Category: Airplane Crash
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Roberto Clemente, a future Hall of Fame baseball player, is killed along with four others when the cargo plane he is traveling in crashes into the ocean off the coast of Puerto Rico. December 31, 1972.
Image: Roberto Clemente (Public Domain) On this day in history, December 31, 1972, Roberto Clemente, a future Hall of Fame baseball player, is killed along with four others when the cargo plane he is traveling in crashes into the ocean off the coast of Puerto Rico. Clemente was delivering relief provisions to Nicaragua after a…
