Video: 'Recalling 1960 Chile Quake'
(Sunday, May 22, 1960, 3:11:14 p.m. Chile Standard Time; during the 1960 Valdivia earthquake) — Nearly 5,000 people were killed by an earthquake of magnitude 9.5, the strongest ever measured, that struck today near Valdivia in southern Chile and lasted approximately 10 minutes. Continue reading Most powerful earthquake ever recorded kills thousands in southern Chile 60 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (May 22 1960)
(Saturday, May 22, 2010) — “Not Afraid” by Eminem peaked at #1 on today’s Billboard‘s Hot 100 singles chart for one week. Continue reading ‘Not Afraid’ by Eminem peaks at #1 in USA 10 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (May 22 2010)
Video: 'The Sensational 70s - 1970' (May 22, 1970, at 28:44)
(Friday, May 22, 1970, morning local time; during the Avivim school bus massacre, part of Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon) — 12 civilians, nine of them children, were killed and 25 wounded, most of them children, when a school bus was ambushed this morning in Israel on the road to Moshav Avivim, near Israel’s border with Lebanon.
No one escaped unhurt in the crowded bus, which was struck by Two rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) fired from a clump of bushes five yards from the road when the bus was about 20 yards away.
The attack was one of the first carried out by the PFLP-GC, a Palestinian nationalist militant organisation based in Syria.
