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John Tilbury

John Tilbury (born 1 February 1936) is a British pianist. He is considered one of the foremost interpreters of Morton Feldman's music, and since 1980 has been a member of the free improvisation group AMM.

Early life and education
Tilbury studied piano at the Royal College of Music with Arthur Alexander and James Gibb and also with Zbigniew Drzewiecki in Warsaw. In 1968 he was the winner of the Gaudeamus competition in the Netherlands.

Musical career
During the 1960s, Tilbury was closely associated with the composer Cornelius Cardew, whose music he has interpreted and recorded and a member of the Scratch Orchestra. His biography of Cardew, "Cornelius Cardew – A life unfinished" was published in 2008.

Tilbury has also recorded the works of Howard Skempton and John White, among many others, and has also performed adaptations of the radio plays of Samuel Beckett. He collaborated with the choreographer Ernest Berk.

With guitarist AMM bandmate Keith Rowe's electroacoustic ensemble M.I.M.E.O., Tilbury recorded The Hands of Caravaggio, inspired by the painter's The Taking of Christ (1602). In this live performance, twelve of the members of M.I.M.E.O. were positioned around the piano in a deliberate echo of Christ's Last Supper. The thirteenth M.I.M.E.O. member (Cor Fuhler) is credited with "inside piano" as he interacted and interfered with Tilbury's playing by manipulating and damping the instrument's strings, essentially doing piano preparation in real time. Critic Brian Olewnick describes the album as "A staggering achievement, one is tempted to call The Hands of Caravaggio the first great piano concerto of the 21st century".

Another notable recent recording of Tilbury's was Duos for Doris (like The Hands of Caravaggio also on Erstwhile Records), a collaboration with Keith Rowe. It is widely considered a landmark recording in the genre of electroacoustic improvisation (or "EAI").

In 2013, he collaborated with artist Armando Lulaj in FIEND performance at the National Theatre of Tirana (Albania).

Discography

 * Two Chapters and an Epilogue with Evan Parker (Matchless, 2000)
 * Pianoworks (Sony, 2001)
 * The Hands of Caravaggio (Erstwhile, 2002)
 * Duos for Doris with Keith Rowe (Erstwhile, 2003)
 * Discrete Moments with Eddie Prevost (Matchless, 2004)
 * Piano Music 1993–2007 (Mathieu Copeland, 2008)
 * Field (hatOLOGY, 2009)
 * E.E. Tension and Circumstance with Keith Rowe (Potlatch, 2011)
 * Plays Howard Skempton (Onement, 2013)
 * The Just Reproach with Oren Ambarchi (Black Truffle, 2013)
 * Exta with John Butcher (Fataka, 2013)
 * Two Pianos and Other Pieces 1953–1969 with Philip Thomas (Another Timbre, 2014)
 * Seaside with John Lely, Christian Wolff (Another Timbre, 2016)
 * Playing with a Dead Person with Derek Bailey (Bolt, 2016)
 * Grand Tour with Zygmunt Krauze (Bolt, 2016)
 * Landmark with Eddie Prevost (+3 dB, 2018)
 * Sissel with Keith Rowe (Sofa, 2018)
 * The Tiger's Mind (Cubus, 2019)

With Morton Feldman
 * For Bunita Marcus (LondonHALL, 1993)
 * All Piano (LondonHALL, 1999)
 * For John Cage (Diatribe, 2020)

With others
 * John Cage, Sonatas & Interludes for Prepared Piano (London, 1975)
 * John Cage, Winter Music (Another Timbre, 2017)
 * Cornelius Cardew, Piano Music 1959–70 (Matchless, 1996)
 * Angharad Davies, Goldsmiths (Another Timbre, 2016)
 * Terry Jennings, Lost Daylight (Another Timbre, 2010)
 * Eddie Prevost, PST Live in Rome (Auditorium Edizioni, 2012)
 * Howard Riley & John Tilbury & Keith Tippett, Another Part of the Story (Emanem, 2003)
 * Arnold Schoenberg, Lieder (Eterna, 1999)
 * Marcus Schmickler, Variety (A-Musik, 2005)
 * Marcus Schmickler, Timekeepers (A-Musik, 2015)
 * Dave Smith, First Piano Concert (Matchless, 1988)
 * Wadada Leo Smith, Bishopsgate Concert (Treader, 2014)

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Stars on Ice

Stars on Ice is a touring figure skating show produced by IMG. It was co-founded in 1986 by Bob Kain, IMG executive, and Scott Hamilton, the 1984 Olympic Gold Medalist in men's figure skating. The production is a theatrical show featuring a small cast of elite skaters who perform together in ensemble as well as solo numbers. Hamilton retired from regular touring in 2001.

Stars on Ice was originally conceived as an ice show for adults, without the children's cartoon characters typical of other commercial ice shows of the period such as Ice Capades or Disney on Ice. It started on a shoestring budget, playing only a few dates in small-town arenas. The first national tour was conducted in 1987-88. In 1992, IMG bought out the rival "Skating" tour from Bill Graham Presents and merged its resources with those of Stars on Ice. Among the acquisitions from the "Skating" tour was Sandra Bezic, who took over as Director and Choreographer of Stars on Ice for over a decade. For the past two years, Jeffrey Buttle has served as director. In its history, Stars on Ice has won three Emmy Awards and the 1994 ACE Cable Award for Best Sports Special.

Stars on Ice tours the United States, Canada, Japan and China on an annual basis, and has also staged shows in Europe, Brazil, and Korea. The Tour has played over 1,600 shows in its 32 seasons.

