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 US 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 US 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 Director Ingmar Bergman leaves Sweden due to taxation
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 Rev 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 Nethe
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 (Neth)
1942 Task Force 17 leaves Pearl Harbor under adm 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 Gen-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 Nfld to become 1st woman (passenger) to fly Atlantic (as a passenger in a plane piloted by Wilmer Stultz)
1927 KLM-plane "Homing Pigeon" leaves Neth-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 NZ for Britain, on SS Dunedin
1882 SS Dunedin leaves NZ 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
1836 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leaves Tasmania
1835 HMS Beagle leaves Tahiti for NZ
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 Phila
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 Capt 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 Capt 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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