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13 hours ago · Yates, Jack Neville ("Banger") 5 607, 60, 802: DFC Yaxley, Robert Gordon: 5 252, 272, 117 DSO, MC, DFC KIA 3 June 1943 returning to El Djem Airfield from UK Young, Michael Hugh 13 264: DFC Flew a Boulton Paul Defiant and won the first 11 of his victories with air gunner LAC S.B. Johnson (KIA 31 May 1940), and the final 2 with Sgt. L.P. Russell [75]
13 hours ago · The Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, better known by its informal name " Jonestown ", was a remote settlement in Guyana established by the Peoples Temple, an American cult under the leadership of Jim Jones. Jonestown became internationally infamous when, on November 18, 1978, a total of 918 [ 1 ][ 2 ] people died at the settlement, at the ...
13 hours ago · Charlotte Motor Speedway (known as Lowe's Motor Speedway from 1999 to 2009 due to sponsorship reasons) is a 1.500-mile (2.414 km) quad-oval intermediate speedway in Concord, North Carolina. It has hosted various major races since its inaugural season of racing in 1960, including NASCAR, IndyCar, and IMSA SportsCar Championship races.
13 hours ago · Edward Teller (Hungarian: Teller Ede; January 15, 1908 – September 9, 2003) was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist and chemical engineer who is known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb " and one of the creators of the Teller–Ulam design based on Stanisław Ulam 's design. He had a volatile personality, and according to ...
13 hours ago · Contents. 1952 New Year Honours. The New Year Honours 1952 were appointments by King George VI to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the British Empire and Commonwealth. They were announced on 1 January 1952 for the British Empire, [ 1 ] Australia, [ 2 ] New Zealand, [ 3 ] Ceylon, [ 4 ] and Pakistan [ 5 ...
13 hours ago · Britton Chance, ForMemRS (1913–2010), Penn College class of 1935, B.A., M.A. 1936, and Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry (1940) at the University of Pennsylvania winner of a gold medal in sailing at the 1952 Summer Olympic Games retired as the Eldridge Reeves Johnson University Professor Emeritus of biochemistry and biophysics, as well as Professor Emeritus of Physical Chemistry and Radiological Physics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine [145]
