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2009 One person out of 183 passengers and crew survives the crash of Yemenia Flight 626 off the coast of Moroni, Comoros
2009 Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, endorses Russia's decision to turn off gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine 2006 Al-Askari Mosque is bombed, setting off protests and violence across Iraq 2000 Alaska Airlines flight 261 crashes off coast of southern California, killing 88, crash caused by a bad stabilizer 1999 EgyptAir flight 990 crashes 60m off coast of Nantucket, killing 217, likely cause was an Islamist suicide replacement pilot 1998 SwissAir flight 111 crashes off the coast of Nova Scotia killing all 229 onbaord, likely cause was an electrical fire 1998 NFL Europe (Formerly WLAF), kicks off season 1997 Shirley Allen, 51, held Illinois police off for 39 days captured 1997 Christies auctions off Princess Di's clothing for $5.5 million 1997 Travis Fryman homers off R Hernandez in both games of double header 1st time since 1961 that 2 doubleheaders are played in the same city Giants vs Mets and Oakland A's vs Yankees in NY 1996 Yankees (3) and Orioles (3) combine to tie play off record of 6 home runs 1996 Albert Belle shows off his arm by hitting Sports Illustrated photographer Tony Tomsic in the hand prior to a game 1996 Jayasuriya hammers 82 off 44 balls (13x4 3x6) vs. England in WC QF 1995 Expos pitcher Pedro Martinez perfect game is broken up in 10th inning as San Diego's Bip Roberts leads off with a double, Mont wins 1-0 1995 Ferry boat sinks off Sumbe Angola, 42+ killed 1994 Bomb goes off on #4 train on Fulton Street New York City 1994 Achille Lauro sinks off the coast of Somalia 1994 WIIZ (98.7) FM goes off the air 1994 Lorena Bobbitt found temporarily insane of chopping off spouse's penis 1994 Queen Elizabeth falls off her horse and breaks her left wrist 1993 Northern Exposure star Barry Corbin falls off his horse 1993 U.S. warship Harlan County anchors off Port-au-Prince Haiti 1993 Long fly ball by Indians' Carlos Martinez bounces off Jose Canseco's head and goes over fence for a home run 1992 "Show Off" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 45 performances 1992 NBC announces that "Cheers" will go off the air in May, 1993 1992 "Show Off" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 45 performances 1992 Carlos Martinez hits a ball off Jose Canseco's head for a home run 1992 Weird Al Yankovic begins his Off The Deep End tour 1992 Imran Khan scores 72 and takes 1-43 off 6 2 overs in last ODI 1992 U.S. Air New York to Cleveland crashes on take off at LaGuardia, 27 die 1991 Jackie Martling walks off of Howard Stern show for one day 1991 Bjorn Borg loses 6-2, 6-3 to Jordi Arrese after 8 year lay off 1990 Sri Lanka all out 82, Venkatapathy Raju (I) 6-12 off 17 lose, Phil Eagles beat Giants 31-13 and L.A. Rams beat 49ers 28-17 1989 Rickey Henderson steals a record 8 bases in a play off (5 games) 1989 Worst U.S. oil spill, Exxon's Valdez spills 11.3 mil gallons off Alaska 1988 Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 roof tears off in flight; kills stewardess 1987 Korean Air jetliner disappears off Burma, all 115 lost 1987 Carlton Fisk clubs his 300th career home run off Danny Jackson 1987 Andy Van Slyke home runs off R McDowell in both ends of double header 1987 Saul Ballesteros drives 3 golf balls off Mount McKinley, Alaska 1987 Pam Ewing, (Victoria Principal) character on Dallas, is killed off 1987 1st 3 San Diego Padres hit home runs off San Francisco starter Roger Mason 1987 Peggy Bacon, author/illustrator (Off With Their Heads), dies at 91 1986 Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, took off from Edwards AFB, California on 1st non-stop, non-refueled flight around world 1986 Soviet Yankee-class sub sinks off NC, 3 die 1986 Kathy Ormsby, a 21-year-old member of North Carolina State track team jumps off a bridge permanently paralyzing herself 1986 Viv Richards century off 56 balls vs. England in Antigua Test Cricket 1985 Leon Klinghoffer, hijackers of Achille Lauro, threw him off boat 1985 Pete Rose of Cincinnati Reds gets career hit 4,192 off Eric Show of San Diego Padres, eclipsing Ty Cobb's record 1985 U.S. - French expedition locates wreckage of Titanic off Newfoundland 1985 1,400 meatpackers walk off the job at a Geo A Hormel and Co plant 1985 A's Dave Kingman is 21st to hit 400 home runs (off Matt Young at Seattle) 1985 Explosions destroys 2 tankers off of Gibraltar, 30 die 1985 Les Anderson, catches record 97 lb 4 oz Chinook Salmon, off Alaska 1985 Bobby Ewing, (Patrick Duffy) killed off on Dallas 1984 Dolphin rocket launched off San Clemente Island 1984 Greenidge scores brilliant 214 off 241 balls to win Lord's Test 1984 After 37 weeks, "Thriller" is knocked off as top album by "Footloose" 1984 Soviet sub crashes into USS aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off Japan 1982 1st annual Cracker Jack Oldtimers Classic 75-year-old Luke Appling hits a 250-foot home run off Warren Spahn, AL beats NL 7-2 1982 Jean-Loup Chretien, 1st spacionaut, 2 others, lift off (Soyuz T-16) 1982 British torpedo boat Sheffield off Falkland hit by Exocet rocket 1982 Michael Frayn's "Noises Off," premieres in London 1982 Ocean Ranger oil-drilling platform lost off Newfoundland, 84 die 1982 Air Florida 737 took off in a snowstorm, crashes into 14th St. Bridge in Washington, D.C., and falls into Potomac River, killing 78 1981 Red Sox rookie Bob Ojeda no-hits Yankees for 8 innings before Rick Cerone and Dave Winfield lead off 9th with back-to-back doubles 1981 Phils Mike Schmidt hits his 300th career home run off New York Met Mike Scott 1980 John McEnroe and Bjorn Borg stage one of the greatest U.S. Open finals as 21 year old McEnroe fends off Borg to win his 2nd straight title 1980 Yankees Reggie Jackson hits his 400th home run off Chicago's Britt Burns 1980 Soviet sub catches fire off Japan, 9 die 1980 Oil tanker explosion off Pilos, Greece, causes 37-million-gallon spill 1979 Tanker Burmah Agate off Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 10.7 m gallons of oil, in US's worst oil spill disaster 1979 Larry Parrish (Expos) home runs off Rawly Eastwick (Phillies) in DH 1979 2 supertankers collide off Tobago - 260,000 TONS of oil spill 1979 New York Islanders didn't get a shot off in 1 period against New York Rangers 1978 6 masked men bound 10 employees at Lufthansa cargo area at New York Kennedy Airport and made off with $5.8 M in cash and jewelry 1978 Neo-Nazis call off plans to march in Jewish community of Skokie, Illinois 1978 Fee Waybill of Tubes breaks a leg falling off stage 1978 Amoco Cadiz tanker spills 1.6 mil gallons of oil off French coast 1978 Amoco Cadiz spills 223,000 tons of crude oil off French coast 1977 Dutch Antilles: premier Boy Rozendal points independence off 1977 Orioles forfeit to Blue Jays when manager Earl Weaver pulls team off field in 5th citing hazardous condition (small tarpaulin on bullpen mound) 1977 Toby Harrah and Bump Wills hit back-to-back inside-the-park-homers off Yankee Ken Clay at Yankee Stadium, Rangers won 8-2 1977 Turkey: premier Ecevit goes off 1977 20.2-kg lobster caught off Nova Scotia (heaviest known crustacean) 1976 Argo Merchant tanker off Massachusetts' SE coast, spills 7.6 m gallons