Incredible but True?

On October 28, 1991, Hurricane Grace battered the entire eastern Atlantic seaboard with winds reaching 95 mph.

On January 29, 1982, Steven Callahan, sailing alone, slipped out El Hierro, the smallest of the Canary Islands. The 29-year-old American planned to reach Antigua by February 25.

One of Southeast Asia's most successful and best-known entrepreneurs, Jim Thompson spent 20 years building up his Thai silk business.

On the morning of August 16, 1942, residents of Daly City, near San Francisco, were astonished to see an U.S. Navy airship drifting aimlessly overhead.

Shortly after 8:30 p.m. on February 8, 1983, a gang of masked men burst onto an Irish stud farm. They had come to steal Shergar, one of the most celebrated racehorses in the world.

On May 25, 1952, a British Hermes airliner, The Horus, was en route from London to Kano, Nigeria, with eight crew and 10 passengers, including a 6-month-old baby.