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October 28, 1954
On October 28, 1954, aeroflot Flight 136 crashes near Krasnoyarsk, killing 19. Robert Greenberg, Trevor Francis, Ebiet G. Ade would arrive in the same year.
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Featured · October 28, 1954
Aeroflot Flight 136 crashes near Krasnoyarsk, killing 19.
Aeroflot Flight 136 was an aviation disaster involving an Ilyushin Il-12P passenger aircraft operated by Aeroflot, which occurred on Thursday 28 October 1954 in Krasnoyarsk Krai, on the slope of Mount Sivukha. The crash resulted in the deaths of 19 people.
Around 1954
The year in brief
1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1954th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 954th year of the 2nd millennium, the 54th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1950s decade.
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On October 28, 1954
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1954 Aeroflot Flight 136 crashes near Krasnoyarsk, killing 19. Aviation accident on 28 October 1954
Aeroflot Flight 136 was an aviation disaster involving an Ilyushin Il-12P passenger aircraft operated by Aeroflot, which occurred on Thursday 28 October 1954 in Krasnoyarsk Krai, on the slope of Mount Sivukha. The crash resulted in the deaths of 19 people.
Elsewhere that year
Other moments from 1954
- April 1 United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the creation of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
- April 18 Gamal Abdel Nasser seizes power in Egypt.
- April 22 Red Scare: Witnesses begin testifying and live television coverage of the Army–McCarthy hearings begins.
- April 25 The first practical solar cell is publicly demonstrated by Bell Telephone Laboratories.
- April 26 The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
- April 26 The first clinical trials of Jonas Salk's polio vaccine begin in Fairfax County, Virginia.
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