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2009 Event - An Australian navy ship intercepts a boat carrying 60 suspected asylum seekers
1997 Death - Virgilio Boat, president of Colombia (1986-90), dies 1997 Event - "Show Boat," closes at Gershwin Theater New York City 1996 Death - Laura La Plante, screen actress (Show Boat, Scandal), dies at 91 1995 Death - John Lapworth Holt, boat Designer, dies at 83 1995 Event - Emillio and Gloria Estefan's boat hits and kills a jet skiier 1995 Event - Ferry boat sinks off Sumbe Angola, 42+ killed 1994 Event - "Show Boat," opens at Gershwin Theater New York City 1994 Event - Ferry boat Estonia capsize and sinks in East Sea, 909 killed 1994 Event - Ferry boat sinks at Chandpur Bangladesh, 300-350 killed 1994 Event - Spanish fishing boats sink a French fishing boat over fishing rights 1994 Event - U.S. changes refugee policy, by sending Haitian boat people back 1994 Event - President Clinton announces U.S. will no longer repatriate boat people 1994 Event - Ferry boat smashes into Mombasa Harbor Kenya, kills over 300 1994 Event - Fishing boat with school children capsize at Lanaka Syria, 46 killed 1993 Event - Ferry boat leaves for west coast of South Korea, 120 killed 1993 Event - Boat sinks at Bocaue Philippines, 325 die 1993 Event - Haitian ferry boat capsize in storm, 800-2,000 die 1993 Event - Polish ferry boat John Heweliusz sinks, 52 killed 1993 Event - Polish ferry boat capsizes in storm, 50 die 1992 Death - Allen James, vocalist/actor (Show Boat), dies of lung cancer at 84 1991 Death - Curt Bois, actor (Great Waltz, Boat is Full), dies at 90 1991 Event - Ferry boat Salem Express sinks in Red Sea, 476 killed 1991 Event - Boat rams a tanker in Livorno Italy fog, killing about 138 1989 Event - Aak crashes into pleasure boat The Margin on the Thames, 51 killed 1987 Event - Belgium ferry boat "Herald of Free Enterprise" capsizes/sinks; 192 die 1986 Event - Ferry boat Shamia sinks on Maghna River Bangladesh, 600 killed 1986 Event - Bob Hering sets Formula One power boat record (165.338 mph, Ariz) 1985 Death - Leon Klinghoffer, hijackers of Achille Lauro, threw him off boat 1985 Event - French agents blow up Greenpeace boat Rainbow Warrior near New Zealand 1983 Event - "Show Boat" closes at Uris Theater New York City after 73 performances 1983 Event - "Show Boat" opens at Uris Theater New York City for 73 performances 1982 Event - Eddie Hill sets propeller-driven boat water speed record of 229 mph 1982 Event - British torpedo boat Sheffield off Falkland hit by Exocet rocket 1981 Event - Fiona Brothers sets women's propeller boat speed record (116.279 MPH) 1980 Event - Longest jump by a jet boat is set at 120' 1977 Event - 1st broadcast of "Love Boat" on ABC-TV 1973 Event - Reshef, Israel's missile boat, unveiled 1968 Event - Ferry boat sinks in harbor of Wellington, New Zealand, 51 died 1967 Event - Egypt sinks Israeli torpedo boat 1967 Death - Donald Campbell, boat racer, dies trying to break 300 mph on water 1966 Birthday - Jill Whelan, Oakland Cal, actress, Vicki-Love Boat, Young and Restless 1958 Birthday - Ted McGinley, born in Newport Beach, California, actor, Love Boat, MWC, Dynasty 1955 Event - Harry Belafonte records "Day-O" (Banana Boat Song) 1955 Birthday - Pat Klous, Hutchinson, Kansas, actress, Marcy-Flying High, Judy-Love Boat 1954 Event - Japanese ferry boat Toya Maru sinks in Strait of Tsugaru, 1172 die 1953 Birthday - Lauren Tewes, Trafford, Pennsylvania, actress, Julie McCoy-Love Boat 1951 Birthday - Charo, Murcia Spain, actress and singer, Chico and the Man, Love Boat 1948 Birthday - Fred