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1993 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 300,000 hindus destroy mosque of Babri India, 4 die 1992 "Search and Destroy" closes at Circle in Sq Theater New York City after 46 performances 1992 "Search and Destroy" opens at Circle in Sq Theater New York City for 46 performances 1990 Saddam fires his army chief and threatens to destroy Arabian peninsula 1990 Saddam says he will destroy Israel 1987 U.S. warships destroy 2 Iranian oil platforms in Persian Gulf 1986 Thousands of Egyptian military police riot, destroy 2 luxury hotel 1981 Israeli bombers destroy PLO/al-Fatah headquarters in Beirut 1968 Israeli commandos destroy 13 Lebanese airplanes 1967 Severe brush fires in Tasmania destroy $11 million and 60 lives 1962 Eruptions on Mount Huascaran in Peru destroy 7 villages and kill 3,500 1955 Series of 19 twisters destroy Udall Kansas and most of Blackwell Okla 1948 U.N. reject Russian proposal to destroy atomic weapons 1944 Nazi occupiers of Amsterdam destroy electricity plants 1944 Germans destroy Rhine dikes, Betuwe flooded 1944 U.S. and British forces destroy German 7th Army at Falaise-Argentan Gap 1943 German troops destroy synagogue of Warsaw 1943 Adm Cunningham of British fleet: "Sink, burn and destroy; let nothing pass" 1942 Operations begin to destroy Sobibor Concentration Camp 1941 Lawine battlers destroy Haaraz, Peru; about 3,000 die 1941 Nazi collaborators destroy pro-Jewish cafe Alcazar Amsterdam (Alcazar refused to hang "No Entry for Jews" signs in front of cafe) 1940 During WW II, German planes destroy most of Coventry, England 1939 Heavy aftershocks destroy some of Chile 1935 Italian bombers destroy Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia 1914 British fleet forfeits chance to destroy German fleet in North Sea 1896 Battle of Adua: 80,000 Ethiopians destroy 20,000 Italians 1894 Forest fires destroy Hinckley Minnesota: about 600 die 1893 Ndebeles destroy Rhodesia 1882 British HMS Flirt fire at and destroy Abari village in Niger 1876 General Crook destroy Cheyennes and Oglala-Sioux indian camps 1864 Sherman's troops destroy Rome, Georgia 1849 Fire destroy Centrum in St. Louis Missouri 1837 Canadian militia destroy Caroline, a U.S. steamboat docked at Buffalo 1816 U.S. troops destroy Ft. Apalachicola, a Seminole fort, to punish Indians for harboring runaway slaves 1814 British forces destroy Library of Congress, containing 3,000 books 1813 U.S. troops under General Coffee destroy indian village at Talladega Ala 1795 Fire destroy 1/3 of Copenhagen; 18,000 injured 1772 Hurricane destroy ships off Dominica 1702 Battle in Bay of Vigo: Netherlands/English fleet destroy Spanish/French fleet 1702 Battle of Bay of Vigo: Dutch and English fleet destroy and occupy Spanish silver fleet and French squadron 1567 Battle at Oosterweel: Spanish troops destroy Geuzenleger 1565 Battle at Talikota India: Moslems destroy Vijayanagar's army 1240 Mongols under Batu Khan occupy and destroy Kiev 843 Vikings destroy Nantes |
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