of crude when ship ran aground 1976 Chris Chambliss' 9th inning lead off homer gives New York Yankees pennant #30 1976 Only home run of Joe Niekro's 22-year career, comes off brother Phil 1976 Oil tanker Urqui Ola explodes off Spanish coast 1975 Rocker Alice Cooper falls off stage in Vancouver, breaks 6 ribs 1974 Mike Schmidt hits a ball off public address speaker on Astrodome roof 1973 Ferryboat capsized off coast of Equador, drowning 200 1973 Willie Mays hits 660th and last home run (off Don Gullett of Cincinnati) 1973 Phil Everly storms off stage declaring an end to Everly Brothers 1973 San Francisco Giants Bobby Bonds sets NL record with 22 lead off home runs 1972 Ringo releases "Back off Bugaloo" in UK 1971 Cyclone and tidal wave off Bay of Bengal kills as many as 10,000 1971 Jada Pinkett, actress, Set it Off, Nutty Professor, Menace II Society 1971 Corey Yothers, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Off the Rock 1971 European council accepts Mansholt plan laying off 5 million farmers 1971 National Emergency Center erroneously orders U.S. radio and TV stations to go off the air. Mistake wasn't resolved for 30 minutes 1970 Linus Pauling declares large doses of Vitamin C could ward off colds 1970 Donald Boyles sets record for highest parachute jump from a bridge, by leaping off of 1,053' Royal George Bridge in Colorado 1969 Alcatraz Island off SF, is seized by militant Native Americans 1969 San Francisco Giant Willie Mays, becomes 2nd player to hit home run number 600 off Mike Corkins 1969 U.S. nuclear sub Guitarro sinks off San Francisco 1969 Turtles play White House, Mark Volman falls off stage 5 times 1969 After 88 weeks Sgt Pepper drops off the charts 1968 Margaret Cho, actress/comedienne, Face/Off 1968 Brave Hank Aaron hits his 500th home run off San Francisco Giant Mike McCormick 1968 Off duty Dutch military permitted to wear regular clothing 1968 Nuclear-powered sub Scorpion, with 99 men, reported missing and is later found at the bottom of the ocean off Azores 1968 Lynda Johnson ordered off San Francisco cable car for eating an ice cream cone 1967 Surveyor 6 becomes 1st man-made object to lift off Moon 1967 Radio Scotland and Radio Swinging Holland go off the air 1967 Astro Eddie Matthews hits his 500th home run off San Francisco Giant Juan Marichal 1967 Mickey Mantle's 500th home run off Oriole's Stu Miller 1967 New York Yankee Mickey Mantle hits career home run #500 off Stu Miller 1967 Shortwave Radio New York Worldwide goes back on the air after a week off 1967 2 homemade buses collided on a mountain road in Terpate, Philippines plunging off a cliff, killing 84, injuring 140 1966 John Cusack, born in Chicago, actor, Stand By Me, Sure Thing, Better Off Dead 1966 All-Nippon Airways 727 crashes off Haneda Airport (Japan); kills 133 1965 "Yarmouth Castle" burns and sinks off Bahamas, killing 89 1965 Rolling Stones release "Get Off of My Cloud" 1965 Willie Mays's 500th home run (off Don Nottebart), Giants 11th straight win 1965 Cubs slugger Ernie Banks hits his 400th home run off Curt Simmons 1965 Bob Dylan booed off Newport Folk Festival for using electric guitar 1965 Eastern DC-7B crashes into Atlantic off Jones Beach NJ, kills 84 1964 In El Paso, Texas, Lyndon Baines Johnson and Mexican President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz set off an explosion diverting Rio Grande, to reshape US-Mexico border 1964 Destroyer Voyager sinks off Australia after colliding with aircraft carrier Melbourne 1963 Harmon Killebrew (Twins) home runs off Pete Burnside (Senators) in DH 1963 Mickey Mantle hits a ball off Yankee Stadium's facade 1963 Bob Dylan walks off Ed Sullivan