Iranian aircraft "shot down" "3 july 1988"

This was Iran Air Flight 655 which was shot down on a flight form Tehran to Dubai. According to the U.S. The passenger airplane had been misidentified as an attacking F-14 and destroyed mid-air with Sm-2RM surface to ground missiles. the event was surrounded by controversy and in many ways it seems like it was the fault of the captain of the ship that fired the missiles and the U.S. Military has tried to o everything to deny that. 

Cherokee  removal, part of the trail of tears, refers to the  forced  relocation between 1836 and 1839 of thecherokee  nation from  their lands ingeorgia, south carolina, north carolina, tennessee, texas, and alabama to the indian territory (present day oklahoma)  in  the thenwestern united states, and the resultant deaths