Wednesday, June 23, 2010

TODAY IN HISTORY

JUNE 23
1985:All 329 people aboard Air India Flight 182 are killed when a bomb destroys the plane in midair, causing it to crash off the coast of Ireland.

1931: Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island, in what becomes the first around-the-world flight in a single-engine plane. The flight takes nine days and makes 14 stops.

After many failed attempts to convict the “Teflon Don,” John Gotti, the head of New York City’s largest crime family, is sentenced to life imprisonment for racketeering and multiple counts of murder.

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