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2013 Event - The ambassador from the People's Republic of China is summoned by Japan's government after a flotilla of Chinese ships sail near the disputed Senkaku Islands

1987 Event - "Bobro 400," a barge carrying 3,200 tons of garbage, set sail from NY, beginning an unsuccesful 8-week search for a dumping site

1980 Event - 1st Cubans of the Mariel boatlift sail to Florida

1969 Event - Sharon Sites Adams, 39, becomes 1st lady to solo sail the Pacific

1966 Event - Francis Chichester begins 1st solo sail around world

1962 Event - "Sail Away" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 167 performances

1961 Event - "Sail Away" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 167 performances

1955 Event - British aircraft carrier Ark Royal sets sail

1953 Event - Ann Davidson, 1st woman to sail solo across Atlantic, arrives Miami

1952 Event - 1st aircraft carrier to sail around Cape Horn-Oriskany

1947 Event - Thor Heyerdahl and Kon-Tiki sail from Peru to Polynesia

1912 Event - RMS Titanic sets sail for its 1st and last voyage

1906 Event - Belgian naval education ship Comte The Stain de Naeyer sets sail

1905 Birthday - Charles P Snow, England, novelist/scientist, Death Under Sail

1903 Birthday - Gaston Duribreux, Flemish writer, Golden Sail

1898 Event - 1st Philippine Expeditionary Troops sail from San Francisco

1872 Event - HMS Challenger sets sail on 3 -year world oceanographic cruise

1872 Event - U.S. cargo ship Mary Celeste set sail from New York on a journey which ended when it is found mysteriously abandoned the following month

1835 Event - HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin sail from New Zealand to Sydney

1818 Event - 1st steam-vessel to sail Great Lakes launched

1815 Event - Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for exile on St. Helena

1804 Event - 31 English ship sail Suriname river demand transition colony

1803 Event - Monroe and Livingston sail for Paris to buy New Orleans; they buy La

1682 Event - William Penn left England to sail to New World

1637 Event - Peter Minuit and 1st Swedish immigrants to Delaware sail from Sweden

1621 Event - Jan Pieterszoon Coen's fleet sets sail to Moluccas (from Jacarta)

1620 Event - Mayflower sets sail from Southampton with 102 Pilgrims

1615 Event - Jacques Le Maire sail to Zuidland/Terra Australis

1588 Event - Spanish Armada sets sail for Lisbon, bound to England

1577 Event - Sir Francis Drake sets sail from England to go around world

1519 Event - Magellan's 5 ship set sail to circumnavigate Earth

1492 Event - Columbus' fleet sets sail west

1492 Event - Columbus sets sail from Palos, Spain for "Indies"

1066 Event - William the Conqueror troops sail to England













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