2005 Hurricane Katrina causes sever damage to the Gulf Coast killing 1836
2000 Alaska Airlines flight 261 crashes off coast of southern California, killing 88, crash caused by a bad stabilizer
1999 EgyptAir flight 990 crashes 60m off coast of Nantucket, killing 217, likely cause was an Islamist suicide replacement pilot
1998 SwissAir flight 111 crashes off the coast of Nova Scotia killing all 229 onbaord, likely cause was an electrical fire
1997 Emerald Coast Senior Golf Classic
1996 Alfredo Nobre Coast, PM of Portugal (1978), dies
1994 Achille Lauro sinks off the coast of Somalia
1993 Ivory Coast Premier Ouattara resigns
1993 Henri Konan Bedie names himself President of Ivory coast
1993 Felix Houphouet-Boigny, President of Ivory Coast (1960-93), dies at 88
1993 25 people killed during Ghana-Ivory Coast soccer match
1993 Ferry boat leaves for west coast of South Korea, 120 killed
1992 President Bush orders Coast Guard to intercept boats with Haitian refugees
1991 Largest crowd to watch Atlantic Coast Womens Basketball game (11,520)
1988 Tug hits oil barge, spreads 231,000 gal on 300 mi of WA and BC coast
1985 Hurricane Juan ravages U.S. Gulf states and east coast, 49 die
1985 Hurricane Gloria's 130 MPH wind hits Atlantic coast
1982 ABC's All Talk network begins on radio (2 west coast stations)
1978 Karen Kwan, Torrance California, figure skater, 1995 Pac Coast Sr champ
1978 Amoco Cadiz tanker spills 1.6 mil gallons of oil off French coast
1978 Amoco Cadiz spills 223,000 tons of crude oil off French coast
1977 Beata Handra, born in San Francisco, California, dance skater, & Sinek-1997 Pac Coast Sr 3rd
1976 Argo Merchant tanker off Massachusetts' SE coast, spills 7.6 m gallons of crude when ship ran aground
1976 Oil tanker Urqui Ola explodes off Spanish coast
1975 Coast Guard Academy 1st allows women to enroll
1975 Trifun Zivanovic, born in Santa Monica, fig skater, 1995 Pac Coast, Jr. champ
1975 Claude N'Goran, born in Adzope Ivory Coast, tennis pro
1974 Hurricane Fifi hits coast of Honduras; about 5,000 die
1973 Ferryboat capsized off coast of Equador, drowning 200
1973 West African Economic Community formed (Benin, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Upper Volta)
1972 Miriam Hopkins, actress (Carrie, Barbary Coast), dies at 69
1971 Michael Chack, Toms River, New Jersey, figure skater, 1997 Pac Coast Sr champ
1971 Chips Rafferty, actor (Kona Coast, Walk into Hell), dies at 62
1971 Matt McHugh, actor (Taxi, Freaks, Barbary Coast), dies at 77
1970 Martha Plimpton, New York City, actress, Goonies, Mosquito Coast
1969 Hurricane Camille strikes U.S. Gulf Coast kills 255
1969 Anna Acker-Macosko, Marshfield WI, LPGA golfer, 1995 Gold Coast Tour
1968 Sandra Beikoff, Mackay QLD, golfer, 1990 Sunshine Coast Open
1966 Mike Small, born in Aurora Illinois, Canadian Tour golfer, 1993 Emerald Coast
1966 B-52/KC-135 tankers crash near Spanish coast at Palomares, 7 die
1964 Charles Sinek, dance skater, & Beata Handra-1997 Pac Coast Sr 3rd
1964 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Mary Mills Miss Gulf Coast Golf Invitational
1964 Guinee, Liberia and Ivory Coast form joint market
1964 Joseph Schildkraut, Austr actor (Flame of Barbary Coast), dies at 68
1964 Skip Ewing, Redlands California, country vocalist, Coast of Colorado
1963 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Mary Mills Miss Gulf Coast Golf Invitational
1963 John Elliot, Bristol CT, Nike golfer, 1994 NIKE Miss Gulf Coast
1963 Joe Lloyd, Highland Park, Illinois, Canadian Tour golfer, 1993 Space Coast
1962 Canadian Marine Service renamed Coast Guard
1961 Matt Cole, born in Stratford, Ontario, Canadian Tour golfer, 1990 Space Coast
1960 Ivory Coast claims independence from France
1960 Dr. Felix Houphouet-Boigny becomes president of Ivory Coast
1960 Ivory Coast adopts constitution
1960 Cyclone hits coast of Gulf of Bengal; about 10,000 die
1960 Cyclone hits coast of Gulf of Bengal; about 4000 die
1960 Ivory Coast, Cote d'Ivoore, gains independence from France
1960 Ivory Coast, Dahomey, Upper Volta and Niger declare independence
1958 Dahomey (Benin), Ivory Coast become autonomous within Fr Community
1958 Oman turns over Gwadur (on Baluchistan coast) to Pakistan
1958 Ray Freeman, born in Greensboro, North Carolina, Canadian Tour golfer, 1992 Coast Carolina
1957 Craig Marseilles, Toronto, Canadian Tour golfer, 1995 Gold Coast
1957 SF Seals (Pacific Coast League) play their last game
1957 Heavy storm ravages Belgian coast
1957 Bruce Plummer, born in Seattle, Washington Canadian Tour golfer, 1994 West Coast
1957 New York City Mayor Robert Wagner says he plans to confer with the Giants and Dodgers about the proposed move to the west coast