Historical timeline

 * October, 1986: Scott Hamilton ‘America’ Tour debuts, starting in Orono, ME and travels to Burlington, VT; Durham, NH; Morristown, NJ; and Philadelphia, PA.
 * December, 1986: Stars on Ice hits the road headlining Scott Hamilton and Rosalynn Sumners. Scheduled cities were medium-size and primarily located in the East and Midwest.
 * 1987-1988 Tour: Discover Card becomes the title sponsor with Plymouth as the presenting sponsor.  The Tour plays 36 shows in its first full season.
 * 1987: ESPN televises first show from Chicago.
 * 1988-1989 Tour: 1988 Olympic Medalists Brian Orser, Debi Thomas, and Tracy Wilson & Rob McCall join the tour.
 * 1989: Kitty and Peter Carruthers join the tour which further increases the versatility of the tour.
 * 1990: Canada becomes part of the Stars on Ice schedule.
 * September, 1991: Former Cast Member Rob McCall dies from AIDS.
 * 1991-1992 Tour: The baseball number provides the impetus for the wonderful, full-cast ensemble productions that would follow.
 * 1992: Two major performances televised by Turner Broadcasting and NBC. The Tour will win three Emmy Awards and one ACE Cable award for its television productions in the years to come.
 * 1992: World Champion Kurt Browning becomes the first major amateur skater on the Stars on Ice Tour as he headlines the Canadian Tour.
 * 1992: (April 28) Former cast member Brian James Pockar, Canadian figure skater, dies in Calgary of AIDS.
 * 1992-1993: Olympic Gold Medalist Kristi Yamaguchi joins the Tour. Sandra Bezic is hired as Director/Choreographer.
 * February 19, 1993: The show’s first appearance at Madison Square Garden.
 * 1994: Scott, Brian, Rosalynn, Kitty, and Peter lead a tribute to the ’84 Olympics in Sarajevo.
 * 1994: Katarina Witt joins Stars on Ice; Kurt Browning expands his participation to the U.S. Tour.
 * 1994-1995 Tour: The return of Gordeeva & Grinkov following their second Olympic Gold in Lillehammer; cast features total of six Olympic Gold Medals.
 * November 20, 1995: Sergei Grinkov collapses and dies of a heart attack at SOI rehearsals.
 * February 27, 1996: Stars on Ice presents Celebration of a Life, a prime time CBS special featuring the return to the ice of Ekaterina Gordeeva.
 * 1996-1997 Tour: Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean join the Tour. Ekaterina Gordeeva tours as a solo skater. Smucker’s becomes the presenting sponsor of the Tour.
 * March, 1997: Scott Hamilton is diagnosed with testicular cancer.
 * 1997-98 Tour: Scott Hamilton returns to the ice to perform in Stars on Ice. Stars on Ice gets a private jet that helps to relieve travel difficulties.
 * 1998: Tara Lipinski and Ilia Kulik, fresh off Olympic Gold in Nagano, Japan, join the Tour. Target becomes Title Sponsor.
 * 2000-01 Tour: Scott Hamilton Farewell Tour.
 * 2001-02 Tour "Gold": Smucker’s becomes Title Sponsor.
 * 2002: Alexei Yagudin and the Golden Pairs (Sale & Pelletier and Berezhnaya & Sikharulidze) join the cast.
 * 2003-04 Tour "Time – A Theatrical Adventure"
 * 2004-05 Tour "Imagination – It’s all You Need to Dream"
 * 2005-06 Tour: 20th Anniversary Season.
 * 2006-07 Tour "Double Exposure – The Many Lives of Figure Skaters"
 * 2007-08 Tour "Live and in Color": Olympic Silver Medalist Sasha Cohen joins the Tour. Tour plays one month in Japan. 1,000th U.S.Stars on Ice performance on March 13, 2008, in Philadelphia.
 * 2008-09 Tour "On the Edge – The Heart of the Champion"
 * 2010 Tour "The Concert": After winning an Olympic Gold Medal in Vancouver, Evan Lysacek performs in 26 shows while competing in ABC's Dancing With The Stars throughout the tour.  The Canadian Tour sells out multiple shows.
 * 2010-11 Tour: Stars on Ice celebrates 25th Anniversary Tour in 25 U.S. markets.
 * 2011-12 Tour "Love ‘n’ Life": Stars on Ice produces show for 10th anniversary of Salt Lake City Olympics featuring SLOC President and CEO, Mitt Romney.
 * 2012-13 Tour: Dorothy Hamill joins to perform in Kurt Browning's final U.S. Tour. 250th Canadian performance on May 3, 2013 in Saskatoon, SK.
 * 2014 Tour: Olympic Gold Medalists Meryl Davis & Charlie White headline the U.S. Tour. The Canadian cast features the Olympic Silver Medal-winning team, Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir, from the Sochi Olympics.
 * 2014-15 Tour: 25th Anniversary Tour of Canada.
 * 2016 Tour: "#E-motion" features medalists from 2016 World Championships in Boston.
 * 2017 Tour: "In dreams" Canadian tour features Kurt Browning, Elvis Stojko, and Patrick Chan touring together for the first time.
 * 2018 Tour: "Celebration" World Champion Nathan Chen leads U.S. tour; Canadian tour features entire Olympic Gold-Medal winning team and sells out across the country.
 * 2019 Tour: "Unity" Held before the eventual cancellation of both the 2021 and 2022 tours due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
 * 2022 Tour: "Journey" Features entire US Olympic team.

Cast
The original cast was Scott Hamilton, Dorothy Hamill, Toller Cranston, Rosalynn Sumners, Brian Pockar, Lea Ann Miller, Bill Fauver, Lisa Carey, Chris Harrison, Judy Blumberg and Michael Seibert.

Skaters who have toured with the show include:

 * Jeremy Abbott
 * Miki Ando (Canada & Japan)
 * Natalia Annenko & Genrich Sretenski
 * Oksana Baiul
 * Gary Beacom
 * Elena Bechke & Denis Petrov
 * Tanith Belbin & Ben Agosto
 * Elena Berezhnaya & Anton Sikharulidze
 * Shae-Lynn Bourne & Victor Kraatz
 * Ryan Bradley
 * Isabelle Brasseur & Lloyd Eisler
 * Jason Brown
 * Kurt Browning
 * Jeffrey Buttle
 * Maria Butyrskaya (Canada & Euro)
 * Kitty Carruthers & Peter Carruthers
 * Patrick Chan
 * Karen Chen
 * Nathan Chen
 * Chen Lu
 * Madison Chock & Evan Bates
 * Josée Chouinard (Canada)
 * Sasha Cohen
 * Steven Cousins
 * Alissa Czisny
 * Gabrielle Daleman (Canada)
 * Meryl Davis & Charlie White
 * Marie-France Dubreuil & Patrice Lauzon (Canada)
 * Meagan Duhamel & Eric Radford (Canada)
 * Jason Dungjen
 * Polina Edmunds
 * Todd Eldredge
 * Joshua Farris
 * Javier Fernández (Canada & Japan)
 * Gracie Gold
 * Ekaterina Gordeeva
 * Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov
 * Loena Hendrickx
 * Christine Hough & Doug Ladret
 * Madison Hubbell & Zach Donohue
 * Sarah Hughes
 * Lubov Iliushechkina & Dylan Moscovitch (Canada)
 * Kyoko Ina & John Zimmerman
 * Sinead Kerr & John Kerr
 * Alexa Knierim & Brandon Frazier
 * Radka Kovaříková & René Novotný
 * Anjelika Krylova & Oleg Ovsiannikov
 * Ilia Kulik
 * Stéphane Lambiel (Canada & Japan)
 * Isabeau Levito
 * Alysa Liu
 * Tara Lipinski
 * Evan Lysacek
 * Jenni Meno & Todd Sand
 * Ilia Malinin
 * Kimmie Meissner
 * Satoko Miyahara
 * Mirai Nagasu
 * Kimberly Navarro & Brent Bommentre
 * Angela Nikodinov
 * Brian Orser
 * Kaetlyn Osmond (Canada)
 * Cynthia Phaneuf (Canada)
 * Susanna Rahkamo & Petri Kokko
 * Adam Rippon
 * Jennifer Robinson
 * Renée Roca & Gorsha Sur
 * Joannie Rochette
 * Lucinda Ruh
 * Yuka Sato
 * Jamie Salé & David Pelletier
 * Emanuel Sandhu (Canada & Euro)
 * Shawn Sawyer
 * Kathleen Schmelz
 * Xue Shen & Hongbo Zhao
 * Maia Shibutani & Alex Shibutani
 * Michael Slipchuk (Canada)
 * Elvis Stojko (Canada)
 * Rosalynn Sumners
 * Bradie Tennell
 * Debi Thomas
 * Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean
 * Jill Trenary
 * Barbara Underhill & Paul Martini (Canada)
 * Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir (Canada & Japan)
 * Ashley Wagner
 * Kaitlyn Weaver & Andrew Poje (Canada)
 * Michael Weiss
 * Tracy Wilson & Rob McCall
 * Katarina Witt
 * Paul Wylie
 * Kristi Yamaguchi
 * Alexei Yagudin

