The " Golden Age " of the airships ended on May 6, 1937 when the Hindenburg caught fire, killing 36 people.

* 1937 – Hindenburg disaster: The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey.

The Hindenburg disaster in 1937, along with political and economic issues, hastened the demise of the Zeppelin.

The famed zeppelin Hindenburg that was destroyed by fire in 1937 was named in his honor, as was the Hindenburgdamm, a causeway joining the island of Sylt to mainland Schleswig-Holstein that was built during his time in office.

Their decline continued with a series of high-profile accidents, including the 1937 burning of the hydrogen-filled Hindenburg, and the destruction of the.

The " Golden Age " of the airships ended on May 6, 1937 when the Hindenburg caught fire, killing 36 people.

Hindenburg Disaster Newsreel Footage refers to the footage filmed by several newsreel companies of the Hindenburg disaster where the zeppelin Hindenburg crashed and burned on May 6, 1937.

This restriction was dropped for special occasions, as in the case of the German dirigible airship Hindenburg disaster at Lakehurst, New Jersey, in 1937.

The Hindenburg disaster, occurred on May 6, 1937, the German zeppelin Hindenburg arriving from Frankfurt am Main caught fire at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station.

The township is noted for containing the Lakehurst Naval Air Station, the site of the infamous Hindenburg disaster of May 6, 1937.

Fire-damaged Duralumin cross brace from the Zeppelin airship LZ 129 Hindenburg | " Hindenburg " ( DLZ129 ) salvaged from its crash site at Lakehurst Naval Air Station, New Jersey | NJ on May 6, 1937.

However the age of the dirigible ended following the destruction by fire of the zeppelin Hindenburg just before landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey on May 6, 1937, killing 35 of the 97 people aboard.

Previous spectacular airship accidents, from the Wingfoot Express disaster ( 1919 ) to the loss of the R101 ( 1930 ), the Akron ( 1933 ) and the Macon ( 1935 ) had already cast doubt on airship safety ; following the destruction of the Hindenburg, the remaining airship making international flights, the Graf Zeppelin was retired ( June 1937 ).

There are a lot of references that are hard to miss, such as the fact that the little boy winds up being Charlie Chaplin, the detective is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who goes on to writing the Sherlock Holmes mysteries and Roy talks about Zeppelins " taking off " and being a successful invention despite what will happen to the Hindenburg in 1937.

The trend continued on a larger scale with The Hindenburg ( 1975 ) starring George C. Scott ; The Cassandra Crossing ( 1976 ) starring Burt Lancaster ; Two-Minute Warning ( 1976 ) starring Charlton Heston ; Black Sunday ( 1977 ) starring Robert Shaw ; Rollercoaster in Sensurround ( 1977 ) starring George Segal ; Damnation Alley ( 1977 ) starring Jan-Michael Vincent ; Avalanche ( 1978 ) starring Rock Hudson ; Gray Lady Down ( 1978 ) also starring Charlton Heston ; Hurricane ( a 1979 remake of John Ford's 1937 film ) starring Jason Robards ; and City on Fire ( 1979 ) starring Henry Fonda.

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However, the Hindenburg disaster in 1937 put an end to transatlantic Zeppelin flights.

Shortly before the crash of the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin's LZ 129 Hindenburg in 1937, Professor Mark Heald of Princeton saw St. Elmo's Fire flickering along the airship's back a good minute before the fire broke out.

* Ludwig Felber ( 1903 – 1937 )— died in the crash of the Hindenburg airship.

During this period the CCC was called in to provide disaster relief following 1937 floods in New York, Vermont and the Ohio and Mississippi River Valleys, and response and clean-up after the 1938 hurricane in New England.

* New London School explosion, 1937 disaster at a school in New London, Texas

The top of the cenotaph in New London commemorating the 1937 disaster

However, in response to the Elixir Sulfanilamide disaster of 1937 in which the eponymous drug killed more than 100 users, the U. S. congress passed laws that required safety testing of drugs on animals before they could be marketed.

This and nonexistent testing requirements led to the elixir sulfanilamide disaster in the fall of 1937, during which at least 100 people were poisoned with diethylene glycol.

The greatest school disaster, the New London School explosion, occurred March 18, 1937, when at least 298 died in a natural gas explosion in New London, Texas.

Borzage's trademark was intense identification with the feelings of young lovers in the face of adversity, love in his films triumphing over such trials as World War I ( Seventh Heaven and A Farewell to Arms ( 1932 )), disability ( Lucky Star ), the Depression ( Man's Castle ( 1933 )), a thinly-disguised version of the Titanic disaster in History Is Made at Night ( 1937 ), and the rise of Nazism, a theme which Borzage had virtually to himself among Hollywood filmmakers from Little Man, What Now?

Both routes operated a regularly scheduled timetable until the cessation of passenger Zeppelin operations following the Hindenburg disaster in May 1937.