Show 1962 "Stop the World, I Want to Get Off" opens at Shubert New York City for 886 performances 1962 Laser beam successfully bounced off Moon for 1st time 1962 Tom Shirley, actor/TV announcer (They're Off), dies at 62 1962 Patrick Cassidy, born in Los Angeles, California, actor/composer, Fever Pitch, Off the Wall 1961 Roger Maris sets record of 61 home runs off of Tracy Stallard 1961 Roger Maris hits home run number 60 off Jack Fisher, tying Babe Ruth's record 1961 Portuguese steamer "Save" breaks up off Mozambique, 227 die 1961 Mercury/Atlas rocket lifted off with an electronic mannequin 1960 Pirate's Mazeroski's bottom of 9th lead off home run beats New York Yankees 10-9 in game 7 of 57th World Series 1960 Ted Williams last at bat is his 521st home run off Jack Fisher 1960 60 people die when bus plunges off bridge into Turvo River, Brazil 1960 1st photograph bounced off a satellite, Cedar Rapids, Iowa 1960 Nancy Giles, born in New York City, actress, Connie-Delta, Off Beat, Big, Angie 1960 Sammy White, actor (711 Ocean Drive, Sound Off), dies at 65 1960 U.S. nuclear submarine USS Triton set off on underwater round-world trip 1960 Jack Paar walks off his TV show 1959 Maria EG "Lizzy" Ansingh, Dutch painter (Cast Off), dies at 84 1959 Amanda Pays, born in London, England, actress, Max Headroom, Off Limits 1959 Eisenhower routes Canadian premier Diefenbaker message off the Moon 1959 Radar 1st bounced off Sun from Stanford, California 1958 Jennifer Tilly, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Let it Ride, Off Beat, Psycho II 1958 King Hussein of Jordan breaks off diplomatic relations with UAR 1958 Josephina OFF "Frieda" Herberich, actress (Salontiroler), dies at 85 1957 New volcanic island appears off Fayal Island Azores 1957 Indians' pitcher Herb Score is hit by a line drive off Gil McDougald 1956 Aircraft carrier "Bennington" burns off RI, killing 103 1956 Gus Bell (Reds) homers off Bob Miller in both ends of a double header 1955 Mark Mitchell, actor, Larger than Life, Lift Off, Ground Zero 1955 Willie Mays (Giants) homers off Vern Law (Pirates) in both ends of DH 1955 After playing 274 straight games at 2nd base, Nellie Fox is given a day off he comes back next 798 consecutive games 1955 Harmon Killebrew hits his 1st home run (off Billy Hoeff) 1955 New York Yankee Mickey Mantle hits 550' home run off Chicago Billy Pierce 1953 American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on South Carolina, the bomb doesn't go off due to 6 safety catches 1953 "Princess Victoria" capsized off Stanraer Scotland; 133 die 1953 Korean ferryboat "Chang Tyong-Ho" sank off Pusan killing 249 1951 New York Times reports the New York City subway will auction off things found 1950 U.S. troop land on Wolmi-Do island off of Seoul 1950 Teddy Pendergrass, born in Philadelphia, singer, Turn Off the Lights 1949 Chinese liner "Taiping" collides with a collier off south China 1947 Al Gionfriddo makes a great catch off Joe Dimaggio in World Series 1946 Henry Morgan is 1st to take off shirt on TV 1945 Riverboat sinks off Hong Kong; kills 1,550 1945 Stan Musial gets 5 hits off 5 pitchers on 5 consecutive pitches 1945 Barometric pressure at 856 mb (25.55") off Okinawa (record low) 1945 Scheduled demonstrations at Polo Grounds and Ebbets Field to end segregation in organized baseball are called off 1945 U.S. Marines conquer Minna Shima off Okinawa 1945 Ruhrgebied sealed off by U.S. 1st and 9th army 1945 800 killed as Kamikaze attacked USS Franklin off Japan 1945 "Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed off Danzig by Soviet sub-c 7,700 die 1944 U.S. destroyers sink in storm off Philippines, 790 killed 1944 