2006 Egyptian ferry, Al Salam Boccaccio, sinks killing over 1200 people in the Red Sea
2001 Anne Morrow Lindbergh, writer/pilot, ", Gift from the Sea, ", dies at 94
2000 Two onboard torpedoes explode on the Russian submarine Kursk in the Barents Sea, which eventually killed all onboard, despite a rescue operation
1998 Lloyd Bridges, actor, Sea Hunt, dies at 85
1996 Endo Shusaku, Japanese writer (Sea and Poison/Silence), dies at 73
1994 Ferry boat Estonia capsize and sinks in East Sea, 909 killed
1994 Henk Figee, author/publisher (Shoes of the Sea), dies at 46
1994 Great comet-iceball seen above North sea
1993 Harry Bellaver, actor (Blue Collar, Old Man and the Sea), dies at 88
1993 119th Kentucky Derby: Jerry Bailey aboard Sea Hero wins in 2:02.4
1993 "Sea Gull" closes at Lyceum Theater New York City after 48 performances
1992 "Sea Gull" opens at Lyceum Theater New York City for 48 performances
1992 Paul Acket, organizer (Music Express, North Sea Jazz Festival), dies
1992 Opening Main-Donau canal (North Sea-Black Sea)
1991 Ferry boat Salem Express sinks in Red Sea, 476 killed
1991 California University makes Dead Sea Scrolls public
1991 27 lost at sea when 2 U.S. Navy anti-submarine planes collide
1991 Howard Ashman, song writer (Under the Sea), dies of AIDs at 40
1989 Norwegian Convair 580 crashes at Jutland in sea (55 murder)
1989 Soviet sub sinks in Norwegian Sea, with about a dozen deaths
1989 1st sea test of Trident 2 missile self-destructs, Cape Canaveral
1988 North Sea oil platform Piper Alpha explodes, 166 die
1987 Raquel Torres, actress (Duck Soup, Sea Bat), dies
1987 Lynne Cox swims 4.3 km from U.S. to U.S.S.R. in 39 degrees F (4 degrees C) Bering Sea
1987 Monitor, Civil War warship, is discovered by a deep sea robot
1986 U.S. submarine Nathaniel Green runs aground in Irish Sea
1985 Alexander Scourby, actor (Victory at Sea, Ransom), dies at 71
1983 Albert Rizzo trod water at sea for 108 hours 9 minutes
1982 U.S. submarine Thomas Edison collides with U.S. Navy destroyer in So China Sea
1980 Italian plane crashes into Tyrrheense Sea, kills 81
1979 33rd NBA Championship: Sea Supersonics beat Washington Bullets, 4 games to 1
1978 32nd NBA Championship: Washington Bullets beat Sea Supersonics, 4 games to 3
1977 Ringo releases "Drowning in Sea of Love"
1977 Don Blackman, actor (Old Man and Sea, Desert Legion), dies at 65
1976 Egyptian SS Patria sinks in Red Sea, about 100 killed
1976 Liberian tanker stranded at Nantucket, 180,000 barrels oil in sea
1976 Seattle Seahawks play 1st regular-season game (St. L 30, Sea 24)
1976 Samuel Eliot Morison, U.S. historian (Admiral of Ocean Sea), dies at 88
1975 1st oil pumped from North Sea oilfield
1974 Willem F K Hussem, painter and poet (Steltlopen on Sea), dies at 74
1973 Syrian/Israeli dogfight over Mediterranean Sea
1973 Louise Huff, actress (Sea Waif, Caprice, Disraeli), dies at 77
1972 Eric Unverzagt, NFL/WLAF linebacker, Sea Seahawks, Scotland Claymores
1972 Aeroflot Il-18 crashes near Black Sea resort of Sochi, kills 105
1971 Sterling Hitchcock, Fayetteville, North Carolina, pitcher, New York Yanks, Sea Mariners
1970 U.S.S.R. launches Luna 16; returns samples from lunar Sea of Fertility
1970 Dominican DC-9 crashes into sea at Santo Domingo, kills 102
1969 Britain's Trans-Arctic expedition makes 1st crossing of Arctic Sea ice
1969 North Korea shoots at U.S. airplane above Japanese sea
