This day in history, March 27: 583 people killed after a KLM Boeing 747 crashes into a Pan Am 747 on an airport runway on the Canary Island of Tenerife.
Today’s Highlight in History:
In 1945, during World War II, General Dwight D. Eisenhower told reporters in Paris that German defenses on the Western Front had been broken. In 1968, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin , the first man to orbit the Earth in 1961, died when his MiG-15 jet crashed during a routine training flight near Moscow; he was 34.
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