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Empire State Building Plane Crash

On July 28, 1945, a plane headed for LaGuardia Airport got lost in the dense morning fog of New York City. Air traffic control instructed the plane to land in Newark instead. The low-flying plane narrowly avoided the Chrysler builder—instead, it crashed into the Empire State Building, killing 11 people.

The More You Know

The United States defense budget of $698 billion is more than the next seventeen nations combined.
In 1945, Dwight D. Eisenhower predicted that people would try to dispel the holocaust as a falsehood, and ordered all possible photographs taken of the Nazi crimes to hinder any such attempts.
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The Guinness brewery supported all of it's employees who chose to fight in WW1. They were paid half of their wages while away, and their jobs were guaranteed upon their return. The brewery also sent them care packages containing chocolate and condensed milk.

Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.