The US flag was changed to show 50 stars. In 1959, on August 8th, Hawaii became the 50th state of the United States. The reasons for the explosion are still disputed. Thirty-six people were killed out of the 97 on board - 13 passengers, 22 crewmen, and one ground worker. It tried to dock in New Jersey, one of the stops, and something went wrong - it blew up. The Hindenburg was a passenger ship traveling to Frankfurt Germany. In 1937, on May 6th, the German zeppelin the Hindenburg caught fire and blew up. Filled with gold, jewels, and ancient everyday items, the find was priceless - in terms of money and history. This was the only tomb that had remained unlooted that had been found (and is, to date). By the end of the month they had unearthed the steps and broken through the door into the intact tomb. In 1922, on November 4th, British Egyptologists George Carnarvon and Howard Carter unearthed the first step leading to King Tutankhamen's tomb in the Valley of the Kings. In 1919, in the year that Charles W Doughty was born, in Norfolk Virginia, the first rotary dial telephones were introduced by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), making it easier to make a call without an operator.
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