A Brief History On October 4, 2010, the Ajka alumina plant in Hungary lost control of 35 million cubic feet of alumina sludge that ended up killing nine people and polluting the Danube and Marcal Rivers. Yes, it was inevitable that someone alone the line would die in alumina sludge. As Murphy’s Law states, if it can happen, it will happen. But it is unlikely that anyone actually wakes up thinking “today this will happen to me.” People are inventive and creative, and throughout history they have come up with new products, machines and techniques that also accidentally killed them.…
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A Brief History On October 3, 2014, Warner Bros. Pictures releases Annabelle, a film about a haunted doll, to theaters. The movie is a prequel to 2013’s award-winning The Conjuring. Both films concern alleged, real-life hauntings associated with the famed paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren. Yet, to what extent are they actually based on real events? Please read this spoiler-filled article to find out! Digging Deeper A new article on the website History vs Hollywood provides quite a bit of information on the film’s purported inspiration from a historical event. Key points for those interested in a briefer read will be summarized here. …
A Brief History On October 2, 1980, Michael Myers was expelled from Congress; the first person to suffer that indignity since the Civil War. Not to be confused with the murderous wacko from the Halloween movie series who is also named Michael Myers, Congressman Myers was a representative from Pennsylvania who had been caught taking a $50,000 bribe in what became known as the Abscam scandal in which the corruption of multiple U.S. politicians was exposed by the FBI. Come to think of it, the movie character is probably embarrassed to be named Michael Myers! Digging Deeper Here at History and Headlines we…
A Brief History On September 19, 1976, two F-4 Phantom IIs of the Imperial Iranian Air Force flew out to intercept a UFO over the capital city of Tehran. As each fighter jet approached the UFO, navigation, weapons, communications and other avionics systems suddenly became inoperable. Only after the F-4s distanced themselves from the UFO, did the pilots regain control. Digging Deeper The Iranian Air Force had received numerous reports of an object in the sky that appeared brighter and larger than a star, and commanders ordered that the object be intercepted. The first jet got within 25 miles of…
A Brief History On September 13, 1848, a Vermont railroad worker suffered a bizarre injury when a 3-foot metal rod went right through his head and proceeded to land 80 feet away. Digging Deeper Phineas Gage was 25-years old at the time and had been using 13-pound iron rod to tamp explosives into holes that had been bored in rock in order to blast a path for a railway. An unexpected explosion occurred, and the rod penetrated the left side of his face and exited out the top of his head, passing behind his left eye. Although much of Gage’s frontal brain lobe was damaged…