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The Alarm

The Alarm are a Welsh rock band that formed in Rhyl, Wales, in 1981. Initially formed as a punk band, the Toilets, in 1977, under lead vocalist Mike Peters, the band soon embraced arena rock and included marked influences from Welsh language and culture. By opening for acts such as U2 and Bob Dylan, they became a popular new wave pop band of the 1980s.

The Alarm's highest-charting single in Britain is 1983's "Sixty Eight Guns", which reached number 17 on the UK Singles Chart. Their 1984 album Declaration, which contained "Sixty Eight Guns", peaked at number six on the UK Albums Chart.

Early years
In 1977, a punk band was formed in Rhyl, Wales, billed as "The Toilets". It contained Mike Peters (alias Eddie Bop), Glyn Crossley (alias Steve Shock), Richard "O'Malley" Jones (alias Bo Larks) and Nigel Buckle (alias Des Troy). The band ceased to exist in 1978; they renamed themselves Quasimodo and played note-for-note covers of The Who's Live at Leeds with guitarist Dave Sharp. This group also included Karl Wallinger on keyboards. Later the group named themselves Seventeen, with both Mike Peters and Nigel Buckle alongside Eddie MacDonald (who had been Mike Peters' next-door-but-one neighbour in Edward Henry Street, Rhyl). Seventeen began as a three-piece but were joined by guitarist David Kitchingman (who changed his name to Dave Sharp) and became a power pop mod band that released the single ("Don't Let Go"/"Bank Holiday Weekend") in March 1980 and toured with the Stray Cats later that year. They played their last concert under the name of Alarm Alarm in January 1981 at the Half Moon, Herne Hill, London.

The band soon reformed under the new name of The Alarm (with Nigel Buckle changing his surname to 'Twist'), and played their first gig at The Victoria Hotel, Prestatyn, North Wales on 6 June 1981, opening with "Shout to the Devil", which later appeared on the album Declaration.

They moved from North Wales to London in September 1981, and the band recorded a one-off 7" single. 1,000 copies were pressed that month, featuring "Unsafe Building" on the "electric" side and "Up For Murder" on the "acoustic" side. The single was noticed by Mick Mercer, who featured it as his single of the month in his ZigZag magazine. The band played a show with The Fall in December 1981, where a journalist from Sounds noticed them. This journalist attended the band's next show at Upstairs at Ronnie's in London's West End. Also at this show was a representative of Wasted Talent, who arranged a meeting between the band and Ian Wilson, U2's agent. Wilson arranged another show in order to assess the band's quality, was impressed, and soon became their manager. To celebrate, The Alarm played with U2 at the Lyceum Ballroom on 22 December 1981.

In 1982, the band began to record demos for various record labels, but had little success. At this point, they were playing with three acoustic guitarists. The band were eventually offered a deal by I.R.S. Records. This forced them to make a decision on who was to play which musical instrument, and it was decided that Peters would concentrate on singing, with Sharp on guitar and Macdonald playing bass.

"Marching On" was released as a single in October 1982, and the band's sound started to become clear. On stage, they almost always began gigs acoustically, then finished with electric guitars. Constant gigging in London helped the band build a following, and in December 1982, they played four shows with U2. These shows were the first time that Bono joined the Alarm on stage.

The song "The Stand" was recorded in Battersea in April 1983, and was released in the UK as a single. The song's lyrics were inspired by Stephen King's novel of the same name. Outside the UK, the song was released as part of a five-track EP titled The Alarm. The EP was released to coincide with the Alarm's first tour of the U.S. in June 1983. Following the success of the sessions that produced "The Stand", I.R.S. picked up their recording option on the band, signalling the start of work on an album. Another session with producer Mick Glossop was arranged to produce the single "Blaze of Glory".

In June 1983, the Alarm embarked on their first tour of the U.S., supporting U2 on the War Tour. The 18-date tour established the band in the U.S. "The Stand" was released by I.R.S. to capitalize on this development, supported by TV appearances on The Cutting Edge and American Bandstand.

Following the tour, the band returned to the UK to begin working with producer Alan Shacklock. They focused on re-recording "Blaze of Glory" and "Sixty Eight Guns". After the sessions, the band recorded a video for "Sixty Eight Guns" and flew back to America to begin their first headline American tour as well as played in support of The Pretenders. "Sixty Eight Guns" was released as a single on 12 September 1983 and charted the following week at number 50. The same week, the band performed the song on the music show Top of the Pops. The song climbed into the Top 20, and it remains their highest-charting single, peaking at No. 17.

Mid-career
The band had been recording an album from July 1983, and by the time of the Top of the Pops appearance, they had recorded the backing tracks to most of the songs. After completing a U.S. tour and a headline tour of the UK in late 1983, the band returned to the studio to record the backing tracks for the rest of the songs.

On 6 November 1983, the band recorded an acoustic radio session for the BBC. This session saw the debut of three brand new songs: "Walk Forever by My Side", "One Step Closer to Home" and "Unbreak the Promise".

On 7 November, the band returned to the recording studio to finish recording the album, now titled Declaration. In December, the Alarm returned to the U.S. for a third headline tour. The weather was atrocious, and on 6 December, the car in which the band was travelling crashed, but none of the four members was injured. They returned to the UK on 17 December and appeared as part of an Anti-Nuclear Benefit Concert at the Apollo Theatre in London.

While the band had been in the U.S., Alan Shacklock and sound engineer Chris Porter finished mixing the album. The band played a handful of gigs supporting The Police over Christmas, and by 5 January 1984, the album had been mixed and finalised. Declaration was released by I.R.S. Records on 14 February 1984. A week later, the album entered the UK Albums Chart at Number 6.

In November 1984, the Alarm recorded demos of nine new songs, including "Absolute Reality". They played their new material to the American producer Jimmy Iovine, who agreed to come to the UK in January 1985 to begin work on the follow-up to Declaration. During this period, Peters appeared solo at a number of events, including the Greenbelt Festival in Northamptonshire, playing Alarm material as well as some unrecorded personal songs. Studio sessions were booked for early 1985, and a UK headline tour was booked for May 1985 to coincide with the release of the new album. However, Iovine never came to the UK to work with the Alarm, eventually citing personal reasons. The band had to cancel the sessions and look for another producer. Alan Shacklock was unavailable, so Ian Wilson (the band's manager) convinced I.R.S. to release the Shacklock-produced "Absolute Reality" as a single to promote the UK dates in May. "Absolute Reality" was released on 18 February 1985, entering the top 40 of the UK Singles Chart a week later. After a series of appearances at European festivals and a new producer (Mike Howlett), the Alarm began work on their follow-up album Strength. The band teamed with MTV, I.R.S. Records, and UCLA's Campus Events to present one of the early live satellite broadcasts from UCLA on 12 April 1986. They played at Queen's Live at Wembley '86 concert on 12 July 1986.

Strength was released on 1 October 1985 and was another UK success, and brought them into the top 40 of the US Billboard 200 album chart for the first time; additionally, the single "Spirit of '76" was a top 40 UK hit. The Alarm took a break after the supporting tour, but returned in 1987 with Eye of the Hurricane and landed a tour slot supporting Bob Dylan. The concert EP Electric Folklore Live,followed in 1988. They also had a hit single in the UK in 1987 with "Rain in the Summertime" (from Eye of the Hurricane), which gave them their second-best placing on the UK chart.

Later years
The band toured extensively through the United States and Europe through the 1980s into 1991. They gained much popularity in 1983 when they were the opening act for U2, a band to whom they often were compared musically. On 13 March 1988, the Alarm performed at The Fillmore in San Francisco with The 77s and House of Freaks.

1989's Change was an homage to the group's native Wales, and was accompanied by an alternate Welsh-language version Newid. Produced by Tony Visconti, Change spawned the group's biggest Modern Rock hit in America, "Sold Me Down the River", which also put them in the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Top 50 for the first and only time. "Devolution Working Man Blues" and "Love Don't Come Easy" also earned radio airplay, and the track "A New South Wales" had an appearance by the Welsh Symphony Orchestra and the Morriston Orpheus Male Voice Choir. Although it was popular in Wales, it did not sell as well as the group's earlier works, and internal band dissension, exacerbated by deaths in both Peters' and Twist's families, made 1991's Raw the original Alarm's final effort.

After the release of Raw in 1991, despite their success and relative longevity, Peters announced on stage at the Brixton Academy that he was leaving the band.

