2004 Earthquake, greatest in over 40 years, strikes the Pacific Ocean near Sumatra, triggering a massive Indian Ocean tsunami, killing as many as 266,000 in coastal regions of Asia and Africa
2004 Flash Airlines flight 604 crashes near Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, killing 148
2003 Sudan Airways flight 139 crashes near Port Sudan, killing 116
2002 China Airlines flight 611 crashes near Taiwan, killing 225, crash probably due to structural failure
2002 China Northern Airlines flight 6163 crashes in the ocean near Dalian, China after a fire is reported onboard, killing 112
2002 Air China flight 129 crashes into a mountain near Pusan, South Korea killing 128
2001 SAS flight 686 crashes near Milano-Linate, killing 114, crash caused by flight crew and tower confusion
2001 Vladivostokavia flight 352 crashes near Burdakovka, killing 145
2001 Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft becomes first vehicle to land on an asteroid (433 Eros)
2000 Gulf Air flight 72 crashes near Bahrain, killing 143
2000 Air Philippines flight 541 crashes into a hill near Davao, killing 131
2000 Kenya Airways flight 431 crashes near Cote d'Ivoire, killing 170, likely cause was a mechnical problem
1995 DC-9 crashes near Maria La Baya, Colombia: 51 die, 9 yr old girl lives
1994 Dwingeloo 1, near milky way system, discovered
1994 Maronite church near Beirut bombed, 10 killed
1994 Peruvian Yak-40 crashes into mountain near Tingo Maria, kills 31
1994 Ship disaster near Ranong Thailand, kills 200
1994 Large meteorite falls near Kusaie, Pacific Ocean
1993 Maurice Dolbier, U.S. actor and writer (Nowhere near Everest), dies at 81
1993 James Jordan, NBA Michael Jordan's father, found dead near McColl SC
1992 Great British postage stamp 350 year battle near Edgehill
1992 Euro-Disney opens near Paris
1991 93 cars and 11 truck accident near San Francisco during a dust storm, 17 die
1991 14 die in a Continental Express commuter plane crash near Houston
1991 President Bush declares recession is near an end
1991 Nigerian DC-8 crashes near Saudi-Arabia, 261 die
1991 United Airlines crashes near Colorado Springs, kills 25
1990 U.S. warships in Persian Gulf placed on alert after Iraq masses nearly 30,000 troops near its border with Kuwait
1990 10 Israeli tourists murdered near Cairo
1989 French DC-10 crashes near Niger, 171 die
1989 Jeff Richards, actor (Don't Go Near the Water), dies at 66
1989 Suriname SLM-173 (DC-8) crashes near Paramaribo Airport killing 173
1989 Gas explodes near 2 passenger trains in U.S.S.R., kills 100s
1989 Israel attacks border strip Taba near Egypt
1988 Charles Hawtrey, English actor (Carry On), dies near London at 73
1988 Car bomb kills 7 Israelis, wounds 11 near Lebanon border
1988 31 reported dead as Ugandan jetliner crashes in fog near Rome
1988 Mike Tyson crashes a silver BMW into a tree near Catskills NY
1988 Barge sinks near Anacortes, WA, spills 70,000 gallons of oil
1987 In Arkansas R Gene Simmons kills 2, later bodies of 14 of his relatives are found at his home near Dover Ark
1987 Pacific Southwest crashes near Los Angeles, kills 43
1987 10 die as Air Force jet crashed into a Ramada Inn near Indianapolis
1985 ARCO Anchorage runs aground near Port Angeles, WA
1985 DC-8 crashes near Gander, Newfoundland; 258 die
1985 Fireworks factory near Hallett, OK explodes, 21 die
1985 Bomb destroys Air India Boeing 747 in air near Ireland, 329 die
1985 French agents blow up Greenpeace boat Rainbow Warrior near NZ
1982 Record 11,763 start a 186 mile cross-country race near Stockholm
1982 Car/bus collision near Beaune, France, 53 die
