Infamous places

  PLACE Chernobyl nuclear reactor LOCATION The Ukraine AUTHOR Article And Pictures Tony Hart-Wilden HISTORY On April 26th 1986 the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl fractured after an explosion. The surrounding area was evacuated and an exclusion zone was created that remains to this day. The radiation cloud generated spread throughout Europe and a [...]

  LOCATION Bavarian Alps, Southern Germany  PLACE Hitlers Berghof and the Eagles Nest  AUTHOR Article and pictures, Tony Hart-Wilden HISTORY Obersalzberg is located in southern Germany in the Bavarian Alps, just near the Austrian border. Although most people associate Hitler's final days with Berlin this was the Nazi stronghold where the allies believed [...]

  PLACE Trinity Test Site LOCATION White Sands Missile Base, New Mexico, U.S.A AUTHOR Articles and Pictures, Tony Hart-Wilden HISTORY At 5:29 a.m on July 16th 1945, the world's first atomic bomb was tested at the Trinity Test Site in the White Sands Missile Base, in New Mexico. The blast was felt over [...]

  PLACE Titan Missile Silo LOCATION Green Valley, Arizona, U.S.A AUTHOR Articles and Pictures, Tony Hart-Wilden HISTORY The Titan missile silo was constructed in 1960, and its Titan 2 missile installed in December 1962.  It was one of a series of 54 built throughout the United States. Manned 24 hours a day, and able to launch a [...]

  PLACE Pompeii volcanic disaster  LOCATION Bay of Naples, Southern Italy  AUTHOR Article and pictures, Tony Hart-Wilden HISTORY The city of Pompeii on the west coast of Italy was originally founded in the 6th century BC by the Greeks. In 80 BC, temples houses and an amphitheater were constructed there by the Romans. The town had been built in [...]

  PLACE North Hollywood Bank Shootout LOCATION North Hollywood, California, U.S.A AUTHOR Article and pictures, Tony Hart-Wilden HISTORY On February 28th 1997, the Bank of America in North Hollywood was robbed by two gunmen wearing full body armor and carrying automatic weapons. They were surrounded by 350 police officers and over a 1000 rounds [...]

  PLACE The Kennedy Assassination   LOCATION Dallas, Texas, U.S.A   AUTHOR Article and Pictures, Tony Hart-Wilden  HISTORY November 22nd 1963, 12.30pm, Dealey Plaza, Texas. At this moment President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, by whom remains a mystery. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested and subsequently shot, by nightclub owner Jack Ruby before he went [...]

  PLACE Jack The Ripper murder locations LOCATION London, England AUTHOR Articles and Pictures, Tony Hart-Wilden HISTORY Jack the Ripper committed his first murder on August 31st 1888. Although he claimed only four more victims, a body count that has been far exceeded by today's serial killers, he remains a legend over a century [...]

  PLACE Charles Manson and the Manson Family murder sites LOCATION Los Angeles, California, Death Valley, U.S.A AUTHOR Article and Pictures, Tony Hart-Wilden HISTORY On Saturday August 9th 1969, followers of Charles Manson known as "the Family", butchered 5 people at 10050 Cielo drive in Benedict Canyon Los Angeles. The next day they murdered [...]

  PLACE Billy The Kid, Jail Escape, Murder Site, Burial location   LOCATION Lincoln, Fort Summner, New Mexico, U.S.A  AUTHOR Article and Pictures, Tony Hart-Wilden  HISTORY Billy the kid was born in 1859, and killed in Fort Sumner in 1881. According to various accounts he had shot dead 17 people by the time of [...]