1968 Reggie Jefferson, Tallahassee, Florida, 1st baseman, Cin, Cleve, Sea, Bos
1968 Israeli submarine Dakar crashes in Mediterranean Sea, 69 die
1968 Spy ship USS Pueblo and 83-man crew seized in Sea of Japan by N Korea
1967 Helen Flint, actress (Sea Devils), dies after being hit by a car at 69
1966 Ronald Shiner, actor (Aunt Clara, Forbidden, Girls at Sea), dies at 63
1966 North Sea Gas was 1st pumped ashore by British Petroleum
1965 Clara Bow, U.S. actress, (Down to the Sea in Ships, Wings), dies at 60
1965 Revised International Convention on Safety of Life at Sea takes effect
1964 Netherlands last whaling ship Willem Barents Sea sold to Japan
1963 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational
1962 Jerome Kersey, NBA forward, Golden State Warriors, Sea Supersonics
1962 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational
1961 1st practical sea water conversion plant - Freeport, Texas
1961 Suggs wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational Open
1960 U.S.S.R. shoots down a U.S. aircraft over Barents sea
1960 Old handwriting found in at Qumran, near the Dead Sea
1960 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational
1958 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sea Island Golf Open
1957 Soviet steamer "Eshghbad" sinks in Caspian Sea, drowning 270
1957 Mickey Wright wins Sea Island Golf Open
1956 Noel Coward's musical "South Sea Bubble," premieres in London
1956 Bauer Marlene wins LPGA Sea Island Golf Open
1955 Soviet battleship "Novorossiisk" strikes WW II mine in Baltic Sea
1955 U.S. air patrol plane shot down above Bering sea
1955 Ellen Barkin, born in Bronx, New York, actress, Big Easy, Sea of Love
1955 Israel acquires 4 of 7 Dead Sea scrolls
1955 Jackie Pung wins LPGA Sea Island Golf Open
1954 "By the Beautiful Sea" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 270 performances
1954 "By the Beautiful Sea" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 270 performances
1954 Suggs Louise wins LPGA Sea Island Golf Open (Cloister)
1953 Dutch DC-6 crashes near Ymuiden in North Sea, 21 die
1953 Pulitzer prize awarded to E Hemingway (Old Man and The Sea)
1953 Passenger ships Willem Ruys and Orange collide in the Red Sea
1952 Ernest Hemmingway's "Old Man and Sea" published
1952 Soviet fighters shoot Swedish Dakota down over East Sea, kills 8
1952 Terence Rattigan's "Deep Blue Sea," premieres in London
1952 Helgoland, in North Sea, returned to West Germany by Britain
1951 John Alden Carpenter, U.S. composer (Sea Drift), dies at 75
1949 Douglas Fred Tewell, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, PGA golfer, 1980 Sea Pines
1949 Dutch Constellation plunge at Bari in sea, 33 die
1948 Chinese refugee ship "Kiangya" explodes in E China Sea, killing 1,100
1945 Philippines Sea: U.S. cruiser Indianapolis torpedoed/sinks, 880 die
1945 Fenneken Fockema Andreae, Dutch actress, Sea Gull
1945 German island of Helgoland in North Sea surrenders to British
1945 German ship "Cap Arcona" sinks in East Sea, 5,800 killed
1945 US Task Force 38 destroys 41 Jap ships in Battle of South China Sea
1944 U.S. air raid on Jap battleships/cruisers in Sibuya Sea: Musashi sinks
1944 Allies bomb sea wall at Veere
1944 Allies bombs sea dikes at Vlissingen
1944 Operation Anvil: Allies land on French Mediterranean sea coast
1944 U.S. attacks Japanese fleet in Philippines Sea
