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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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