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2010 Event - Florencio Avalos, the first of 33 miners trapped underground in the 2010 Copiapo mining accident is rescued from the mine

2010 Event - A drill reaches 33 Chilean miners who remain trapped underground after the 2010 Copiapo mining accident August 5, 2010

2008 Death - Bronislaw Geremek, dies in Poland, in a car accident, at 76

2006 Event - Dick Cheney accidentally shoots friend in a hunting accident

2005 Death - Harold Kalin, singer, member of pop music duo with brother Herbert 'Herbie' Kalin, dies from automobile accident injuries, at age 71

2003 Death - Michael Kelly, journalist, Atlantic Monthly - died in Iraq in an accident, dies at 45

2002 Death - Lisa Lopes, singer, songwriter, known as 'Left Eye', member of group, TLC, famous songs include, 'Waterfalls', 'Girl Talk', dies in La Ceiba, Honduras, at age 30, in a car accident

1997 Death - Michael Kennedy, son of Robert Kennedy, dies in ski accident at 39

1996 Death - Seymour Cray, computer designer, dies in auto accident at 71

1996 Death - Ron Brown, Secretary of Commerce, dies in an accident

1995 Event - In South Africa, 104 miners killed in an elevator accident

1995 Death - Alexander Knox, actor and writer (Gorky Park, Accident), dies at 88

1994 Event - 3 Seattle Seahawks injured in a car accident

1994 Event - Yak-40 accident in north of Peru, 8 killed

1994 Event - Antonov AN-12 having an accident at Ust-Ilimsk Kaluga, 21 killed

1994 Death - Don Watson, race car driver, dies in an accident at 46

1994 Death - Simon R Naoli, Tanzanian marathoner, dies in an accident at 28

1994 Event - Train accident at Pinetown, Natal kills 47

1994 Death - Antonio Martin, Spanish cyclist, dies in cycling accident at 23

1994 Death - Basel al-Assad, Syrian President Assad son, dies in car accident at 31

1993 Death - Cliff Young, pitcher (Cleveland Indians), dies in car accident at 29

1993 Death - Gustavo Brillembourg, Venezuela/U.S. advocate, dies in an accident at 35

1993 Event - F Murray Abraham released from hospital after car accident

1993 Death - Sergei Y Vozovikov, Russian major/cosmonaut, dies in accident at 35

1993 Death - Julio Gallo, wine maker (Gallo), dies in a car accident at 82

1993 Death - Oksana Kostina, Russian gymnast, dies in an auto accident

1993 Death - Tip Tipping, Tim, stuntman, dies in sky-diving accident at 34

1993 Event - Price is Right model Janice Pennington sues CBS for show accident

1992 Death - Stephen Albert, composer, Pulitzer Prize winner 1985, for symphony 'RiverRun', won Grammy Award 1995 for 'Cello Concerto', killed in an automobile accident in Cape Cod, Massachusetts

