Did you know that these 15 Celebrities Died in a Plane or Helicopter Crash?

Troy Gentry

Did you know that 50 years old Troy Gentry, who was one half of the country duo Montgomery Gentry, died in a helicopter crash in Medford, New Jersey, on Sept. 8, 2017?

Did you know that the band confirmed Gentry's death in a post on their Facebook page and stated that details surrounding the crash were unknown?

John Kennedy, Jr. with his wife Bessette-Kennedy

Did you know that 38-year-old John F. Kennedy, Jr. a licensed pilot, on July 16, 1999, with his 
33-year-old wife Bessette-Kennedy and her sister Lauren Bessette, 34, took off for Martha's Vineyard from a Fairfield, New Jersey, airport?

Did you know that when their plane didn't arrive on time, it was reported missing. A search began, and eventually, on July 19, what was left of the plane was found in the Atlantic; all three bodies were found on July 21?

Jenni Rivera

Did you know that 43 year old Jenni Rivera , was killed in a plane crash shortly after takeoff on Dec. 9, 2012?

Did you know that Mexican authorities confirmed that the wreckage of the small plane had been found in Nuevo Leon state, and there were no survivors among the seven people believed to be on board?

Did you know that The Learjet carrying the performer lost contact with air traffic controllers after it took off from Monterrey, Mexico, at 3:15 a.m. following Rivera's concert there?

Did you know that Rivera, a native of Long Beach, California, was known as the Diva of Banda with more than 20 million albums sold worldwide and once named one of People En Español‘s 25 most powerful women?

Lynyrd Skynyrd

Did you know that three members of rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd Ronnie Van Zant, the band's lead vocalist, guitar player and vocalist Steve Gaines and his sister, backup singer Cassie Gaines died in an Oct. 20, 1977, plane crash after their aircraft ran out of fuel and went down in Gillsburg, Mississippi?

Did you know that the band's assistant road manager, Dean Kilpatrick, also died. Twenty others, however, survived the crash?

Aaliyah

Did you know that 22-year-old R&B artist Aaliyah and eight other people on board the plane were also killed.died when her plane went down after takeoff on Aug. 25, 2001?

Did you know that she had been traveling from the Bahamas to Miami after filming the music video for her song "Rock the Boat." ?

Cory Lidel

Did you know that 34 years old Cory Lidel was a pitcher for the New York Yankees,when he died after his plane crashed into a New York City apartment building on Oct. 11, 2006?

Did you know that Lidle's flight instructor from whom he had been taking lessons was also killed? 

Did you know that 38-year-old Roberto Clemente was an active philanthropist,

Roberto Clemente

who played baseball for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Clemente was traveling to Managua, Nicaragua, to bring aid and supplies to the country after a destructive earthquake?

Did you know that the plane was overloaded with supplies — by 4,200 lbs. — and crashed off the coast of Puerto Rico just after it took off and Clemente body was never recovered?

John Denver

Did you know that Musician John Denver who was also a pilot died when the plane he was piloting crashed in Monterey Bay, California, on Oct. 12, 1997; he was 53?

Did you know that Denver also had a hit tune "Leaving on a Jet Plane" ?

Buddy Holly

Did you know that On Feb. 3, 1959, 22 years old Buddy Holly was killed in a plane

crash in Clear Lake, Iowa, just a few miles away from the airport when he died?

Ritchie Valens and J.P. The Big Bopper

Did you know that fellow musicians Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson also died as well?

Did you know that Feb. 3, 1959 was the date of the musicians' deaths has been dubbed "the day music died?"

Glen Miller

Did you know that 40 years old Glen Miller popular bandleader and musician was traveling from England to France in 1944, when his plane disappeared over the English Channel?

Did you know that both Miller and the plane were never found?

STEVIE RAY VAUGH

Did you know that 35 years old Guitarist Vaughn died early Aug. 26, 1990, when

his helicopter crashed into a ski hill?

Did you know that Vaughn was heading to Chicago after performing in East Troy, Wisconsin, with Eric Clapton?

Kathleen Kennedy "Kuck "

Did you know that 28-year-old Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington, born Kathleen Kennedy and nicknamed Kick, was  the  sister of President John F.
Kennedy who died on May 13, 1948, when her plane crash on the way from Paris to the French Riviera?




 

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Did you know that adult film star who starred in almost 290 movies has died at the age of 23?

Did you know that adult film star who starred in almost 290 movies has died at the age of 23?

Did you know that August Ames, who was from Nova Scotia in Canada, reportedly died in Camarillo, California on Tuesday morning?

Did you know that the exact cause of death currently remains unknown but police have said there is no indication of foul play, according to the Evening Standard?

Did you know that the Ventura County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed Ames, whose real

name is Mercedes Grabowski, had passed away but did not give a cause?

Did you know that Ames may have taken her own life?

Did you know that her husband, was Kevin Moore?

Did you know that Ames' death took place just days after she came under heavy criticism for saying she refused to work with men who have also appeared in gay pornography, someone she described as a “crossover” performer?


