Video: ''Bangladesh Cyclone' DEC Appeal , Trevor McDonald, 1991, ITV'

(Tuesday, April 30, 1991, 1:00 a.m. Bangladesh Standard Time; during the 1991 Bangladesh cyclone) — 138,866 people were killed when a cyclone made landfall early this morning about 35 miles south of Chittagong in southeastern Bangladesh with winds of around 250 km/h (155 mph). Continue reading 138,866 people killed when cyclone makes landfall in southeastern Bangladesh 30 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Apr 30 1991) →

Video: '4 91 KYW NBC ABC Coverage of John Heinz Plane Crash'

(Thursday, April 4, 1991, 12:10 p.m. EST; during the Merion air disaster) — U.S. Senator John Heinz, a 52-year-old Republican from Pennsylvania, and six other people, including two children, died today in Lower Merion Township, a suburb northwest of Philadelphia, when his chartered Piper Aerostar propeller-driven plane collided in the air with a Bell 412 helicopter inspecting the plane’s landing gear.
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Video: 'The Birmingham Six Release, Live Broadcast. R.T.E. 1991'

(Thursday, March 14, 1991; during the Northern Ireland conflict) — A British appeals court, citing fresh evidence, today overturned the convictions of six men from Northern Ireland, known as the Birmingham Six, who were sentenced to life in prison for the bombings of two pubs in 1974, the bloodiest assault by the Irish Republican Army on the British mainland.
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