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The world has witnessed far more serious air crashes and footage of carnage is now a dime a dozen. Why is the Hindenburg worth remembering? Every May 6, calendars mark the crash of the German ...

May 18—It's been 84 years since the Hindenburg disaster took place in New Jersey. The German passenger airship caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock at Naval Air Station Lakehurst ...

The airship Hindenburg, arriving from Europe, was being led to its mooring at Lakehurst, New Jersey when suddenly disaster struck. The hydrogen-filled zeppelin ignited, and was almost instantly ...

Fourteen students will graduate from Wykoff High School on May 31 in the school gymnasium. Class valedictorian is Larry Rasmussen, and Melody Betry is class salutatorian. About 15,000 students, ...

Brandishing burns and a fractured ankle, one Ben Dova cashed in on his miraculous escape from disaster, pocketing $350 for a one-shot appearance on the Robert Ripley “Believe It or Not” radio show on ...

Addison Bain’s obsession with the Hindenburg disaster began on his lunch break in the early 1990s when three words caught his eye. A rocket fuel expert, Bain liked to wander across the street from his ...

Every May 6, calendars mark the crash of the German dirigible Hindenburg at Lakehurst, N.J., in 1937. As the 80th-anniversary commemoration looms for the accident that killed 35 people, I am often ...