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
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 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 FRD and PM 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 Guare, U.S. writer, 6 degrees of Separation, Atlantic City, Taking Off
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 becomes 1st female to fly across Atlantic Ocean
1928 Amelia Earhart leaves Nfld to become 1st woman (passenger) to fly Atlantic (as a passenger in a plane piloted by Wilmer Stultz)
1928 Amelia Earhart (as a passenger) is 1st woman to fly Atlantic Ocean
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
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 hr)
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
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 dies
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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