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2011 Event - Tropical storm warnings are issued as Tropical Storm Emily forms in the Atlantic Ocean

2011 Event - Tropical Storm Arlene, the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season's first tropical storm, lands near Cabo Rojo and brings heavy rain to Mexico and southern Texas

2010 Event - Many nations urge lower fishing rates on the Atlantic bluefin tuna; quota limits on the critically endangered fish are discussed by major fishing nations in Paris

2010 Event - In the Atlantic Ocean, tropical storm Lisa forms off the Cape Verde Islands

2010 Event - Hurricane Julia becomes the fifth hurricane in the 2010 Atlantic Hurricane season

2009 Event - En route from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Paris, Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic ocean, killing all 228 on board

2005 Event - Steve Fossett flies the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer to a world record by completing the first non-stop, non-refueled, solo flight around the world

2003 Death - Michael Kelly, journalist, Atlantic Monthly - died in Iraq in an accident, dies at 45

1997 Event - Bell Atlantic Senior Golf Classic

1996 Event - 34th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Spain in Atlantic City USA (5-0)

1993 Event - Atlantic Radio (20 radio stations) becomes American Radio Systems

1991 Event - Jane Geddes wins LPGA Atlantic City Golf Classic

1991 Event - Largest crowd to watch Atlantic Coast Womens Basketball game (11,520)

1990 Event - Chris Johnson wins LPGA Atlantic City Golf Classic

1990 Event - Annular eclipse visible over Antarctica and South Atlantic

1989 Event - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Atlantic City Golf Classic

1988 Event - Juli Inkster wins LPGA Atlantic City Golf Classic

1988 Event - Mike Tyson KOs Michael Spink in 91 seconds, in Atlantic City ($67m)

1987 Event - Betsy King wins Atlantic City LPGA Golf Classic

1987 Event - 2 men became 1st hot-air balloon travelers to cross Atlantic

1986 Event - Russian nuclear sub sinks in Atlantic Ocean

1986 Event - Juli Inkster wins Atlantic City LPGA Golf Classic

1985 Birthday - Frankie Muniz, born in Wood-Ridge, New Jersey, actor, racecar driver, competed in Atlantic Championship, appeared on 'Malcolm in the Middle' television sitcom

1985 Event - Hurricane Gloria's 130 MPH wind hits Atlantic coast

1984 Event - Joe Kittinger completes 1st solo balloon crossing of Atlantic

1984 Event - 1st female to captain a 747 across Atlantic (Lynn Rippelmeyer)

1982 Event - British ship Atlantic Conveyor and Coventry were hit in Falkland war

1981 Event - Phillies minor leaguer Jeff Stone steals pro baseball record 121st base en route to 122 (Spartanburg (South Atlantic League))

1980 Event - Jaromir Wagner is 1st to fly Atlantic standing on wing

1979 Event - Hurricane David, a strong Atlantic storm kills over 1,000

1979 Birthday - Alizah Allen, born in New York City, New York, figure skater, 1997 North Atlantic Sr champ

1978 Event - 1st successful crossing of the Atlantic by balloon (3 Americans)

1978 Event - 1st legal gambling casino opens in Atlantic City

1977 Event - New Jersey allows casino gambling in Atlantic City

1976 Event - New Jersey voters approve gambling for Atlantic City

1972 Birthday - Kyoko Ina, Tokyo, Japan, figure skater, 1993 North Atlantic Sr champ

1970 Event - Thor Heyerdahl crosses Atlantic on reed raft

1969 Event - 110,000 attend Atlantic City Pop Festival

1967 Event - Puerto Rico placed on Atlantic Standard Time

1965 Event - Borman and Lovell Splash down in Atlantic ends 2 week Gemini VII mission

1965 Birthday - Robert Manry, Cleveland newspaper editor/sailed the Atlantic, in craft

1965 Event - Eastern DC-7B crashes into Atlantic off Jones Beach, New Jersey, kills 84

1963 Birthday - Barbara Weathers, vocalist, Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover

1962 Event - Mariner I launched to Mars falls into Atlantic Ocean

1961 Event - Volcano eruptions on Tristan de Cunha (South Atlantic)

1961 Event - USAF bomber flies Atlantic in a record of just over 3 hours

1960 Event - Francis Chichester arrive in New York aboard Gypsy Moth II, setting record of 40 days for a solo Atlantic crossing

1960 Birthday - 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

1960 Birthday - Linden Ashby, born in Atlantic Beach, Florida, actor, television, films, known for role of Johnny Cage in the movie 'Mortal Kombat'