"We've shared some great moments in time over the last ten years and tonight I would like to thank all the people who have supported me from the beginning to the end. Tonight this is my last moment with the Alarm, I'm going out in a Blaze of Glory – my hands are held up high". This came as much of a shock to his colleagues as to the audience. Following this show Peters signed his legal right to one quarter of the Alarm name and logo over to the other three. Peters and Sharp both embarked on solo careers.

Post-Brixton Academy
After the Alarm, Peters teamed with a band of unknown musicians to form The Poets of Justice (which included his wife Jules Peters on keyboards), and he embarked on a solo career which produced a number of singles and albums. In 2000, the Alarm released a complete collection covering all recorded material by the band. It also included sleeve notes to which all four members had contributed. This was the first project to which all four original members had contributed since Peters left the band in 1991.

Following the box-set release, Peters used the Alarm name on the tour to promote the complete collection release. The musicians Peters used were his backing band in the late 1990s; Steve Grantley from Stiff Little Fingers, Craig Adams from The Sisters of Mercy, The Mission and The Cult, and James Stevenson from Chelsea and Gene Loves Jezebel. The Alarm name was followed by an MM++ that indicated in Roman numerals what year the record was released. Over the past decade, Peters has replaced the band members as needed when Adams, Stevenson or Grantley have pursued other projects.

In February 2004, Peters' line-up of Alarm MM++ carried out a hoax on the British music industry by issuing "45 RPM" under the fictitious name The Poppy Fields. Peters, having garnered positive feedback for the song, decided to disassociate it from his veteran band to have it judged on its own merits, and recruited a young group called the Wayriders to lip-sync the song in the music video. The so-called Poppy Fields took "45 RPM" into the UK Top 30 before the hoax was revealed, setting the stage for the album In the Poppy Fields.

The Alarm appeared together for a one-off show on the VH1 television show Bands Reunited in 2005 and performed live in London with a subsequent expanded DVD/CD release of the episode.

In 2005, Peters discovered that he was suffering from chronic lymphocytic leukaemia. At this time, he started a cancer foundation called Love Hope Strength to help with the fight against cancer. In October 2007, Peters, along with 38 other musicians, cancer survivors and supporters, made a 14-day trek to the base camp at Mount Everest to perform the highest concert on land to raise awareness and money to fight cancer. Other musicians included Cy Curnin and Jamie West-Oram of The Fixx, Glenn Tilbrook of Squeeze, Slim Jim Phantom of The Stray Cats and Nick Harper. Peters is the co-founder of The Love Hope and Strength Foundation with fellow leukemia survivor James Chippendale, CEO of Ascend Insurance Brokerage in Austin, Texas.

In 2006, the new version of Alarm MM++ released the album Under Attack. It spawned another UK Top 30 hit with "Superchannel". In 2008, a studio album titled Guerrilla Tactics was released. The Alarm's song "Sixty Eight Guns" has been featured in a television advertisement for Heineken in the U.S. In April 2008, Sharp launched AOR – Spirit of The Alarm, his own version of the band, to showcase the band's American set lists from the late 1980s.

In 2009, the Alarm released 21, a "best of" collection of songs from their 2000's output. The collection included a remix of the single "45 RPM" as well as remixes and alternate takes of 20 other songs. This was followed by the studio album Direct Action in April 2010 and then by The Sound And Fury in 2011, an album of 12 re-imagined tracks from the catalog of the Alarm and of Mike Peters.

2013 saw the release of Vinyl, which featured tracks written for the soundtrack]album and performed by Mike Peters and The Alarm with guest vocals from the film's actors Phil Daniels and Keith Allen. The film, written and directed by Sara Sugarman, is loosely based on the true events surrounding The Poppy Fields and release of the single "45 RPM." It also features a cameo appearance of Mike Peters. Vinyl is a British comedy film that has aging rock star Johnny Jones (Phil Daniels) fool the media into believing his music is that of a fresh, young rock group from North Wales. The Alarm took the step of touring the soundtrack album with a showing of the film at selected venues in the UK during March and April 2013.

In 2014, Peters started the process of "reimagining" the Alarm's full, original albums for the 21st century. He began with Declaration [30th Anniversary] in 2014, followed quickly by Peace Train , a collection of b-sides reimagined. Some of the songs have updated lyrics to match the passage of time, and others contain edited verses, or lyrics from demo versions of the songs before they were recorded for the albums and singles. Peters continued this process for  Strength : [30th Anniversary]  and its companion album Majority in 2015.

The band released the album Equals on In Grooves Records in July 2018. This was followed by the companion album Sigma, released a year later. Peters' wife Jules currently plays keyboards in the band, and James Stevenson plays guitar, bass guitar, bass pedals and a bass/six string double-neck guitar made for him by Gordon-Smith Guitars

In 2021, the band wrote and recorded the album War in 50 days, reflecting on the pandemic and lockdown situation.

"The Red Wall of Cymru", as recorded by the Alarm, is Wales' official anthem for the Euro 2020. It features fans recorded in football grounds all across Wales.

Influence
Historian Martin Johnes has argued that the band are part of the contemporary history of Wales. His case is based on how the Alarm reflected cultural trends within Wales, and the band are discussed in his book Wales Since 1939 (2012).

AllMusic journalist Steve Huey stated: "The British music press habitually savaged their records as derivative and pretentious, but this meant little to their zealous following, who supported the band to the tune of over 5 million sales worldwide and 16 Top 50 UK singles."

Studio albums (as The Alarm)

 * Declaration (1984)
 * Strength (1985)
 * Eye of the Hurricane (1987)
 * Change (1989)
 * Raw (1991)

Studio albums (as The Alarm MM++)

 * Close (2002)
 * The Normal Rules Do Not Apply (2002)
 * Trafficking (2002)
 * Edward Henry Street (2002)
 * Coming Home (2003)
 * In the Poppyfields (2004)
 * Under Attack (2006)
 * Guerilla Tactics (2008)
 * Direct Action (2010)
 * Blood Red (2017)
 * Viral Black (2017)
 * Equals (2018)
 * Sigma (2019)
 * War (2021)
 * Forwards (2023)

DVDs
1 – Released as The Alarm MM 2 – Released as The Alarm MMIV 3 – Released as The Alarm MMVII 4 – Released as The Alarm MMVIII

Current members

 * Mike Peters – lead vocals, guitars, harmonica
 * James Stevenson – guitars, backing vocals, bass
 * Mark Taylor – keyboards, guitar
 * Jules Jones Peters – keyboards, backing vocals
 * Steve "Smiley" Barnard – drums, backing vocals, percussion

Former members

 * Dave Sharp (born David Kitchingman, 28 January 1959, Salford, England ) – guitars, backing and lead vocals, harmonica
 * Eddie MacDonald (born 1 November 1959, St Asaph, Wales ) – bass, backing vocals, keyboards, guitar
 * Nigel Twist (born Nigel Buckle, 18 July 1958, Manchester, England ) – drums, percussion
 * Steve Grantley – drums
 * Craig Adams – bass

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Portal:Aviation/Anniversaries/November 16

November 16

 * 2010 – A USAF Lockheed Martin F-22A Raptor, 06-4125, of the 525th Fighter Squadron, 3d Wing, crashes in Alaska near Susitna Lodge, killing pilot Capt. Jeffrey Haney, from Clarklake, Michigan.

 * 2009 – Launch: Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-129 at 19:28:09 UTCT. Mission highlights: ISS assembly flight ULF3: ExPRESS Logistics Carriers (ELCs) 1 & 2.

 * 2007 – Inclement weather caused a BHP Billiton AS350-B2 helicopter, to crash in Angola, killing the helicopter's five passengers.

 * 2004 – NASA's X-43 reaches a record speed of Mach 10 (7,000 mph, 11,200 km/h)

 * 1984 – Landed: Space Shuttle Discovery STS-51-A at 11:59:56 UTC KSC, Runway 15. Mission highlights: Multiple comsat deployments, retrieval of two other comsats Palapa B2 and Westar VI which were subsequently refurbished on Earth and reflown.

 * 1982 – Landing: Space shuttle Columbia STS-5 at 14:33:26 UTC. Mission highlights: Multiple comsat deployments. First EVA of program canceled due to suit problems.

 * 1973 – Skylab 4 launches into orbit as the fourth Skylab mission, bringing the third and final crew to the space station.