1944 Battle of Philippines Sea, 300 Japanese aircraft shot down
1943 German warship "Scharnhorst" sinks in Barents Sea
1943 Allied bombers attack Pantelleria in the Mediterranean Sea
1943 RAF shoots down 14 German transport planes over Mediterranean Sea
1943 U.S. defeats Japan and wins Battle of Bismark Sea
1943 Sea battle in Bismarck Sea finishes, U.S. and Australia win
1942 Battle in Barents Sea
1942 Chaotic "sea battle of Friday the 13th" at Guadalcanal
1942 Sea battle off Eastern Solomon Islands
1942 Patric Cobb, British sea officer, dies in battle
1942 Aircraft carrier Lexington sunk by Japanese air attack at Coral Sea
1942 Battle of Coral Sea ends stopping Japanese expansion
1942 Battle of Coral Sea begun (1st sea battle fought solely in air)
1942 British cruiser Trinidad torpedoes itself in the Barents Sea
1942 3 day Battle of Java Sea ends, U.S. suffers a major naval defeat
1942 Battle of Java Sea began 13 U.S. warships sunk - 2 Japanese
1942 Karel WFM Doorman, Dutch rear-admiral (Java Sea), KIA at 52
1941 Geoffrey Davies, English actor, Doctor at Sea, Doctor on the Go
1941 James Stephenson, actor (Sea Hawk, River's End), dies at 52
1941 Sea battle at Cape Matapan: British fleet under Cunningham defeats Italy
1941 Frank Bridge, English violinist and composer (Sea), dies at 61
1940 Ben[jamin] Turpin, U.S. comic (Saps at Sea, His New Job), dies
1939 Frankie Ford, [Frank Guzzo], Gretna, Louisiana, rock vocalist, Sea Cruise
1933 Highest recorded sea wave (not tsunami), 34 m, in Pacific hurricane
1931 Billy Vaughn, born in Glasgow, Kentucky, singer, Chapel by the Sea
1931 Phil Phillips [Baptiste], rock vocalist, Sea Of Love
1930 North Sea floodgate at Ijmuiden (biggest in world) officially opens
1930 1st U.S. radio broadcast from a ship at sea
1929 Charles Van de Woestijne, Flemish writer/poet (God on Sea), dies
1929 Hugo Raes, Flemish writer, Horses Jump and Fresh Sea
1928 David Hedison, actor, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
1927 Sea battle at Navarino (Greece freed of Ottoman occupation)
1927 Roland Verhavert, Flemish screen writer, Sea Gulls Die in the Harbor
1926 David Hedison, born in Providence, Rhode Island, actor, Colbys, Voyage to Bottom of Sea
1925 Pieternella "Nel" van Arem, Dutch actress, Sea Gull
1925 Rik Kuijpers, Belgian director, Sea gulls die in the harbor
1923 Pierre Loti, [Julien Viaud], French sea officer/writer, dies
1922 1st successful technicolor movie (Tall of the Sea), shown in New York City
1922 Paul Acket, Dutch publisher/organizer, Music Express, North Sea Jazz
1920 Nestor de Tiere, Flemish playwright (Bride of the Sea), dies
1920 Jan Walravens, Flemish writer, Motionless at Sea
1918 Dover Patrol overthrows Germany U-boat in East Sea
1917 Russian Black Sea fleet mutiny at Sebastopol
1916 Adriaan van der Veen, Dutch writer, Sister at Sea
1916 Ivan Tors, TV producer, Sea Hunt, Flipper
1916 Battle of Skagerrak: Brit-German sea battle at Jutland (10,000 dead)
1916 German-British sea battle off Belgian coast
1916 Dutch South Sea dike cracks
1915 Brenda Marshall, Philippines, actress, Sea Hawk, Paris After Dark
1915 Dutch accidents at sea law enforced
1915 Netherlands merchant ship Tubantia torpedoed and sinks in North Sea
1915 German-British sea battle at Doggersbank and Helgoland
1914 British fleet forfeits chance to destroy German fleet in North Sea
