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On This Day

On this day in history is our very own database of historical events which happened on this day in years gone by.

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On this day in 1948:


UK Mid Air Crash near London.

Thirty-nine people died in what on this day in 1948 was Britain's wost air disaster to date.
Two passenger aircraft collided over an hospital in Middlesex.
The aircraft, one a RAF transport plane from York, and the other a Scandinavian Airline Cloudmaster were circling hoping for a break in the weather to land at the nearby RAF Northolt, when they collided over Mount Vernon Hospital.
No-one survived this incident.
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