 * 1973 – While on reserve station south of Crete, a U.S. Marine Corps Boeing-Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight from USS Guadalcanal (LPH-7) loses engine power during a routine flight while hovering above the USS Barry. The helicopter, with crewmen aboard, crashes into the destroyer's ASROC deck, rolls over the starboard side, and almost immediately sinks. While no one on Barry was injured, only two of the three helicopter crew were rescued by the ship's Motor Whale Boat.

 * 1970 – First flight of the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar

 * 1970 – A U.S. Navy McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II crashed in the Atlantic Ocean 30 miles E of the Virginia Capes shortly after launch from the carrier USS Forrestal, CVA-59. Two crew, out of NAS Oceana, Virginia, are lost, the Navy reported 17 November. Pilot was Lt.j.g. John Dale O'Connor, and RSO was Lt.j.g. Thomas F. Hanagan, both of Virginia Beach, Virginia. They were attached to a fighter squadron based at NAS Oceana at Virginia Beach.

 * 1967 – American aircraft attack the shipyards at Haiphong, North Vietnam, for the first time.

 * 1965 – Russia’s Venera 3, the first spacecraft to land on another planet’s surface, is launched.

 * 1959 – First flight of the Canadair CL-44

 * 1959 – National Airlines Flight 967, a Douglas DC-7 B, crashes into the Gulf of Mexico while on a flight from Tampa, Florida to New Orleans, Louisiana, in a possible case of sabotage; all 40 on board perish.

 * 1955 – KLM places an order for eight DC-8 s.

 * 1953 – First trans-Canada flight by a CF-100 Canuck aircraft from RCAF 445 Squadron took place.

 * 1946 – First flight of the Saab 90 Scandia

 * 1945 – Pan American World Airways resumes commercial seaplane service between California and Hawaii, using Boeing Clipper aircraft it has leased to the U.S. Navy during World War II.

 * 1942 – A B-24D Liberator of the 1st Antisubmarine Squadron based at St. Eval in the United Kingdom flies the first operational mission of the U.S. Army Air Forces Antisubmarine Command.

 * 1938 – HMS Ark Royal enters service with the Royal Navy as the world’s first aircraft carrier with deck armor.

 * 1937 – A Sabena Junkers Ju 52 crashes near Ostend, Belgium, killing all 11 on board, including the Grand Duke Georg Donatus and Grand Duchess Cecilie of Hesse, who was eight months pregnant.

 * 1928 – Western Canada Airways established the Prairie Air Mail Route, an experimental air ail service operated for 20 days.

 * 1927 – The United States Navy commissions USS Saratoga (CV-3), its first large aircraft carrier and its first carrier capable of fleet speeds and true combat operations.

 * 1920 – QANTAS is formed at Longreach, Queensland.

 * 1919 – Cpt Henry Wrigley and Lt Arthur Murphy make the first aerial crossing of Australia, flying a Royal Aircraft Factory BE.2e from Melbourne to Darwin, taking 46 hours

 * 1915 – Victor Carlstrom became the first pilot to fly from Toronto to New York. Carlstrom flew in a Curtiss R-2 biplane and was in the air for 6 hours and 40 min.

 * 1909 – German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin forms the world’s first commercial airline, DELAG [Deutsche Luftschiffahrts-Aktiengesellschaft (German for "German Airship Travel Corporation")]

 * 1906 – First flight of the Lebaudy Patrie, French semi-rigid airship.

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Portal:Aviation/Anniversaries/December 10

December 10

 * 2011 – Beechcraft 65-80 Queen Air crash occurred when a Beechcraft 65-80 Queen Air cargo plane crashed into the Felixberto Serrano Elementary School near Manila, the capital city of the Philippines, killing at least 14 people including the three crew members on board the aircraft, and injuring over 20 people. Approximately 50 houses in the residential area were set ablaze by the subsequent fire caused by the plane crash. The cause of the crash, as well as the identities of the victims is still unknown.

 * 2011 – A gun battle between Libya's new Libyan National Army and a powerful militia force takes place at Tripoli International Airport in Tripoli.

 * 2006 – A Bell 412SP air ambulance helicopter crashed near Cajon Pass, killing the three member crew.

 * 2005 – Sosoliso Airlines Flight 1145, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 with 110 people on board, crashes during landing in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. One hundred and seven people die.

 * 2004 – Two CT-114 Tutors from Canada's Snowbirds aerobatic team collide at the top of a loop during practice while training near Mossbank, Saskatchewan over Mossbank Airfield. Captain Miles Selby, pilot of '8' was killed instantly, but Captain Chuck Mallet was thrown clear of the wreckage of '9', released his lap belt and pulled his chute release, landing with minor injuries.

 * 2004 – The United States Federal Aviation Administration issues an Emergency Airworthiness Directive effectively grounding the entire U. S. fleet of Beechcraft T-34 Mentor aircraft. The AD is in response to fatal in-flight structural failure accidents during simulated aerial combat flights.

 * 1999 – A United States Air Force Lockheed C-130E Hercules, 63-7854, of 61st Airlift Squadron, 463d Airlift Group, crashes during landing at Ahmed Al Jaber air base, Kuwait City, Kuwait, killing three of the 94 people on board. Investigation report, released 31 March 2000, blamed crew complacency and failure to follow governing directives during approach to the runway, failing to monitor instruments, a critical function for night flying in reduced visibility.[401]

 * 1998 – Captain Michael VandenBos of the Snowbirds aerobatic team dies in a midair collision between two CT-114 Tutors during training near Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.

 * 1976 – Wings release triple album “Wings Across America”. (it’s a slow history day)

 * 1974 – Helios 1 is launched by the US and Germany, later to make the closest flyby of the Sun.

 * 1973 – RAF English Electric Lightning F.3, XP738, 'E', of 111 Squadron, is written off when the undercarriage collapses upon landing at RAF Wattisham, Suffolk. Stripped for spares and consigned to the dump there.

 * 1971 – President Richard M. Nixon warns North Vietnam that American bombing of North Vietnam would resume if North Vietnamese military action against South Vietnam increases as American forces are withdrawn from Vietnam.

 * 1967 – Singer Otis Redding and four members of his back-up band, The Bar-Kays, are among six people killed in the crash of a Beechcraft 18 into Lake Monona in Madison, Wisconsin.

 * 1963 – The United States Air Force’s X-20 Dyna-Soar spaceplane program is cancelled by Robert McNamara.

 * 1963 – Test pilot Charles Chuck Yeager, out of Edwards AFB, California, zoom climbs Lockheed NF-104A Starfighter, 56-0762, modified with rocket engine in tail unit, to 106,300 feet (32,400 m), but aircraft enters flat spin when directional jets in nose run out of propellant, forcing him to eject. He suffers injuries when his helmet collides with the ejection seat. This mission was very loosely depicted in the film The Right Stuff. Aircraft was originally built as Lockheed F-104A-10-LO. See also flying accident during a test flight.

 * 1958 – National Airlines operates the very first domestic jet service in the United States, flying a Boeing 707 from Miami to New York’s Idlewild (now JFK).

 * 1957 – First flight of the Aermacchi MB-326

 * 1955 – First flight of the Ryan X-13 Vertijet.

 * 1946 – A Curtiss R5C-1 Commando military transport plane, BuNo 39528, c/n 26715/CU355, (ex-USAAF 42-3582), of VMR-152, crashed into Mount Rainier's South Tahoma Glacier, killing 32 U.S. Marines. Wreckage not found until July 1947

 * 1943 – Triple night kill by RCAF F/O R. D. Schultz flying in the 410 Squadrons Mosquito, against Do 217 s.

 * 1943 – The Allied airstrip at Cape Torokina on Bougainville officially opens.

 * 1941 – An SBD Dauntless dive bomber from the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CV-6) piloted by Lieutenant Clarence E. Dickinson sinks the Japanese submarine I-70 northeast of Oahu. I-70 is the first Japanese submarine ever sunk by enemy forces and the first enemy warship sunk by the U. S. armed forces during World War II.

 * 1941 – After a courageous attack against Japanese ships off the Philippines, U. S. Army Air Force Captain Colin Kelly, a B-17 C Flying Fortress pilot, becomes one of the earliest American heroes of World War II when he stays at the controls of his stricken bomber long enough for his crew to escape and is killed when his plane explodes. He is mistakenly reported to have deliberately crashed his stricken plane into the Japanese battleship Haruna.

