Trans World Airlines Flight 800 ( TWA 800 ), a Boeing 747-131, exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York, on July 17, 1996, at about 20: 31 EDT, 12 minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 230 people on board.

* On 17 July 1996 Trans World Airlines Flight 800 ( TWA 800 ), a Boeing 747 – 131, exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York, killing 230.

In 2000 Skydive Long Island ( formerly located at East Moriches ) moved to the airport, and to this day continues to generate the majority of the current air traffic as a key destination for New York based skydivers.

East Moriches is a hamlet ( and census-designated place ) in Suffolk County, New York, United States.

East Moriches is located at ( 40. 806287 ,-72. 756735 ).

East Moriches has an elementary school, recently built, as well as a middle school.

The East Moriches Booster club raised enough money to give the school sports teams and clubs.

East Moriches is also commonly referred to as EMO by the locals.

East Moriches became known internationally on July 17, 1996 when TWA Flight 800 exploded eight miles off the coast and fell into the Atlantic Ocean.

The U. S. Coast Guard Station, East Moriches, was used by emergency responders, and was the site where the bodies were initially prepared for transport.

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Montoursville became famous worldwide when, on July 17, 1996, TWA Flight 800 exploded off East Moriches, New York, with the loss of 230 lives.

* July 17 – Trans World Airlines Flight 800, a Boeing 747-131, explodes over the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, Long Island, New York, apparently due to a short circuit and ignition of fuel-air vapor in a fuel tank.

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* East Moriches, a town in Long Island.

David Hogan ( July 1, 1949 in Nokesville, Virginia – July 17, 1996 off East Moriches, New York ) was a composer and musical director of CIGAP -- Le Choeur Int ' l Gai de Paris -- a choir made up of men who loved music and wanted to show pride in their identity as gay men.

Isfahan became more of a legend than a place, and now it is for many people simply a name to which they attach their notions of old Persia and sometimes of the East.

It is perhaps difficult to conceive, but imagine that tonight on London bridge the Teddy boys of the East End will gather to sing Marlowe, Herrick, Shakespeare, and perhaps some lyrics of their own.

The hero, who is himself, is represented as a pilgrim in the storied lands of the East, a sort of Faustus type, who, to quote from Professor Book again, `` even in the pleasure gardens of Sardanapalus can not cease from his painful search after the meaning of life.

That is, we must find Saxons in East Anglia, Kent, Sussex and Hampshire in the last half of the fourth century.

He is dedicated to building the nation's strength and, as are all West Germans, to a free Berlin and to reunion with captive East Germany.

Gen. Taylor will report to President Kennedy in a few days on the results of his visit to South Viet Nam and, judging from some of his remarks to reporters in the Far East, he is likely to urge a more efficient mobilization of Vietnamese military, economic, political and other resources.

The `` West Berlin '' crisis is really an East Berlin crisis.

First of all there is ample area in East Greenwich already zoned in the classification similar to that which petitioner requested.

It has already been reported in your newspapers that the East Greenwich School Committee is considering additions to at least one elementary school and to the high school to insure future accommodations for a school population that we know will increase.

The `` fruitful course '' of metropolitanization that you recommend is currently practiced by the town of East Greenwich and had its inception long before we learned what it was called.

But there is nothing we can do to stop Soviet Russia from granting de facto recognition to East Germany.

The weekly loss is partly counterbalanced by 500 arrivals each week from West Germany, but the hard truth, says Crossman, is that `` The closing off of East Berlin without interference from the West and with the use only of East German, as distinct from Russian, troops was a major Communist victory, which dealt West Berlin a deadly, possibly a fatal, blow.

Such payments shall be made to small domestic producers of zinc as long as the market price for prime western zinc at East Saint Louis, Illinois, as determined by the Secretary, is below 14-1/2 cents per pound, and such payments shall be 55 per centum of the difference between 14-1/2 cents per pound and the average market price for the month in which the sale occurred as determined by the Secretary.

