page_title: May 1959
section_title: May 12, 1959 (Tuesday)
hierarchical_section_title: May 1959 / May 12, 1959 (Tuesday)
caption_attribution_description: English: Still/screenshot from the popular NBC-TV series "Coke Time with Eddie Fisher". The host Eddie Fisher was a popular singer in the United States during the 1950's, and was known as "The Jewish Sinatra". His songs were largely in the traditional-pop genre, aimed at a teen-audience, though he was 26 at the time of this broadcast. Like most live United States television of the decade, the show aired without a copyright notice (I have the complete show on a DVD I bought), and was not registered for copyright with the US copyright office.
context_page_description: The following events occurred in May 1959:
context_section_description: At 3:29 p.m., Capital Airlines Flight 983 from Buffalo to Atlanta skidded off the runway while making a stop in Charleston, West Virginia and slid down a 200-foot embankment with 44 people on board, although all but 2 survived.   Less than an hour later, Capital Airlines Flight 75, a turboprop flying from New York to Atlanta, disintegrated at an altitude of 5,000 feet after encountering severe turbulence, crashing near Chase, Maryland at 4:16 p.m., killing all 31 people on board. It was believed to be the first time that two planes from the same airline had crashed on the same day.
  Hours after his divorce from Debbie Reynolds became final, Eddie Fisher married Elizabeth Taylor in Las Vegas.
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