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Hours after filming a music video for her hit song “Rock the Boat,” 22-year-old R&B singer and actor Aaliyah dies in a plane crash in the Bahamas.
The 10-seat Cessna, carrying Aaliyah and seven members of her team, crashed immediately after takeoff from the airport on the Bahamian island of Abaco. All eight passengers and the pilot died. The aircraft, which had bee...
The former “bad boy” chef and bestselling author Anthony Bourdain is found dead on June 8, 2018, in his hotel room of apparent suicide. Bourdain was in France filming the 12th season of his hit travel and food TV show “Parts Unknown.” His death at 61 is a shock to his legions of fans, who followed Bourdain from his swaggering, tell-all restaurant memoir through his thoughtful...
On August 15, 1977, The Ohio State University’s Big Ear Radio Telescope detects a powerful 72-second transmission that appears on just one of the telescope’s 50 channels. A few days later, astronomer Jerry Ehman spots the signal in a data printout, circles the sequence “6EQUJ5” and writes “Wow!” in red ink in the margin.
The baffling narrowband signal showed a distinct...
Anne Heche, the 53-year-old actor who became a Hollywood star in the 1990s, dies from injuries sustained after crashing her car into a Los Angeles home several days earlier. On August 11, 2022, doctors pronounce her brain dead, and Heche’s family decides to honor her wishes as an organ donor.
On August 5, Heche was driving her Mini Cooper through the Mar Vista neighborh...
Determined to resist the growing presence of Anglo settlers on traditional tribal lands, the Sauk warrior Black Hawk is drawn into war with the United States.
Called Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak by his people, Black Hawk was born in 1767 in the village of Saukenuk in the present-day state of Illinois. He quickly earned a reputation as a fierce and courageous fighter in the...