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2009 Dozens are killed and injured when wildfires spread across France, Spain, Sardinia and Greece
2006 Al-Askari Mosque is bombed, setting off protests and violence across Iraq 2000 Martin Mailman, composer, teacher, guest conductor-composer at over 90 colleges across the U.S. and Europe dies in Denton, Texas 1998 Stamps commemorating Princess Diana go on sale across Britain 1996 Peter Bird, ocean rower, first person to cross the Pacific ocean solo, trip from San Francisco to Great Barrier Reef, lasted 294 days, dies at age 49 at sea during an attempt to row across the Pacific 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 hours, 4 minutes 1988 Ronald J Dossenbach begins world record ride, pedaling across Canada from Vancouver BC, to Halifax, NS (13 days, 15 hours, 4 minutes) 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 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 Martin Mailman, born in New York City, New York, composer, teacher, guest conductor-composer at over 90 colleges across the U.S. and Europe 1932 Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland 1st woman fly solo across Atlantic 1931 1st walk across American backwards begins 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 English 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 1902 Charles Lindbergh, born in Detroit, Michigan, pilot, 1st fly solo across Atlantic 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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