2013 Event A training exercise emergency causes two U.S. marine harrier jets to drop several hundred unarmed bombs on the Great Barrier Reef, a World Heritage site 2013 Event In Rome, one hundred thousand protestors rally against their new government's austerity measures, and demand a new policy focused on job creation 2012 Event In Egypt, one hundred thousand people gather around the Presidential palace to protest proposed constitutional changes by Mohamed Morsi, the President of Egypt 2011 Event Peruvians reclaimed 45,000 Inca artefacts taken by Yale University from Machu Picchu over a hundred years ago, finally successful in their campaign to return of 'the dignity and pride of Peru' 2002 Death R. A. Lafferty, science fiction writer, Nine Hundred Grandmothers, dies at 87 1989 Event Chinese troops kill hundred of pro-democracy students in Beijing 1981 Death Arthur O'Connell, actor (Mr Peepers, 2nd Hundred Years), dies at 73 1977 Event Geoff Boycott scores his 100th FC hundred, vs. Australia at Headingley 1975 Event Roy Fredericks hits 169 vs. Australia at WACA, hundred in 71 balls 1935 Event Andrew Sandham's 100th FC hundred, 103 vs. Hants 1935 Birthday Monte Markham, born in Manatee, Florida, actor, Second Hundred Years, Dallas 1935 Event Hammond scores his 100th hundred, 116 for Gloucs vs. Somerset 1929 Event Frank Woolley scores his 100th first-class hundred 1915 Event Zeppelin drops hundred of bombs on Southend-on-Sea 1908 Birthday Arthur O'Connell, born in New York City, actor, Mr Peepers, Second Hundred Years 1903 Event Richard Pearse flies monoplane several hundred yards (New Zealand) 1864 Event Battle of Port Walthall Junction, Virginia (Bermuda Hundred) 1864 Event Battle of Bermuda Hundred, VA 1759 Event Earthquake in Safed Palestine kills hundred 1453 Event 2nd Battle at Castillon: France beats English, end of hundred year war 1419 Event French city of Rouen surrenders to Henry V in Hundred Years War 1340 Event In the Hundred Years War, British fleet destroys French at Sluys 1303 Event Treaty of Paris restores Gascony to British in Hundred Years War
