With 583 fatalities, the 1977 crash between two 747s at Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain is still the deadliest accident in aviation history.
The final communications between cockpits (KLM, Pan Am) and the tower include these as the final entries:
KLM FLT ENGR Is hij er niet af, die Pan American? [Is he not clear, that Pan American?]
1706:35.7
KLM CAPTAIN Jawel. [Oh yes. - emphatic]
1706:40.5
[Pan Am captain sees landing lights of KLM Boeing at approx. 700 m]
PAN AM CAPTAIN There he is … look at him. Goddamn that son-of-a-bitch is coming!
PAN AM FIRST OFFICER Get off! Get off! Get off!
1706:43.5
KLM FIRST OFFICER Vee-one.
1706:44.0
[PH-BUF (KLM 4805) started rotation.]
1706:47.4
KLM CAPTAIN [Exclamation/expletive]
1706:50
N736PA (Pan Am 1736) records sound of collision.
Saturday Night Live had an early running gag of Weekend Update anchor Chevy Chase announcing “Generalissimo Francisco Franco [of Spain] is still dead,” spoofing the repeated premature TV news reports of Franco’s death.
The Chevrolet Beauville was originally a station wagon option for the 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air. The name was later resurrected as a full-size van option for the Chevrolet Van in 1970.
In 1979, Saturday Night Live aired a sketch spoofing The Beverly Hillbillies, in which the family was changed from hillbillies to Saudi Arabians. The skit was named “The Bel Air-abs”.
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Mix 2 ozs of rye whiskey with ½ an ounce of sweet vermouth, 2-3 dashes of Angostura bitters, and add a maraschino cherry for garnish, and you’ve got a Manhattan. The Manhattan was the first cocktail that used vermouth as a modifier. The Manhattan is one of six basic drinks listed in David A. Embury’s classic The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks.
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In play: Mariel Hemingway was named for Mariel, Cuba, the closest port in that country to the US. The Castro government permitted 125,000 Cubans to escape to the US from there in 1980 via the Mariel Boatlift.
In March 1957, John Lennon, then aged sixteen, formed a skiffle group with several friends from Quarry Bank school. They briefly called themselves the Blackjacks, before changing their name to the Quarrymen after discovering that a respected local group was already using the other name. Fifteen-year-old Paul McCartney joined as a rhythm guitarist shortly after he and Lennon met that July. In February 1958, McCartney invited his friend George Harrison to watch the band. The fourteen-year-old auditioned for Lennon, impressing him with his playing, but Lennon initially thought Harrison was too young to join. After a month of Harrison’s persistence, they enlisted him as their lead guitarist. By January 1959, Lennon’s Quarry Bank friends had left the group, and he began studies at the Liverpool College of Art. The three guitarists, billing themselves at least three times as Johnny and the Moondogs, were playing rock and roll whenever they could find a drummer. Lennon’s art school friend Stuart Sutcliffe, who had recently sold one of his paintings and purchased a bass guitar, joined in January 1960, and it was he who suggested changing the band’s name to Beatals as a tribute to Buddy Holly and the Crickets. They used the name through May, when they became the Silver Beetles, before undertaking a brief tour of Scotland as the backing group for pop singer and fellow Liverpudlian Johnny Gentle. By early July, they changed their name to the Silver Beatles and by the middle of August to the Beatles.
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The majority (66%) of kosher food products are consumed by non-Jews. Many vegetarians, Muslims, and Hindus, etc. also use kosher certification as a way to adhere to religious or cultural dietary restrictions.
U.S. Route 66 (US 66 or Route 66), also known as the Will Rogers Highway and colloquially known as the , Main Street of America or the Mother Road, was one of the original highways within the U.S. Highway Systemhaving been established on November 11, 1926. The highway, originally ran from Chicago, Illinois, through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona before ending at Santa Monica, California, covering a total of 2,448 miles . It served as a major path for those who migrated west, especially during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.Highway System.
