2014 Event A 7.2-magnitude earthquake strikes Mexico about 80 miles to the northwest of Acapulco; only minor damage has been reported to date 2014 Event Flight recorder signals from the missing Malaysia Air jet are no longer detectable; the flight, which disappeared on March 8th, may be located in a zone of over 57,000 square km of water about 2,200 km to the northwest of Perth, Australia 2014 Event An earthquake measuring 8.2 on the Richter scale strikes 58 miles northwest of Iquique, Chile; though larger than the 6.7 quake on March 16th, scientists expect an even stronger quake in this region in the future 2014 Event An earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale strikes approximately 40 miles northwest of Iquique, Chile 2013 Event Northwest Africa 7325, a green meteorite found in Morocco, 2012, may have originated on planet Mercury; if scientists are correct, this will be the first known meteorite from Mercury 2009 Event Two mass graves relating to Columbia's long fight with the Farc, were found in northwest and south Columbia 2008 Event Northwest Airlines and Delta Air Lines merge 1999 Event Earthquake kills 17,000 in northwest Turkey 1993 Event Northwest Airlink plane crashes in Minn, killing 18 1992 Event Northwest and KLM introduce a new joint logo "Worldwide Reliability" 1991 Event A new cancer drug is announced, which can only be found in bark of a rare tree in the Pacific Northwest 1989 Death Joan Woodbury, actress (Super Sleuth, Northwest Trail), dies 1987 Event Northwest Airlines 255 plane crashes in Detroit, 156 die (1 lives) 1972 Death Jessie Royce Landis, actress (North by Northwest), dies at 67 1971 Event Dan "DB" Cooper parachutes from a Northwest AL 727 with $200,000 1967 Event Pacific Northwest Sports awarded AL expansion franchise (Seattle) 1954 Event 1st passage of McClure Strait, fabled Northwest Passage completed 1920 Birthday Saul Bass, born in New York City, New York, graphic designer, filmmaker, created title sequences for 40 years, famous for The Man with the Golden Arm, kinetic typography in North by Northwest, Vertigo 1920 Event Royal Canadian Mounted Police forms as Royal Northwest Mounted Police merge with Dominion Police 1904 Birthday Jessie Royce Landis, Medbury, Chicago, actress, North by Northwest 1904 Birthday Cary Grant, born in England, actor, 'Arsenic and Old Lace', 'North by Northwest' 1870 Event Hudson's Bay and Northwest Territories transferred to Canada 1870 Event Manitoba and Northwest Territories incorporated 1850 Event Investigator, 1st ship to effect northwest passage, leaves England 1806 Event Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis from Pacific Northwest 1789 Event Spanish capture British schooner Northwest America near Vancouver I 1787 Event Congress establishes Northwest Territory (excludes slavery)