Grandy, born in Sioux City, Iowa, Representative-R-Iowa, 1986-, actor, Love Boat 1947 Birthday - Ann Hui, director, Boat People 1947 Birthday - Hubert Ann Kelly, U.S. singer, Hues Corporation/Rock the boat 1947 Birthday - Ted Lange, born in Oakland California, actor, Isaac-Love Boat, Mr. T and Tina 1947 Event - "Show Boat" closes at Ziegfeld Theater New York City after 417 performances 1946 Event - "Show Boat" opens at Ziegfeld Theater New York City for 417 performances 1945 Death - Hendrik N Werkman, resistance/painter (Blue Boat), executed at 63 1944 Birthday - [Bernard] St. Clair Lee [Calhoun], U.S. singer, Rock the Boat 1943 Event - German plane sinks boat loaded with Palestinian Jews bound for Malta 1942 Event - Poon Lim set adrift for 133 days after his boat is torpedoed 1940 Event - Blizzard strikes midwest, 154 die (69 on boat on Great Lakes) 1940 Event - Dutch torpedo boat Johan van Galen sinks 1939 Event - German U boat fails on attack of English battleship Nelson with Winston Churchill, Dudley Pound and Charles Forbes aboard 1939 Event - British fleet takes German U-27 boat 1939 Event - British fleet attacks German U-39 boat 1938 Event - Boeing 314 Clipper flying boat 1st flown, Eddie Allen 1938 Birthday - Jack Jones, born in Los Angeles, California, singer, Love Boat Theme 1935 Event - China Clipper (flying boat) took off from Alameda, California, carrying 100,000 pieces of mail on 1st trans-Pacific airmail flight 1935 Birthday - Nolan Miller, Burkburnett, Texas, fashion designer, Dynasty, Love Boat 1933 Birthday - Bernie Kopell, born in New York City, actor, Love Boat, Get Smart, That Girl 1931 Birthday - Gavin MacLeod, Mount Kisco, New York, actor, Murray-Mary Tyler Moore, Love Boat 1927 Event - Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II's "Show Boat," premieres in New York City 1921 Birthday - Donald Malcome Campbell, born in Surrey, England, boat racer, 1955 speed records 1920 Birthday - William Warfield, singer, Show Boat 1919 Event - 1st transatlantic flight ends; U.S. Navy flying boat takes 11 days 1918 Event - U.S. naval boat "Cyclops" disappears in Bermuda Triangle 1915 Event - British transport Royal Edward sank by German U boat kills 1000 1915 Event - German U boat torpedoes Netherlands merchant ship Medea 1914 Birthday - Edward Andrews, Griffin Georgia, actor, Tea and Sympathy, Glass Bottom Boat 1912 Birthday - John Lapworth Holt, boat Designer 1912 Event - World's 1st flying boat's maiden flight, (Glenn Curtiss in New York) 1911 Event - German boat Panther nears for Agadir Morocco 1906 Birthday - Lanny Ross, Seattle, radio singer, Show Boat, The Swift Show 1904 Event - Dawson City hockey team begins 9 day walk to get a boat to Seattle to catch a train to Ottawa to play in Stanley Cup on Jan 13 1905 1903 Event - American Power Boat Association forms 1898 Birthday - Irene [Marie] Dunne, Louisville, actress, Show Boat, I Remember Mama 1895 Event - Joshua Slocum completes around-the-world voyage in 11-m boat 1877 Event - University boat race between Oxford and Cambridge ends in a dead heat 1869 Event - 1st international boat race (Thames River, Oxford beats Harvard) 1852 Event - Steamer "Atlantic" collided with fishing boat, sinks with 250 aboard 1849 Event - 1st boat load of gold rush prospectors arrives in San Francisco from east coast 1841 Event - Erie boat in Buffalo New York catches fire; 242 die 1839 Event - Detroit Boat Club forms (& still exists) 1837 Event - Collision of river boat Monmouth and Trement on Miss; 300 die 1834 Death - Lionel Lukin, life boat pioneer, dies |
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