On this day in 1959, rising American rock stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson are killed when their chartered Beechcraft Bonanza plane crashes in Iowa a few minutes after takeoff from Mason City on a flight headed for Moorehead, Minnesota. Investigators blamed the crash on bad weather and pilot error. Holly and his band, the Crickets, had just scored a No. 1 hit with "That'll Be the Day." After mechanical difficulties with the tour bus, Holly had chartered a plane for his band to fly between stops on the Winter Dance Party Tour. However, Richardson, who had the flu, convinced Holly's band member Waylon Jennings to give up his seat, and Ritchie Valens won a coin toss for another seat on the plane. Holly, born Charles Holley in Lubbock, Texas, and just 22 when he died, began singing country music with high school friends before switching to rock and roll after opening for various performers, including Elvis Presley. By the mid-1950s, Holly and his...
The only son of President John F. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy Jr. always lived in the media spotlight. On his third birthday, ''John-John'' attended the funeral of his assassinated father and was...
On July 25, 2000, an Air France Concorde crashed 60 seconds after taking off from Paris en route to New York. All 109 people aboard and four on the ground were killed. The accident was caused by a...
JON HAMMOND Band performing "Liberated Brother" a Latin style composition by Horace Silver at New York's FIVE SPOT CLUB in the famous HOTEL WOLCOTT where BUDDY HOLLY stayed while recording with...
On November 21, 1959, Alan Freed, the radio disc jockey who had popularized rock and roll music, gave his final broadcast for WABC television in New York. Freed had been fired after it was...
On August 16, 1935, beloved American humorist Will Rogers was killed in an airplane accident near Point Barrow, Alaska, plunging the United States into mourning. Three years later, President...
On August 15, 1935, American humorist Will Rogers and famous aviator Wiley Post were killed in an airplane crash near Point Barrow, Alaska. The aircraft, piloted by Post, was in the midst of a...
Shortly after takeoff from New York's Kennedy International Airport, a TWA Boeing 747 jetliner bound for Paris exploded over the Atlantic Ocean on July 17, 1996, killing all 230 people aboard....
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