1914 Turkish warships storm Black Sea
1914 German battle cruiser Goeben enters Black Sea
1914 Richard Basehart, Zanesville, Ohio, actor, Voyage to Bottom of Sea
1914 Richard Basehart, actor, Voyage to Bottom of the Sea
1914 Marguerite Duras, born in France, novelist and playwright, Sea Wall
1913 Roland Garros is 1st to fly over Mediterranean Sea
1913 Turkish-Greek sea battle near Troy
1913 Lloyd Bridges, born in San Leandro, California, actor, Sea Hunt, Roots, Airplane
1912 Jan Blockx, Belgian opera composer (Bride of the Sea), dies at 61
1912 Titanic undergoes sea trials under its own power
1911 John Sturges, U.S., director, Old Man and Sea, Magnificent 7
1910 John YWJ Eilerts de Cock, sea officer (Suriname), dies at 44
1910 Nicholas Monsarret, born in England, writer, Cruel Sea
1909 1st radio rescue at sea
1908 Denmark, Germany, England, France, Netherlands and Sweden sign North Sea accord
1906 Charles J B Jonckheere, Flemish poet and writer, Mirror of the Sea
1905 Clara Bow, Brooklyn, actress, Wings, Down to the Sea in Ships
1905 Japanese fleet destroys Russian East Sea fleet in Straits of Tushima
1904 Paul D Stoop, U.S. vice-admiral, WW II-Coral Sea
1904 J. M. Synge's "Riders to the Sea" opens at Irish National Theater Society
1904 J. M. Synge's "Ruders to the Sea," premieres in Dublin
1900 German Navy Law calls for massive increase in sea power
1900 Willem F K Hussem, Dutch painter and poet, Coastline, Lookout on Sea
1898 Helen Flint, Chicago, actress, Sea Devils, Married Before Breakfast
1896 Agnes Ayres, [Hinkle], U.S., actress, Sheik, Souls at Sea
1896 Irene Browne, born in England, actress, All at Sea, Peg O' My Heart
1895 SS Elbe sinks after collision in North Sea, 332 killed
1893 11 fishing ships wash up at Wadden Sea, 22 killed
1893 Jacobus J Backer, German sea historian, dies at 68
1893 Jan M Romein, Dutch historian, Low Countries at Sea
1893 U.S. no longer allowed exclusive rights in Bering Sea
1892 Britian and U.S. sign treaty on seal hunting in Bering Sea
1887 Samuel Eliot Morison, historian, Admiral of the Ocean Sea
1886 Hurricane and sea surge kills 250 at Indianola, Texas
1884 Noah Beery, U.S. actor, Mark of Zorro, Sea Wolf
1883 Seismic sea waves created by Krakatoa eruption create a rise in English Channel 32 hours after explosion
1882 Cyclone in Arabian Sea, Bombay, India, drowns 100,000
1879 Walter Long, actor, Moby Dick, Sheik, Sea Devils, Dragnet Patrol
1878 George Backing, English sea officer/explorer (B's River), dies at 81
1878 James M. Kilroe, priest of St. Mary Star of the Sea, in the Bronx
1878 Karel van de Woestijne, Flemish writer/poet, God at Sea
1876 King Willem III opens North Sea Canal (Amsterdam-IJmuiden)
1876 John Alden Carpenter, born in Chicago, Illinois, composer, Sea Drift
1873 Henry M Tomlinson, British writer, Sea and Jungle
1871 John Millington Synge, Ireland, dramatist/poet, Riders to the Sea
1870 British SS Cambria leaves for Noth sea coast, 196 killed
1870 "City of Boston" vanishes at sea with all 177 aboard
1866 Sea battle of Lissa-Austria vs Italy
1865 Johannes IJWJ Eilerts de Haan, Dutch sea officer, Lucie R, Suriname
1864 Union Gen William T Sherman begins march to sea during Civil War
1864 Kingston, Georgia burned during Sherman's March to Sea
1864 Sherman issues preliminary plans for his "March to the Sea"
1864 Antonio Gonalves Dias, Brazilian national poet, dies at sea
