Paradise Airlines Flight 901A was a passenger flight from San Jose Municipal Airport to Tahoe Valley Airport in the United States. On March 1, 1964, the Lockheed L-049 Constellation (example pictured) serving the flight crashed near Genoa Peak, on the eastern side of Lake Tahoe, killing all 85 aboard. The cause of the accident was the pilot's decision to attempt to land at Tahoe Valley Airport when the visibility was too low. After aborting the attempt, the crew lost awareness of the plane's location as it flew below the minimum safe altitude in mountainous terrain. The pilot likely tried to fly through a low mountain pass to divert to the airport in Reno, Nevada, and crashed into a mountain near the pass. At the time, it was the second-deadliest single-plane crash in United States history. It remains the worst accident involving the Lockheed L-049 Constellation. The Federal Aviation Administration revoked the airline's operating certificate, causing them to permanently shut down.

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1869:

The Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev finished his design of the first periodic table. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_table

1921:

The Australian cricket team, led by Warwick Armstrong, became the first team to complete a whitewash in the Ashes, an achievement that would not be repeated for 86 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warwick_Armstrong

1936:

Hoover Dam, straddling the Arizona–Nevada border on the Colorado River, was completed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_Dam

1992:

Amidst tensions during the 1992 Bosnian independence referendum, a Bosnian-Serb wedding procession was attacked in Sarajevo, killing the father of the groom. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarajevo_wedding_attack

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Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life. Almost all the regimes which did not place Man and the sanctity of Life at the heart of their world view, all those regimes have collapsed and are no more. You can see it for yourselves in our own day.   --Yitzhak Rabin https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Yitzhak_Rabin