Stars on Ice Europe

 * Denise Biellmann
 * Ruben Blommaert
 * Nicole Bobek
 * Maria Butyrskaya
 * Margarita Drobiazko and Povilas Vanagas
 * Barbara Fusar-Poli & Maurizio Margaglio
 * Romain Gazave
 * Andrei Griazev
 * Stefan Lindemann
 * Tatiana Navka & Roman Kostomarov
 * Katie Orscher & Garrett Lucash
 * Isabelle Pieman
 * Susanna Pöykiö
 * Jozef Sabovčík
 * Irina Slutskaya
 * Tatiana Totmianina & Maxim Marinin
 * Kevin van der Perren
 * Mandy Wötzel & Ingo Steuer

Stars on Ice Japan

 * Miki Ando
 * Shizuka Arakawa
 * Mai Asada
 * Mao Asada
 * Philippe Candeloro
 * Patrick Chan
 * Nathan Chen
 * Madison Chock & Evan Bates
 * Meagan Duhamel & Eric Radford
 * Javier Fernández
 * Piper Gilles & Paul Poirier
 * Yuzuru Hanyu
 * Loena Hendrickx
 * Wakaba Higuchi
 * Takeshi Honda
 * Rika Kihira
 * Carolina Kostner
 * Takahiko Kozuka
 * Alexa Knierim & Brandon Frazier
 * Tatsuki Machida
 * Ilia Malinin
 * Evgenia Medvedeva
 * Mai Mihara
 * Riku Miura & Ryuichi Kihara
 * Satoko Miyahara
 * Takahito Mura
 * Daisuke Murakami
 * Kanako Murakami
 * Kana Muramoto & Chris Reed
 * Yukari Nakano
 * Nobunari Oda
 * Kaetlyn Osmond
 * Qing Pang & Jian Tong
 * Evgeni Plushenko
 * Cathy Reed & Chris Reed
 * Kaori Sakamoto
 * Maia Shibutani & Alex Shibutani
 * Koshiro Shimada
 * Mao Shimada
 * Irina Slutskaya
 * Adelina Sotnikova
 * Miu Suzaki & Ryuichi Kihara
 * Akiko Suzuki
 * Daisuke Takahashi
 * Narumi Takahashi & Mervin Tran
 * Narumi Takahashi & Ryuichi Kihara
 * Shoma Uno
 * Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir
 * Johnny Weir
 * Alina Zagitova

Other ice shows named Stars on Ice

 * Stars on Ice was also the name of an ice show put on at the Center Theatre in New York City in the early 1940s. The show was produced by Arthur Wirtz and Sonja Henie. The original Broadway production ran for 827 performances.
 * Stars on Ice was also a television series, broadcast from 1976 to 1981 on the CTV Television Network in Canada, hosted by Alex Trebek (1976–1980) and later, Doug Crosley (1980–1981).

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WPBS

WPBS may refer to:

 * WPBS-TV, a television station (channel 26, virtual channel 16) licensed to serve Watertown, New York, United States
 * WPBS (AM), a radio station (1040 AM) licensed to serve Conyers, Georgia, United States
 * WUSL, a radio station (98.9 FM) licensed to serve Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, formerly known as WPBS-FM

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Star Trek: Enterprise alleged continuity problems

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was keep. — Xezbeth 10:28, Jun 21, 2005 (UTC)

Star Trek: Enterprise alleged continuity problems
Reads far too much like a conversation for my liking. Wikipedia is not a soapbox. Also could be considered original research. --JiFish(Talk/Contrib) 23:01, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and needs a very serious cleanup. Good stuff but is presented as a debate between anonymous fans. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 23:11, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I've added the cleanup template. --JiFish(Talk/Contrib) 00:48, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. The author is not using WP as a soapbox in this case mostly. Were it not for the extensive information in this article, I would have suggested a merge to Star Trek: Enterprise, but the article contains much substantial information and issues. However, the article definitely must be made into an actual article, not a debate.--M412k 23:41, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep By fully covering rebuttals for each point, this is a pretty good way to present such an article fairly and in a relatively NPOV format. While I do think this should be kept, I hope we're not showing a "nerd" bias here.  I would imagine, for example, that a similar article collecting inconsistencies between the Pokemon anime and games would probably be deleted as "cruft".  My point, friends, is that if we keep this article, we're setting a precedent or a "bar"... let's not forget that fact in future VfDs. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd  00:12, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep although as a regular editor of the page in question I'll understand if my vote is discounted. As Andrew says above, attempts are made to keep this as balanced as possible, and the reason this page exists is because when it was originally part of the original article on Enterprise it was weighing things down. Now that the show is cancelled and the debates for and against the series are going to eventually fade away, this article can no doubt be shortened. It certainly does need to be trimmed regularly for NPOV. But I think it's a worthy article because it discusses what was (and still is) a hot topic in the science fiction community. Tone Sidaway's comment about it being a debate format is well taken as this is indeed the intent of the article initially because it was felt this was the easiest way of organizing opposing viewpoints (while reducing the possibility of vandalism or POV rants being added). But, the time is right to reformat and reorganize the article. PS. I see someone just added a cleanup tag to the article. Isn't this overkill? One would assume a VFD tag is by definition a cleanup request. 23skidoo 00:43, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * From early votes, it seems fairly likely that it will be a keep consensus. It is possible that the vfd notice will be removed before the clean-up is complete. Sorry if I have offended you, remove it if you like. --JiFish(Talk/Contrib) 00:55, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * What most concerns me is the lack of references. As it stands it could be interpreted as original research, with fans using Wikipedia to enter their own personal findings of apparent continuity problems.  This is not permitted on Wikipedia.  If some of these points and rebuttals are covered elsewhere, in one or more sources doesn't matter, then during cleanup those points should be retained and the references explicitly included.  Points that just seem self-evident to the editor--no matter how obviously correct they are--should not be included if he can find no reasonable, citable source for them.  Editors wanting to do that kind of work should take it to an appropriate fan forum and then maybe some other party will think the report notable enough to cite. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 11:37, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep but in need of a serious cleanup. Fairly well written article. JamesBurns 07:15, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep but rename to Star Trek: Enterprise continuity. Radiant_ >|< 10:08, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep This is a good article, just needs a cleanup RussellG 10:12, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong Delete. First of all, any of the major continuity problems that aren't notable enough to be mentioned in the main entperise article are fancruft. Second of all, this genre of article strongly implies original research, and if its kept I will delete any addition to the article if it is not accompianed by a refrence. The debate format makes it even worse because in the popular discussion (ie. the external to wikipedia discussions) its possible that many points will not have a counter point making any wikipedians attempt at a counterpoint necessarily a forbidden original research.
 * Keep I agree that the format needs to be changed for conformity's sake, but some echo of the point-counterpoint current format should be retained.  And, in response to the last voter, I don't see anything that is truly original research, and there is nothing wrong with simply noting that some alleged continuity questions remain unanswered.  I think you're jumping the gun here in assuming the worst of people who might add new points.  Isn't faith in fellow users supposed to pervade this place?  June 19, 2005