 * 1941 – In the Philippines, 54 Japanese naval bombers systematically destroy Cavite Navy Yard and a significant part of neighboring Cavite with precision bombing from 20,000 feet (6,096 m) during a two-hour attack. The submarine USS Sealion (SS-195) is sunk pierside at the Navy Yard, the first American submarine ever sunk by enemy action.

 * 1941 – French Indochina-based Imperial Japanese Navy Mitsubishi G3 M bombers (Allied reporting name “Nell”) sink the Royal Navy battleship Prince of Wales and battlecruiser Repulse in the South China Sea east of Malaya using torpedoes. They are the first capital ships to be sunk at sea by aircraft alone.

 * 1939 – Second production Sud-Est LeO H-470 flying boat written off when pilot alighted in error in shallow water on Lake Urbino, Corsica, airframe too badly damaged to permit repairs.

 * 1938 – First flight of the Lockheed Hudson

 * 1935 – A SABENA Savoia-Marchetti S.73 crashes near Tatsfield, Surrey due to pilot error, killing all 11 on board.

 * 1928 – First airmail flight between Edmonton and Winnipeg. A WWI pilot, fittingly named Punch Dickens, flew the Fokker Super Universal aircraft for Western Canada Airways. He landed in what is now the Edmonton City Centre Airport carrying mail from Winnipeg, Regina, Saskatoon and North Battleford. Postage for regular mail on that first flight cost five cents.

 * 1926 – Western Canada Airways was incorporated, with headquarters in Winnipeg.

 * 1919 – First England to Australia flight, by Keith Macpherson Smith and Ross Macpherson Smith, (plus mechanics Sergeant W. H. (Wally) Shiers and J. M. (Jim) Bennett) completed the journey from Hounslow Heath Aerodrome to Darwin in a Vickers Vimy. A distance of 11340 mi., after flying 135 hr. 55 min. at an average speed of 83 mph.

 * 1914 – HMS Ark Royal is completed. She is the first ship with an internal hangar enclosed by her hull, and the first with specially designed internal spaces to accommodate aviation fuel, lubricants, ordnance, and spares and machinery required for aircraft maintenance.


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Mary Carillo

Mary Carillo (born March 15, 1957 ) is an American sportscaster and former professional tennis player. She is an analyst for Tennis on NBC and a reporter for NBC Olympic broadcasts.

Tennis
Carillo played on the women's professional tennis circuit from 1977 to 1980. Her highest world rank was No. 33 in the Women's Tennis Association Rankings from January through March 1980. She then retired, citing knee injuries.

Carillo never won a major singles title, but did win the 1977 French Open mixed-doubles title with John McEnroe. Carillo and McEnroe made it to the quarterfinals at Wimbledon before being defeated, and later that year Carillo was a women's doubles quarterfinalist at the US Open.

Tennis coverage
Carillo began her television career working for USA Network from 1980 to 1987, PBS from 1981 to 1986 and MSG from 1981 to 1988. She then worked for ESPN from 1988 to 1997 and again from 2003 to 2010. She also worked on US Open coverage for CBS Sports from 1986 to 2014. In addition, Carillo worked as both a host and analyst on HBO's Wimbledon coverage from 1996 to 1999, and on Turner Sports' Wimbledon coverage from 2000 to 2002. In May 2003, Carillo joined NBC Sports as an analyst on its French Open and Wimbledon coverage, having made her debut as an analyst on NBC for the 1996 Family Circle Cup tennis event. She also does commentary on The Tennis Channel.

Carillo's candid and insightful commentary has earned her accolades throughout the industry, including the distinction of being called "the sport's top analyst" by Sports Illustrated. She is known for her deep voice, quick wit and pointed sense of humor. Like her longtime friend and fellow Douglaston, Queens, New York City native John McEnroe, Carillo is known for her colorful turns of phrase, and is credited with coining "Big Babe Tennis" to describe the era in women's tennis dominated by large, powerful players such as Lindsay Davenport, Serena Williams and Venus Williams. Carillo's unabashed and opinionated style of commentary has drawn criticism from several top players, notably Andre Agassi, Serena and Venus Williams, and Maria Sharapova. Nevertheless, she was named Best Commentator by Tennis Magazine (1988–91), Best Commentator by World Tennis magazine (1986) and Broadcaster of the Year by the Women's Tennis Association (1981 and 1985).

As a result of the ATP's handling of domestic abuse allegations against Alexander Zverev, Carillo stepped down from her presenting role at the 2021 Laver Cup, in which Zverev played, saying she wanted no part in the "whitewashing of very serious allegations".

Olympic coverage
Carillo served as Olympic tennis analyst at both the Atlanta and Sydney Summer Olympics and as the skiing reporter for CBS's coverage at the Albertville, Lillehammer and Nagano Winter Olympics.

During NBC's coverage of the 2002 Salt Lake Winter Olympics she covered bobsled, luge and skeleton competitions. Her comment that men's doubles luge is "like a bar bet gone bad" was recognized as "line of the year" in many sports television columns. In addition, Carillo's work co-hosting the 2002 Closing Ceremony alongside Dan Hicks earned her critical acclaim.

At the 2004 Athens Games, Carillo earned critical praise in her debut as a full-time Olympic host on Bravo's coverage in addition to anchoring USA Network's live, Grand Slam-style coverage of the tennis gold medal finals. She delivered a lengthy, well-received commentary on badminton during this coverage.

At the 2006 Winter Games in Torino Carillo hosted Olympic Ice, a daily figure skating show on the USA Network. She co-hosted the daily figure-skating television program with Scott Hamilton, Dick Button, and Jamie Salé and David Pelletier.

Carillo served as late-night show host, closing ceremony host, and "Friend of Bob" for the 2008 Beijing Games, her ninth Olympic assignment and sixth with NBC. Her role focused on cultural commentary and "slice of life" pieces about China. She repeated these duties—late-night host and human-interest reporter—for NBC's coverage of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, and the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. She was also one of the torch bearers during the torch's tour through Canada.

Other activities
Since 1997, Carillo has been a correspondent on HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, winning a Sports Emmy Award for her Real Sports feature on the Hoyt Family.

In 2009, 2013, and 2016, she co-hosted the 133rd, 137th and 140th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show broadcast on USA Networks.

Carillo is a commentator for the Hallmark Channel special Paw Star Game premiering July 12, 2015. "At best, baby cats have the barest, most rudimentary grasp of the rules and regulations of American football and baseball", said Carillo. "And that's really okay with me. Frankly, watching kittens play any sport is going to be endearing and adorable." Carillo is also a commentator for Hallmark's Kitten Bowl.

Personal life
Carillo was born in New York City in the borough of Brooklyn. She now splits her time between Naples, Florida and New York City's Greenwich Village. She was married for 15 years to tennis instructor Bill Bowden, with whom she has two children, Anthony (b. 1987) and Rachel (b. 1991). They divorced in 1998.

Filmography
Carillo appeared as herself in the romantic-comedy film Wimbledon (2004).

Board membership

 * She is a former member of the Women's Tennis Association's Board of Directors.
 * In 2010, she was named President of USTA Serves – Foundation for Academics, Character and Excellence

Awards and honors

 * Twice named Broadcaster of the Year by the Women's Tennis Association (1981, 1985)
 * Named "Best Commentator" by World Tennis Magazine (1986), Toronto Star (1986) and Tennis magazine (1988–91)
 * 2008 inductee to National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame.
 * Carillo received two Peabody Awards for co-writing, with Frank Deford, the HBO documentary Dare to Compete: The Struggle of Women in Sport, as well as a Billie Jean King documentary.
 * Won a Sports Emmy Award for her feature on the Hoyt family
 * Won the 2010 Dick Schaap Award for Outstanding Journalism – first female recipient of the award
 * Won the ITF's 2015 Philippee Chatrier Award, for her outstanding contribution to tennis.
 * Won a 2016 (Annalee) Thurston Award, for her storied sportscasting career.
 * Won 2017 Eugene L. Scott Award by the International Tennis Hall of Fame
 * 2018 inducted into Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame

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Sark (disambiguation)

Sark (Sercq) is one of the Channel Islands.