 

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Did you know that Arizona Republican Rep. Trent Franks announced he will resign from Congress at the end of January, after the House Ethics Committee said it would investigate allegations against him of sexual harassment?

Did you know that Arizona Republican Rep. Trent Franks announced in a statement Thursday night he will resign from Congress at the end of January, after the House Ethics Committee said it would investigate allegations against him of sexual harassment?

Did you know that The House Ethics Committee announced earlier Thursday that it will investigate Franks to determine if he engaged in "conduct that constitutes sexual harassment and/or retaliation for opposing sexual harassment?"

Did you know that Franks acknowledged he made staffers "uncomfortable" and that he discussed fertility issues and surrogacy with two female staffers, but denied having ever "physically intimidated, coerced, or had, or attempted to have, any sexual contact with any member of my congressional staff?"

Did you know that the House Speaker Paul Ryan's office released a statement saying that Ryan was briefed on "credible claims of misconduct" last week and that Franks did not deny the allegations when he was confronted with them.?

Did you know that The Wisconsin Republican said he accepted the letter of resignation, 

Franks' resignation would create a vacancy in Arizona at the end of January?

Did you know that per Arizona law, would mean Republican Gov. Doug Ducey would have to call an election with a primary in late April or early May and a late June date for the general election?

Did you know that Franks' announcement came hours after Sen. Al Franken, a Minnesota Democrat, announced he would step down in the wake of allegations about inappropriately touching women and two days after Michigan Democratic Rep. John Conyers announced he was resigning as allegations about his past sexual misconduct increased?

Did you know that Franks, is an eight-term congressman, he is the first Republican to announce his resignation since the nationwide reckoning over sexual harassment and assault began this fall?

Did you know that Franks, a self-styled "conservative, Reagan Republican," joined Congress in the early 2000s and has hewed conservative on a range of issues in his time there, with a particular focus on anti-abortion issues?

Did you know that Franks was involved in Trump's efforts to oust Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake before Flake announced his retirement?

 

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Did you know that Solar City in August 2016, announced that the company planned to cut the salaries of its two co-founders from $275,000 to $1 per year?

Did you know that SolarCity Corporation is a subsidiary of Tesla, Inc. that specializes in solar energy services and is headquartered in San Mateo, California?

Did you know that SolarCity markets, manufactures, and installs residential and commercial solar panels in the US?

Did you know that Solar City  merged with Tesla, Inc. and now offers energy storage services through Tesla, including a turnkey residential battery backup service that incorporates Tesla's Powerwall?

Did you know that Solar City the company, is in partnership with Panasonic, which operates the Tesla Gigafactory 2 in Buffalo, New York, where it manufactures solar module components?

Original SolarCity headquarters in Foster City, California

Installation vehicles with the original SolarCity logo

SolarCity vehicle with current SolarCity l

Did you know that SolarCity was founded in 2006 by brothers Peter and Lyndon Rive,^[2] based on a suggestion for a solar company concept by their cousin, Elon Musk, who is the chairman and helped start the company?^[3]

Did you know that in 2013, according to GTM Research, SolarCity was the leading residential solar installer in the U.S?^[6]

Did you know that Solar Power World magazine listed it as the No. 2 overall solar installation company in the U.S?^[7]

Did you know that SolarCity purchased Paramount Solar from Paramount Equity for $120 million in 2013?^[8]

Did you know that October 2014, SolarCity announced it would be offering up to $200 million in solar bonds to launch a new online website to buy the debt, the first registered public offering of such bonds in the United States?^[10] 

 
Did you know that in March 2016 SpaceX bought $90 million of SolarCity stock?^[11]

Did you know that in late 2015, SolarCity withdrew from solar sales and installation in Nevada, following the decision by the state's Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to raise the monthly service charge for rooftop solar customers and progressively reduce the return on solar energy sold back into the grid under the state's net metering rule?^[12]

Did you know under the new rules, the monthly service charge imposed on Nevada Power's rooftop solar-generating customers rose from $12.75 to $17.90 and was scheduled to rise to $38.51 by January 1, 2020?

Did you know that as a result, state's Public Utilities Commission SolarCity eliminated more than 550 jobs in Nevada?^[12]

Did you know that in June 2016, Musk's car and battery company, Tesla, submitted an offer to acquire SolarCity for $2.5–3 billion.^[13] According to Musk, the reason for this is "Creating a seamlessly integrated Tesla battery & solar power product that looks beautiful".^[14]On August 1, 2016, SolarCity accepted Tesla Motors' offer of 2.6 billion. The merger was completed later in 2016.^[15][16]

 Did you know that SolarCity at the end of 2015,  had 15,273 employees but at the end of 2016, it had 12,243 employees?^[18]

Did you know that when SolarCity eliminated 20% of its total workforce in 2016,^[18] the company did so to preserve cash?^[19]

Did you know that Solar City job cuts affected workers across the entire company,^[18][17] 22% of jobs were cut in operations, installations, and manufacturing; and 27% in sales and marketing?

Did you know that Solar City in August 2016,  announced that the company planned to cut the salaries of its two co-founders from $275,000 to $1 per year?^[21]

Did you know that on August 1, 2016, Tesla announced in a joint statement with SolarCity it would be acquiring the company in an all-stock $2.6 billion merger?