 * This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages.  Please do not edit this page .


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Jim Hughson

Jim Hughson (born October 9, 1956) is a retired Canadian sportscaster, best known for his play-by-play of the National Hockey League. He was the lead play-by-play commentator for the NHL on Sportsnet from 2014 to 2021 and Hockey Night in Canada from 2008 to 2021. His career spanned 42 years.

Early career
Hughson worked on Canucks radio broadcasts, working on the pre-game, intermission, and post-game shows in the early 1980s. He also filled in as play-by-play man when Jim Robson had national TV duties. In this role, he broadcast games three and four of the 1982 Stanley Cup Finals between the Canucks and New York Islanders. In 1982, he left to become the television voice of the Toronto Maple Leafs, before joining TSN in 1987.

TSN
Hughson worked for TSN from 1987 to 1994, working as the lead play-by-play announcer for the network's NHL games, paired with Gary Green and Roger Neilson (until 1989). In 1991, he called the World Junior Hockey Championship in Saskatchewan, which climaxed with a dramatic game in Saskatoon between Canada and the USSR, in which John Slaney scored the winning goal late in the third period to deliver the gold medal to Canada.

In addition to hockey, Hughson also called baseball for TSN. He worked on Montreal Expos broadcasts for the network from 1987 to 1989. Then in 1990, Hughson became the regular play-by-play announcer for Toronto Blue Jays broadcasts, alongside Buck Martinez. During that time, Hughson was most famous for calling all three of the games in which the Jays' clinched first place in the American League East during the 1990s (1991, 1992, and 1993).

During Hughson's time at TSN, he often enthusiastically proclaimed "That's hockey!" when describing an exciting play during NHL broadcasts. TSN later adopted the phrase as the name of its popular program That's Hockey, which started in October 1995, a talk show covering NHL happenings.

CTV Sportsnet/Rogers Sportsnet
In 1998, Hughson returned to national sports broadcasting, joining CTV Sportsnet (now Rogers Sportsnet) as their main NHL play-by-play commentator alongside Craig Simpson. A year later, he left radio and began working on the Canucks regional television broadcasts on Sportsnet Pacific, alongside Ryan Walter. From 2002–03 onwards, former NHL goaltender John Garrett was his partner. He was also the host of Snapshots, a weekly half-hour show where he interviewed various sports personalities, from 1998 to 2006.

Hockey Night in Canada and Sportsnet
In 2005, Hughson was hired by CBC as Hockey Night in Canada's secondary play-by-play announcer. Hughson called the late games of the network's Saturday night doubleheaders and one series through the Conference Finals. In 2006, he was the secondary play-by-play announcer for CBC's coverage of men's ice hockey at the Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. For three seasons, he continued calling Canucks' regional telecasts on Sportsnet Pacific. However, on March 11, 2008, he signed an exclusive six-year contract with the CBC, leaving Rogers Sportsnet at the conclusion of the season.

The following season, he replaced Bob Cole as the lead play-by-play announcer for HNIC. On top of calling the main Saturday night game (usually involving the Toronto Maple Leafs or the late Saturday night game involving Vancouver Canucks), he also called the NHL All-Star Game, the Winter Classic, the top Conference Final, and the Stanley Cup Finals. He also called men's ice hockey at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. His partner on the lead broadcast team was his former Sportsnet partner Craig Simpson  and, from 2009–2016, former NHL goaltender Glenn Healy.

In October 2014, Hughson re-joined Sportsnet, as its parent company Rogers Communications had acquired sole national television rights to the NHL in Canada, taking effect as of the 2014–15 season. The trio (until 2016) remained as the lead broadcast team for HNIC (which remains on CBC as part of a sub-licensing deal), but may now also appear on other Sportsnet national games when needed.

During the 2020–21 NHL season, Hughson only called national Vancouver home games due to concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hughson announced his retirement on September 21, 2021, before the 2021–22 NHL season.

Other appearances
Hughson returned to the broadcast booth for the Toronto Blue Jays when CBC picked up a package of Blue Jays games for the 2007 and 2008 seasons. The broadcast on June 22, 2007 was the first baseball game he had called in 13 years.

In addition to his Canadian sportscasting work, Hughson has made occasional appearances for ABC and ESPN in the United States, covering both hockey and baseball.

Hughson is known as the play-by-play voice of EA Sports' NHL series of video games from 97 to 09. He also provided the play-by-play in EA's Triple Play series for PlayStation and PC from 1997 to 2001, along with his former Blue Jays broadcast partner Buck Martinez.

Hughson has also had small roles in two sports-related family comedies: MVP: Most Valuable Primate (2000) and Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch (2002). He played announcers in both films.

Awards
Hughson has won five Gemini Awards, the most recent in 2004, where he was named the best sports play-by-play or analyst. In 2019, the Hockey Hall of Fame announced that Hughson was named as the winner of the annual Foster Hewitt Memorial Award, honouring outstanding contributions by a hockey broadcaster.

Personal life
Hughson was born on October 9, 1956 Fort St. John, British Columbia. He lives in South Surrey, British Columbia with his wife Denise. He has a daughter named Jennifer and son Matthew. Hughson is an avid runner with routes in all 32 NHL cities.

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Portal:Aviation/Anniversaries/July 3

July 3

 * 2012 – Two UK Royal Air Force Panavia Tornado GR4s crashed in Moray Firth, Scotland.

