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2009 Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashes near Qazvin, Iran, all 168 on board are killed
2009 Nearly 300 people are killed and 1,500 injured near L'Aquila, Italy, after a 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes 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, South Carolina 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, New York 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 New Zealand 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 hours 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 Pete Jones, born near Watford, England, rocker, British bass guitarist, member of Public Image Ltd. 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 Mount 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 1932 Aharon Appelfeld, born near Czernowitz, Romania, now Ukraine, Israeli novelist, Holocaust survivor, Hebrew-language author with modernistic, metaphorical writing style 1929 Chris Kenner, born in Kenner, near New Orleans, Louisiana, rhythm and blues singer, songwriter, recording artist, 1961 hit I Like It Like That was on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart, song Land of a Thousand Dances was recorded by Patti Smith, and others 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 1919 Richard Mason, born near Manchester, England, author, learned Japanese in World War II, interrogated prisoners of war, wrote 'The Wind Cannot Read', 'The Fever Tree', 'The World of Suzie Wong' 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 Captain 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 1906 Belle Stewart, born near Bloirgowrie, Scotland, Scottish traditional singer, led life of a Scottish Traveler, daughter Sheila Stewart wrote her biography 'Queen Amang the Heather; the Life of Belle Stewart' 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 General 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 Vice President 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 1754 George Washington defeats French and indians at Ft. Duquesne near Pittsburgh 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 1498 Christopher Columbus lands on "Isla Santa" near Venezuela 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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