1982 Argentina surrenders to Britain on S Georgia near Falkland Island
1982 U.S. submarine Jacksonville collides with a Turkish freighter near Virginia
1981 Irish Nationalist at Maze Prison near Belfast end 7-month hunger strike
1981 2 climbers fall 550 m down cliff near Angel Falls, Venezuela
1978 3 PFLP members kill a cop near El Al airlines in Orly Airport, Paris
1978 Air India B747 explodes near Bombay killing 213
1977 Robert Lowell, U.S. poet/pacifist (Near the Ocean), dies at 60)
1977 Alain Prieur jumps his motorcycle 65 m over 16 buses, near Paris
1975 Randy Farland finds a 14-leaf clover near Sioux Falls, SD
1975 2 passenger trains collided near Munich Germany killing 35
1974 Charles de Gaulle Airport opens near Paris
1973 Brazilian Boeing 707 crashes near Paris, 122 killed
1973 Secret peace talks between U.S. and North Vietnam resumed near Paris
1972 Eastern Tristar Jumbo Jet crashes near Everglades killing 101
1972 Aeroflot Il-18 crashes near Black Sea resort of Sochi, kills 105
1972 East German Aeroflot Illyushin 62 crashes near Moscow, killing 156
1971 Apollo 14, 3rd U.S. manned Moon expedition, lands near Fra Mauro Alan Shepard and Edward Mitchell (Apollo 14) walk on Moon for 4 hrs
1969 Abebe Bikila's auto-accident, near Addis Ababa
1968 Student riot in Nanterre near Paris
1968 U.S. Surveyor 7 lands near lunar crater Tycho
1967 Government bans submarines near South Africa
1967 25,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops launched Operation Junction City, offensive to smash Viet Cong stronghold near Cambodian border
1966 USAF C144 military charter crashes near Binh Thai Vietnam kills 129
1966 Bob Dylan hurt in motorcycle accident near Woodstock New York
1966 U.S. bombs fuel storage facilities near North Vietnamese cities
1966 B-52/KC-135 tankers crash near Spanish coast at Palomares, 7 die
1965 Section of Allalin glacier wipes out construction site at Mattmark Dam near Saas-Fee, Switzerland
1965 Bernard Verhoeven, poet/educator (Pleidooi near een non), dies
1964 Train from Povoa de Varzin, Portugal derails near Oporto, 94 die
1963 3 fuel tanks explodes when jetliner is struck by lightning crashing near Elkton, Maryland-Only case of lightning caused crash, 81 die
1961 Portuguese ship explode near Mozambique, kills 300
1960 Old handwriting found in at Qumran, near the Dead Sea
1957 Dutch Super Constellation crashes near New Guinea, 56 die
1956 French government routes troops to Cyprus near Suez crisis
1954 1st atomic power station opens (Obninsk, near Moscow, Russia)
1953 Dutch DC-6 crashes near Ymuiden in North Sea, 21 die
1953 USAF C124 Globemaster crashes near Tokyo killing 129 servicemen
1952 Dutch DC-6 crashes near Frankfurt, killing 44
1950 2 Air France DC-4s crash near Bahrain, about 100 die
1949 200 killed in train derailment near Nowy Dwor Poland
1949 Riot prevents Paul Robeson from singing near Peekskill, New York
1949 Dutch KLM Constellation crashes near Bombay, 45 die
1949 Holly Near, American Musician
1948 Korczak Ziolkowski begins sculpture of Crazy Horse near Mt Rushmore
1947 Dutch Dakota explodes near Coopenhagen, 16 die
1947 KLM Dakota crashes near Copenhagen, 22 die
1947 Alessandro Haber, actor, China is Near
1946 2 British ships sink near Albania
1946 Train derailment kills 185 near Aracaju Brazil
1945 Massive kamikaze-attack on U.S. battle fleet near Okinawa
1945 U.S. Marines explore Tsugen Shima near Okinawa
1945 Kamikazes attack U.S. battle fleet near Kerama Retto
1945 British premier Churchill looks over at the Rhine (near Ginsberg)
1945 U.S. 1st army breaks out bridgehead near Remagen
1945 U.S. Task Force 58 attacks ships near Kobe/Kure
