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Jan 26, 1993 · Unlike Miep, Jan would always stay in the background when it came to Anne and the Secret Annex. He usually accompanied Miep when she was interviewed or told her story. He would jokingly refer to himself as the ‘prince consort’. Jan Gies died on 26 January 1993, 87 years old.
January 29, 1993. See Original Daily Bulletin From This Date. Advertisement. Jan Gies, the man who helped hide Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis in the Amsterdam “secret annex,” died Tuesday...
Jan 25, 2024 · As he got out of the car, Tetso told his wife he was going to submit his resume. The 41-year old never got the chance. Chepelsky heard news of the plane crash from her friends.
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On 3rd Feb 1959, 22-year-old Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens, aged 17, died in a plane crash shortly after takeoff from Clear Lake, Iowa. The pilot of the single-engine Beechcraft Bonanza was also killed. Holly hired the plane after heating problems developed on his tour bus. All three were traveling to Fargo, North Dakota, for the ...
The Winter Dance Party Tour was planned to cover 24 cities in just three weeks and Holly would be the biggest headliner. Waylon Jennings, a friend from Lubbock, Texas, and Tommy Allsup joined the tour as backup musicians. Ritchie Valens, probably the hottest of the artists at the time, The Big Bopper, and Dion and the Belmonts made up the list of o...
Buddy was fed up with the chartered bus with its faulty heater, so before the performance, he asked the Surf manager Carroll Anderson about renting a chartered plane to fly him to his next destination in Moorhead, Minnesota. Anderson knew the owner of Dwyer Flying Service in nearby Mason City whom he contacted to arrange the flight. Anderson was no...
After the performance, the group got ready to travel to their next show on the tour bus. Holly boarded the 1947 Beechcraft Bonanza aircraft to Fargo, North Dakota, the nearest airport to Moorhead. Two other members of the group had the option to fly with him at $36 per person. Dion didnt want to pay, but Waylon Jennings was keen to fly with Buddy, ...
Early reports from the scene suggest the aircraft spun out of control during a light snowstorm. Only the pilots body was found inside the wreckage as the performers were thrown clear on impact.
The Civil Aeronautics Board concluded that the primary cause of the crash was pilot error due to the 21-year-old Petersons inability to accurately interpret the newly installed Sperry F3 attitude indicator, which he was forced to rely upon in the poor weather conditions. The theory was that Peterson may have read the gyroscope backwards as a result...
Buddy Hollys body was buried a few days later on 7 February. Services were held in Lubbock, Texas, at the Tabernacle Baptist Church where over a thousand mourners attended the service.
In 1988, Buddy fan Ken Paquette built a monument to the singers, from stainless steel, and placed it at the crash site where the current owners of the land also planted four trees in memory of the victims.
Holly is often described as the most influential of the early rock and roll musicians, and has been cited as such by John Lennon and Paul McCartney (McCartney owns the publishing rights to Hollys catalog of songs). The death of Holly is now commonly referred to as the day the music died after Don McLean immortalised the tragedy with his 1972 hit Am...
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Dec 6, 2017 · A few minutes after he took off, he found the wreckage, only six miles northwest of the airport. The local sheriff drove to the cornfield where the plane crashed and made a report. The plane had hit the ground at high speed with its nose down. The right wingtip struck first and made the plane roll across the cornfield for about 540 feet.
Jun 10, 2023 · Rumpel told The Washington Post that Adina Azarian is his daughter and Aria Azarian is his 2-year-old granddaughter and they were among the three passengers and pilot that died in the crash ...
Oct 4, 2021 · Published October 4, 2021. Updated May 24, 2024. On February 3, 1959, Buddy Holly boarded a plane with Ritchie Valens and J.P. "Big Bopper" Richardson near Clear Lake, Iowa. Just minutes after takeoff, the plane crashed. Harry Hammond/V&A Images/Getty Images Buddy Holly was 22 years old when he died.
