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The County of San Diego Flag. Adopted. February 18, 1957. ( 1957-02-18) Designed by. Estelle Secor. The flag of San Diego County was adopted in February 1957, although an actual specimen would not be created until September 1957. It features the San Diego County seal adopted in 1937 centered on a horizontal tricolor of red, white, and green.
Interstate 8 I-8 highlighted in red Route information Maintained by Caltrans and ADOT Length 350.34 mi (563.82 km) 171.98 miles (276.77 km) in California 178.36 miles (287.04 km) in Arizona Existed 1964–present NHS Entire route Major junctions West end Sunset Cliffs Boulevard / Nimitz Boulevard in San Diego, CA Major intersections I-5 in San Diego, CA I-805 in San Diego, CA I-15 / SR 15 in ...
Air France Flight 4590. / 48.98556°N 2.47222°E / 48.98556; 2.47222. On 25 July 2000, Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde passenger jet on an international charter flight from Paris to New York, crashed shortly after takeoff, killing all 109 people on board and four on the ground. It was the only fatal Concorde accident during its 27 ...
United Airlines Flight 93 was a domestic scheduled passenger flight that was hijacked by four al-Qaeda terrorists on the morning of September 11, 2001, as part of the September 11 attacks. The hijackers planned to crash the plane into a federal government building in the national capital of Washington, D.C. The mission became a partial failure ...
Interstate 5 ( I-5) is a major north–south route of the Interstate Highway System in the United States, stretching from the Mexican border at the San Ysidro crossing to the Canadian border near Blaine, Washington. The segment of I-5 in California runs 796.77 miles (1,282.28 km) [1] across the length of the state from San Ysidro to the Oregon ...
U.S. Route 101 US 101 highlighted in red Route information Maintained by Caltrans Length 808.111 mi (1,300.529 km) Portions of US 101 have been relinquished to or are otherwise maintained by local or other governments, and are not included in the length. Existed November 11, 1926 (1926-11-11) –present Tourist routes Gaviota Coast Redwood Highway through Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park ...
On February 3, 1959, American rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and "The Big Bopper" J. P. Richardson were all killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, together with pilot Roger Peterson. [a] [1] [2] The event became known as " The Day the Music Died " after singer-songwriter Don McLean referred to it as such in his ...
Formerly an independent naval air station, NOLF Imperial Beach is located in the city of Imperial Beach, on the U.S.-Mexico border, 10 miles (16 km) south of NAS North Island. The air station was known as Ream Field in the 1950s and 1960s. NAS North Island resembles a small city in its facility content and its operations.