 * 2009 – 2009 Pakistan Army Mil Mi-17 crash: A Mil Mi-17 operated by the Pakistan Army crashes in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, killing all 43 people on board.

 * 2009 – A Belgian Air Component Piper L-21B Super Cub crashes on take-off at Goetsenhoven Military Airfield, Flanders, Belgium killing the 2 crew. The aircraft which was used as a gilder-tug collided with a nearby hangar, crashing into a field and caught fire.

 * 2009 – A Fuerza Aérea Argentina Dassault Aviation Mirage III from Grupo 6 de Caza based at Tandil Airport, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina crashed into open countryside near Benito Juárez and the pilot successfully ejected from the aircraft.

 * 2008 – First flight of the Cirrus Vision SF50

 * 2004 – Death of Andriyan Grigoryevich Nikolayev, Soviet pilot and cosmonaut.

 * 2002 – Steve Fossett completes round-the-world balloon flight, landing after 14 days, 19hrs. He broke three balloon records along the way; fastest time around the world (13 days, 3 mins), longest distance flown solo (20,483.25 mi; 32,963.35 km), and longest time flown solo (355 hrs, 50 min).

 * 2002 – Launch of The Comet Nucleus TOUR (CONTOUR), NASA Discovery-class space probe.

 * 2001 Hainan Island incident – More than 3 months after its emergency landing at Lingshui airbase in China, the US Navy EP3E Aries III is air freighted back to America on a chartered Russian Antonov An-124-100. The Chinese Government insist that a civilian aircraft be used to remove the aircraft.

 * 1998 – Launch of Nozomi (spacecraft), Japanese space probe designed to study the upper Martian atmosphere and its interaction with the solar wind and to develop technologies for use in future planetary missions.

 * 1988 – Iran Air Flight 655, an Airbus A300, is shot down over Iranian waters by the missile cruiser USS Vincennes; all 290 people on board are killed.

 * 1987 – 2 men, Per Lindstrand and Richard Branson, became First hot-air balloon travelers to cross Atlantic. Their balloon, at the time, is the largest ever flown at 2.3 million cubic feet of capacity.

 * 1984 – Air Florida suspends all their flights after going bankrupt.

 * 1982 – Death of William Ellsworth Kepner, US Army, US Army Air Corps, pioneer balloonist and airship pilot. WWII high-ranking officer, he flew some missions in Bombers and fighters.

 * 1982 – First flight of The prototype General Dynamics F-16XL, derivative of the F-16 Fighting Falcon, with a cranked arrow delta wing, similar in appearance to the wing planform of the earlier Saab 35 Draken from Sweden, that is over twice the size of that of the standard F-16 wing.

 * 1976 – Three Israeli Air Force C-130 Hercules carry commandos to Entebbe, Uganda to rescue the 258 passengers of an Air France Airbus hijacked six days earlier

 * 1974 – Launch of Soyuz 14, Soviet manned spaceflight to the Salyut 3 space station

 * 1973 – Death of Laurens Hammond, American engineer and inventor (most famously, the Hammond organ, the Hammond Clock, and the world's First polyphonic musical synthesizer, the Novachord). In WWII he helped design guided missile controls and was awarded patents for infrared and light sensing devices for bomb guidance, glide bomb controls, a camera shutter and a new type of gyroscope.

 * 1971 – Toa Domestic Airlines Flight 533, a NAMC YS-11, hits Yokotsudake (Yokotsu Mountain) near Hakodate Airport, Hokkaidō, Japan, killing all 68 passengers and crew in the worst ever disaster involving the YS-11.

 * 1970 – The 1970 Dan-Air de Havilland Comet crash takes place near Girona, Spain due to a navigation error, killing all 112 on board.

 * 1970 – The Canadian Armed Forces decommission Canada’s last aircraft carrier, HMCS Bonaventure (CVL 22), at Halifax, Nova Scotia.

 * 1968 – In the 1968 BKS Air Transport Heathrow crash, an Airspeed Ambassador freight aircraft experiences metal fatigue and crashes while landing, striking two unoccupied British European Airways airliners. Six of the freighter's crew of eight are killed, as are eight racehorses being transported. All Airspeed Ambassadors are grounded until a redesign strengthens the flaps. One of the BEA aircraft is repaired but is lost in the 1972 Staines air disaster.

 * 1963 – The Peruvian Navy reestablishes a naval arm, Peruvian Naval Aviation.

 * 1963 – New Zealand National Airways Corporation Flight 441, a Douglas DC-3 Skyliner flying from Whenuapai Airport, Auckland to Tauranga, crashes into the Kaimai Ranges; all 23 aboard die, making it the worst air disaster in mainland New Zealand to date.

 * 1962 – No. 425 Squadron, the first RCAF Squadron to be equipped with McDonnell CF-101 Voodoo fighters, was moved to its permanent station at Bagotville, after re-equipping at Namao, AB.

 * 1953 – First tethered flight by the Rolls-Royce Thrust Measuring Rig VTOL aircraft

 * 1952 – First flight of the Yakovlev Yak-24 twin engine tandem helicopter

 * 1951 – Female members of the Royal Canadian Air Force are the first military women to train with the post-war Canadian military when they enter the RCAF Manning Depot at St. Jean, Quebec.

 * 1951 – United States Navy Lieutenant junior grade John K. Koelsch and his crewman, Aviation Mate Third Class George M. Neal, are shot down in an HO3 S helicopter by enemy ground fire while trying to rescue United States Marine Corps Captain James V. Wilkins, who had been shot down behind enemy lines and was badly burned. Koelsch and Neal rig a litter to carry Wilkins out of the area, but eventually are captured on July 12, and Koelsch dies on October 16, 1951, while in captivity. For his actions, Koelsch posthumously becomes the first helicopter pilot to receive the Medal of Honor.

 * 1950 – F9 F Panther's of VF-51 flying from USS Valley Forge become the first US jet fighters to go into combat. A North Korean Yak-9 is shot down.

 * 1950 – Supermarine Seafires of 800 Naval Air Squadron and Fairey Fireflys of 827 Naval Air Squadron from HMS Triumph fly the first non-US sortie over Korea.

 * 1948 – First flight of The North American AJ Savage (later A-2 Savage), US twin engine carrier-based bomber aircraft.

 * 1947 – The Philippine Air Force is formed.

 * 1943 – Birth of Norman Earl Thagard, American scientist and NASA astronaut. First American to ride to space on board a Russian vehicle, and can be considered the First American cosmonaut.

