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2009 En route from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Paris, Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic ocean, killing all 228 on board
2005 Steve Fossett flys the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer to a world record by completing the first non-stop, non-refueled, solo flight around the world 2003 Michael Kelly, journalist, Atlantic Monthly - died in Iraq in an accident, dies at 45 1997 Bell Atlantic Senior Golf Classic 1996 34th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Spain in Atlantic City USA (5-0) 1993 Atlantic Radio (20 radio stations) becomes American Radio Systems 1991 Jane Geddes wins LPGA Atlantic City Golf Classic 1991 Largest crowd to watch Atlantic Coast Womens Basketball game (11,520) 1990 Chris Johnson wins LPGA Atlantic City Golf Classic 1990 Annular eclipse visible over Antarctica and South Atlantic 1989 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Atlantic City Golf Classic 1988 Juli Inkster wins LPGA Atlantic City Golf Classic 1988 Mike Tyson KOs Michael Spink in 91 seconds, in Atlantic City ($67m) 1987 Betsy King wins Atlantic City LPGA Golf Classic 1987 2 men became 1st hot-air balloon travelers to cross Atlantic 1986 Russian nuclear sub sinks in Atlantic Ocean 1986 Juli Inkster wins Atlantic City LPGA Golf Classic 1985 Hurricane Gloria's 130 MPH wind hits Atlantic coast 1984 Joe Kittinger completes 1st solo balloon crossing of Atlantic 1984 1st female to captain a 747 across Atlantic (Lynn Rippelmeyer) 1982 British ship Atlantic Conveyor and Coventry were hit in Falkland war 1981 Phillies minor leaguer Jeff Stone steals pro baseball record 121st base en route to 122 (Spartanburg (South Atlantic League)) 1980 Jaromir Wagner is 1st to fly Atlantic standing on wing 1979 Hurricane David, a strong Atlantic storm kills over 1,000 1979 Alizah Allen, born in New York City, New York, figure skater, 1997 North Atlantic Sr champ 1978 1st successful crossing of the Atlantic by balloon (3 Americans) 1978 1st legal gambling casino opens in Atlantic City 1977 New Jersey allows casino gambling in Atlantic City 1976 New Jersey voters approve gambling for Atlantic City 1972 Kyoko Ina, Tokyo, Japan, figure skater, 1993 North Atlantic Sr champ 1970 Thor Heyerdahl crosses Atlantic on reed raft 1969 110,000 attend Atlantic City Pop Festival 1967 Puerto Rico placed on Atlantic Standard Time 1965 Borman and Lovell Splash down in Atlantic ends 2 week Gemini VII mission 1965 Robert Manry, Cleveland newspaper editor/sailed the Atlantic, in craft 1965 Eastern DC-7B crashes into Atlantic off Jones Beach NJ, kills 84 1963 Barbara Weathers, vocalist, Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover 1962 Mariner I launched to Mars falls into Atlantic Ocean 1961 Volcano eruptions on Tristan de Cunha (South Atlantic) 1961 USAF bomber flies Atlantic in a record of just over 3 hours 1960 Francis Chichester arrive in New York aboard Gypsy Moth II, setting record of 40 days for a solo Atlantic crossing 1960 Barry Lyons, born in Biloxi, Mississippi, Barry Stephen Lyons, baseball player, catcher, played for Major League Baseball teams, New York Mets, Chicago White Sox, served as backup catcher to Gary Carter, named Most Valuable Player, South Atlantic League, 1984 1959 St. Lawrence Seaway linking Atlantic, Great Lakes opens to shipping 1958 David Lewis, guitarist, Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover 1958 U.S. performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean 1958 U.S. performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean 1958 U.S. performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean 1958 Daniels Koran, saxophonist, Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover 1958 Chris Johnson, born in Arcata, California, LPGA golfer, 1990 Atlantic City Classic 1957 German sailing school ship Pamir sails Atlantic Ocean 1957 Wayne Lewis, keyboardist, Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover 1956 Hannes Lindemann begins journey across Atlantic in a 17' craft 1956 1st trans atlantic