Sark or SARK may also refer to:

Places

 * Sark, Razavi Khorasan, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
 * River Sark, which flows along the west end of the border between England and Scotland

Arts, entertainment, and media

 * Julian Sark, a character from the TV series Alias
 * Sark (Tron), a character in the Tron franchise
 * a species of villainous robots from the TV series Hot Wheels Battle Force 5
 * the overseer planet of The Currents of Space by Isaac Asimov

Military

 * Battle of Sark, fought between England and Scotland in October 1448, by the River Sark
 * SARK (Search And Rescue Knife), made by Emerson Knives, Inc. for the United States Navy
 * SS-N-4 Sark, the NATO reporting name for the R-13 submarine-launched ballistic missile

Other uses

 * SARK (author), the pen name of author Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy
 * Steve Sarkisian, American college football coach
 * Tuttle Capital Short Innovation ETF (Nasdaq: SARK), American exchange-traded fund
 * Harvey Sark (1907–1964), American football player
 * Sark means a shirt in some Scottish and Northern English dialects

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User talk:Freerick

''I appreciate all your comments, suggestions, criticisms, curses, confessions, etc. A list of current, recent and future projects is on my user page. Please add your comments on the bottom of this page. If your comment is related to a particular article or project, please leave it underneath the appropriate section below. If your comment does not have a section, please create a new one, or simply leave your comment under "General".''

= Requests for Review = ''Please review these articles if you have a chance, and leave your comments here, or make a reference to your comments. These are mostly articles to which I have contributed or am currently contributing''

 * Strip games - currently under review by User:Saxifrage 29 July 2024 (UTC) waiting for expansion 11 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Exclusive Mandate - pleave copyedit, review, expand and leave feedback, thanks! complete 11 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Berlin Border Crossings - please copyedit, review and expand translation complete by User:Chonak, will copyedit 11 July 2006 (UTC)
 * ADHD psychosis - please review new content for accurracy, style, etc.
 * London Protocol - please copyedit done 11 July 2006 (UTC)

= Wish List = Items which I would like reviewed, expanded, have other people contribute to, contribute to myself, etc

 * ADHD - unorganized, requires re-structuring; complete disaster, what if someone who doesn't have ADHD sees this??
 * being worked on, thanks *Kat*

= To Do = Please add new items under "New Requests" and I will be happy to contribute if I have time.

Pending

 * de:Wende(DDR) ~ German reunification; the German article needs to be translated, starting with the title. See discussion.

 * Mental Illness - requires cleanup, any suggestions? (5/12/06)

see user page
 * Regional vocabularies of American English

 * Instructional Design Coordinator

needs edit, expansion, possible redirect
 * Cognitive_advantages_to_bilingualism

In Progress

 * ADHD psychosis -requires expansion, review and cleanup - adopted maintenance of article for now

German -> English Translations

see user page

 * de:Berliner Grenzübergänge -> Berlin Border Crossings

New Requests
add your requests below if you would like me to review, translate or contribute to an article or if you would like to direct my attention to a particular issue or discussion.

Hello Patrick,

Your wiki article on Cognitive advantages of bilingualism was informative. However, when you discussed the crucial age for learning two languages, it made me think of how the cognitive processes would be for and individual who was learning a different language at an older age. For an improvement of the article, adding more research on that would be beneficial.

Megannd1993 (talk) 17:24, 26 May 2016 (UTC)Megan Negron-DaltonMegannd1993 (talk) 17:24, 26 May 2016 (UTC) [none]

Recent Projects
You may see some or all of the articles listed here on my User Page or in other sections on this page; this is an archive of contributions.

 * London Protocol - translated second section from German to English
 * reviewed copyedits

= Of Interest = Things I'm interested in, want to look at -- feel free to add anything to this list

Cool

 * Berlin Wall
 * de:Berlin

 * Drugs (in no particular order)
 * GHB
 * Prozac
 * Seroquel
 * Ibuprofen
 * MDMA
 * Haloperidol
 * Paxil

 * ADHD
 * Concerta
 * Modafinil
 * Ampakine
 * Adderall

Users

 * User:Preslethe - re: London Protocol
 * User:Hbackman - cool
 * User:Gourneau
 * User:Kusma
 * User:ProhibitOnions
 * User:Saintswithin
 * User:Mmounties - bilingual
 * User:Saxifrage
 * User:Taxwoman

Bookmarks

 * Portal:Germany

 * Untranslatability

 * Interlanguage_links

 * Wikipedia talk:German-speaking Wikipedians' notice board

 * Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany (Wikisource) - my translation of the German Constitution ("Basic Law")

 * List of words having different meanings in British and American English

 * Freerick

 * California English

Look At

 * Thought experiment
 * de:Tränenpalast -- Palace of Tears
 * de:Vergangenheitsbewältigung -- (German) Historical Reconciliation
 * California English
 * American English regional differences

= Comments =

Translations
see user page for current projects; please add comments here

Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung

 * I'm a bit busy with other stuff right now, but I will take a look soon. You might want to ask also at Wikipedia talk:German-speaking Wikipedians' notice board, where you'll find a larger audience of translators that might know more about the specific terms to use than me. Thanks for starting this project, and happy editing, Kusma (討論) 19:53, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Bookmarked, thanks (Patrick 01:20, 15 May 2006 (UTC))

Berliner Grenzübergänge
Hi, Patrick.

''The source text was copied to the talk page for the English article. Only use that text to continue the translation to ensure consistency. Also, please review each other's translations and try to maintain a uniform style.''

Is there some reason for not using the text directly from de:Berliner Grenzübergänge? E.g., has it been in flux? Anyway, I've pushed this along a bit. Chonak 07:13, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Chonak, thanks for pointing that out, as well as making those additions that were necessary. Technically, the translation can be done straight from the German article, but it could change at any time, which can make a good translation look like a complete mistranslation, that's why I brought that up, but it's not that crucial. Since you've brought this to my attention, though, I'm going to continue working on it. (Patrick 02:41, 2 June 2006 (UTC))

 * Completed. Chonak 04:27, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Basic Law (Wikisource)
Got any thoughts on the discussion at the Talk:Basic Law page? Chonak 07:22, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks for reminding me, I actually have a few things to add, as well as expand the translation, check the talk page shortly, I will make updates. (Patrick 02:42, 2 June 2006 (UTC))

 * Sorry, I'm bowing out on the Basic Law translation; the existing one really does look good enough to me.  If you have any particular questions about some passage, I'd be willing to look it over and offer a second opinion.   Anyway, there's plenty of other work to do.  Chonak 05:50, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

User:ProhibitOnions

 * By accident you put your comments on his user page. I've moved them over to his talk page. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 14:32, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Sin taxes

 * Generally speaking, most taxes on illicit drugs involve a stamp duty or something similar, where a stamp must be put on anything being transacted. In most jurisdictions, this is little more than an excuse to slap an additional penalty on persons who have been arrested - that is, someone caught can be charged for both possession and for failing to pay the duty on the transaction and punished for both. A few jurisdictions do allow for anonymous purchasing of the stamps, though. --DMG413 12:22, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

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Thank you for announcing your articles! I have just one minor thing to ask you: Could you use instead of  ? The latter always displays the date at the time of viewing, not at the time you inserted the template. Thank you, Kusma (討論) 20:41, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh, sure, sorry, I wasn't aware of that... I'd like to jump on board the GDR Project though, so let me know when everything's in place (Patrick 20:49, 13 June 2006 (UTC))

 * Well, I could use some public support for that idea at the talk page of the WP:GSWN. I haven't started yet because nobody seemed to be interested. I'll think about it again, then, if I'm not the only one who thinks that might be a worthy project. I'll keep you informed of any progress I make. Kusma (討論) 21:31, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Argh, has the same problems because we don't have recursive subst'ing :-( I think I'll change the format anyway so you can just sign on the announcement page and the Portal subpage will look like the one on Portal:Germany/Test3 with more space for articles and less for bragging and the dates. If you hate that idea, stop me at Portal talk:Germany. Kusma (討論) 22:21, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

IG Farben Building
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Sobo has given up!
Yippee! --*Kat* 23:07, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Really? he told you this, or you're assuming this because he hasn't made any edits in a while? (Patrick 23:10, 11 July 2006 (UTC))

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NOR
Would you mind reverting back to Tom Harrison's version at NOR? You introduced a grammatical error, and then when I reverted to fix it, instead of leaving it, you've made another change, so that the page now talks about descriptive claim in the singular, when the plural is required. The grammar was correct as it was, as was the sense. The "accuracy of which is" .. is correct, because the verb refers to accuracy, not to claims. SlimVirgin (talk) 20:32, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
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In the Chernobyl article you as you put it: "(erased irrelevant quote regarding smoking-related deaths; replaced with new wording)"

That is completely unacceptable, not only did you remove a direct quote, you inserted a completely different statement, and left the reference as if the reference supported your statement. I am 'unhappy' about this.

