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