1992 Death - Ulysses Guimaraes, Brazilian MP (chairman), dies in accident

1992 Death - Clifford Allison, U.S. stock-car racer, dies in an accident

1992 Death - Reginald Beck, English film editor (Robbery, Accident, Boom), dies

1992 Death - Mike Tyrell [Red Baron], British air acrobat, dies in an accident

1992 Event - Janice Pennington is awarded $1.3M for accident on Price is Right set

1992 Event - Comedian Pat McCormick injured in a car accident

1991 Event - 93 cars and 11 truck accident near San Francisco during a dust storm, 17 die

1991 Death - Ralph Marrero, actor (Babe, Johnny Suede), dies in car accident at 33

1991 Event - Jockey, Bill Shoemaker, paralyzed in a car accident

1990 Event - 2 die in a New York City subway accident

1990 Event - 13 die in 83 vehicle accident in Chattanooga Tennessee I-75, due to fog

1990 Event - Gloria Estefan released from hospital after her accident

1990 Event - Singer Gloria Estefan breaks her collarbone in a bus accident

1989 Death - Billy Martin, New York Yankee manager, killed in a car accident at 61

1988 Death - Carl Hubbell, pitcher for the New York Giants-253 wins, 2.97 lifetime ERA, dies in an auto accident

1988 Death - Pauline Lafont, daughter of Bernadette, dies in hiking accident at 25

1988 Death - Trindad Silva, actor (Hill St. Blues), dies at 38 in an auto accident

1988 Death - Trinidad Silva, killed in auto accident at 38

1988 Death - Adrian Adonis, Keith Franke, WWF wrestler, killed in auto accident

1987 Death - Alain Vincx, Belgian stuntman, dies in an accident at 40

1986 Death - Betico Croes, Arubian politician, dies in an accident at 48

1986 Event - President Reagan announces formation of Commission on Challenger Accident

1985 Death - Kirby Grant, actor/singer (Sky King), dies in an auto accident at 74

1985 Event - Little Richard seriously injured in a car accident

1985 Death - Laura Ashley, Welsh fashion designer, dies by accident

1984 Death - Janet Gaynor, actress (Sunrise), dies at 77 from a traffic accident

1984 Event - Country singer Barbara Mandrell is badly injured in a car accident

1983 Event - 20 killed in Britain's worst helicopter accident

1983 Death - James G Richardson, (Tim Cassidy-Sierra), dies at 37 in ski accident

1982 Death - Vivien Merchant, actress (Accident, Offense), dies at 53

1982 Death - Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian auto racer, dies in an accident

1982 Event - Singer Teddy Pendergrass' spinal cord severed in a car accident

1981 Event - 2 workers killed in space shuttle Columbia accident

1979 Death - Keith Godchaux, rocker (Grateful Dead), dies in a car accident at 31

1979 Event - Major nuclear accident at 3 Mile Island, Middletown, Pennsylvania (no deaths)

1976 Death - Stanley Baker, actor (Accident, Guns of Navarone), dies at 49

1975 Event - Mexico City's 1st major subway accident takes 26 lives

1974 Event - Train accident at Zagreb Yugoslavia, 121 killed

1972 Event - Worst U.S. rail accident in 14 years; 45 die in Chicago

1972 Death - William HAF, English prince/grandson of George V, dies in accident at 29

1972 Event - George Harrison is involved in a minor car accident

1971 Death - Etienne Gailly, Belgian marathoner, Bronze Medal 1948 Olympics, dies in accident at 48

1971 Death - Duane Allman, rock guitarist, dies in a motorcycle accident at 24

1971 Death - Georgi T Dobrovolsky, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11-land accident), dies at 43

1971 Death - Viktor Patsayev, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11-landing accident), dies at 38

1971 Death - Vladimir Volkov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11-landing accident), dies at 35

1971 Event - Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane seriously injured in a car accident

1970 Event - 2 die in a New York City subway accident

1969 Event - Edward Kennedy pleads guilty to leaving scene of an accident a week after the Chappaquiddick car accident that killed Mary Jo Kopechne

1967 Death - Theo Marcuse, actor (Mara of Wilderness), dies in auto accident at 47

1966 Event - Bob Dylan hurt in motorcycle accident near Woodstock New York

1966 Death - Richard Farina, rocker, dies on his birthday in a motorcycle accident

1961 Event - Train accident in Italy, 70 die

1961 Event - Dutch Lockheed Electricity "Sirius" accident at Cairo, kills 20

1961 Death - Valentin Vasilyevich Bondarenko, cosmonaut, dies in accident at 24

1960 Death - Albert Camus, French author (Stranger), dies in an auto accident at 46

1959 Death - Rosetta Duncan, (Duncan Sisters), dies in an auto accident at 58

1958 Death - Julia Lennon, mother of Beatle John, dies in an auto accident

1957 Event - Accident at British nuclear reactor in Windsdale

1956 Death - Jackson Pollock, abstract artist, dies in auto accident (East Hampton)

1955 Event - Le Mans race car accident kills 83 spectators, race continues

1954 Event - Tennis champ Maureen Connolly's right leg is crushed in an accident

1949 Event - Detroit Tiger pitcher Art Houtteman is critically injured in an auto accident but recovers to win 15 games in 1949

1949 Event - Golfing champ Ben Hogan seriously injured in an auto accident

1946 Death - Eduard Veterman, Dutch painter/playwright, dies in an auto accident

1946 Death - Jack Johnson, 1st black heavyweight champion, dies in car accident

1945 Death - Pater Bleijs, Louis, resistance fighter, dies in car accident

1944 Event - 48 people die in a train accident in Ogden, Utah

1944 Event - Allied aircrafts bombard per accident Fishing, Overijssel

1939 Death - Ghazi I, King of Iraq (19??-39), dies in car accident

1938 Event - 2 die in a New York City subway accident

1937 Event - Prince Bernhard injured in auto accident in Netherlands

1928 Event - 16 die in a New York City subway's 2nd worst accident

1926 Death - David Lobo, Dutch actor, dies in railway accident

1926 Death - Greta Lobo-Braakensiek, Dutch actress in railway accident

1918 Event - Train accident at Weesp, Netherlands, kills 42

1912 Event - 1st accident (collision) in Londoner Underground: 22 injured person

1909 Birthday - Joseph Walton Losey, Wisconsin, director, Damned, Accident

1905 Event - General Trade journal publishes 1st Dutch photo (train accident)

1902 Event - Mine accident in Wollongong, Australia, 100 die

1899 Death - George Morgan, 1st English motorist to die in an motor accident, dies

1896 Event - 1st car accident occurs, Henry Wells hit a bicyclist (New York City)

1880 Event - Compressed air accident kills 20 workers on Hudson River tunnel, New York

1864 Event - Grand Trunk Railway accident; 100 killed

1864 Death - Thomas Donnely Doubleday, U.S. Union Col, dies in an accident

1863 Event - Travelers Insurance Co of Hartford chartered, 1st accident insurer

1832 Event - 1st railroad accident in U.S., Granite Railway, Quincy, Mass-1 dies

1785 Event - 2 French balloonists die in world's 1st fatal aviation accident

1654 Death - Rembrandt Carel Fabritius, painter, dies in an accident

1560 Death - Amy Robsart, wife of English premier Robert Dudley, dies by accident

1526 Death - Louis II, King of Hungary/Bohemia, dies in accident at 20

1143 Death - John II Comnenus, Emperor of Byzantium (1118-43), dies in an accident

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