The statement in no way irrelevant on the contrary you made it irrelevant.

 * I didn't mean to patently change the content, but I felt that the quote didn't really flow well with the article, so I changed the wording to integrate the contents of the quote into the sentence. As it was written was how I interpreted the meaning of the quote. Don't you think the article would flow better if the quote would at least have a lead-in? (Patrick 07:36, 12 October 2006 (UTC))

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 * If you say so? (Patrick 08:01, 3 November 2006 (UTC))

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Lotus FM

Lotus FM (formerly, Radio Lotus) is a South African national radio station based in Durban, loosely similar to the BBC Asian Network in the United Kingdom, that caters for the needs of the Indian South African community. It combines a mix of Indian music, news, current affairs, interviews and entertainment. Lotus FM targets South African Indians between the ages of 25-34 (core) and 35-49 (secondary) in the LSM 7-10 segment.

Lotus FM has occasionally been the subject of complaints, with people of South Indian descent claiming that the station's broadcasts favour Hindi music over Tamil music.

The Lotus FM studio complex is based at the SABC in Durban, next to the famous Kingsmead Cricket stadium.

Disc jockeys
The following is a list of On-Air Personalities who present and produce shows on the station (including weekends)

 * Alan Chetty
 * Alan Khan
 * Althaf Suleman
 * Ashit Desai
 * Aksoy Turkish
 * Avin Moorley
 * Byron David
 * Deon Chetty
 * Diresh Sinath
 * Enrico Pillay
 * Julian Lurie
 * Jailoshini Naidoo
 * Josh Michael Reddiar
 * Karusha Chetty
 * Mala Lutchmanan
 * Manick Thor
 * Mihir Sharmin Govindasami
 * Navitha Gajraj
 * Nicholas Pillay
 * O'Neil Nair
 * Pravina Maharaj
 * Raeesa Mahomed

 * Rakesh Ramdhin
 * Ravi Govender
 * Ryan Naicker
 * Sareshan Pillay
 * Shirdika Pillai
 * Shaastra Nagasur
 * Sudhisha Naidoo
 * Suresh Harilal
 * Sanobar Khan
 * Sahendran Kandasami
 * 'n Protea Petalje
 * Tharshey Naidoo
 * Varshan Sookhun
 * Veena Lutchman

Frequencies
The station broadcasts in FM on the following frequencies throughout South Africa

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The Chevy Chase Show

The Chevy Chase Show is an American late night talk show hosted by actor and comedian Chevy Chase that aired in 1993 on Fox. The series was canceled after six weeks on the air. It was the last late night talk show that aired on Fox until 2006 when Talkshow with Spike Feresten debuted.

Creation and pre-production
In 1993, Fox asked country musician Dolly Parton to host a new-late night program. It would be the network's first since the October 1988 cancellation of The Late Show, originally hosted by Joan Rivers and later by Arsenio Hall and Ross Shafer. Parton turned the network down, and suggested Chase for the job. Chase reportedly signed a $3 million deal with Fox. To clear room for the new show, Fox cancelled Studs, a game show that had been in the late-night slot.

Fox spent $1 million to renovate the Aquarius Theater, the Los Angeles venue where the show would be recorded. Days before the show's premiere, the theater's name was changed to the Chevy Chase Theater.

Formula and trademarks
The Chevy Chase Show was one of several late-night talk shows developed by various networks in the year following the retirement of Johnny Carson after nearly thirty years as host of NBC's highly successful The Tonight Show. The Chevy Chase Show premiered on September 7, 1993, a week after the debut of Late Show with David Letterman and a week before the launch of Late Night with Conan O'Brien. In keeping with the talk show format Carson and David Letterman had established, the show featured a house band that Chase called the best band in the world: the Tom Scott-led MBC Orchestra (which would later be called The Hollywood Express). Like several other late-night shows (the most notable exception being the Jay Leno-hosted Tonight Show), the host secured ownership rights to his show; Chase produced it through his company, Cornelius Productions. The show's set featured a tank with live fish (visible during interviews), basketball hoops, and shelves of toys, as well as a desk with a built-in piano.

The program's lead-in featured a clay-animated Chase stealing letters from notable Los Angeles landmarks to spell the name of his show. As the credits rolled at the end of each episode, Chase was seen shooting basketballs at an onstage backstop.

Episodes
According to newspaper listings, Chase's guests during the 29-episode run included:

 * Week of September 6, 1993: Goldie Hawn, Whoopi Goldberg, Jason Priestley, Beverly D'Angelo, Harry Anderson, Martin Short, Kathleen Turner, Robert Townsend
 * Week of September 13, 1993: Tom Selleck, Andrew Shue, Tim Matheson, Dennis Hopper, Anita Morris, Jennie Garth, Garrett Morris, Al Franken, Corbin Bernsen
 * Week of September 20, 1993: Geraldo Rivera, Deborah Allen, Rita Rudner, Engelbert Humperdinck, Billie Jean King, Chris Evert, Sinbad, Janis Ian, Robert De Niro, Kenny Loggins, Dean Cain
 * Week of September 27, 1993: Ron Silver, Jonathan Frakes, Sam Elliott, Pamela Anderson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Henry Rollins
 * Week of October 4, 1993: Dan Aykroyd, Lauren Tom, Dave Thomas, Queen Latifah, Doug E. Doug, Bill Nye, Joe Queenan, Michael Damian, Valerie Bertinelli, Taylor Dayne
 * Week of October 11, 1993: Canadian Brass, Burt Reynolds, Lauren Holly, Dan Fogelberg, Maria McKee, A Martinez, Martin Sheen, Alexandra Paul, Jim Varney
 * Guests slated for October 18, 1993: Elizabeth Ashley, Don Rickles

Reviews
Television critic Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly gave the show an F late in its run in 1993. Tucker noted that "the audience that fills Hollywood's new Chevy Chase Theatre has steadily turned into the worst-behaved crowd in late-night television; they hoot and yell and cheer over whatever pitiful chatter Chase is attempting to wring out of a luckless guest." In another review, Time panned the show: "Nervous and totally at sea, Chase tried everything, succeeded at nothing." The magazine criticized Chase for having "recycled old material shamelessly," taking pratfalls, and even pleading with the audience to stand up and dance in their seats.

Cancellation
Advertisers had been promised that the show would bring between five and six million viewers nightly. By contrast, Late Show with David Letterman guaranteed fewer than four million viewers to their advertisers. The Chevy Chase Show's actual ratings were much lower, averaging fewer than three million viewers. Fewer than two million people tuned in during the show's final weeks.

Lucie Salhany, the then-chairwoman of Fox Broadcasting, announced on October 17, 1993, that the network had decided to cancel the show "in the best interests of both its affiliated stations and its star". Salhany spoke about Chase's first episodes: "He was very nervous. It was uncomfortable and embarrassing to watch it." Chase issued a statement regarding the cancellation, in which he called the talk-show format "very constraining" and promoted his upcoming film, Cops and Robbersons. Chase had never intended the show to be a long-term series, even if it had been successful, and claimed in an interview that he would "never be tied down for five years interviewing TV personalities".

Within 48 hours of the final show, workmen had already dismantled and painted over the Chevy Chase Theater's sign. The theater was later renamed the Nickelodeon on Sunset, which remained its name until the theatre closed in 2017. Fox ran reruns of In Living Color in the former time slot of The Chevy Chase Show after the cancellation. In November 1993, Fox was in talks with Howard Stern to replace Chase's show, but the talks went nowhere. With the exceptions of talking with Stern and attempting to sign Conan O'Brien in the early 2000s, Fox has not attempted to air late-night network programming on weeknights since The Chevy Chase Show left the air, opting to give the 11:00   p.m.–midnight time slot back to its affiliates, some of whom use at least part of that time to air extensions of their 10:00    p.m. local newscasts.

