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A memorial to the 47 sailors killed in the explosion was erected at "Iowa Point" on Norfolk Naval Station. The project was overseen by regional Naval Commander RADM Paul Moses and his public affairs staff. Each year after the accident on 19 April a memorial service is held at Iowa Point in memory of those 47 killed in the explosion . [134] [135]
The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial is a presidential memorial in Washington D.C., dedicated to the memory of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States, and to the era he represents. The memorial is one of two in Washington honoring Roosevelt. Dedicated on May 2, 1997, by President Bill Clinton, the national memorial ...
Black Tom explosion. / 40.69222°N 74.05556°W / 40.69222; -74.05556. The Black Tom explosion was an act of sabotage by agents of the German Empire, to destroy U.S.-made munitions that were to be supplied to the Allies in World War I. The explosions occurred on July 30, 1916, in New York Harbor, killing at least 7 people and wounding ...
USS Iowa (BB-61) is a retired battleship, the lead ship of her class, and the fourth in the United States Navy to be named after the state of Iowa.Owing to the cancellation of the Montana-class battleships, Iowa is the last lead ship of any class of United States battleships and was the only ship of her class to serve in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II.
Bronze statue at Dowdell's Knob. FDR Hope Memorial on Roosevelt Island, New York City. Franklin D. Roosevelt statue (in sitting position), Avenue Dr. Américo Ricaldoni in Montevideo, Uruguay. Franklin D. Roosevelt statue (standing), Calz. Mahatma Gandhi in Chapultepec, Mexico City, Mexico.
The Flight 93 National Memorial is a memorial built to commemorate the crash of United Airlines Flight 93, which was one of four aircraft hijacked during the September 11 attacks in 2001. The memorial is located in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, with the vast majority in Stonycreek Township, [ 2] and with a small portion in Shade Township. [ 3]
The bombing of Dresden was a joint British and American aerial bombing attack on the city of Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, during World War II. In four raids between 13 and 15 February 1945, 772 heavy bombers of the Royal Air Force (RAF) and 527 of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) dropped more than 3,900 tons of ...
New London School explosion. The New London School explosion occurred on March 18, 1937, when a natural gas leak caused an explosion and destroyed the London School in New London, Texas, United States. [ 1] The disaster killed more than 300 students and teachers. As of 2021, the event is the third-deadliest disaster in the history of Texas ...