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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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