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Events that happened in the past

For some, time is a great healer. For others, years can never put a distance between them and events that have occurred. I didn’t have anyone that I knew involved in these terrible events, and in some ways I felt like I shouldn’t be upset, well not nearly as upset as someone that did lose [...]

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When these were legal tender, and I got one as a kid on my birthday, I really did feel like I was in the money. Face Value was 50 pence, which is currently about US$1.

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On 6 February 1958, the chartered aircraft was bringing the Manchester United entourage back from a European Cup match against Red Star Belgrade in Yugoslavia and had stopped at Munich’s Riem Airport to refuel.
The British European Airways (BEA) plane caught fire shortly after take off with 38 passengers and six crew on board.
Twenty-three people died [...]

A Pan Am 747 with 243 passengers and 15 crew on board crashed on the small town of Lockerbie just north of the Scottish border with England. The plane left London Heathrow at 6pm GMT en route for New York’s JFK. The flight disappeared from Prestwick’s Air Traffic Control Center’s radar screen just after 7pm.
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