1959 Event - St. Lawrence Seaway linking Atlantic, Great Lakes opens to shipping

1958 Birthday - David Lewis, guitarist, Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover

1958 Event - U.S. performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean

1958 Event - U.S. performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean

1958 Event - U.S. performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean

1958 Birthday - Daniels Koran, saxophonist, Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover

1958 Birthday - Chris Johnson, born in Arcata, California, LPGA golfer, 1990 Atlantic City Classic

1957 Event - German sailing school ship Pamir sails Atlantic Ocean

1957 Birthday - Wayne Lewis, keyboardist, Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover

1956 Event - Hannes Lindemann begins journey across Atlantic in a 17' craft

1956 Event - 1st trans atlantic telephone cable in use (Newfoundland-Scotland)

1956 Birthday - Sharon Bryant, vocalist, Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover

1956 Event - Coasters sign with Atlantic Records

1954 Event - West Germany joins North Atlantic Treaty Organization

1953 Birthday - Jonathan Lewis, trombonist, Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover

1953 Event - Ann Davidson, 1st woman to sail solo across Atlantic, arrives Miami

1953 Birthday - Porter Carroll, Jr., drummer, Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover

1952 Event - SS United States crosses Atlantic in 84:12 (record westward)

1952 Event - SS United States cross Atlantic in record 82:40

1951 Birthday - Clifford Archer, bassist, Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover

1950 Event - Arthur Dorrington is 1st black man in organized hockey, Atlantic City Seagulls of Eastern Amateur Hockey League

1950 Birthday - Richard Branson, British music enterperneur, Virgin Atlantic

1950 Birthday - Bill Sudderth III, trumpeteer, Atlantic Star-Touch 4 Leaf Clover

1949 Event - North Atlantic Treaty Council meets for 1st time

1949 Event - NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, goes into effect

1949 Event - Senate ratifies North Atlantic Treaty by a vote of 82-13 (NATO)

1949 Birthday - Joey Phillips, percussionist, Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover

1949 Event - North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) treaty signed (Washington D.C.)

1949 Event - North Atlantic Treaty, pact signed by U.S., Britain, France and Canada

1949 Event - NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, treaty ratified

1948 Event - 1st jets to fly across Atlantic, 6 RAF de Havilland Vampires

1947 Event - 180-metric ton blue whale (record) caught in South Atlantic

1944 Event - U-358 sinks in Atlantic

1944 Event - Korvet Violet sinks U-641 in Atlantic Ocean

1944 Event - 1st use of helicopters during warfare (British Atlantic patrol)

1943 Event - U-86 sinks in Atlantic Ocean

1943 Event - U-600 sinks in Atlantic Ocean

1943 Event - U-538 sinks in Atlantic Ocean

1943 Event - U-536 sinks in Atlantic Ocean

1943 Event - U-211 sinks in Atlantic Ocean

1943 Event - Germany begins withdrawing U-boats from North Atlantic in anticipation of the Allied invasion of Europe

1943 Event - Admiral Donitz stops U-boat in Atlantic Ocean

1942 Event - Robert Sullivan becomes 1st pilot to fly Atlantic 100 times

1942 Event - 25th PGA Championship: Sam Snead at Seaview CC Atlantic City, New Jersey

1941 Event - 9 Allied governments pledged adherence to Atlantic Charter

1941 Event - Atlantic Charter signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt and Churchill

1941 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill sign Atlantic Charter

1940 Event - WPG-AM in Atlantic City New Jersey consolidates with WBIL and WOV as "new" WOV

1938 Birthday - Rosalind Cash, Atlantic City, New Jersey, actress, Omega Man, Wrong is Right

1938 Event - "Yankee Clipper" completes 1st passenger flight over Atlantic

1938 Birthday - 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 Birthday - John Guare, U.S. writer, 6 degrees of Separation, Atlantic City, Taking Off

1937 Death - Amelia Earhart Putnam, Dutch pilot/1st female to fly Atlantic, dies at 40

1935 Event - French Normandie sets Atlantic crossing record of 1,077 hours

1933 Event - Black Blizzard snowstorm-duststorm rages from SD to Atlantic

1932 Event - 1st gyro-stabilized vessel to cross Atlantic arrives in NY

1932 Birthday - Louis Malle, France, director, Atlantic City, Black Moon, Viva Maria

1932 Event - Englishman James Mollisson is 1st to fly east to west over Atlantic

1932 Event - Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland 1st woman fly solo across Atlantic

1932 Event - Amelia Earhart is 1st woman to fly solo cross the Atlantic

1930 Event - 1st football game in Atlantic City Convention Center

1929 Event - Large quake in Atlantic breaks Transatlantic cable in 28 places

1929 Event - 1st trade show at Atlantic City Convention Center, electric light

1929 Event - Atlantic City Convention Center opens

1928 Event - Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland to become 1st woman (passenger) to fly Atlantic (as a passenger in a plane piloted by Wilmer Stultz)

1928 Event - 1st trans atlantic flight Europe-U.S. (Fitzmaurice-von Hunefeld-Kohl)

1927 Event - Lindburgh lands in Paris, after 1st solo air crossing of Atlantic

1927 Event - At 7:40 AM, Lindbergh takes off from New York to cross Atlantic for Paris

1926 Event - 1st check sent by radio facsimile transmission across Atlantic

1926 Birthday - James Hillman, born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, psychologist, credited with developing archetypal psychology