1957 NL approves Brooklyn Dodgers' and New York Giants' move to west coast
1957 Ghana (formerly Gold Coast) declares independence from U.K.
1956 Fidel Castro lands with "Granma" on coast of Cuba
1956 AL President Will Harridge bars Washington Senators move to West Coast, unless unanimously approved by the other AL owners
1954 Bob Beauchemin, Winnipeg, Canada, golfer, West Coast Open-1982, 83
1953 Alpha Blondy, [Seydou Kone], Ivory coast, reggae singer, Jerusalem
1951 Dick Mast, born in Bluffton, Ohio, Nike golfer, 1990 Mississippi Gulf Coast
1951 Kwame Nkrumah wins 1st parliamentary election on Gold coast (Ghana)
1949 Freak heat wave sent central coast of Portugal to 158 degrees F for 2 minutes
1947 Pacific Coast League application for major league status rejected
1947 Hans Vermeulen, singer/guitarist, Sandy Coast
1945 1st U.S. units reach east coast of Okinawa
1945 U.S. minesweepers reach Kerama Retto, South coast of Okinawa
1945 British troops land on Ramree, near coast of Burma
1945 Allies land on west coast of Burma, conquer Akyab
1944 U.S. Army announces end of excluding Jap-Americans from West Coast
1944 Operation Anvil: Allies land on French Mediterranean sea coast
1943 U.S. amphibians land at Brolo on north coast of Sicily
1943 U.S. amphibians land at St. Agata on North coast of Sicily
1943 U.S. 45th Infantry division occupies north coast of Termini
1942 Coast Guard Woman's Auxiliary (SPARS) authorized
1942 Douglas Munro, only U.S. Coast Guard with WW II-Med of Honor, dies
1942 1st WW II American expeditionary force lands in Africa (Gold Coast)
1942 Nightly "dim-out" begins along East Coast
1942 Destroyer Roper sinks German U-85 of U.S. east coast
1942 German U-boats begin harassing shipping on U.S. east coast
1941 Eddie Mayo (LA-Pacific Coast League), spits in face of ump Ray Snyder
1941 Paul Theroux, American travel book writer, Mosquito Coast
1939 Russ Indigirka capsizes in blizzard off Japanese coast; 750 die
1937 Japanese fleet blockades Chinese coast
1934 New York Yankees buy Joe DiMaggio from San Francisco Seals (Pacific Coast League)
1933 Robert Blake, Nutley, New Jersey, Baretta, Little Rascals, Coast to Coast
1933 Joe Dimaggio ends 61 game hitting streak in Pacific Coast League
1933 U.S. Dirigible Akron crashes off coast of New Jersey, 73 die
1927 1st flight from West Coast arrives in Hawaii
1920 1st U.S. coast guard air station established (Morehead City NC)
1919 Hurricane tides 16 feet above normal drown 280 along Gulf Coast
1916 German-British sea battle off Belgian coast
1916 French cruiser "Admiral Charner" torpedoed off Syrian coast, kills 374
1915 German cruiser Dresden blows itself up near coast of Chile
1915 British fleet fire on Dardanellen coast
1915 US Coast Guard created from Life Saving and Revenue Cutter services
1914 German fleet bombs English coast
1914 German fleet under Admiral Souchon fire on Algerian coast
1912 SS Kichemaru disappears in storm off Japanese coast, 1,000 die
1909 Kwame Nkrumah, communist/premier Gold Coast/president Ghana, 1960-66
1906 Heavy storm ravages Dutch west coast
1905 Felix Houphouet-Boigny, President of Ivory coast, 1960-93
1901 Great Britain annexes Gold Coast (Ghana)
1901 Brian Donlevy, Ireland, actor, Barbary Coast, Glass Key, Wake Island
1898 Dorothy Stratton, organizer, SPARS-women's branch of U.S. Coast Guard
1897 British troops occupy Bida Gold Coast (Ghana)
1897 Battle at Bida Gold Coast: British troops beat Nupe's army
1894 1st midwestern football team to play on west coast, University of Chicago defeats Stanford 24-4 at Palo Alto, California in football
1894 Dutch coast hit by hurricane
1894 British troops occupy Ilorin, Gold Coast
1894 Matt McHugh, Pennsylvania, actor, Taxi, Freaks, Barbary Coast, Innocent Affair
