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1997 For only 2nd time Stanley Cup leaves North America (heads to Russia)
1994 Doc Gooden leaves Betty Ford Center 1993 Ferry boat leaves for west coast of South Korea, 120 killed 1990 U.S. ambassador to Kuwait, Nathaniel Howell leaves Kuwait 1990 East Germany leaves Warsaw Pact 1989 Last Vietnamese soldier leaves Cambodia 1988 Fish leaves rock group Marillion 1986 Activist Anatoly Scharansky released by U.S.S.R., leaves country 1984 U.S. leaves UNESCO 1983 11 year old Samantha Smith of Manchester, Maine, leaves for U.S.S.R. 1982 Palestinian Liberation Organization leaves Lebanon 1982 PLO leader Yasser Arafat leaves Beirut 1979 Deposed Shah of Iran leaves U.S. for Panama 1976 Military coup in Ecuador, President Guillermo Lara leaves 1975 Last U.S. helicopter leaves U.S. embassy grounds, Saigon surrenders 1972 Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis leaves Communist Party 1972 President Nixon leaves Washington D.C. for China 1971 John Lennon leaves U.K. for New York City, never to return 1971 John Guares "House of Blue Leaves," premieres in New York City 1970 Luna 16 leaves Moon 1970 Denny McLain returns, (leaves trailiing) Tigers beat Yankees in 11 1970 U.S. leaves Wheelus AFB Libya 1969 Mick Taylor leaves John Mayall Band and joins Rolling Stones 1969 Brian Jones leaves The Rolling Stones 1969 British liner Queen Elizabeth II leaves on maiden voyage to New York 1969 "Fig Leaves Are Falling" closes at Broadhurst New York City after 4 performances 1969 "Fig Leaves Are Falling" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 4 performances 1968 Albania leaves Warsaw pact 1967 NLF leaves People's Republic of South-Yemen 1967 Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney retires 19 Pirates, then gets injured and leaves 1965 Singapore leaves Malaysian Federation 1964 Malcolm X leaves Black Muslim Movement 1962 Angolin leaves Comecon 1962 French Foreign Legion leaves Algeria 1961 Union of South Africa becomes a republic, leaves Commonwealth 1961 South Africa leaves British Commonwealth 1958 Carl Perkins leaves Sun Records for Columbia Records 1956 Last of foreign troops leaves Egypt as Brits leave Suez Canal 1955 Reverend Sun Young Moon leaves prison in Seoul 1955 John Williams Cox buys Yankee Stadium, sells grounds to Knights of Columbus, later leaves structure to Rice University (1962) 1954 Alan Freed leaves Cleveland to New York City for WINS radio 1951 Nazi General Christiansen leaves Netherlands 1950 French women and children leaves Hanoi/Tonkin-delta 1949 Nationalist regime of China leaves for Taiwan/Formosa 1947 1st round-the-world civil air service leaves New York City 1945 Cruiser Indianapolis leaves San Francisco with atom bomb 1944 Kurita's Vice-Admiral fleet leaves North-Borneo 1944 68th and last transport of Dutch Jews (Anne Frank) leaves to Auschwitz 1944 Klaus Barbie, Gestapo head of Lyon France leaves for Auschwitz 1943 Japan leaves Aleutian Islands 1943 1st U.S. President to visit a foreign country in wartime-FDR leaves for Casablanca, Morocco 1942 Last camouflaged German raider Komet leaves Flushing harbor (Netherlands) 1942 Task Force 17 leaves Pearl Harbor under Admiral George Murray on Hornet 1942 PQ-17 convoy leaves Iceland for Archangelsk 1942 U.S. aircraft carrier Yorktown leaves Pearl Harbor 1942 David Ben-Gurion leaves Jewish state in Palestine 1942 1st deportation train leaves Paris for Auschewitz Concentration Camp 1942 General MacArthur leaves Corregidor (Bataan) for Australia 1941 New nazi battleship Bismarck leaves Gdynia, Poland 1941 King Peter leaves Yugoslavia 1940 General-major Bernard Montgomery