German occupier turn off electricity in Amsterdam 1944 Frank McCormick (Reds) home run off Ace Adams (Giants) in both games of DH 1944 Bus falls off bridge into Passaic River New Jersey, killing 16 1944 U-264 sinks off Ireland 1944 U-424 sunk off Ireland 1944 U-666/U-545/U-283 sink off Ireland 1944 U-734/U-238 sunk off Ireland 1944 U-762 sunk off Ireland 1944 U-592 sunk off Ireland 1944 U-271 and U-571 sunk off Ireland 1942 German scout ship Altmark explode and sinks off Yokohama 1942 U.S. aircraft carrier Hornet sinks off Santa Cruz 1942 Sea battle off Eastern Solomon Islands 1942 FBI captures 8 Nazi saboteurs from a sub off New York's Long Island 1942 Japanese troop march into Lashio, cuts off Burma Road 1941 British battleship Prince of Wales sinks off Singapore 1941 1st U.S. destroyer (Kearney) torpedoed in WW II, off Iceland 1940 Peter Koelewijn, Dutch writer/vocalist, Come off that Roof 1940 Nazi Germany began walling off the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw 1940 Wrestling returns to Madison Square Garden after 12 year lay off 1940 British destroyers board German Altmark off Norway 1940 British search plane finds German Altmark off Norway 1939 German pocket battleship Graf Spee scuttled by its crew off Uruguay 1939 Russian Indigirka capsizes in blizzard off Japanese coast; 750 die 1939 Submarine Squalis sank off Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 26 die 1939 Ted Williams' 1st hit (off of Yankee Red Ruffing) a double 1938 Paul Waner (Pirates) homers off Pete Sivess (Phillies) in DH 1938 Phillies Harold Kelleher faces 16 batters in 6th, as Cubs score 12 runs, both marks are NL records off one hurler in a single inning 1938 John Guare, U.S. writer, 6 degrees of Separation, Atlantic City, Taking Off 1936 Red Sox Wes Ferrell, walks off mound when he feels he did no get good feilding, Sox suspend him 1936 1st time in 20th century, 1st 2 batters in a game-Roy Johnson and Rabbit Warstler of Boston Bees-lead off with home runs 1936 WOS-AM in Jefferson City Missouri goes off the air 1935 China Clipper (flying boat) took off from Alameda, California, carrying 100,000 pieces of mail on 1st trans-Pacific airmail flight 1934 Luxury liner "Morro Castle" burns off NJ, killing 134 1934 FDIC pays off 1st insured depositors, Fon du Lac Bank, East Peoria, Illinois 1934 WOQ-AM in Kansas City Missouri goes off the air 1933 WNJ-AM in Newark New Jersey goes off the air 1933 U.S. Dirigible Akron crashes off coast of New Jersey, 73 die 1932 Joe Clark, born in Los Angeles, California, WLAF off coordinator coach for the Amsterdam Admirals 1931 Babe Ruth hits his 600th home run, off George Blaeholder of Browns 1931 Wiley Post and Harold Catty took off for flight around world 1931 French "St. Philbert" overturns off St. Nazaire France, drowns 450 1931 Phillies Chuck Klein homers off Ben Cantwell (Braves) in both ends DH 1931 Leslie Bricuse, English/US composer, Stop the world I want to get off 1929 Babe Ruth becomes 1st to hit 500 homers off Willis Hudlin of Cleveland 1929 Mel Ott (Giants) homers off Leo Sweetland (Phillies) in doubleheader 1928 British steamer "Vestris" capsizes and sinks off Virginia, kills 110 1928 1st aerial cross of Pacific takes off from Oakland 1928 Henrich Federer, Switzerland, writer (I Switch Off The Light), dies at 61 1928 1st solo England to Australia flight takes off (Bert Hinkler) 1927 Babe Ruth hits record setting 60th home run, off Tom Zachary 1927 New York Yankee Babe Ruth hits record 60th home run of season off Tom Zachry 1927 At 7:40 AM, Lindbergh takes off from New York to cross Atlantic for Paris 1927 Babe Ruth hits 1st of 60 home runs of season (off A's