2014 Event Royal Caribbean's cruise liner, Explorer of the Seas, returns to port after 700 of its 3,050 passengers become ill with gastroenteritis; the illness is suspected to be the Novovirus, a variant strain of the species Norwalk virus 1986 Event Living Seas opens at Epcot 1960 Birthday Morty Black, heavy metal rocker, TNT-7 Seas 1946 Birthday Leo Gullotta, actor, Sinbad of the 7 Seas 1940 Event Winston Churchill says "We shall fight on the seas and oceans" 1932 Event Dutch South Seas rebaptized in IJsselmeer 1932 Event Dam closed, at current monument (South Seas) 1918 Event Dutch government reclaims South seas 1913 Event Amsterdam reroutes sewage of canals to South Seas 1869 Event Suez Canal (Egypt) opens, links Mediterranean and Red seas 1866 Event Immigrant ship Monarch of the Seas sinks in Liverpool; 738 die 1816 Event French frigate "Medusa" runs aground off Cap Blanc. Gross incompetence kills 150 in calm seas 1772 Event Captain James Cook begins 2nd trip (Resolution) to South Seas 1714 Birthday Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lutheran pastor, Lithuanian poet, The Seas 1573 Event Battle of South Seas - Dutch rebels beat Spanish navy