In a 2007 interview with Time, Chase spoke of the show, saying that it was "an entirely different concept than what was pushed on me. I would never do it again. What I wanted had a whole different feel to it, much darker and more improv. But we never got there." In an A&E Biography on Chase in 2009, Chase explained that because he had signed a contract with Fox, he was obligated to do the show the way the network wanted. During an interview on Norm Macdonald Has a Show, Chase reiterated his dislike of the experience, noting that the only thing he liked about the program was interviewing Robert De Niro.

In 2002, TV Guide ranked the show number 16 on its TV Guide's 50 Worst TV Shows of All Time list, and in 2010, TV Guide Network listed the show at No. 16 on their list of 25 Biggest TV Blunders alongside The Megan Mullally Show.

Chase later parodied the show's failure in a Doritos commercial that aired during Super Bowl XXVIII, in which the spot is literally cancelled midway through its production and Chase is banned from the studio lot. ("Tough year," he remarks. "Good chip.")

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March 27

 * 2012 – Aboard JetBlue Airways Flight 191, an Airbus A320-200 flying from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, New York, to McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, Nevada, the copilot locks Captain Clayton Osbon out of the cockpit after Osbon begins acting erratically, apparently suffering from a panic attack. Passengers subdue Osbon, and the airliner diverts to Amarillo, Texas, where Osbon is arrested.

 * 2008 – An Iraqi military Mil Mi-17 helicopter is shot down during heavy fighting in northern Basra.

 * 2007 – The last Airbus A300 leaves the Airbus assembly line.

 * 2004 – Nasa's X-43 pilotless plane breaks world speed record for an atmospheric engine by briefly flying at 7700 km per hour (seven times the speed of sound)

 * 2003 – OH-58D Kiowa 95-0024 from C Troop, 2–17th Cavalry Regiment crashes in Iraq, pilots survive.

 * 1999 – 1999 F-117A shoot-down: A USAF Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk, on a bombing mission over Serbia, was shot down by the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia unit using a SA-3 Goa. The pilot ejected and the F-117A crashed in hostile territory.

 * 1997 – The Royal Thai Navy commissions its first aircraft carrier, HTMS Chakri Naruebet.

 * 1994 – The Eurofighter takes its first flight in Manching, Germany.

 * 1990 – An Angolan Government CASA C-212 Aviocar 300 is shot down near Kuito, Angola by UNITA forces, killing all 25 on board.

 * 1990 – An Uzbek Civil Aviation Administration Ilyushin IL-76D (CCCP-78781) stalls on final and crashes before reaching Kabul, Afghanistan. All 11 aboard are killed.

 * 1984 – British Airways inaugurates a Concorde service from London to Miami twice weekly. The service operates through Washington-Dulles, necessitating a 50-minute stopover. The overall trip lasts 6 hours 35 min, a saving approximately 2.5 hours over the direct flight by subsonic airliners. The round-trip fare is quoted a £2,509.

 * 1978 – A USN Grumman F-14A-70-GR Tomcat, BuNo 158995, 'NK 106', of VF-1, crashes and catapults across scrub grass to come to rest against a concrete highway divider on CA-163, the Cabrillo Freeway, on approach to NAS Miramar, San Diego, California, exploding in flames. Both crew members eject seconds before impact; one fatality, no civilian deaths.

 * 1977 – In the Tenerife airport disaster, KLM Flight 4805 and Pan Am Flight 1736, both Boeing 747s, collide on the runway in Los Rodeos Airport; 583 of 644 people on board both aircraft are killed in the worst accident in the history of commercial aviation.

 * 1975 – First flight of the de Havilland Canada Dash 7, piloted by Bob Fowler.

 * 1970 – Concorde makes its first supersonic flight.

 * 1969 – Mariner 7, one of two robotic probes sent to inspect Mars’ atmosphere and ice caps, launches.

 * 1968 – While on a routine training flight out of Chkalovsky Air Base, Kosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and flight instructor Vladimir Seryogin (Seregin) die in a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15UTI, c/n 612739, callsign 625, crash near the town of Kirzhach. Gagarin and Seryogin were buried in the walls of the Kremlin on Red Square. It is not certain what caused the crash, but a 1986 inquest suggests that the turbulence from a Su-11 'Fishpot-C' interceptor using its afterburners may have caused Gagarin's plane to go out of control. Russian documents declassified in March 2003 showed that the KGB had conducted their own investigation of the accident, in addition to one government and two military investigations. The KGB's report dismissed various conspiracy theories, instead indicating that the actions of air base personnel contributed to the crash. The report states that an air traffic controller provided Gagarin with outdated weather information, and that when Gagarin flew, conditions had deteriorated significantly. Ground crew also left external fuel tanks attached to the aircraft. His planned flight activities needed clear weather and no outboard tanks. The investigation concluded that Gagarin's aircraft entered a spin, either due to a bird strike or because of a sudden move to avoid another aircraft. Because of the out-of-date weather report, the crew believed their altitude to be higher than it actually was, and could not properly react to bring the MiG-15 out of its spin.

 * 1967 – A Douglas A-4 Skyhawk of VA-72 out of NAS Cecil Field, Florida, crashes into a wooded area W of Lake City, Florida after pilot Lt. Cmdr. Robert W. McKay, 34, ejects from the crippled jet. "He suffered no apparent injuries", a Navy spokesman said. "He was picked up by the Highway Patrol and will be returned to Cecil Field on a Navy helicopter."

 * 1963 – North American T-28A-NI Trojan, 52-1242, c/n 189-57, converted to first prototype RA-28 (a proposed turboprop combat version for use in SE Asia), later redesignated North American YAT-28E. To Air Force Special Evaluation Center at Eglin AFB, Florida, for tests. Deficiency in tailfin area (tail unit separated in flight) led to its entering a flat spin and crashing whilst on its 14th test flight, killing North American Aviation pilot George Hoskins when he is unable to bail out due to a jammed canopy.

 * 1962 – A Cubana de Aviacion Ilyushin IL-14 (CU-T819) crashes into the sea about a mile from Santiago, Cuba, killing all 22 aboard.

 * 1958 – A United States Air Force Douglas C-124C Globemaster II, 52-0981, collides in midair with a USAF Fairchild C-119C Flying Boxcar, 49-0195, over Bridgeport, Texas, United States, killing all 15 on the Globemaster and all three on the Flying Boxcar.

 * 1954 – USAF Capt. Berry H. Young, 9th Bomb Squadron, 7th Bomb Wing, lands his Convair B-36H Peacemaker safely at Carswell AFB, Texas, with all three reciprocating engines on the starboard wing inoperative, the outboard jets completely disabled, and the landing flaps inoperative. These problems are further compounded when two engines windmill, without cockpit control, and the landing gear has to be lowered by emergency procedures. This incident becomes known as the "Miracle Landing". In acknowledgement of this feat, the entire crew is awarded the Carswell Crew of the Month Award, and later receives a personal commendation from General Curtis E. LeMay, Commander-In-Chief, Strategic Air Command.

 * 1953 – The Royal Netherlands Air Force becomes a separate command.

 * 1951 – In the 1951 Ringway Dakota accident, a Douglas C-47 A-75-DL Dakota 3 cargo aircraft operated by Air Transport Charter and en route to Nutts Corner Airport, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, shortly after take-off following the aircraft's failure to gain height, killing two of the three crew and two of the three passengers.

 * 1946 – An air agreement is signed by France and the US giving Air France the right to serve the cities of Boston, New York, Washington, D. C., and Chicago. Air France has a fleet of 375 aircraft as of December 31, 2004. It has over 1,800 daily flights. Between 2003 and 2004, 43,7 million passengers flew on flights operated by Air France to 189 destinations in 84 countries.

 * 1945 – In support of the upcoming U. S. invasion of Okinawa, Twentieth Air Force B-29 s strike airfields and an aircraft factory on Kyushu and lay naval mines in Shimonoseki Strait.

 * 1945 – The final V-2 missile to hit England falls in Kent.

 * 1944 – The Arctic convoy JW 58 departs Loch Ewe, Scotland, bound for the Kola Inlet in the Soviet Union. The British aircraft carriers HMS Activity and HMS Tracker escort JW 58 and the return convoy RA 58, which reaches Loch Ewe on April 14. During their cruise, their aircraft sink or contribute to sinking two German submarines, attack three more, and shoot down six German aircraft without the loss of a merchant ship.

 * 1943 – The British escort aircraft carrier HMS Dasher suffers a massive accidental internal explosion and sinks off the Isle of Arran in the Firth of Clyde, killing 379. There are 149 survivors.