1945 British troops land on Ramree, near coast of Burma
1944 U.S. 15th Army corp reaches Mantes-Gassicourt near Paris
1944 Danish resistance fails on assault on Taarbaek Fort near Copenhagen
1944 1st Japanese kamikaze attack, U.S. fleet near Iwo Jima
1944 Allies land near Hollandia, New-Guinea
1943 Last German Q/pirate ship sinks near Easter Island
1943 "Congressional Limited" train derails near Frankfort Pa, kills 79
1943 U.S. forces landed at Nassau Bay, near Salamaua, New Guinea
1943 Nazi's discover mass grave of Polish officers near Katyn
1943 Soviet forces reconquer Gumrak airport near Stalingrad
1943 Russian offensive against German 6th/4th Armies near Stalingrad
1942 Australian/Dutch guerrilla troops evacuated to Timor near Australia
1942 8 die as coal waste heap slides in river valley near Oakwood, Virginia
1942 Elwood Ordnance Plant near Joliet Illinois kills 54
1942 USS Yorktown sinks near Midway Island
1942 Japanese parachutists land near oil center Palembang Sumatra
1942 Japanese troops land near Makassar, South Celebes
1941 German Q/pirate ship Kormoran sinks near Australia
1941 3,721 Jews are buried alive at Babi Yarravine (near Kiev) Ukraine
1940 4 teens, following their dog down a hole near Lascaux France discover 17,000-year-old drawings now known as Lascaux Cave Paintings
1940 "Lake Shore Ltd" derails speed killing 34 near Little Falls NY
1939 Russian air and ground attack against Finnish positions near Summa
1939 German U-boat torpedoes tanker Sliedrecht near Ireland
1939 Aquatic Park, near Fisherman's Wharf, SF, is dedicated
1938 500 ton meteorite lands near Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
1937 Republican offensive near Belchite Spain
1936 121 degrees F (49 degrees C), near Alton, Kansas (state record)
1934 113 degrees F (45 degrees C), near Gallipolis, Ohio (state record)
1934 Gia Scala, born in Italy, actress in Angry Hills, Don't Go Near the Water
1933 112 foot ocean wave observed near Manila
1928 Thomas Hardy, novelist (Maddening Crowd), dies near Dorchester at 87
1925 Dirigible "Shenandoah" crashed near Caldwell Ohio, 13 die
1925 Swain's Island (near American Samoa) annexed by U.S.
1922 Jeff Richards, born in Portland, Oregon, actor, Don't Go Near the Water
1921 A sudden cloudburst kills 120 near Pikes Peak, Colorado
1920 French passenger ship Afrique sinks near La Rochelle; 553 die
1917 Robert Lowell, poet and pacifist, Lord Weary's Castle, Near the Ocean
1917 Train near Chirurcha Romania catches fire and explodes; 100s die
1916 1st of 3 fatal shark attacks occurred near New Jersey shore (4 die)
1916 German troops conquer Fort Douaumont near Verdun
1915 German cruiser Dresden blows itself up near coast of Chile
1914 Ewing Field, near Masonic Street, opens
1913 Turkish-Greek sea battle near Troy
1912 Capt Robert Scott, storm-bound in a tent near South Pole, makes last entry in his diary "the end cannot be far"
1911 Haiti's dictator Simon flees on U.S. warship near Jamaica
1911 1st rescue of an air passenger by a ship, near Havana, Cuba
1908 Natural Bridges National Monument forms near Lake Powell, Utah
1904 Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Sherman Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenber----dorff, Sr, near Hamburg, Germany
1903 Nicolas Nabokov, Near Lubcha Minsk Russia, composer, Holy Devil
1901 SS Islander hits iceberg near Alaska and sinks killing 70
1901 55 die as Rock Island train derailed near Marshalltown Iowa
1899 Harl McDonald, near Boulder Colorado, composer, Santa Fe Trail
1894 U.S. warship Kearsarge wrecked on Roncador Reef, near Solomon Island
