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Al-Askari Mosque is bombed, setting off protests and violence across Iraq
1998
Stamps commemorating Princess Diana go on sale across Britain
1996
Jessica Dubroff, hoped to be youngest to fly across U.S., crashed at 7
1993
Red Tom Browning decides to watch his team play at Wrigley Field from the roof of a building across Sheffield Ave, he is fined $500
1992
John Touchstone, actor (Across Five Aprils), dies of cirrhosis at 59
1990
Joan Bennett, U.S. actress (House Across the Bay), dies at 80
1989
Computers across Britain hit by "Friday the 13th" virus
1988
Ronald J. Dossenbach sets world record for pedaling across Canada from Vancouver, BC to Halifax, NS in 13 days, 15 hr, 4 min
1988
Ronald J Dossenbach begins world record ride, pedaling across Canada from Vancouver BC, to Halifax, NS (13 days, 15 hr, 4 min)
1987
Lynne Cox became 1st to swim from U.S. to Russia across Bering Strait
1986
Hands Across America - 6 million people hold hands from California to New York
1984
Sean O'Keefe (11) is youngest to cycle across U.S. (24 days)
1984
1st female to captain a 747 across Atlantic (Lynn Rippelmeyer)
1983
George Meegen completes 2,426d (19K mi) walk across Western Hemisphere
1979
Peter Jenkins finishes "A Walk Across America," Florence Oregon
1973
54-kg octopus measuring 7m across captured in Hood Canal, Wash
1969
Mike Procter hits six consecutive sixes (across two overs)
1959
Dam across Tera River collapses after heavy winter rains, 135 die
1958
50" snow across the Mason-Dixon line
1956
Hannes Lindemann begins journey across Atlantic in a 17' craft
1955
1st radio facsimile transmission sent across the continent
1953
Ann Davidson, 1st woman to sail solo across Atlantic, arrives Miami
1950
China enters Korean conflict, sends troops across Yalu River
1948
1st jets to fly across Atlantic, 6 RAF de Havilland Vampires
1945
After delivering the Atomic Bomb across the Pacific, the cruiser USS Indianapolis is torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine
1937
1st commercial flight across Pacific, Pan Am
1932
Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland 1st woman fly solo across Atlantic
1931
1st walk across American backwards begins
1928
Amelia Earhart becomes 1st female to fly across Atlantic Ocean
1928
Charles Kingsford-Smith and Charles Ulm are 1st to fly across the Pacific when they end their flight from California to Brisbane
1926
1st check sent by radio facsimile transmission across Atlantic
1924
1st photo facsimile transmitted across Atlantic by radio (London-NYC)
1924
1st photo sent experimentally across Atlantic by radio, U.S. - England
1918
Allies forced Germans back across Hindenburg Line
1918
German armies retreat across Marne River in France (WW I)
1910
Mann Act passed (no women across state lines for immoral purposes)
1909
France's Louis Bleriot, makes 1st airplane flight across Engl Channel
1908
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Murdock become 1st to travel across U.S. by car, they leave Los Angeles in a Packard and arrive in New York City in 32d-5h-25m
1906
Kam Tong, actor, Across the Pacific, Flower Drum Song
1904
Keye Luke, born in Canton, China, actor, Across the Pacific, Yangtse Incident
1903
Barbara Moore, doctor, walked across U.S. in 86 days in 1960
1903
1st automobile trip across U.S. from San Francisco to New York, ended April 1
1903
George Wyman makes 1st motorcycle trip across the US
1896
George Samuelson leaves New York harbor to row across Atlantic
1892
John Alcock, English pilot, 1st non-stop flight across Atlantic Ocean
1872
Louis Bleriot, 1st man to fly an airplane across English Channel
1866
1st yacht race across Atlantic Ocean
1862
Westminster Bridge across Thames opens
1835
After gold discovery in Ga, Cherokees forced to move across Miss R
1785
1st balloon flight across English Channel (Blanchard and Jeffries)
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