1862 Henry John Newbolt, English sea historian/poet
1862 Galena, 1st U.S. iron-clad warship for service at sea, launched, Connecticut
1851 Jan Blockx, Belgium, opera composer, Sea Bride princess of Herberg
1850 Pierre Loti, [Julien Viaud], French sea officer/writer, Pˆcheur
1840 Alfred Thayer Mahan, U.S., naval officer, Influence of Sea Power
1840 1st deep sea sounding
1834 Horatio Alger, Jr., Revere Massachusetts, author, Lost at Sea, Work and Win
1825 Jacobus J Backer, German sea historian
1825 Dutch North Sea coast floods
1817 Gloucester, Massachusetts, newspapers tells of wild sea serpent seen offshore
1796 George Back, English sea officer/explorer, North Canada
1790 Lifeboat 1st tested at sea, by Mr. Greathead, the inventor
1787 James Weddell, Ostend England, Antarctic explorer, Weddell Sea
1782 British-French sea battle at Negapatam (South-Indies)
1776 Capt Cook begins 3rd and last trip to Pacific (South Sea)
1776 Charleston, South Carolina repulses British sea attack
1765 Charles Dibdin, England, composer/author, Sea Songs
1759 2nd sea battle of Lagos: England vs France
1738 England routes fleet in Mediterranean Sea and West-Indies
1721 Russian/Swedish Peace of Nystad, ends North Sea War
1704 Sea battle at Malaga
1702 Jean Bart, French capt/sea hero (Escape out of Plymouth), dies at 51
1693 1st sea battle of Lagos: England and Holland vs France
1690 Neth-French sea battle at Beachy Head (Cornelis Evertsen)
1673 Sea battle at Kijkduin: De Ruyter defeats English and French fleet
1673 John de Love I, vice-admiral, dies in sea battle at about 54
1666 Sea battle between Netherlands and England
1666 Vierdaagse Sea battle (Ruyter-Monk vs Prince Ruprecht)
1665 Sea battle at Lowestoft: English fleet beats Dutch
1653 Sea battle at Heijde, English fleet beats Dutch
1652 Sea battle at Dungeness: lt-admiral Maarten Tromp beats English fleet
1652 English-Dutch sea battle at Kentish Knock
1652 Sea battle at Plymouth: Ayscue vs De Ruyter
1651 South Sea dike in Amsterdam breaks after storm
1650 Jean Bart, French captain/sea hero, Escape from Plymouth
1644 Sea battle of Fehmarn Sont: Adm Thijssen beats Denen
1639 Sea battle at Dunes: lt-adm Maarten Tromp beats Spanish Armada
1634 Beach Island in North sea destroyed by a heavy storm flood
1629 Sea battle at Dungeness: Piet Heyn vs Dunkerk Cape
1599 Jacob Aertsz Colom, Dutch publisher, Consolation of the Sea
1588 Sea battle at Grevelingen: English fleet battles Spanish armada
1576 Muitende Spanish soldiers conquer Zierik Sea
1576 Spanish army under Mondragon conquerors Zierik sea
1574 Sea battle at Lillo Belgium (Adolf Van Haemstede vs Louis de Boisot)
1574 Sea battle of Reimerswaal - Admiral Boisot beats Spanish fleet
1534 Lubeck accept free Dutch ships into East Sea
1500 Bartholomeu Diaz de Narvaez (Novaez), Portuguese sea explorer, drowns
1492 Columbus' fleet about 400 sea miles from Puerto Rico
1444 Battle at Varna, Black Sea: Sultan Murad II beats crusaders
1421 Southern sea floods 72 villages, killing est 10,000 in Netherlands
1375 Westfriese sea wall breaks flooding northern Netherlands
1351 Sea battle at Zwartewaal: Willem V beats Hoeksen and English
1304 Sea battle of Zierikzee
1304 Battle at Zierik Sea: Dutch and French fleet beat Flemish fleet
1185 Sea battle at Dan-no-ura: Minamoto Yoritomo beats Taira-family
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