leaves Duinkerken 1939 Hungary leaves League of Nations 1938 British premier Neville Chamberlain leaves Munich 1938 Douglas (Wrong Way) Corrigan leaves New York for LA, wound up in Ireland 1936 RMS Queen Mary leaves Southampton for New York on maiden voyage 1936 Emperor Haile Selassie leaves Ethiopia as Italian invades 1936 200" mirror blank leaves for California to be ground 1935 Lou Gehrig collides with Carl Reynolds and leaves the game 1933 Japan leaves League of Nations 1932 Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland 1st woman fly solo across Atlantic 1931 Japan leaves the Golden Standard 1928 1st internationsl dogsled mail leaves Minot, Maine for Montreal, Que 1928 Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland to become 1st woman (passenger) to fly Atlantic (as a passenger in a plane piloted by Wilmer Stultz) 1927 KLM-plane "Homing Pigeon" leaves Netherlands-Indies after 1st regular flight 1926 Spain leaves League of Nation due to Germany joining 1926 Brazil leaves League of Nations 1926 Airship Norge leaves Spitsbergen for 1st air crossing of Arctic Ocean 1925 Roald Amundsun leaves Spitsbergen with 2 seaplanes to North Pole 1924 Pieter Jelle Troelstra leaves 2nd Chamber 1923 British occuping army leaves Constantinople 1923 Abyssinia (Ethiopia) leaves League of Nations 1922 Japanese cruiser Niitaka leaves in storm at Kamchatka, 300 killed 1922 U.S. intervention army leaves Honduras 1921 British submarine K5 leaves with man and mouse 1917 Lenin leaves Switzerland for Petrograd 1917 English submarine K13 leaves Gaire Loch 1915 British Lusitania leaves NY, for Liverpool 1914 Benito Mussolini leaves Italy's socialist party 1914 Prince Wilhelm von Wied leaves Albania 1914 Westerschelde leaves due to German invasion in Belgium 1914 German battle cruiser Goeben leaves Messina 1914 British fleet leaves Portland/passes Straits of Dover 1912 Titanic leaves Queenstown, Ireland for New York 1911 Robert Scott's expedition leaves Cape Evans for South Pole 1908 Great White Fleet leaves San Francisco Bay 1905 Pierre de Brazza leaves Brazzaville 1904 Francis Younghusbands leaves Lhasa Tibet 1902 Jimmy Collins, leaves Boston Beaneaters (NL) club to manage AL's new Boston Somersets 1900 Queen Wilhelmina leaves duke Heinrich "Henry" von Mecklenburg-Schwerin 1898 SS Portland leaves for Cape Cod, 157 killed 1898 1st U.S. troop transport to Manila leaves San Francisco 1897 Solomon Andree leaves Spitsbergen by balloon towards North Pole 1896 George Samuelson leaves New York harbor to row across Atlantic 1893 British fleet under Vice-Admiral George Tryon leaves Beirut 1891 Painter Gauguin leaves Marseille for Tahiti 1889 1st train load of fruit (oranges) leaves Los Angeles for east 1882 1st cargo of frozen meat leaves New Zealand for Britain, on SS Dunedin 1882 SS Dunedin leaves New Zealand with 1st frozen meat to England 1879 Ex-khedive Ismael Pasha leaves Cairo with train full stolen goods 1878 Ship Azor leaves Charleston with 206 blacks for Liberia 1876 Henry Morton Stanley's expedition leaves Nyangwe 1876 Henry Morton Stanley's expedition leaves Rwanda 1876 7th U.S. Cavalry under Custer leaves Ft. Lincoln 1870 British SS Cambria leaves for Noth sea coast, 196 killed 1865 Abraham Lincoln's funeral train leaves Washington 1863 1st cargo of lumber leaves Burrard Inlet (Vancouver, BC area) 1863 1st black regiment (54 Mass) leaves Boston to fight in Civil War 1861 On a bet Edward Weston leaves Boston to walk to Lincoln's inauguration 1855 Composer Gioacchino Rossini leaves Italy 1854 SS City of Glasgow leaves Liverpool harbor and is never seen again 1853 John Morrissey wins boxing title, when Yankee Sullivan