Howard Ehmke) 1926 Arthur Mailey takes 4-362 off 64 overs (no maidens) NSW vs. Vic 1926 Hack Wilson is 1st to hit a home run off Wrigley Field scoreboard 1925 Italian sub "Sebastiano Veniero" lost off Sicily with 54 dead 1923 Red Sox 1st baseman George Burns pulls off an unassisted triple play 1922 "Egypt" sinks off Ushant after colliding with "Seine," killing 90 1922 James C "Jim" Laker, Bradford England, cricket off spinner 1921 Steamer "Hong Koh" runs aground off Swatow China killing 1,000 1919 Babe Ruth sets season homer mark at 28 off of Yankee Bob Shawkey 1919 Babe Ruth hits his 26th home run off Jack Quinn in New York, breaking Buck Freeman's 1899 home run mark of 25 1918 Canadian steamship "Princess Sophia" hit a reef off Alaska, 398 die 1918 1st WW I U.S. Army troop ship torpedoed and sunk by Germany, off Ireland 1917 British Mendi sinks off Isle of Wight, 627 die 1916 General Douglas Haig finally calls off 1st Battle of the Somme in Europe 1916 A bomb went off during a Preparedness Day parade in San Francisco killing 10 1916 German-British sea battle off Belgian coast 1916 French cruiser "Admiral Charner" torpedoed off Syrian coast, kills 374 1915 Germany cruiser Konigsberg sinks off Dar-es-Salam 1915 1st submarine disaster; a U.S. F-4 sank off Hawaii, killing 21 1914 British trader Oceanic sinks off Scotland 1914 British Gloucester vs German Breslau/Goeben off Greece 1913 Horace Smith, cricketer, New Zealand, only Test wkt off his 1st ball, Paynter, 1912 "Kiche Maru" sinks off Japan, killing 1,000 1912 SS Kichemaru disappears in storm off Japanese coast, 1,000 die 1912 Titanic sinks at 2:27 AM off Newfoundland as band plays on 1911 Ben Alexander, NV, actor, Dragnet, Outer Gate, Mr. Doodles Kicks Off 1910 1st seaplane, takes off from water at Martinques France (Henri Fabre) 1909 SOS 1st used by an American ship, Arapahoe, off Cape Hatteras, NC 1908 Anita Garvin, actress, Swiss Miss, Blotto, Charlatan, Hats Off 1907 Nationals steal a record 13 bases off catcher Branch Rickey 1907 SS Berlin sinks off Hoek van Holland Netherlands (142 dead) 1905 Tiger Ty Cobb makes his debut, doubling off Yank Jack Chesbro 1904 Japanese fleet defeat Russians off Port Arthur 1902 2 deaf-mutes face each other for 1st time as Dummy Hoy leads off for the Reds against Dummy Taylor of the Giants, Reds win 5-3 1902 British SS Camorta sinks off Rangoon; 739 die 1898 Side-wheeler "Portland" sinks off Cape Cod, 190 die 1898 U.S. Marines attack Spanish off Guantanamo, Cuba 1897 George Davis (Giants) home run off Sport McAllister (Spiders) in DH 1895 U.S. Ship Canal (W 225th St) in the Bronx completed; cutting Marble Hill off from Manhattan 1895 Peggy Bacon, Ridgefield, Connecticut, author/illustrator, Off With Their Heads 1895 Spanish cruiser Reina Regente sinks off Gibraltar, 402 die 1894 Sammy White, Rhode Island, actor, 711 Ocean Drive, Sound Off 1893 For only time in history of U.S. Tennis championships, an event is held off the Eastern seaboard. Men's double championship in Chicago 1892 Entire Hong Kong national cricket team, die in shipwreck off Taiwan 1891 British Steamer "Utopia" sinks off Gibraltar killing 574 1890 Turkish frigate "Ertogrul" burns off of Japan, kills 540 1889 Franklin Pangborn, Newark, actor, My Best Gal, Hats Off, Easy Living 1888 Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh cuts off his left ear 1887 British SS Wah Yeung catches fire on Canton River off Hong Kong 1887 Harvey Wilcox of Ks subdivides 120 acres he owned in Southern California and starts selling it off as a real estate development (Hollywood) 1881 200 drown as train runs off bridge near Cuautla Mexico 1875 "Pacific" collides