2013 Event Central Vietnam is hit by Tropical Storm Wutip; over 1,000 houses are damaged, trees are uprooted and power lines are cut 2010 Event A suicide bomber kills 95 people, injures over 100, and destroys 20 houses at a volleyball game in Lakki Marwat, Pakistan 1980 Event Billy Joel's Glass Houses album tops charts 1980 Event Billy Joel's "Glass Houses" hits #1 1971 Event Marine clay under houses liquefies, 31 die (St-Jean-Vianney Quebec) 1963 Event Cyclone hits Chittagong, Bangladesh; about 1 million houses destroyed 1949 Event Dutch Drees government presents plan for the building of 30,000 houses 1948 Event Margaret Chase Smith (R-Me) elected senator, 1st woman to serve in both houses of Congress 1933 Death Adolf Loos, Austria architect (building of houses), dies at 62 1933 Event Maxwell Anderson's "Both your Houses," premieres in New York City 1909 Event Construction begins on first 100 houses in Ahuzat Bayit (Tel Aviv) 1903 Birthday William Plomer, Transvaal, author, Paper Houses, I Speak of Africa 1896 Event Tsunami strikes Shinto festival on beach at Sanriku Japan 27,000 are killed, 9,000 injured, with 13,000 houses destroyed 1883 Event Shocks triggered by volcano Epomeo (Isle of Ischia, Italy) destroyed 1,200 houses at Casamicciola killing 2,000 1870 Birthday Adolf Loos, Austria architect, building of houses 1866 Event Great fire in Quebec destroys 2,500 houses 1859 Birthday Florentinus M Wibaut, Amsterdams social alderman, building of houses 1845 Event Fire in Quebec Canada, 1,500 houses destroyed 1840 Event Records show 95,820 licensed public houses in England on this date 1812 Event Fire in Moscow destroys 90% of houses and 1,000 churchs 1752 Event Moscow houses and churchs destroyed by fire 1751 Event Fire in Stockholm destroys 1,000 houses 1666 Event Fire in London destroys 13,000 houses and kills 8 1518 Birthday Elizabeth Talbot, countess of Shrewsbury/builder of country houses 1349 Event 700 Jews of Basel Switzerland, burned alive in their houses