 * 1943 – (Overnight) 653 British bombers attack Cologne. During the raid, the Luftwaffe experiments for the first time with Wilde Sau (“Wild Boar”) night fighter tactics, in which single-engine day fighters use any illumination – From searchlights, flares, fires, etc., – Available over a city to visually identify and attack enemy bombers at night. Wilde Sau pilots and antiaircraft artillery both claim the same 12 bombers shot down over Cologne and officially each receive credited for six. The experiment’s success will lead to the formation of Jagdgeschwader 300, which will specialize in Wilde Sau operations.

 * 1942 – First airborne test firing of a retrocrocket at Goldstone Lake, Calif., from a PBY-5 A piloted by Lt. Comdr. J. H. Hean (USN).

 * 1941 – Luftwaffe ace Major Wilhelm Balthasar, (47 credited kills), Geschaderkommodore of Jagdgeschwader 2, and winner of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oakleaves, is killed in action on this date when his Messerschmitt Bf 109F-4 suffers failure of a wing and he crashes into Ferme Goset, Wittes, France, near Saint-Omer. The airframe is recovered in March 2004.

 * 1941 – Royal Air Force Boeing Fortress I, AN528, of 90 Squadron, RAF Polebrook, is destroyed when a troublesome engine catches fire during a late-night ground run.

 * 1941 – (overnight) – 90 British bombers attempting to attack the Krupp arms works and rail targets in Essen, Germany, scatter their bombs so widely that they bomb Bochum, Dortmund, Duisburg, Hagen, Wuppertal, and other cities as well as Essen. In Essen, they succeed only in inflicting minor housing damage, injuring two people.

 * 1940 – British bombers make a daylight attack against German barges assembling at Rotterdam in anticipation of an invasion of the United Kingdom, their first attack against German efforts to build an invasion force. Such raids will peak in September and end in October after the threat of a German invasion abates.

 * 1940 – During the British attack on the French fleet at Mers-el-Kébir, Algeria, Fairey Swordfish aircraft from the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal mine the harbor and unsuccessfully attack the French battlecruiser Strasbourg as she flees to Toulon. French Curtiss Hawk 75 fighters and Blackburn Skua fighters from Ark Royal engage in a dogfight, during which the French shoot down one Skua.

 * 1937 – July 3-6 – Pan Am and Imperial Airways flying boats conduct joint survey flights over the Atlantic in preparation for the commencement of regular services.

 * 1937 – First flight of the Dornier Do 24

 * 1937 – Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappear over the Pacific Ocean on a flight from Lae, New Guinea, to Howland Island, and are never seen again.

 * 1936 – First flight of the Short Empire S.23prototype RMA Canopus. The flying boat built by Shorts as the S.23 design, makes a brief 14-min. first flight piloted by John Lankester Parker.

 * 1935 – Birth of Harrison Hagan "Jack" Schmitt, American geologist and NASA astronaut. Last of the Apollo astronauts to arrive and set foot on the Moon

 * 1933 – First flight of Tupolev ANT-16 (also known as TB-4) experimental Russian heavy bomber aircraft.

 * 1931 – First prototype Breguet 393 T (390 T), French 3 engine sesquiplane of all-metal construction airliner, loses a propeller during test flight, pilot losing his life when his parachute failed to open after he abandoned the aircraft.

 * 1929 – Lt A. W. Gordon hooks a Vought VO-1 onto US Navy airship USS Los Angeles in successful parasite fighter experiments.

 * 1921 – Zeppelin LZ120 'Bodensee' is transferred, renamed as Esperia, to Italy in the context of war reparations.

 * 1920 – The first Royal Air Force Pageant is held, at Hendon

 * 1920 – Birth of Herschel "Herky" Green, USAAF WWII flying ace.

 * 1919 – Designed and built by the Engineering Division of the U. S. Bureau of Aircraft Production, the first of four XB-1As (originally designated USXB-1 A) makes its first flight at McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio.

 * 1918 – Death of Jacques Gerard, French WWI flying ace, killed in action.

 * 1918 – Death of Wilhelm "Willi" Reinhard, German WWI fighter ace, killed while test flying a Zeppelin-Lindau D. I, when a strut broke and the top wing collapsed

 * 1917 – Death of Albert Dossenbach, German WWI fighter ace and balloon buster, Killed in action.

 * 1916 – Death of Ugo Niutta, Italian WWI pilot.

 * 1914 – Birth of Marmaduke Thomas St. John "Pat" Pattle, South African WWII fighter ace.

 * 1897 – Birth of Aubrey Beauclerk Ellwood, British WWI flying ace and senior RAF commander.

 * 1896 – Birth of Hans Müller (aviator), German WWI flying ace who also served the Luftwaffe in WWII.

 * 1886 – Birth of Giovanni 'Gianni' Battista Caproni, Italian aeronautical engineer, civil engineer, electrical engineer, and aircraft designer who founded the Caproni aircraft-manufacturing company.

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Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway

The Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway was a railroad and steamboat network in Florida at the end of the 19th century. Most of its lines became part of the Plant System in 1899 and the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad in 1902. The line remains in service today with a vast majority of it now being CSX Transportation's Sanford Subdivision.

History
The Tampa, Peace Creek and St. Johns River Railroad was incorporated in 1879, William Van Fleet as president and received a charter to build a railroad from Jacksonville to Tampa. The company, by way of congressional land grants thru the general assembly of Florida, by an act of January 6, 1855, 'to provide for and encourage a liberal system of internal improvements in the state,' declared that the lands granted to the state by the acts of congress of March 3, 1845, and September 28, 1850, together with the proceeds thereof, accrued or that might thereafter accrue, should be set apart and made a separate fund, to be called the internal improvement of the state; and that, for the purpose of assuring a proper application of the fund for the objects mentioned, the lands, and the funds arising from the sale thereof, after paying the necessary expenses of selection, management, and sale, should be vested in five trustees, to wit, in the governor of the state, the comptroller of public accounts, the state treasurer, the attorney general, and the register of state lands, and their successors in office, to hold the same for the uses provided in the act; and by its twenty-ninth section, the general assembly reserved the right to grant to such railroad companies, thereafter chartered, as they might deem proper, upon their compliance with the provisions of the act as to the manner of constructing the road and the drainage of the land, the alternate sections of the 'swamp and overflowed lands' for six miles on each side of the line of the road of any such company. That the Jacksonville, Tampa & Key West Railway Company was incorporated in March 1878, under the general corporation act of the state, of February 1874, by the name of the Tampa, Peace Creek & St. John's River Railroad Company. That the legislature of Florida, by act of March 4, 1879, granted to that company alternate sections of the lands given to the state by the act of congress of September 28, 1850, within six miles on each side of the track or line of its road, provided that the company should comply with the specified provisions of the act of January 6, 1855; and further granted to the company, in consideration of the greatly improved value which would accrue to the state from the construction of the road, 10,000 acres of the same class of lands for each mile of road it might construct, such lands to be of those nearest to the line of the road, its branches and extensions,—this last-named grant being made subject to the rights of all creditors of the internal improvement fund, and to the trusts to which the fund was applicable under the act of January 6, 1855. That on the 27th of June, 1881, the Tampa, Peace Creek & St. John's River Railroad Company, by a resolution of its board of directors, changed its corporate name to Jacksonville, Tampa & Key West Railway Company, and on the 23d of August, 1881, filed a plat of its route with the trustees of the internal improvement fund; and, on the 1st of September, 1881, the trustees passed a resolution reserving from sale for the benefit of the company the even-numbered sections of land for six miles on each side of its line; and, again, on the 21st of September, 1881, acting under the provisions of the act of the legislature of March 12, 1879, 'to amend section 26 of the act 'to provide a general law for the incorporation of railroads and canals,' and to grant aid to railroads and canals incorporated under said act,' they passed a resolution to reserve from sale, to further aid in the construction of the road, a quantity of land in the even-numbered sections within twenty miles of said road sufficient to supply the deficiency existing in the even-numbered sections within six miles of the road. In 1884, after earning its first land grant, pledged said property for collateral to secure a series of mortgage bonds, where the Mercantile Trust Co. would be trustee, these would be the series A and B first mortgage bonds, then in 1890, a Consolidated Mortgage was executed with the Pennsylvania Company for Insurances on Lives and Granting Annuities as trustee for the 4000 bondholders, where the Company's 1.5 million acres of land was to secure said bonds. The company would enter into Receivership under Mason Young, and later under Joseph H. Durkee, who executed a series of "receivers notes/certificate" which would become paramount lien on said 1.5 million acres, each certificate holder owning an undivided interest in said 1.5 million acres.

