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1997 Curt Flood, centerfielder (Cards), dies of throat cancer at 59

1994 7.9 earthquake strikes Koerilen, flood kills 18+

1992 900 die in flood in Pakistan

1992 Great Chicago Flood - Chicago's underground tunnels flood

1989 Berendrechtsluis opens in Antwerp, biggest flood lock in world

1987 10 teens die in Guadalupe River flood, Comfort, Texas

1977 Flash flood hits Johnstown, Pennsylvania, kills 80 and causing $350 mil damage

1976 Flash flood in Big Thompson Canyon Colorado on Route 34, kills 139

1975 5 drown in flash flood of sewer and water tunnel (Niagara Falls New York)

1973 78 drown as flash flood sweeps a bus into a river, India

1972 U.S. Supreme Court, 5-3, confirms lower court rulings in Curt Flood case, upholding baseball's exemption from antitrust laws

1971 Lisa Flood, Scarborough Ontario, 100m Breaststroker 1996 Olympics

1971 Curt Flood resigns Senators after 13 games and departs for Denmark

1971 Dismissal of Curt Flood's suit against baseball is upheld by

1970 Curt Flood loses his $41 million antitrust suit against baseball

1970 Curt Flood files a civil lawsuit challenging baseball's reserve clause

1969 New York Times reports Curt Flood will sue baseball and challenge the reserve clause

1967 Curt Flood's record 568 straight chances without an error ends (227 straight games)

1965 Curt Flood's record of 568 straight chances without an error begins

1964 St. Louis Card Curt Flood gets 8 straight hits in a doubleheader

1954 Stevie Ray Vaughan, born in Dallas, Texas, guitarist, Sky is Crying, Texas Flood

1954 200 pilgrims drown in Farahzad Iran rain storm flood

1953 Wellington-Auckland (NZ) express train swept away in flood kills 166

1953 Hurricane-like winds flood Netherlands drowning 1,835

1952 Earthquake and flood strike Kamshatka-South America

1945 German occupiers flood Beemster and Fencer

1945 German occupiers flood Wieringermeer Neth

1934 Ann Flood, Jamaica, New York, actress, Edge of Night

1928 William Henry Grattan Flood, composer, dies at 68

1926 Flood in Rhine strikes Cologne

1919 2 million gallons of molasses flood Boston MA, drowning 21

1913 Dayton, Ohio almost destroyed when Scioto, Miami, and Muskingum River reach flood stage simultaneously

1913 Great Dayton Flood

1913 Flood in Ohio, kills 400

1904 Train derailed on bridge in Eden Colorado during a flash flood, kills 96

1889 Johnstown Flood; 2,209 die in Pennsylvania

1889 Flood ravages Dutch coast

1877 Storm flood ravages Dutch coastal provinces

1875 Garonne Flood: great damage in Verdun and Toulouse, kills about 1,000

1863 Storm flood ravages Nethe coastal provinces

1859 William Henry Grattan Flood, composer

1829 Danzig (Gdansk) dike break flood kills 1,200

1824 Storm causes St. Petersburg flood, killing 10,000

1824 St. Petersburg flood

1675 Storm hits about West-Europe: flood in Amsterdam

1634 Beach Island in North sea destroyed by a heavy storm flood

1587 Dutch County Groningen flood by dike break

1570 Netherlands hit by flood disaster, 1,000s killed

1541 Hernan de Soto observes 1st recorded flood in America (Mississippi R)

1530 St. Felix Flood ravages Dutch coast

1519 Flood ravages Dutch/Friese coast

1424 Storm flood ravages Dutch coast

1334 St. Clemens Flood: Dike breaks at Flemish/Zeeuwse/Dutch coast

1196 Northern Dutch coast flooded, "Saint-Nicolaas Flood"

1134 Storm flood ravages Zeeland county



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