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On this day in Texas History, August 1, 1966: Charles Whitman, after killing his wife and mother, drives to the UT Tower. There he bludgeons a women to death, shoots and kills a tourist, then kills 13 more and wounds an additional 31 victims from the top of the tower.
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Customers eating inside Youngblood's Fried Chicken restaurant. Austin, 1958. Note the line of people waiting to get in.
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On this day in Texas History, August 1, 1966: Charles Whitman, after killing his wife and mother, drives to the UT Tower. There he bludgeons a woman to death, shoots and kills a tourist, then kills 13 more and wounds an additional 31 victims from the top of the tower.
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On this day in Texas History, August 2, 1985: Delta Air Lines Flight 191 encounters a microburst while on approach to land at DFW and crashes just over a mile from the runway. Of the 163 people on board only 3 crew and 24 passengers survive. One person on the ground is also killed.
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Hauptmann Hans Philipp poses with a fox in front of his Messerschmitt Bf 109F-4. Philipp was credited with 206 aerial victories before being shot down and killed on October 10, 1943 by an American P-47.
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One of the victims of the University of Texas tower shooting is carried across the campus to a waiting ambulance on August 1, 1966. Charles Whitman killed a total of 17 that day, including his own wife and mother.
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