Others to receive state funerals include Sir Frederic Truby King ( 1937 ) who founded the Plunket Society, the unidentified victims of the Tangiwai rail disaster ( 1953 ), Victoria Cross recipient Jack Hinton ( 1997 ) and mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary ( 2008 ).

The site is best known for the Hindenburg disaster, where on May 6, 1937 the Hindenburg crashed and burned while landing.

Pruss was commander of the airship during the Hindenburg disaster of 6 May 1937.

In May 1937, Nelson Morris survived the Hindenburg disaster.

On May 6, 1937, the Hindenburg disaster took place two hours before air time, and The March of Time created a segment that focused on the history of airship travel and ended with the news of the disaster in Lakehurst, New Jersey.

* The disaster scene at New London, March 18, 1937

Between the years 1926 and 1937 Bertelli was the technical director of Aston Martin, and the designer of all subsequent Aston Martin cars during this period, these being known as the " Bertelli cars ".

The Republicans managed to hold out in Madrid, despite a Nationalist assault in November 1936, and frustrated subsequent offensives against the capital at Jarama and Guadalajara in 1937.

Although the Empire of Japan was already at war with the Republic of China in 1937, the world war is generally said to have begun on 1 September 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and subsequent declarations of war on Germany by France and most of the countries of the British Empire and Commonwealth.

* The rescue and subsequent attempt to return Louis XVII to the throne is told in the 1937 novel The Lost King by Rafael Sabatini.

In 1937, a large snowfall and subsequent rainfall in the mountains of West Virginia swept massive amounts of water into the Ohio River.

The 1931 Mukden Incident, 1937 Second Sino-Japanese War, and the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor and the subsequent Pacific War seemed to confirm this suspicion.

Over subsequent decades, Goodrich Company chemists invented plasticized polyvinyl chloride ( PVC ) in 1926 ; synthesized rubber in 1937 ; and built early space suits for NASA astronauts in the 1960s.

Through an advertisement in The Times on 25 May 1937, and subsequent personal interviews, he recruited a corp of 48 " official observers ", mostly students, who spent periods, mainly at weekends, at the Rectory with instructions to report any phenomena which occurred.

The Constitution of Ireland was approved by plebiscite on 1 July 1937 and every subsequent referendum has concerned a constitutional amendment.

Some examples of this are the addition and subsequent destruction of Rivera's Man at the Crossroads in the RCA Building ( 1933 – 34 ), the Italian invasion of Ethiopia ( 1935 ), labor strikes against Little Steel ( 1937 ) and the Dies Committee ’ s assault on the Federal Theatre Project ( 1938 ) ( Weales 2000 ).

After a third place result at the national level in 1937, Stuttgart was not able to advance out of the preliminary rounds in subsequent appearances.

For this achievement and for subsequent record-breaking flights, she was awarded the Harmon Trophy three times from 1935 to 1937.

His subsequent return to Tasmania was punctuated by short stints as non-playing coach of South Melbourne ( in 1937 – 1938 ), playing coach of Camberwell ( in 1941 ) and non-playing coach of Hawthorn ( in 1942 – 1943 ), and as non-playing assistant coach of South in 1947.

* The Neil Simon play, Brighton Beach Memoirs, which won two Tony awards in 1983, and its subsequent film adaptation, are both set against the backdrop of Brighton Beach in 1937.

Early variations included transmitting tubes such as the 807 ( 1937 ) with 6. 3V heater, plate ( anode ) connected to a top cap, and equivalent 12. 6V 1625, the smaller 6V6 ( 1937 ), the many KT versions marketed in Europe, and a subsequent vast array of audio and RF power tubes.

He was elected to the 3rd Dáil at the 1922 general election as a Pro-Treaty Sinn Féin TD and at each subsequent general election as a Cumann na nGaedheal and later Fine Gael deputy for the constituencies of Kerry from 1923 to 1937 and Kerry South from 1937 until 1944.

Her subsequent West End plays included A Damsel in Distress, Happy Families, The Merchant and Venus, Lovers ' Meeting, Line Engaged, Night Must Fall — also acting in the 1937 film version — Flare Path, The Winslow Boy and Watch It Sailor !.

She encouraged their subsequent collaboration, Weill's first American project, the musical, Johnny Johnson which was the last production she worked on before resigning from The Group Theatre in 1937 to become an independent producer.

The School made several subsequent moves to the old Deanery ( Church House ) in 1917 and to the " Worker " Building in 1937.

" Waugh's design was similar to his subsequent design for the Federal Trade Commission Building ( 1937 – 38 ).

He made two subsequent unsuccessful attempts to return to aldermanic office ( in the 1937 and 1938 elections ) before taking three years off from municipal politics.

The defection of Trotsky and subsequent purges in 1937, as well as Wadleigh's work abroad, resulted in infrequent contacts.