The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-01-06
AERONAUTICS

IOT nine months Dy agreement.
Dec. 23-Congress recessed for Christ
mas.
AERONAUTICS
Jan. 23-Hawks few from Mexico to
| Canada and return, $500 miles. in 13
Jan. 25.Eddie stimson killed in
crash at Chicago.
to Gen. Italo Balbo of Italy as inter-
national aviation champion for 1881.
,ro May iA rhdr T. ReisheEs took .o on
May 1s-Reichers forced down near
Ireland and rescued by steamship
May 2O-Amelia Earhart (Mrs. G. P.
Putnam) began solo fight from Har-
Dor Grace to Paris.
May. 21-Mrs. Amelia Earhart Put
land, the first woman ever to fly
across the Atlantic alone.
June Army balloon No. 2, piloted
by Lieutenants Paul and Bishop. won
national balloon race.
June 3-S. F. -Hausner started fight
from New York to Poland.
June 11-Hausner picked up at sea
after floating eight days on his plane.
July 5-James Mattern and Bennett
Griffin started round-the-world flight
from Harbor Grace, N; F:
ocean in record time, landed at Ber-
lin and departed for Moscow.
July 7-Mattern and Griffin made
July 22-capt. woifgang Won Gro
nau of Germany and three companions
flew from Germany to Iceland on way
Aug. 2SVon Gronau arrived at Chi
cago.
Aug. 1s-Prof. Auguste Picard rose
In balloon to record altitude of 55,774
feet over Switzerland and Italy.
Capt. J. A. Mollison began fight
from Ireland across Atlantic in Moth
Aug. 1s-Mollison landed in New
Brunswick, completing first westward
solo flight across the Atlantic.
Aug. 22-Mrs. Louise Thaden and
ems endurance fight record Of days.
4 hours.
Aug. 24-Amelia Earhart Putnam set
stop flight from Los Angeles to New
ark.
Aug. 25-Clyde Lee and John Book
hon started flight from Harbor Grace
to Oslo, Norway, and were lost.
Aug. 29-J. G. Haizlip set new coast
forecast record of 10 hours, 10 minutes.
Sept. smMajor Doolittle set 81. new land
an hour at National Air races in Cleve-
land.
inson. two daughters and crew of
four crashed off coast of Greenland
wh saet. fiyjag S9 EH TSTieb, and Edna
Gull hoped off from New York on nom
stop fight to Rome and were lost at
sea.
record of IL hours, 33 minutes, for
flight from New York to Burbank,
Calf.
London to capetown flight in record
time of 4 days, hours. IS minutes.
Nov. 1s-Memorial to Wilbur and
3r .nl Wright unveiled at Kitty
DISASTERS
Jan. Fifty killed in train wreck
near Moscow:
Jan 2ssri w,S submarine "a lost
Feb. 2-Santiago, Cuba, badly dam
aged by earthquakes; six killed. =
Feb. +seventeen killed by explo-
Feb. 26-Thirteen persons killed by
Feb. 27-Mine explosion at Poca-
aareh w. 1sf kss 81 81 Banda Nera in
Dutch East Indies, nearly destroyed by
earthquakes and volcanoes. with great
March ai-Tornadoes in Alabama,
Tennessee killed 35s and did great
March 27-Tornado killed ., in
jured SO in Alabama.
April Ask dead, 81 hurt, in blast
in Ohio state office building at CO.
April 25-,Tornadoes in Tennessee.
May 2-Nearly a hundred killed by
typhoon in Philippines.
May 1.-TWO million dollar fire on
Cunard pier, New York.
May 16-New French liner Georges
Philippar burned in Gulf of Alden; So
lives lost.
June 3-Earthquake killed hundreds
in Guadalalara region of Mexico.
house fire in cleveland. Ohio.
June 17-Explosion on oil tanker at
Montreal killed 20 men.
June ls-Hailstorm in Honan prov
July French submarine Promethee
sank off Normandy coast with SO men.
July 10-Explosion of ammunition
depot in Marking, China, killed so.
July 1s-Three million dollar fire on
Coney Island, n. Y.
July 26-German training ship Niobe
sank in storm; So drowned.
Aug. six million dollar fire in
Chicago packing house district.
Aug. 13-Forty killed in south Texas
Sept. s-Fifty-six workmen killed
by steamer explosion at New York.
Sept. 14-Fifty-five men killed in
wreck of French Foreign Legion train
Sept. 26-Earthquake in the Balkans
Sept. 27-Hurricane swept Porto
Rico. killing several hundred and do
ing vast damage.
Sept. 30-Forty lives lost in cloud
burst in Tehachapi pass, California.
Nov 9-Disastrous storm in south
ern Cuba; $500 killed and great dam
age done.
Nov 14-Japan swept by terrific ty-
phoon; scores of lives lost and many
towns and villages wrecked
Dec. 5-Japanese destroyer capsized
in storm; los men lost.
Dec. Fourteen coal miners killed
by blast at Madrid, N. NJ
Dec. 90Explosion in coal mine at
Yancey, KY. killed %.