Did you know that Tesla's mission since its inception has been to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy?

Did you know that as of August 2016, Musk owned 22% of SolarCity stock.^[25] More than 85% of unaffiliated shareholders from Tesla and SolarCity voted to approve the acquisition on November 17, 2016,^[26][27] which was closed on the morning of November 21, 2016?^[16]

Did you know that Tesla's 2017 goals are to launch a new car, open a large battery factory, and "perfect autonomous driving"?

Did you know that the Buffalo Billion is a billion-dollar program from the administration of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo,  the program's intention is to revitalize Buffalo New York in areas across Western New York?

Did you know that the New York state legislature plans to approve a budget by April 1, 2017 that would give $500 million more into the Buffalo Billion program?^[70]

Did you know that the Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum was to investigate solar panel sales practices for Accountability, Solar City had received 58 complaints that consumers filed with the Oregon Department of Justice and said that the complaints indicated "a widespread pattern of apparent fraud and abuse by solar companies"?^{[74] ]}

Did you know that in September 2017, SolarCity agreed to pay a $29.5 million penalty regarding allegations that the company overstated the cost of facilities it developed and submitted claims for under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which would be a violation of the False Claims Act?

Did you know that SolarCity's received $280 million from Google which was the largest fund of its kind in the U.S?

Did you know that Google's was also the largest investor in clean energy?^[87]

SolarCity in Buffalo New York

Did you know that in 2014, SolarCity announced plans to build a new manufacturing facility in Buffalo, New York,the initial manufacturing complex will be a 1.2-million-square-foot (110,000 m²) facility that will cost $900 million and employ 1,500 workers in Buffalo and 5,000 statewide?^[88]

Did you know with a planned capacity of one gigawatt of solar panels annually by 2019, the new plant would be the largest solar plant in the U.S?^[89]

Did you know that Panasonic is to handle production at the Buffalo plant, investing $256 million?^[93]

Did you know that Panasonic and SolarCity/Silevo are developing similar but somewhat different HIT-technology, and by combining the two companies' technologies  SolarCity expects the Buffalo plant production of 10,000 solar panels per day^?

Did you know that Elon Musk announced in 2017 that production of Tesla's solar roof products would be moved to the Buffalo plant at the end of 2017?^[100]

Did you know that as of August 2017, production of solar roof tiles had begun at the factory, and Tesla expected to continue to ramp up production through the rest of the year?^[66]

 

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Did you know that all letters addressed to Santa in the United States go to Santa Claus, Indiana?

Did you know that early illustrations of St. Nicholas make him out to be a stern symbol of discipline rather than the jolly, overweight elf that children know today?

Did you know that all letters addressed to Santa in the United States go to Santa Claus, Indiana?

 

 

Did you know that Engineers that designed the Voyager Space Mission planned things out so it would avoid planetary encounters during Thanksgiving and Christmas?

Did you know that there is a village in Peru where people settle the previous year's grudges by fist fighting, they then start the new year off on a clean slate?

Did you know that some zoos accept donated Christmas trees as food for their animals?

Did you know that the song "White Christmas" by Irving Berlin is the best selling single in history with over 100 million copies sold?

Did you know that Paul McCartney earns nearly half a million dollars every year from his Christmas song, which many critics regards as his worst song ever?

Did you know that a large part of Sweden's population watches Donald Duck cartoons every Christmas Eve since 1960?

Did you know that many of the open Denny’s restaurants were built without locks, which was problematic when they decided to close down for Christmas for the first time in 1988?

Did you know that nearly all of the most popular Christmas songs including ‘Winter Wonderland’, ‘Chestnuts roasting…’, and ‘I’m Dreaming of a white Christmas’ were written by Jewish people?

Did you know that in 1918 and for the past 40 years, the Canadian province of Nova Scotia has sent the city of Boston a giant Christmas tree as a thank you for their support after the 1917 Halifax explosion?

Did you know that in 1867, a Boston industrialist heard Charles Dickens read A Christmas Carol and was so moved he closed his factory on Christmas Day and gave every one of his employees a turkey?

Did you know that Between the 16th and 19th centuries was what is known as a "little ice age" where global temperatures were several degrees lower than normal. It is for this reason that many Christmas carols and songs stress a "White Christmas"?

Did you know that Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen is the only record to get the UK Christmas Singles Chart Number One twice, once in 1975 and again in 1991?

Did you know that the Nazi party tried to turn Christmas into a nonreligious holiday celebrating the coming of Hitler, with Saint Nicholas replaced by Odin the “Solstice Man” and swastikas on top of Christmas trees?

Did you know that Japanese people traditionally eat at KFC for Christmas dinner, thanks to a successful marketing campaign 40 years ago?

Did you know that KFC is so popular in Japan that customers must place their Christmas orders 2 months in advance?

Did you know that the people of Oslo, Norway donate the Trafalgar Square Christmas tree every year in gratitude to the people of London for their assistance during WWII?

Did you know that Christmas purchases account for 1/6 of all retail sales in the U.S annually?

 

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