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1. On September 27, 28-year-old Samuel George shot at 13-year-old Curtis McGuffie with a .22-caliber rifle outside Bleyl Middle School in Houston, Texas. The following day, George shot and wounded 10-year-old Joshua Baker Littell as he raised the American flag at Millsap Elementary School in Cypress, Texas.
3 April. USAF Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar with five aboard goes missing on a flight between Tachikawa Air Base and Ashiya Air Base, Japan. Wreckage sighted on 5 April at the 6,000 foot level of a 6,100-foot peak on Shikoku Island, 20 miles (32 km) south of Saijo, and more than 400 miles southwest of Tokyo.
During construction, 1915 (Chicago Daily News)Navy Pier opened to the public on July 15, 1916. [5] Originally known as the "Municipal Pier", the pier was built by Charles Sumner Frost, a nationally known architect, with a design based on the 1909 Plan of Chicago by Daniel Burnham and Edward H. Bennett [6] Its original purpose was to serve as a dock for freighters, passenger ships, and indoor ...
Chicago Military Academy. / 41.8305; -87.6190. Chicago Military Academy-Bronzeville is a public four-year military high school located in the Bronzeville neighborhood located on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, in a building known as the Eighth Regiment Armory. The academy opened on August 24, 1999. [6]
Chicago with six academies has more than any other city, a third of all in the country. [3] Air Force Academy High School (Chicago, Illinois) Bridgeport Military Academy First Responders (Bridgeport, Connecticut) Carver Military Academy (Chicago, Illinois) Chicago Military Academy (Chicago, Illinois) Cleveland Junior Naval Academy (St. Louis ...
The school was founded in 1947 by the Chicago Public Schools district as George Washington Carver Area High School, a neighborhood high school.Carver was established to accommodate high school-age residents of the Chicago Housing Authority's Altgeld Gardens Homes public housing complex, which opened in the area west of the school's location in 1944.
The school was founded in 1864 as Mr. Tracy's School. In 1866, after David A. Holbrook purchased the school, it became known as Dr. Holbrook's Military School. The school ran until 1915, after which it was used in World War I as a field hospital and headquarters to a New York Guard regiment. From 1919 until at least 1927, the school served as ...
Simeon was founded in 1949, as Westcott Vocational High School in a building located at 8023 S. Normal Avenue. It operated until the Kroger company donated a vacant warehouse, located at 8235 S. Vincennes Avenue, to the Chicago Public Schools in 1963. The school was renamed Neal F. Simeon Vocational High School in September 1964.