1886 Great Britain annexes Kermadec-Island near New Zealand
1886 Nicolai Sokoloff, near Kiev Ukraine, conductor, Seattle Symph
1885 13,000 meteors seen in 1 hour near Andromeda
1884 1st known photograph of a tornado is made near Howard, South Dakota
1884 Louis Gruenberg, near Brest Litovsk Poland, composer, Daniel Jazz
1882 200 die as train derails near Tcherny, Russia
1881 200 drown as train runs off bridge near Cuautla Mexico
1881 Canadian ferry Princess Victoria sinks near London Ontario, 200 die
1881 World's 1st elec tram goes into service in Lichterfelder (near Berlin)
1879 Meteor falls near Estherville, Iowa
1876 11 passenger cars crash in a ravine near Ashtabula Ohio, 92 die
1875 German SS Schiller sinks near Scilly Islands, 312 killed
1870 Ground broken for Northern Pacific Railway near Duluth, Minn
1865 John Wilkes Booth, assassin, is shot dead near Bowling Green Virginia at 27
1865 Affair near Lone Jack, Missouri
1865 Civil War skirmish near Sturgeon, Missouri
1864 Battle of Fair Oaks, Virginia near Richmont
1864 Atlanta Campaign: Sever fighting near Dalton
1864 Near Andersonville Georgia, rebels open a new POW camp "Camp Sumpter"
1864 Heavy fighting takes place near Dandridge, Tennessee
1863 Civil War Battle of Chickamauga, near Chattanooga Tennessee, ends
1863 Battle of Chickamauga Georgia (near Chattanooga) begins; Union retreat
1863 Cavalry action near Brandy Station-End of Gettysburg Campaign
1863 Lee orders his forces to concentrate near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
1863 Confederate raider "Nashville" sinks near Fort McAllister Georgia
1863 Civil War skirmish near Newtown, Virginia
1863 Naval engagement near Galveston between CSS Alabama and USS Hatteras
1863 1st homestead under the Homestead Act claimed, near Beatrice, Nebr
1862 Turner Ashby, General, killed near Harrisonburg VA, dies at 33
1862 Confederate cruiser The Alabama runs aground near London
1862 Gen John Hunt Morgan begins 4 days of raids near Gallatin, Tennessee
1859 1st successful oil well drilled, near Titusville, Penn by Edwin Drake
1859 Comstock silver load discovered near Virginia City, Nevada
1841 James Clark Ross (UK) is 1st to enter pack ice near Ross Ice Shelf
1832 Charles Darwin visits jungle near Bahia Brazil
1830 Horse beats 1st U.S. made locomotive (near Baltimore)
1826 Colonies under Jedediah Strong Smith move near Salt Lake Utah
1816 Carl Herrmann, near Hanover Germany, stage magician
1814 Battle of North Point fought near Baltimore during War of 1812
1804 Alex Hamilton, killed by VP Aaron Burr in pistol duel near Weehawken
1789 Spanish capture British schooner Northwest America near Vancouver I
1783 Herschel reports seeing a red glow near lunar crater Aristarchus
1780 British defeated by American militia near Kings Mountain, SC
1739 J B C Bouvet de Lozier discovers Bouvet Island, near Antarctica
1607 English colonists (John Smith) lands near James River in VA
1600 Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler meet for 1st time near Prague
1542 Hernando de Soto, dies while searching for gold, near Mississippi R
1524 Pizarro's begins 1st great expedition, near Colombia
1496 Moorish fortress Alhambra, near Grenada, surrenders to the Christi
1461 Battle near Towton Field, 33,000 die (War of the Roses)
1382 Battle on Beverhoutsfield near Brugge
1281 Kublai Khans invading fleet disappears in typhoon near Japan
1176 Murder attempt by "Assassins" on Saladin near Aleppo
1070 Roquefort cheese created in a cave near Roquefort, France
891 Northmen defeated near Louvaine, France
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