2013 Event Britain agrees to help Syria destroy over 165 tons of chemical weapons; the stockpile includes substances that could be used to make highly toxic nerve agents 2013 Event El Paraiso, Peru: property developers destroy a 4,000-year old pyramid 2013 Event During a U.N. conference on disarmament, North Korea threatens to destroy South Korea 2012 Event In China, violent rainfalls and flooding in the Hunan Province destroy a bridge and 3,500 homes, causing Pinhjiang County to evacuate 28,000 people 2011 Event On a mission to destroy Muammar Gaddafi's forces, NATO jets fly over Tripoli and knock out three television stations 2011 Event After airstrikes destroy 30 - 40 per cent of Libya's ground forces, U.S. Admiral Mike Mullen states the war is moving toward a stalemate 1993 Event Giants need to beat Dodgers to force a playoff game with Braves for NL West title, but Dodgers destroy Giants 12-1, Giants end year 103-59 1992 Event 300,000 hindus destroy mosque of Babri India, 4 die 1992 Event "Search and Destroy" closes at Circle in Sq Theater New York City after 46 performances 1992 Event "Search and Destroy" opens at Circle in Sq Theater New York City for 46 performances 1990 Event Saddam fires his army chief and threatens to destroy Arabian peninsula 1990 Event Saddam says he will destroy Israel 1987 Event U.S. warships destroy 2 Iranian oil platforms in Persian Gulf 1986 Event Thousands of Egyptian military police riot, destroy 2 luxury hotel 1981 Event Israeli bombers destroy PLO/al-Fatah headquarters in Beirut 1968 Event Israeli commandos destroy 13 Lebanese airplanes 1967 Event Severe brush fires in Tasmania destroy $11 million and 60 lives 1962 Event Eruptions on Mount Huascaran in Peru destroy 7 villages and kill 3,500 1955 Event Series of 19 twisters destroy Udall Kansas and most of Blackwell Okla 1948 Event U.N. reject Russian proposal to destroy atomic weapons 1944 Event Nazi occupiers of Amsterdam destroy electricity plants 1944 Event Germans destroy Rhine dikes, Betuwe flooded 1944 Event U.S. and British forces destroy German 7th Army at Falaise-Argentan Gap 1943 Event German troops destroy synagogue of Warsaw 1943 Event Adm Cunningham of British fleet: "Sink, burn and destroy; let nothing pass" 1942 Event Operations begin to destroy Sobibor Concentration Camp 1941 Event Lawine battlers destroy Haaraz, Peru; about 3,000 die 1941 Event Nazi collaborators destroy pro-Jewish cafe Alcazar Amsterdam (Alcazar refused to hang "No Entry for Jews" signs in front of cafe) 1940 Event During WW II, German planes destroy most of Coventry, England 1939 Event Heavy aftershocks destroy some of Chile 1935 Event Italian bombers destroy Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia 1914 Event British fleet forfeits chance to destroy German fleet in North Sea 1896 Event Battle of Adua: 80,000 Ethiopians destroy 20,000 Italians 1894 Event Forest fires destroy Hinckley Minnesota: about 600 die 1893 Event Ndebeles destroy Rhodesia 1882 Event British HMS Flirt fire at and destroy Abari village in Niger 1876 Event General Crook destroy Cheyennes and Oglala-Sioux indian camps 1864 Event Sherman's troops destroy Rome, Georgia 1849 Event Fire destroy Centrum in St. Louis Missouri 1837 Event Canadian militia destroy Caroline, a U.S. steamboat docked at Buffalo 1816 Event U.S. troops destroy Ft. Apalachicola, a Seminole fort, to punish Indians for harboring runaway slaves 1814 Event British forces destroy Library of Congress, containing 3,000 books 1813 Event U.S. troops under General Coffee destroy indian village at Talladega Ala 1795 Event Fire destroy 1/3 of Copenhagen; 18,000 injured 1772 Event Hurricane destroy ships off Dominica 1702 Event Battle in Bay of Vigo: Netherlands/English fleet destroy Spanish/French fleet 1702 Event Battle of Bay of Vigo: Dutch and English fleet destroy and occupy Spanish silver fleet and French squadron 1567 Event Battle at Oosterweel: Spanish troops destroy Geuzenleger 1565 Event Battle at Talikota India: Moslems destroy Vijayanagar's army 1240 Event Mongols under Batu Khan occupy and destroy Kiev 843 Event Vikings destroy Nantes
