Modern Era · North America · Disaster
1937
Hindenburg burns at Lakehurst
May 6, 1937
The great German zeppelin, at the end of an Atlantic crossing, suddenly caught fire as it moored in New Jersey. Thirty-six died. A radio reporter sobbed, Oh, the humanity, into his microphone. In thirty-two seconds the airship age ended and its successor, the commercial airliner, prepared to take over the skies.
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Also in 1937 (5 other events on record)
- Japan invades China at Marco Polo Bridge · East Asia · War
- Rape of Nanjing · East Asia · War
- Guernica bombed · Europe · War
- Golden Gate Bridge opens · North America · Technology
- Amelia Earhart vanishes · Oceania · Exploration
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Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.