fire from the air. Four aircraft have dropped over 600,000 gallons of water so far. 'We are in the fight and will be here through the end,' Brigadier General Rob Stilwell, Adjutant General for the U.S. Army said. For the first time ever in South Carolina, a very large air tanker DC-10 also dropped fire retardant on hard-to-reach areas. Governor Henry McMaster visited the area on Friday and said between Hurricane Helene and the wildfires, resources have been stretched thin He asks that the public be mindful of choices that could, even done innocently, lead to situations like this one. 'You see all these people here and all this equipment and searching and bringing other things from around the country and we can't put the fire out,' McMaster said. 'We gone get it out, hoping we gone have some rain help. Everybody put that in your prayers.' Scott Phillips with the South Carolina Forestry Commission said Helene has caused significant impacts to this fire. 'Unfortunately a lot of it, we wont ever get all of it up but we do have some plans to use some Federal funding to do some mitigation efforts especially around communities,' Phillips said, regarding cleanup plans once the Table Rock wildfire is contained. The fight is not over yet and according to the South Carolina Forestry Commission, it could continue for months to come. They said wildfire season has just begun. 'We are 28 days in and we haven't even made it to April 1 yet,' Phillips said. 'April is the month that we tend to have our biggest wildfires here in South Carolina.' A new South Carolina bill was introduced Thursday to increase penalties someone could face for actions leading to fires like this one. The Pickens County Sheriff announced on Friday that he knows people are curious about the charges the four teens responsible for this fire will face, but their focus right now is on getting the fire contained. As of Friday evening, there is still no containment. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
20-03-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Step Inside A Factory Building 1960s Airliners
Stories about lost parts and corners being cut on the production line might give American aviation a bad rap these days, but it's always fun to look at how far we've come in more than half a century of aerospace research. That's where this vintage footage taken inside the factory that assembled McDonnell Douglas DC-10 aircraft comes in. Boeing wasn't always the biggest name in American aerospace, and back in the 1960s a company called McDonnell Douglas churned out some pretty iconic civil jets that went into service across the U.S. and around the world. The company's most famous plane was probably the DC-10, a strange machine with a jet engine on each wing and a third mounted to the tail of the aircraft. In a new video shared by excellent YouTube channel Boeing Classics, workers at the McDonnell Douglas show off what it took to assemble a DC-10 back in the 1960s. Read more: Here's Why You Always Board Planes On The Left The clip, which you can see for yourself above, shows four DC-10 fuselages lined up inside an enormous factory. In one, a crew is working to pack insulation into the body of the plane, while another sees crews working to seal all the workings of the plane in. Inside another fuselage, workers are installing all manner of wiring looms and plumbing, while another is being lined with the kind of plastic window surrounds that wouldn't look out of place on a modern commercial jet. At the opposite side of the plant, tail sections of the 300-passenger aircraft are being assembled and the housing for that third engine on the tail is being fabricated. Another side of the plant is working on nosecones, with windows being fitted to three different cockpits. Once the three sections of the 180-foot long aircraft are fabricated, they are brought together with the 155-foot wings. The components are all carefully hauled into place, before being riveted together at the seams. When they are connected, work begins on the mechanics of the planes with flaps and ailerons installed on the wings and tails, and equipment is strapped to the nose of the DC-10. At this point, there's a choreographed display as all manner of parts and components are swung into place while ladders are lent up against different surfaces and engineers get to work. The final piece of the puzzle is the installation of the three engines, which were either General Electric CF6 units or Pratt & Whitney JT9D turbofan engines depending on the variant. The DC-10 was in production for almost 20 years and McDonnell Douglas churned out almost 400 of the aircraft in this manner. While the DC-10 operated commercially from the early 1970s right up to 2014, none of the nine remaining aircraft fly passengers anymore. The majority of these remaining planes work as cargo carriers, and one remaining DC-10 is used as a firefighting aircraft here in North America. Despite remaining in limited service today, production of the DC-10 ceased in the late 1980s after slowing sales for the commercial jet. It had been plagued with safety issues, crashes and problems with fuel economy, which meant it wasn't a popular jet for many operators. So sure, maybe footage of the construction of a plane that was caught up in more than 50 incidents that led to the deaths of more than 1,200 people might not be the best way to look back on the golden age of American aviation. Want more like this? Join the Jalopnik newsletter to get the latest auto news sent straight to your inbox... Read the original article on Jalopnik.