telephone cable in use (Newfoundland-Scotland) 1956 Sharon Bryant, vocalist, Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover 1956 Coasters sign with Atlantic Records 1954 West Germany joins North Atlantic Treaty Organization 1953 Jonathan Lewis, trombonist, Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover 1953 Ann Davidson, 1st woman to sail solo across Atlantic, arrives Miami 1953 Porter Carroll, Jr., drummer, Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover 1952 SS United States crosses Atlantic in 84:12 (record westward) 1952 SS United States cross Atlantic in record 82:40 1951 Clifford Archer, bassist, Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover 1950 Arthur Dorrington is 1st black man in organized hockey, Atlantic City Seagulls of Eastern Amateur Hockey League 1950 Richard Branson, British music enterperneur, Virgin Atlantic 1950 Bill Sudderth III, trumpeteer, Atlantic Star-Touch 4 Leaf Clover 1949 North Atlantic Treaty Council meets for 1st time 1949 NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, goes into effect 1949 Senate ratifies North Atlantic Treaty by a vote of 82-13 (NATO) 1949 Joey Phillips, percussionist, Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover 1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) treaty signed (Washington D.C.) 1949 North Atlantic Treaty, pact signed by U.S., Britain, France and Canada 1949 NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, treaty ratified 1948 1st jets to fly across Atlantic, 6 RAF de Havilland Vampires 1947 180-metric ton blue whale (record) caught in South Atlantic 1944 U-358 sinks in Atlantic 1944 Korvet Violet sinks U-641 in Atlantic Ocean 1944 1st use of helicopters during warfare (British Atlantic patrol) 1943 U-86 sinks in Atlantic Ocean 1943 U-600 sinks in Atlantic Ocean 1943 U-538 sinks in Atlantic Ocean 1943 U-536 sinks in Atlantic Ocean 1943 U-211 sinks in Atlantic Ocean 1943 Germany begins withdrawing U-boats from North Atlantic in anticipation of the Allied invasion of Europe 1943 Admiral Donitz stops U-boat in Atlantic Ocean 1942 Robert Sullivan becomes 1st pilot to fly Atlantic 100 times 1942 25th PGA Championship: Sam Snead at Seaview CC Atlantic City NJ 1941 9 Allied governments pledged adherence to Atlantic Charter 1941 Atlantic Charter signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt and Churchill 1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill sign Atlantic Charter 1940 WPG-AM in Atlantic City New Jersey consolidates with WBIL and WOV as "new" WOV 1938 Rosalind Cash, Atlantic City, New Jersey, actress, Omega Man, Wrong is Right 1938 "Yankee Clipper" completes 1st passenger flight over Atlantic 1938 John Weston, born in England, diplomat, UK Permanent Representative on the North Atlantic Council, 1992 - 1995, British Permanent Representative to the United Nations 1995 - 1998 1938 John Guare, U.S. writer, 6 degrees of Separation, Atlantic City, Taking Off 1937 Amelia Earhart Putnam, Dutch pilot/1st female to fly Atlantic, dies at 40 1935 French Normandie sets Atlantic crossing record of 1,077 hours 1933 Black Blizzard snowstorm-duststorm rages from SD to Atlantic 1932 1st gyro-stabilized vessel to cross Atlantic arrives in NY 1932 Louis Malle, France, director, Atlantic City, Black Moon, Viva Maria 1932 Englishman James Mollisson is 1st to fly east to west over Atlantic 1932 Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland 1st woman fly solo across Atlantic 1932 Amelia Earhart is 1st woman to fly solo cross the Atlantic 1930 1st football game in Atlantic City Convention Center 1929 Large quake in Atlantic breaks Transatlantic cable in 28 places 1929 1st trade show at Atlantic City Convention Center, electric light 1929 Atlantic City Convention Center opens 1928 Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland to become 1st woman (passenger) to fly Atlantic (as a passenger in a plane piloted by Wilmer Stultz) 1928 1st trans atlantic flight Europe-U.S. (Fitzmaurice-von Hunefeld-Kohl) 1927 Lindburgh lands in Paris, after 1st solo air crossing of Atlantic 1927 At 7:40 AM, Lindbergh takes off