1924 Event - 1st photo facsimile transmitted across Atlantic by radio (London-NYC)

1924 Event - 1st photo sent experimentally across Atlantic by radio, U.S. - England

1923 Birthday - Ahmet Ertegun, CEO, Atlantic Records

1921 Birthday - Patsy Garrett, Atlantic City, New Jersey, actress, Nanny and the Professor

1919 Death - John Alcock, pilot (1st non-stop over Atlantic), dies in crash at 27

1919 Event - British R-34 lands in New York, 1st airship to cross Atlantic (108 hours)

1919 Event - 1st nonstop Atlantic flight, Alcock and Brown, lands in Ireland

1919 Event - 1st nonstop air crossing of Atlantic (Alcock and Brown)

1919 Event - NC-4 aircraft commanded by AC Read completes 1st crossing of Atlantic

1919 Event - America's 1st passenger flight (New York - Atlantic City)

1918 Event - 1st concrete ship to cross the Atlantic (Faith) is launched, SF

1917 Birthday - Lawrence Jacob, Atlantic City, New Jersey, artist, Sanitarium

1917 Event - Atlantic ships get destroyer escorts to stop German attacks

1916 Event - 1st cargo submarine to cross Atlantic arrives in U.S. from Germany

1916 Event - Germany begins attacking ships in the Atlantic

1914 Birthday - John Reed King, Atlantic City, New Jersey, TV host, Why?, Let's See

1913 Event - British passenger ship Volturno catches fire in Atlantic (136 kill)

1913 Event - Gamboa Dam in Panama blown up; Atlantic and Pacific waters mix

1913 Event - Common tern banded in Maine; found dead in 1919 in Africa (1st bird known to have crossed the Atlantic)

1913 Event - 6.8-m, 4000-kg elephant seal killed, South Georgia (S Atlantic)

1913 Death - Elephant seal, 6.8-m, 4000-kg, killed in S Georgia (South Atlantic)

1908 Event - Lusitania crosses Atlantic in record 4 days 15 hours, New York City

1907 Event - Lusitania arrives in New York City after 5 day crossing of Atlantic (record)

1904 Event - National Tuberculosis Association organized, Atlantic City, New Jersey

1904 Birthday - Willem De Kooning, born in Rotterdam Netherland, artist, North Atlantic Light

1904 Event - Ty Cobb makes his pro debut for Augusta (South Atlantic League)

1902 Event - Canada's Maritime Provinces switch from Eastern to Atlantic time

1902 Birthday - Charles Lindbergh, born in Detroit, Michigan, pilot, 1st fly solo across Atlantic

1898 Birthday - Amelia Earhart, U.S. aviator, 1st woman to solo Atlantic

1898 Event - 1st amusement pier opens in Atlantic City, New Jersey

1896 Event - George Samuelson completes rowing Atlantic (New York to England)

1896 Event - G Harpo and F Samuelson leave New York to row the Atlantic (takes 54 days)

1896 Event - George Samuelson leaves New York harbor to row across Atlantic

1892 Birthday - John Alcock, English pilot, 1st non-stop flight across Atlantic Ocean

1873 Event - British White Star steamship Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, 547 die

1870 Event - 1st section of Atlantic City Boardwalk opens

1866 Event - 1st yacht race across Atlantic Ocean

1866 Event - Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long)

1865 Event - Trans Atlantic Cable being laid by SS Great Eastern snaps and is lost

1863 Event - CSS "Alabama" captures "Tailsman" in Mid Atlantic

1859 Event - "Pomona" sinks in North Atlantic drowning all 400 aboard

1857 Event - Atlantic Monthly magazine 1st published

1855 Event - Clipper Guiding Star disappears in Atlantic, 480 die

1852 Event - Steamer "Atlantic" collided with fishing boat, sinks with 250 aboard

1838 Event - English steamship "Great Western" crossing Atlantic docks in New York City

1838 Event - English steamship "Sirius" docks in New York City after Atlantic crossing

1837 Birthday - William Dean Howells, U.S., novelist/critic/editor, Atlantic

1834 Event - Charles Darwin's expedition reaches 200 km from Atlantic Ocean

1833 Event - "Lady-of-the-Lake" strikes iceberg and sinks in N Atlantic; kills 215

1833 Event - Britain seizes control of Falkland Islands in South Atlantic

1832 Event - Charles Darwin visits Fernando Noronha in Atlantic Ocean

1825 Event - Erie Canal opens, linking Great Lakes and Atlantic Ocean

1819 Event - 320 ton Savannah becomes 1st steamship to cross any ocean (Atlantic)

1819 Event - 1st steam propelled vessel to cross Atlantic (Savannah leaves Ga)

1787 Birthday - Samuel Cunard, founder, 1st regular Atlantic steamship line

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