leaves ring after 36th round to slug Morrissey's fans 1853 Elisha Kane's Arctic expedition leaves New York aboard Advance 1850 Airship Elizabeth leaves in storm for Fire Island, crashes (42 die) 1850 Investigator, 1st ship to effect northwest passage, leaves England 1843 Sojourner Truth leaves New York to begin her career as antislavery activist 1841 1st emigrant wagon train leaves Independence, Missouri for California 1836 HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin leaves Australia 1835 HMS Beagle leaves Tahiti for New Zealand 1835 HMS Beagle leaves Galapagos Archipelago/sails to Tahiti 1830 Dutch army leaves Brussels, after 100s killed 1826 USS Vincennes leaves New York to become 1st warship to circumnavigate globe 1819 Walt Whitman, West Hills, New York, poet, Leaves of Grass 1819 1st steam propelled vessel to cross Atlantic (Savannah leaves Ga) 1817 1st Mississippi "Showboat," leaves Nashville on maiden voyage 1815 King Louis XVIII leaves Ghent for France 1811 1st Ohio River steamboat leaves Pittsburgh for New Orleans 1810 Emperor Napoleon corpse leaves Netherlands for France 1809 English invasionary troop leaves Vlissingen 1809 1st U.S. steamboat to a make an ocean voyage leaves New York for Philadelphia 1804 Mungo Park leaves England seeking source of Niger River 1802 Toussaint L'Ouverture leaves Haiti, prisoner on French ship Heros 1799 Russia leaves second anti-French Coalition 1795 Joseph Haydn leaves England forever 1787 Spanish governor leaves Philippines 1787 1st U.S. voyage around the world - Columbia leaves Boston 1777 Captain Cook leaves Society Islands 1776 Nathan Hale leaves Harlem Heights Camp (127th St) for spy mission 1753 Voltaire leaves the court of Frederik II of Prussia 1752 East Indies invasion "Geldermalsen" leaves at Malakka: 92 killed 1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie's army leaves Glasgow 1746 Bonnie Prince Charlies army leaves Glasgow, 1744 French/Spanish fleet leaves Toulon 1741 Captain Bering leaves Petropavlovsk, sailing to America 1714 King Karel XII leaves Turkish captivity to return to Sweden 1689 Matsuo Basho, zen poet, leaves for 150 days journey on Honshu Japan 1686 Robinson Crusoe leaves his island after 28 years (as per Defoe) 1669 LaSalle leaves Montreal to explore Ohio River 1627 English fleet under George Villiers leaves Rhe 1616 English King Jacob I leaves Brielle/Vlissingen 1599 Jacob van Necks merchant fleet leaves Java 1599 Jacob van Necks fleet leaves Bantam Java with pepper, clove and muskaat 1597 At 4:30 AM Willem Barents leaves Novaya Zemlya for Netherlands 1596 Willem Barents leaves Amsterdam for Novaya Zemlya 1587 Earl Leicesters army leaves Netherlands 1579 Francis Drake leaves San Francisco to cross Pacific Ocean 1574 Polish King Hendrik of Anjou secretly leaves Poland 1571 Catholic Italian businessman Roberto Ridolfi leaves Enngeland 1567 Geuzen army leaves Walcheren to return to Oosterweel 1524 Duke of Albany leaves Scotland 1509 Emperor Maximilian leaves Italy 1497 Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci leaves for 1st voyage to New World 1495 French King Charles VIII leaves Naples 1492 Columbus leaves San Salvador; arrives in Santa Maria of Concepcion 1492 Columbus' fleet leaves Gomera, Canary islands 1434 Navigator Gil Eanes leaves Cape Bojador for Lisbon 1415 Jewish autonomy in Palestine ends, as Raban Gamliel leaves office 1290 Last of 16,000 English Jews expelled by King Edward I, leaves 1192 Richard Coeur de Leeuw leaves Jerusalem in disguise 1156 Henry II Jasormigott leaves Bavaria 1120 English royal yacht "White Ship" leaves in storm |
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