On this date in 1957, two Navy jet planes flying an aerial salute to war dead collide and crash in flames into a heavily populated neighborhood of northeast Minneapolis. One of the pilots was killed and six civilians injured when one of the jets, streaming smoke and flame, hurtled into a residential street, demolished a […]
Disasters
1986-07-08
On this date in 1986, an underground petroleum line, owned by Williams Pipeline, exploded in Mounds View killing 35 year-old Bev Spano and her 7 year-old daughter, Jennifer, and seriously injuring a third person.
1918-09-28
On this date in 1918, University of Minnesota President, Marion Burton, postpones opening the University due to 53 diagnosed cases of Spanish Influenza in the campus population. These were some of the first cases of the flu diagnosed in Minnesota during the 1918-19 Spanish Influenza pandemic.