The logic of creating a strong, balanced, competitive two-system railroad service in the East is so obvious that B. & O. was publicly committed to the approach outlined here.

That's because the good professor teaches only Weider methods at his famous Montreal Health Studio which is located at 1821 Mt. Royal East in Montreal.

Rich in Christian and Moslem art, Istanbul is today a fascinating museum of East and West that recently became a seaside resort as well with the development of new beaches on the Bosphorus and the Sea of Marmara only a short distance from the center of town.

In the second half of the Sixteenth Century, Sinan, the great architect who is the Michelangelo of the East, designed the massive buttresses that now help support the dome.

This is a penetrating description of our post-war illusion, which applied to other areas than East Europe.

Raymond Vernon reports that residents of East St. Louis have been driving across the Mississippi, through the heart of downtown St. Louis and out to the western suburbs for major shopping, simply because parking is easier at the big branches than it is in the heart of town.

It is a main flavoring for halvah, the candy of the Middle East.

Hastings Old Town is in a sheltered valley between the East Hill and West Hill ( on which the remains of the Castle stand ).

19th-century South Africa did not attract mass Irish migration, but Irish communities are to be found in Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Kimberley, and Johannesburg, with smaller communities in Pretoria, Barberton, Durban and East London.

North Jakarta contains part of Jakarta Old Town, formerly known as Batavia since the 17th century, and was a centre of VOC trade activity in Dutch East Indies.

Kemp Town is a 19th Century residential estate in the east of Brighton in East Sussex, England, UK.

' A View of the Town and Island of St Helena in the Atlantic Ocean belonging to the English East India Company ', engraving c. 1790

Unguja, the larger island, offered a protected and defensible harbor, so although the archipelago offered few products of value, the Persians settled at what became Zanzibar City (" Stone Town ") as a convenient point from which to trade with East African coastal towns.

Zanzibar is characterised by beautiful sandy beaches with fringing coral reefs and the historic Stone Town – said to be the only functioning ancient town in East Africa.

* April 6 – Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp for the Dutch East India Company at the Cape of Good Hope, and founds Cape Town.

( c ) British imperial interests were alarmed when in 1894 – 95 Kruger proposed building a railway through Portuguese East Africa to Delagoa Bay, bypassing British controlled ports in Natal and Cape Town and avoiding British tariffs.

In 1652, Jan van Riebeeck established an outpost at the Cape of Good Hope ( the southwestern tip of Africa, currently in Cape Town, South Africa ) to re-supply VOC ships on their journey to East Asia.

Dutch colonial administrator Jan van Riebeeck established a resupply camp for the Dutch East India Company some 50 km north of the cape in Table Bay on 6 April 1652 and this eventually developed into Cape Town.

Two of the six branches of the Howard County public library system are in Columbia, including the Central Branch in Town Center and the East Columbia Branch in Owen Brown.

On March 18, 2010, three other villages ( East Randolph, Randolph and Perrysburg ) followed suit and approved dissolution into their surrounding towns ( Town of Randolph for the first two, and Town of Perrysburg for the third ); these three villages dissolved at the beginning of 2012.

Three New Urbanism communities are under construction, including Crown Farm, Watkins Mill Town Center ( Casey East and West ), and the massive " Science City ".

New Philadelphia soon prospered, and Scott and his associates built a new town adjacent, calling it East Alabama Town.

It borders the Town of Vestal, New York to the West via Vestal Avenue and the Town of Conklin, New York to the East via Conklin Avenue.

Nevertheless, busy harbours now exist at Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, East London, Durban, and Richards Bay.

* 15 / 16-Bideford Town Services to Atlantic Village / East the Water

Bideford Town Council has 16 seats representing four unequal wards, North, South, East and South Outer.

* East Haddam ( Town )

* East Hampton ( Town )

* East Haven ( Town )

Folkestone Town Council comprises eight wards: Cheriton, Kent ; Morehall ; Park ; Harvey West ; Harvey Central ; Harbour ; East ; and Foord.