from New York to cross Atlantic for Paris 1926 1st check sent by radio facsimile transmission across Atlantic 1926 James Hillman, born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, psychologist, credited with developing archetypal psychology 1924 1st photo facsimile transmitted across Atlantic by radio (London-NYC) 1924 1st photo sent experimentally across Atlantic by radio, U.S. - England 1923 Ahmet Ertegun, CEO, Atlantic Records 1921 Patsy Garrett, Atlantic City, New Jersey, actress, Nanny and the Professor 1919 John Alcock, pilot (1st non-stop over Atlantic), dies in crash at 27 1919 British R-34 lands in New York, 1st airship to cross Atlantic (108 hours) 1919 1st nonstop Atlantic flight, Alcock and Brown, lands in Ireland 1919 1st nonstop air crossing of Atlantic (Alcock and Brown) 1919 NC-4 aircraft commanded by AC Read completes 1st crossing of Atlantic 1919 America's 1st passenger flight (New York - Atlantic City) 1918 1st concrete ship to cross the Atlantic (Faith) is launched, SF 1917 Lawrence Jacob, Atlantic City, New Jersey, artist, Sanitarium 1917 Atlantic ships get destroyer escorts to stop German attacks 1916 1st cargo submarine to cross Atlantic arrives in U.S. from Germany 1916 Germany begins attacking ships in the Atlantic 1914 John Reed King, Atlantic City, New Jersey, TV host, Why?, Let's See 1913 British passenger ship Volturno catches fire in Atlantic (136 kill) 1913 Gamboa Dam in Panama blown up; Atlantic and Pacific waters mix 1913 Common tern banded in Maine; found dead in 1919 in Africa (1st bird known to have crossed the Atlantic) 1913 6.8-m, 4000-kg elephant seal killed, South Georgia (S Atlantic) 1913 Elephant seal, 6.8-m, 4000-kg, killed in S Georgia (South Atlantic) 1908 Lusitania crosses Atlantic in record 4 days 15 hours, New York City 1907 Lusitania arrives in New York City after 5 day crossing of Atlantic (record) 1904 National Tuberculosis Association organized, Atlantic City, New Jersey 1904 Willem De Kooning, born in Rotterdam Netherland, artist, North Atlantic Light 1904 Ty Cobb makes his pro debut for Augusta (South Atlantic League) 1902 Canada's Maritime Provinces switch from Eastern to Atlantic time 1902 Charles Lindbergh, born in Detroit, Michigan, pilot, 1st fly solo across Atlantic 1898 Amelia Earhart, U.S. aviator, 1st woman to solo Atlantic 1898 1st amusement pier opens in Atlantic City, New Jersey 1896 George Samuelson completes rowing Atlantic (New York to England) 1896 G Harpo and F Samuelson leave New York to row the Atlantic (takes 54 days) 1896 George Samuelson leaves New York harbor to row across Atlantic 1892 John Alcock, English pilot, 1st non-stop flight across Atlantic Ocean 1873 British White Star steamship Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, 547 die 1870 1st section of Atlantic City (NJ) Boardwalk opens 1866 1st yacht race across Atlantic Ocean 1866 Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long) 1865 Trans Atlantic Cable being laid by SS Great Eastern snaps and is lost 1863 CSS "Alabama" captures "Tailsman" in Mid Atlantic 1859 "Pomona" sinks in North Atlantic drowning all 400 aboard 1857 Atlantic Monthly magazine 1st published 1855 Clipper Guiding Star disappears in Atlantic, 480 die 1852 Steamer "Atlantic" collided with fishing boat, sinks with 250 aboard 1838 English steamship "Great Western" crossing Atlantic docks in New York City 1838 English steamship "Sirius" docks in New York City after Atlantic crossing 1837 William Dean Howells, U.S., novelist/critic/editor, Atlantic 1834 Charles Darwin's expedition reaches 200 km from Atlantic Ocean 1833 "Lady-of-the-Lake" strikes iceberg and sinks in N Atlantic; kills 215 1833 Britain seizes control of Falkland Islands in South Atlantic 1832 Charles Darwin visits Fernando Noronha in Atlantic Ocean 1825 Erie Canal opens, linking Great Lakes and Atlantic Ocean 1819 320 ton Savannah becomes 1st steamship to cross any ocean (Atlantic) 1819 1st steam propelled vessel to cross Atlantic (Savannah leaves Ga) 1787 Samuel Cunard, founder, 1st regular Atlantic steamship line |
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