The Atlantic Coast, St. Johns and Indian River Railroad completed a line from Titusville, on the Indian River, to Enterprise, on the eastern shore of Lake Monroe opposite Sanford, in early 1886. The Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway build a 3.9 mile line to Enterprise from its mainline at Enterprise Junction. The Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway then leased the Atlantic Coast, St. Johns and Indian River Railroad, and purchased all of its rolling stock. The Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway operated the Enterprise to Titusville line as its Indian River Branch.

After leasing the Titusville–Enterprise line of the Atlantic Coast, St. Johns and Indian River Railroad, the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway began operating steamboats from its dock in Titusville down the Indian River to Jupiter. In December 1888, the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway established the Indian River Steamboat Company to operate the steamboats, with Mason Young, vice-president of the railway company, servicing as president of the steamboat company. The Jupiter and Lake Worth Railway opened in 1889 as a short connection between the Indian River Steamboat Company at Jupiter and the north end of Lake Worth, where steamers continued south. The line was abandoned by 1896 after the completion of the parallel Florida East Coast Railway.

The Orange Ridge, DeLand and Atlantic Railroad Company was a 3-foot gauge 6 mile line built in 1885, connecting DeLand with DeLand Landing on the St. Johns River. The Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West line intersected it 2 mile from DeLand Landing at DeLand Junction. The railroad was reincorporated in 1886 as the Deland and St. Johns River Railroad Company and converted to 5-foot gauge to match the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway.

In 1893 the JT&KW went bankrupt. The Southeastern Railway bought the line from Enterprise to Titusville in 1899, and later that year sold it to the Florida East Coast Railway. Also that year, the rest of the system was reincorporated as the Jacksonville and St. Johns River Railway and sold to the Savannah, Florida and Western Railway (the Plant System). The Plant System became part of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad in 1902. In 1967 the ACL merged into the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad, eventually becoming part of CSX. The JT&KW is now part of the "A" Line, one of CSX's two main lines into Florida.

DeLand
The Orange Ridge, DeLand and Atlantic Railroad was incorporated by Laws of Florida Chapter 3332, No. 114 on March 7, 1881, running from DeLand west across the JT&KW at DeLand Junction to the St. Johns River. It became the DeLand and St. Johns River Railroad in 1886, and the JT&KW bought it in 1890.

Enterprise
The Enterprise Branch ran from the main line at Benson Junction east to Enterprise. It continued to Titusville as the Atlantic Coast, St. Johns and Indian River Railroad, acquired in 1886. The Atlantic Coast, St. Johns and Indian River Railroad connected with the Florida East Coast Railway in Titusville. The Florida East Coast Railway later acquired the branch from Enterprise to Titusville in 1902.

Lake Eustis
The Sanford and Lake Eustis Railway was organized in 1886 and merged into the JT&KW on May 1, 1890. The line ran west from Sanford to Tavares on Lake Eustis.

Current operations

The Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway remains in service and is today part of CSX's A Line. CSX has designated it as their Sanford Subdivision and Jacksonville Terminal Subdivision. Though as of 2011, the Florida Department of Transportation owns a short segment of the line south of Deland to Sanford and operates the SunRail commuter rail service over that segment. CSX still runs local freight on the line but all through freight trains have since been shifted to the S Line due to SunRail service. Prior to the sale of the southern portion of the line to FDOT, CSX's Sanford Subdivision continued south to Sanford and then along on the former South Florida Railroad as far as Auburndale.

Amtrak also uses the line for all of its Florida service including the Silver Meteor, Silver Star, and the Auto Train.


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July 23

 * 2011 – NATO aircraft strike a Libyan government military storage facility, a multiple rocket launcher, and a command-and-control node in the Brega area.

 * 2010 – A Canadian Forces McDonnell Douglas CF-18 Hornet, 188738, of 419 Moose Squadron, based at Cold Lake, crashed at Lethbridge County Airport during a low-speed, low-altitude practice run for the Alberta International Airshow, the pilot Capt. Brian Bews, 36, ejected in a Martin-Baker seat seconds before the fighter fell off on its starboard wing and impacted on the airfield. He suffered a compression fracture in three vertebrae but is expected to fully recover.

 * 2009 – An Uzbekistan Air Force Mil Mi-24 Hind Helicopter on a routine training exercise crashes near the airport of Chirchiq, Tashkent Province, Uzbekistan killing the 2 crew.

 * 2009 – A Turkish Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II crashes on take-off after from the Erhaç Air Base in Malatya, Turkey due to a technical fault caused by drop-tank falling from the aircraft. The two crew members successfully eject from the aircraft and were hospitalized after the incident.

 * 2008 – Deceased: Dick Johnson (glider pilot), 85, American glider pilot, aeronautical engineer, plane crash.

 * 1999 – All Nippon Airways Flight 61: Wielding a knife, passenger Yuji Nishizawa hijacks All Nippon Airways Flight 61, a Boeing 747. After he fatally stabs the captain, he is overpowered by the crew and the co-pilot lands the plane safely at Haneda, Japan.

 * 1999 – Launch: Space Shuttle Columbia STS-93 at 12:31 am EDT. Mission highlights: Chandra X-ray Observatory deployed.

