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2009 Pirates from Somalia capture the Maran Centaurus, a Greek-owned oil tanker, off the coast of Somalia
2009 A magnitude 7.0 quake strikes off the coast of Indonesia, setting off a tsunami alert which is then withdrawn 2009 A Sri Lankan migrant ship seized off of Canada's Pacific Coast, carried 76 suspected Sri Lankan immigrants 2009 Panic ensues when an earthquake strikes off the Bali coast in Indonesia, causing few injuries and little material damage 2009 One person out of 183 passengers and crew survives the crash of Yemenia Flight 626 off the coast of Moroni, Comoros 2005 Hurricane Katrina causes sever damage to the Gulf Coast killing 1836 2005 Fay Godwin, British photographer, noted for black-and-white landscapes of British coast and countryside, took portraits of literary figures, Saul Bellow, Salman Rushdie, Anthony Powell, dies at age 74, in Hastings, England 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, Prime Minister 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 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 French 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 Japanese-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 Russian 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) 1934 Ramon Sender, born in Madrid, Spain, composer, co-founder, San Francisco Tape Music Center, co-designed the first west coast synthesizer, the Buchla Box 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 1931 Fay Godwin, born in Berlin, Germany, British photographer, noted for black-and-white landscapes of British coast and countryside, took portraits of literary figures, Saul Bellow, Salman Rushdie, Anthony Powell 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 U.S. 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-Admiral 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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