 * 1936 – First flight of the Fokker D.XXI fighter, a low-wing monoplane with a steel tube fuselage covered in large part by fabric, designed for use by the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army Air Force.

 * 1934 – First flight of the FMA AeC.3

 * 1931 – The crash of a TWA Fokker F.10 at Bazaar, Kansas prompts the first grounding of an aircraft type. The grounding was ordered by the US Department of Commerce.

 * 1927 – Young American airmail pilot Charles A. Lindbergh registers his entry in the Raymond Orteig challenge for the first man to cross the Atlantic Ocean solo. The challenge and a $25,000 prize, has been issued in 1920, but no one has so far been successful in making the flight.

 * 1924 – British-born 2nd Lt. Oscar Monthan (1885–1924) is killed when his Martin NBS-1 bomber, AS-68448, of the 5th Composite Group, fails to clear baseball field backstop on take-off from Luke Field, Ford Island, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands. Davis-Monthan Landing Field, later Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson, Arizona, is named in part for him, 1 November 1925. He attended high school in that community.

 * 1918 – Attacked by German planes while flying reconnaissance, bomber pilot Lt. Alan McLeod of 2 Squadron RFC is strafed from below. Three bullets strike him and others puncture his fuel tank, setting his plane on fire.  Lt McLeod climbs onto the lower left wing and steers the plane to a crash landing between the front lines. He pulls his gunner out of the wreck into a fox hole, from which they are rescued.  Lt. Alan A. McLeod was awarded the Victoria Cross for action this day.

 * 1907 – Romanian Trajan Vuia begins tests of his airplane, newly fitted with steering surfaces. He makes a short flight of 33 feet in Paris, France.

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Magnus Bäckstedt

Magnus Bäckstedt (born 30 January 1975) is a Swedish former professional road bicycle racer. His most notable achievement in cycling is winning Paris–Roubaix in 2004.

Early life
Born in Linköping, Östergötland Bäckstedt began as a skier, selected for the national team when he was 14.

Career
Bäckstedt began his professional career in 1996, riding for Collstrop before moving to Palmans in 1997. In 1998, having switched to, Bäckstedt came seventh in 1998 Paris–Roubaix and won the 19th stage of the 1998 Tour de France between La Chaux-de-Fonds and Autun.

In 2002 and 2003 he rode for Team Fakta where he was the strongest rider in 2003. When Fakta closed he went to, where he won the 2004 Paris–Roubaix. The two favourites, Peter van Petegem and Johan Museeuw dropped out after crashes, leaving Bäckstedt to sprint on the track at Roubaix against three others. The manager of Crédit Agricole, Roger Legeay, had predicted that Bäckstedt would one day win the race. He said: "He's not a flahute. He's not especially the fastest, but after 260km on the cobbles, it's often the rider who feels freshest who wins."

In 2005 Bäckstedt moved to Liquigas-Bianchi, and came second on the 7th stage of the 2005 Tour de France. He rode for in 2008. He was eliminated in that year's Tour de France for being too slow. He said:

 * I had been going OK, and on that stage we decided to make it hard from the start because we were close enough to yellow to get the jersey. The first 60km were up and down, but I was going fine. Then there was this fourth-category climb and about halfway up I was suddenly short of breath. It was like I shut down from the waist down. I went straight out of the back. I calmed down and got back on top of it. There was 100km to go, but I went OK. I could see the numbers on the power meter and they were normal for the kind of effort you need to get to the finish on your own inside the time limit. I think I would have made it too, but there was a real steep hill just before the finish and my breathing and legs went again. I ended up four minutes outside the cut-off.

Bäckstedt announced his retirement from professional cycling on 6 February 2009, citing a desire to focus on managing his developmental cycling team, Cyclesport.se-MagnusMaximusCoffee.com. Bäckstedt said he will also continue as a consultant with his former Garmin-Slipstream team. The Swede had struggled with a number of health issues during his career, including a serious knee injury, melanoma, and a separated shoulder and broken collarbone.

On 13 November 2010, Bäckstedt announced at the UK Youth Centenary Gala that he would be coming out of retirement to lead the UK Youth Cycling Team along with Nigel Mansell and his sons.

Bäckstedt rode for the MG Maxifuel team in 2013. Prior to round 8 of the Pearl Izumi Tour Series at Canary Wharf on 6 June 2013, he once again announced he was retiring and that the race would be his final one in professional road racing, his intention being to continue competing in triathlon and Ironman Triathlon events.

Personal life
Bäckstedt is married to British former cyclist Megan Hughes. They live in Wales, moving there from Zulte, Belgium. They have two daughters. His elder daughter, Elynor, won bronze in the Team Pursuit at the 2018 UCI Junior track championships and bronze at the 2018 and 2019 UCI world championships in the junior women's time trial. Younger daughter Zoë made her World Championships debut at the 2021 World Championships in Flanders, Belgium, where she won the gold medal in the Junior Women's Road Race and the silver medal in the Junior Women's Individual Time Trial.

Bäckstedt said: "We used to come back here [to Wales] every time I had a break. I prefer it to Belgium. You can ride 30 miles between villages here, whereas in Belgium you were stopping for traffic lights."

His sister Cecilia is also a racing cyclist.

Bäckstedt runs a coffee business with franchises in the United States and Sweden. Proceeds from the business support Swedish cycling. In 2013 he joined Declan Quigley to commentate on the Tour of Britain for Eurosport.

Major results

 * 1992
 * 1st MaillotSuecia.PNG Time trial, National Junior Road Championships

 * 1993
 * National Junior Road Championships
 * 1st MaillotSuecia.PNG Road race
 * 1st MaillotSuecia.PNG Time trial
 * 1st MaillotSuecia.PNG Team time trial

 * 1995
 * Boland Bank Tour
 * 1st Stages 4 & 7

 * 1996
 * 1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Boland Bank Tour
 * 1st Prologue & Stage 5
 * 2nd GP D'Isbergues

 * 1997
 * 1st GP D'Isbergues
 * 3rd Overall Boland Bank Tour

 * 1998
 * 1st Stage 19 Tour de France
 * 2nd Overall Tour of Sweden
 * 1st Stage 4b
 * 1st Sprints competition Four Days of Dunkirk
 * 1st Duo Normand (with Jérôme Neuville)
 * 7th Paris–Roubaix

 * 1999
 * 3rd Overall Tour Down Under

 * 2000
 * 2nd Road race, National Road Championships
 * 9th Vattenfall Cyclassics

 * 2002
 * 1st MaillotSuecia.PNG Road race, National Road Championships
 * 1st Le Samyn

 * 2003
 * National Road Championships
 * 1st MaillotSuecia.PNG Time trial
 * 2nd Road race
 * 1st Jersey blue.svg Intergiro classification Giro d'Italia
 * 2nd Nokere Koerse
 * 2nd GP d'Ouverture la Marseillaise
 * 3rd GP Herning
 * 4th Ronde van Noord-Holland

 * 2004
 * 1st Paris–Roubaix
 * 2nd Gent–Wevelgem
 * 2nd CSC Classic

 * 2005
 * 4th Paris–Roubaix
 * 8th Overall Tour of Qatar

 * 2007
 * National Road Championships
 * 1st MaillotSuecia.PNG Road race
 * 2nd Time trial

 * 2008
 * 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Giro d'Italia
 * 8th Overall Three Days of De Panne

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June 2021
Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Shutter Island (film), you may be blocked from editing. jp×g 09:23, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

This is your only warning; if you vandalize Wikipedia again, as you did at Tado (comedian), you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Howard the Duck (talk) 13:25, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

August 2021
Hello, I'm Rdp060707. Your recent edit to Maguindanao massacre appears to have added incorrect information, so I removed it for now. If you believe the information was correct, please cite a reliable source or discuss your change on the article's talk page. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Rdp060707|talk 06:43, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Please do not introduce incorrect information into articles, as you did with this edit to Maguindanao massacre. Your edits appear to be vandalism and have been reverted. If you believe the information you added was correct, please cite references or sources or discuss the changes on the article's talk page before making them again. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Thank you. Rdp060707|talk 06:46, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to Patayin sa Sindak si Barbara (1995 film), you may be blocked from editing. Rdp060707|talk 06:53, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you vandalize Wikipedia. Rdp060707|talk 06:54, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

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