On July 17, 1996, TWA flight 800 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Long Island, killing all 230 individuals on board; a U.S. authorities inquiry decided {that a} combination of gasoline and air had ignited by chance inside a gasoline tank, although others consider the jetliner was shot down by a missile.
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July seventeenth was additionally the birthdate of Erle Stanley Gardner, in 1889. He was an American lawyer and creator. Although greatest identified for the Perry Mason collection of detective tales, he wrote quite a few different novels and shorter items, in addition to a collection of nonfiction books, largely narrations of his travels via Baja California and different areas in Mexico.
One of the best-selling American creator of the twentieth century on the time of his loss of life, Gardner additionally revealed underneath quite a few pseudonyms, together with A.A. Truthful, Kyle Corning, Charles M. Inexperienced, Carleton Kendrake, Charles J. Kenny, Les Tillray, and Robert Parr.