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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

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