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This Day in Roller Coaster
History (
May 11
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| 1902
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S.S. Columbia (Boblo Island ferry) launched from the Wyandotte Yard of the Detroit Shipbuilding Company.
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| 1906
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George Ferris' Wheel dynamited in St. Louis, Missouri.
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| 1921
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The Pippin roller coaster at Riverview Park (Chicago, Illinois) carries its first passengers.
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| 1984
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Eight teenagers burned to death in the Haunted Castle attraction at Six Flags Great Adventure. When a boy lit a cigarette lighter, he accidentally ignited the highly-flammable structure, which burned quickly.
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| 1991
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Mean Streak, designed by Curtis Summers, opens at Cedar Point.
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| 1991
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The Sidewinder, a Vekoma "Boomerang" production steel coaster, opens at Hersheypark, Hershey, Pennsylvania.
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| 1992
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Death of coaster designer Curtis D. Summers.
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| 1996
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Mantis (The Coaster Formerly Known as Banshee) opens at Cedar Point as the World's Tallest, Steepest, and Fastest Stand-Up Roller Coaster.
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| 1996
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Wild Thing, the first steel coaster produced by Morgan Manufacturing, officially opens at Valleyfair!, Shakopee, Minnesota.
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| 1999
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The Silver Comet coaster is completed at Martin's Fantasy Island, Grand Island, New York.
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| 2000
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Press day for Millennium Force at Cedar Point, Sandusky, Ohio.
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Thanks to Dave
Althoff, Jr. for compiling this Almanac.
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