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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Sufi Abdul Hamid (Eugene Brown), circa 45, onetime "Black Hitler," who as Bishop of the Universal Order of Tranquility was Harlem's No. 2 Cult Leader (see p. 7); when his nine-year-old monoplane ran out of fuel and crashed; near Wantagh, L. I. The plane's pilot also was killed, Hamid's secretary injured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 8, 1938 | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...Wantagh, N. Y., jobless Painter Louis Seltman escaped injury when a falling Army weather observation plane, abandoned by its pilot, crashed into his house. Next month a dead limb from a tree fell on Louis Seltman's head, killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Exchange | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

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