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At a Department of Energy briefing in Las Vegas Nevada, documents are released which show that the US Government had proposed giving Howard Hughes actual atomic-bomb design blueprints after he had complained to Vice President Hubert Humphrey about the tests rattling his Las Vegas casinos. |
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Watergate burglar Frank Sturgis, in a interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, claims that the purpose of the Watergate break-in was to determine if Howard Hughes was financing for the Democratic National Committee. |
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Howard Hughes, 70, dies of renal failure while en route, via airplane, from his penthouse in Mexico to the Methodist Hospital in Houston. Biographers attribute his strange behavior in the 1930s to Obessive Complusive Disorder and his odd behavior in later life to tertiary stage syphillis. |
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The Los Angeles Times reports on the real purpose for the Hughes built Glomar Explorer. It is part of the CIA's Project Jennifer, an effort to recover the wreckage of the Soviet ballistic missile submarine K-129 which sank near Hawa'ii on April 11th 1968. The 63,000 ton HMB-1, or Hughes Mining B ... |
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The Hughes Glomar Explorer sets sail to find the sunken Soviet ballistic missle submarine 750 miles north of Hawa'ii. Glomar reaches the sub and begins to lift it, but an accident causes the fragile hull to break apart. Whether or not a code machine and other technology was recovered is unclear. |
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While making a night-time visit to the bathroom, Howard Hughes fractures his hip and the injury leaves him bed-ridden until his death in 1976. |
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Howard Hughes, in a telephone call with 7 journalists, denies any involvement in an "autobiography" associated with Author Clifford Irving. |
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The US Atomic Energy Commission conducts a nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site. It explodes with a force of 1.15 million tons of TNT and releases Plutonium and other radioactive material nearly a mile away from its crater on Pahute Mesa. The ground shakes and soon after Howard Huges begins his in ... |
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Howard Hughes gives his final interview to Frank McCulloch of Time/Life. |
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Under assumed names, Howard Hughes secretly marries actress Jean Peters at the L&L Motel in Tonopah, Nevada. |
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Howard Hughes personally flies the Hughes H-4 Hercules out of the waters of Long Beach, California for a distance of 1.6 km at an altitude of 70 feet. Critics dubbed the flying boat the "Spruce Goose" and the "Flying Lumberyard" because the government was conserving aluminum for the war effort and ... |
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Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds. |
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Howard Hughes, flying his Hughes H-1 racer, sets a world speed record of 352 miles per hour above Santa Ana, CA. Hughes had designed the plane with Richard Palmer and it was built by Glenn Odekirk. |
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Hughes takes his first flight in the new Racer, a closely cowled streamlined monoplane. |
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Hughes wins his first aviation prize in the twenty-mile closed course Sportsman Pilot Free-for-All running a Boeing 100A racer biplane. |
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Howard Hughes qualifies for the 7,000 pound and over, multi-engine land and sea aircraft pilot rating. |
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Glenn Odekirk goes to work for Howard Hughes. |
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Howard Hughes takes delivery of an eight passenger, twin-engine Sikorsky S-38 amphibian. |
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Howard Hughes' World War I aviation film "Hell's Angels" premieres with a grand spectacle at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California. |
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Howard Hughes qualifies for his transport pilot's license. |
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After taking flying lessons from J.B. Alexander, Howard Hughes takes and passes the aviation exam and is issued his private pilot's license, number 4223. |
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Howard Hughes is born in Humble, Texas but will later claim Houston as home of birth. |
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