History Home
Events     Birthdays     Deaths     Years

Add "Today in History" or "Today's Birthdays" to Your Site - it's Easy!

Reef


1996 Peter Bird, ocean rower, first person to cross the Pacific ocean solo, trip from San Francisco to Great Barrier Reef, lasted 294 days, dies at age 49 at sea during an attempt to row across the Pacific

1990 Yvonne Peattie Marquard, actress (Donovan's Reef), dies

1980 Elevator in Vaal Reef South Africa gold mine crash 1900m down (23 die)

1960 Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established, 1st underwater park

1947 Balsa raft Kon Tiki crashes into a Polynesian archipelago reef

1947 Peter Bird, born in Britain, ocean rower, first person to cross the Pacific ocean solo, trip from San Francisco to Great Barrier Reef, lasted 294 days

1918 Canadian steamship "Princess Sophia" hit a reef off Alaska, 398 die

1900 Helma Wolf-Catz, Dutch author, Undercurrent, Coral Reef

1894 U.S. warship Kearsarge wrecked on Roncador Reef, near Solomon Island

1770 Captain James Cook discovers Great Barrier Reef off Australia


History Home    Copyright 2009 BrainyMedia.com