with "Orpheus" off Cape Flattery Wash, 236 dies 1874 Emigrant ship Cospatrick catches fire and sinks off Auckland, New Zealand 1873 British White Star steamship Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, 547 die 1868 Great Train Robbery-7 men (Reno Brother) make off with $98,000 in cash 1867 Mail packets "Rhone" and "Wye" capsizes off St. Thomas Virgin Islands 1866 Steamship London sinks in storm off Land's End England, kills 220 1865 Battle of Sayler's Creek, 1/3rd of Lee's army cut off 1864 Off New England coast, CSS Tallahassee captures 6 yankee schooners 1864 CSS "Alabama" sunk by USS "Kearsarge" off Cherbourg, France 1863 Federal naval expedition arrives off Sabine Pass 1862 Union ironclad ship "Monitor" sank off Cape Hatteras, NC 1862 Steamer "Golden Gate" burns and sinks off west coast of Mexico 1862 Confederates scuttle CSS Virginia off Norfolk, Virginia 1861 1st naval battle of Civil War, Union frigate "Colorado" sinks privateer "Judah" off Pensacola, Fla 1859 1st air mail (in a balloon) took off from Lafayette Ind 1857 423 die when "Central America" sinks off Cape Romain SC 1854 "New Era" sinks off New Jersey coast with loss of 300 1854 Steamer "Long Beach" sinks off Long Beach NY, 311 die 1853 Emigrant ship "Annie Jane" sinks off Scotland, drowning 348 1852 British frigate Birkenhead sinks off South Africa-458 die 1850 British ex-premier sir Robert Peel falls off his horse 1850 Paddle-wheeler "G P Griffith" burns off Mentor Ohio, 206 die 1841 Great Lakes steamer "Erie" sinks off Silver Creek NY, kills 300 1839 2 day storm off Irish and English coast immortalized as "Big Wind" 1837 Steamboat "Home" sinks off Okracoke North Carolina killing 100 1835 HMS Beagle anchors off Valparaiso, Chile 1835 HMS Beagle anchors off Chonos Archipelago 1828 18-gun sloop "Acorn" sinks off Halifax with 115 men aboard 1821 Bellingshausen discovers Alexander Island off Antarctica 1820 Elisha Kent Kane, U.S. Arctic explorer, Kane Basin off NW Greenland 1817 English freighter Diana sinks off Malaysia 1816 Survivors of French frigate Medusa rescued off Senegal after 17 days 1816 French frigate "Medusa" runs aground off Cap Blanc. Gross incompetence kills 150 in calm seas 1805 Sailing ship "Aeneus" sinks off Newfoundland killing 340 1799 British frigate HMS Lutine sinks off Dutch coast 1799 USS Constellation captures French frigate Insurgents off Nevis, W I 1797 British naval forces defeat Dutch off Camperdown, Netherlands 1795 James Swan pays off the $2,024,899 U.S. national debt 1793 1st hot-air balloon flight in the U.S. lifts off in Philadelphia 1792 Vancouver meets Spanish ships Sutil and Mexicana off Vancouver, BC 1772 Hurricane destroy ships off Dominica 1772 Explosive eruption blows 4,000' off Papandayan Java, kills 3,000 1770 Captain James Cook discovers Great Barrier Reef off Australia 1718 Edward "Blackbeard" Teach, English pirate, killed off Virginia coast 1715 Spanish gold and silver fleet disappears off St. Lucie, Florida 1715 10 Spanish treasure galleons sinks off Florida coast by hurricane 1665 Duke of York defeats Dutch fleet off the coast of Lowestoft 1653 Defeat of Dutch fleet under Admiral Van Tromp by Adm Blake off Portsmouth 1651 English parliament proclaims Navigation Act off 1622 Spanish silver fleet disappears off Florida Keys; 1,000s die 1587 2nd English colony forms on Roanoke Island off NC 1559 5 Spanish ships sinks in storm off Tampa, about 600 die 1542 Explorer Cabrillo discovered Catalina Island off California coast 1307 William Tell shoots apple off his son's head 432 St. Patrick, a bishop, is carried off to Ireland as a slave |
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