After an exhaustive (and long) investigation it came to be believed that two individuals from Libya had planted the bomb. The flight had left Heathrow Airport in London less than an hour before, on its way to New York. The explosion killed all 259 people on board and another 11 on the ground. In 1988, at the age of 40 years old, Peter was alive when on December 21st, Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie Scotland. 73 million people watched - although the Beatles couldn't be heard because of the loud screaming of the female teenage audience. In 1964, by the time he was 16 years old, on February 9th, the Beatles appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show. The Soviet Union and China backed North Korea and the U.N., primarily the United States backed South Korea. In 1950, when he was just 2 years old, on June 25th, the Korean War began when North Korean Communist forces crossed the 38th parallel. That evening, Egypt launched an air assault on Israel. In 1948, in the year that Peter A Langevin was born, on May 14th, the State of Israel was proclaimed by David Ben-Gurion, who became Israel's first Premier, and the U.S. Refresh this page to see various historical events that occurred during Peter's lifetime.
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