 * 1994 – A U.S. Navy North American T-2C Buckeye, BuNo 157051, '0601', of VT-19, based at NAS Meridian, Mississippi, crashed at 1355 hrs. shortly after take-off from NAS Oceana, Virginia, impacting in a wooded area several hundred yards past the runway, with both crew ejecting before the crash. Instructor pilot Lt. Mark Sharp, 32, of Portland, Oregon, died at 1814 hrs. in Virginia Beach General Hospital, said a Navy spokesman, but Marine Lt. Carl Hogsett, 26, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, was reported in good condition at Portsmouth Naval Hospital.

 * 1993 – China Northwest Airlines Flight 2119, a BAe 146, overruns the runway at Yinchuan Hedong Airport, Ningxia, China after an aborted takeoff; the aircraft crashes into a lake, killing 54 passengers and 1 crew member.

 * 1983 – Air Canada Flight 143, a Boeing 767, runs out of fuel above Manitoba because of a miscalculation; the crew successfully glides the aircraft to a safe landing at a former Air Force base (and current drag strip) at Gimli, Manitoba; the aircraft becomes known as the "Gimli Glider".

 * 1979 – The British government announces plans to privatise British Airways and publicly sell British Aerospace shares.

 * 1977 – After threats of shutting down transatlantic air traffic, the U. S. and British governments reach the Bermuda II accord, giving British airlines additional ports of entry in the United States and removing American airlines' rights to carry passengers beyond London and Hong Kong.

 * 1977 – (23-24) Further Egyptian Air Force attacks destroy large numbers of Libyan aircraft before a ceasefire ends the war. Egypt admits the loss of two planes during the last two days of the war.

 * 1973 – Eddie Rickenbacker, WW I fighter pilot, dies at 82.

 * 1973 – Ozark Air Lines Flight 809, a Fairchild-Hiller FH-227, crashes short of the runway at St. Louis International Airport due to windshear from a thunderstorm, killing 38 of 44 on board.

 * 1973 – Japan Air Lines Flight 404, a Boeing 747, is hijacked after takeoff from Amsterdam Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands; one hijacker is killed and the flight's purser injured by a grenade blast; after several days and multiple flight legs, the passengers are released in Benghazi, Libya and the aircraft is blown up on the ground; this is the first loss of a Boeing 747-200.

 * 1971 – First flight of the GAF Nomad

 * 1968 – Three members of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijack El Al Flight 426 from Rome to Tel Aviv. Diverting to Algiers the negotiations extend over forty days. Both the hijackers and the hostages go free.

 * 1956 – Bell X-2 rocket plane sets world aircraft speed record of 3,050 kph.

 * 1956 – First flight of the Dassault Étendard II

 * 1955 – First flight of the PZL TS-8 Bies

 * 1954 – The 1954 Cathay Pacific Douglas DC-4 shootdown: a Cathay Pacific Douglas DC-4 is attacked by two PLAAF La-7 fighters and crashes off Hainan Island, killing 10 of 19 on board.

 * 1952 – First flight of the Fouga CM.170 Magister

 * 1950 – aircraft carrier USS Boxer crosses the Pacific Ocean in record time, from Alameda, California to Yokosuka in 8 days 16 hours.

 * 1947 – First (US Navy) air squadron of jets, Quonset Point, RI.

 * 1945 – The Japanese submarines I-400 and I-401 depart Japan to launch a surprise air strike on American ships at Ulithi Atoll using six submarine-launched Aichi M6 A floatplanes painted in American markings. The two submarines will abort the mission and jettison the aircraft on 16 August when they learn of Japan’s surrender.

 * 1944 – During strikes on the southern half of Tinian, aircraft from the aircraft carriers USS Essex (CV-9) and USS Langley (CVL-27) fly almost 200 sorties, those from the escort aircraft carriers USS Gambier Bay (CVE-73) and USS Kitkun Bay (CVE-71) fly over 50, and those of the U. S. Army Air Forces’ Saipan-based 318th Air Group fly over 100, including 18 sorties with a new weapon, the napalm bomb.

 * 1944 – Focke-Wulf Fw 190C V33 prototype, Werke Nummer 0058, modified to Fw 190 V33/U1 as prototype for Ta 152H-0 with 1,750 hp (1,300 kW) Junkers Jumo 213E-1 engine and new wing fuel tanks of the definitive Ta 152H-1, comprising three tanks in each inner portion, located just aft of the truncated mainspar, first flown 12 July 1944, crashes out of Langenhagen, setting back the flight test program.

 * 1944 – Two Curtiss RA-25A Shrikes, of the 4134th Base Unit, Spokane Army Air Field, collide in flight while participating in a flypast for an air show near Spokane, Washington. Part of a three-plane formation, the left-hand aircraft collided with the middle plane during a turn, both crashing into a valley. Pilot 2nd Lt. George E. Chrep and engineer-rated passenger Sgt. Joseph M. Revinskas were killed in the crash of 42-79804, while pilot 2nd Lt. William R. Scott and passenger Captain Ford K. Sayre, a noted snow skier on the east coast, were killed in the crash of 42-79826. A Paramount Pictures newsreel crew caught the accident on film, which was examined by the crash investigation board for clues to the accident. This footage was later incorporated into the 1956 film Earth vs. the Flying Saucers

 * 1941 – During Operation Substance, Italian high-level and torpedo bombers attack a resupply convoy of six fast store ships bound for Malta escorted by a British naval forces including the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal. The high-level bombers are ineffective and Fairey Fulmars from Ark Royal shoot down two of them, but the six torpedo bombers fatally damage the destroyer HMS Fearless and cripple the light cruiser HMS Manchester.

 * 1940 – “Blitz” all-night air raid by German bombers on London begins.

 * 1937 – The International Military Aircraft Competition in Debendorf near Zuich provided the picturesque venue for the first major demonstration of the Messerschmitt Bf 109.

 * 1932 – An aviation pioneer, Alberto Santos-Dumont hangs himself

 * 1930 – Aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss dies at age of 52.

 * 1917 – Maj. Benjamin D. Foulois, one of the great figures of early American aviation, is appointed commanding officer of the Airplane Division of the U. S. Signal Corps.

 * 1913 – With his biplane fitted with electric lights on the wings and his landing area outlined with small blazes, H. W. Blakeley makes the first night flight in Canada at the Dominion Livestock Show and Fair at Brandon, Manitoba.

 * 1906 – Having abandoned his helicopter project, Alberto Santos-Dumont unveils a new aircraft, the No.14 bis. at Bagatelle, France. The odd-looking machine is dubbed canard (duck).

 * 1905 – The first flight of the Wright Flyer III took place in June 1905. This is the first fully controllable and practical version of the original Flyer.

title: Portal:Aviation/Anniversaries/July 23