1893 Hurricane hits coast between Savannah Georgia and Charleston SC
1893 Tornado destroys coast of Savannah and Charleston, about 1000 die
1893 Ivory Coast becomes a French colony
1893 Great Northern Railway connects Seattle with east coast
1889 Flood ravages Dutch coast
1889 Ivory Coast declared a protectorate of France
1876 U.S. Coast Guard officers' training school established New Bedford, Massachusetts
1876 Tsunami's after earthquake floods NE coast of Japan, kills 28,000
1875 Verney Cameroon reaches Benguela Angola, from Africa's east coast
1871 Cameroon reaches coast of Angola after trip through Africa
1870 British SS Cambria leaves for Noth sea coast, 196 killed
1864 Off New England coast, CSS Tallahassee captures 6 yankee schooners
1862 Steamer "Golden Gate" burns and sinks off west coast of Mexico
1860 Britain formally returns Mosquito Coast to Nicaragua
1858 Regular mail to Pacific coast begins
1854 "New Era" sinks off New Jersey coast with loss of 300
1854 English pirate Plumridge robs along pro-English Finnish coast
1849 1st boat load of gold rush prospectors arrives in San Francisco from east coast
1848 Britain takes Mosquito Coast from Nicaragua
1846 "Oregon Spectator" is 1st newspaper to be published on the West Coast
1839 2 day storm off Irish and English coast immortalized as "Big Wind"
1825 Dutch North Sea coast floods
1817 1st coffee planted in Hawaii on Kona coast
1814 Matthew Flinders, English cartographer (Australia coast), dies at 40
1811 1st U.S. colonists on Pacific coast arrive at Cape Disappointment, WA
1807 U.S. Coast Survey authorized by Congress
1806 Lewis and Clark reach Pacific coast
1804 Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis for Pacific Coast
1799 British frigate HMS Lutine sinks off Dutch coast
1794 New York City formally declares coast of Ellis Island publically owned, so they can build forts to protect New York City from British
1790 U.S. Coast Guard founded as Revenue Cutter Service
1790 Revenue Marine Service, U.S. Coast Guard, created
1788 1st British ship built on Pacific coast begun at Nootka Sound
1778 Captain James Cook 1st sights Oregon coast, at Yaquina Bay
1775 Floods ravage Dutch coast provinces
1774 Matthew Flinders, English navigator/cartographer, coast Australia
1757 George Vancouver, surveyed Pacific coast from San Francisco to Vancouver I
1718 Edward "Blackbeard" Teach, English pirate, killed off Virginia coast
1717 Floods ravage Dutch coast provinces, 1000s killed
1715 10 Spanish treasure galleons sinks off Florida coast by hurricane
1712 French hijacker Jacques Cassard seen on Suriname coast
1665 Duke of York defeats Dutch fleet off the coast of Lowestoft
1665 Battle at Elmina, Gold Coast: Vice-adm De Ruyter beats English
1620 Mayflower reaches Cape Cod and explores the coast
1579 Sir Francis Drake lands on coast of California
1552 Dutch coast hit by heavy storm
1552 Dutch west coast hit by heavy storm, 100s killed
1551 Dutch west coast hit by hurricane
1542 Explorer Cabrillo discovered Catalina Island off California coast
1530 St. Felix Flood ravages Dutch coast
1526 Heavy storm strikes Dutch coast, many die
1519 Flood ravages Dutch/Friese coast
1519 Pizarro receives royal charter for South American west coast
1509 Storm ravages Flemish/Dutch/Friese coast, 1000s killed
1502 Storm ravages Friese coast
1424 Storm flood ravages Dutch coast
1360 France invasion army lands on English south coast, conquers Winchel
1334 St. Clemens Flood: Dike breaks at Flemish/Zeeuwse/Dutch coast
1262 Flemish/Dutch coast ravaged by north western storm
1196 Northern Dutch coast flooded, "Saint-Nicolaas Flood"
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