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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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