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October 29, 1953
On October 29, 1953, bCPA Flight 304 DC-6 crashes near San Francisco. Rick Moranis, Sk. Mujibur Rahman, Sebastian Faulks would arrive in the same year.
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Featured · October 29, 1953
BCPA Flight 304 DC-6 crashes near San Francisco.
BCPA Flight 304/44 was a scheduled flight operated by British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines from Sydney, Australia, to Vancouver, Canada, with scheduled stops at Fiji, Canton Island, Honolulu and San Francisco. On 29 October 1953, the flight was conducted by a Douglas DC-6 named Resolution and registered in Australia as VH-BPE. The propliner crashed during its initial approach towards San Francisco International Airport, killing all 19 people on board, including the American pianist William Kapell.
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The year in brief
1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1953rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 953rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 53rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1950s decade.
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On October 29, 1953
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1953 BCPA Flight 304 DC-6 crashes near San Francisco. 1953 aviation accident in California, United States
BCPA Flight 304/44 was a scheduled flight operated by British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines from Sydney, Australia, to Vancouver, Canada, with scheduled stops at Fiji, Canton Island, Honolulu and San Francisco. On 29 October 1953, the flight was conducted by a Douglas DC-6 named Resolution and registered in Australia as VH-BPE. The propliner crashed during its initial approach towards San Francisco International Airport, killing all 19 people on board, including the American pianist William Kapell.
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Other moments from 1953
- April 13 CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra.
- April 24 Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
- April 25 Francis Crick and James Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of DNA.
- April 27 Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defects with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000.
- April 29 The first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast shows an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
- August 10 First Indochina War: The French Union withdraws its forces from Operation Camargue against the Viet Minh in central Vietnam.
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