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1986 Living Seas opens at Epcot

1960 Morty Black, heavy metal rocker, TNT-7 Seas

1946 Leo Gullotta, actor, Sinbad of the 7 Seas

1940 Winston Churchill says "We shall fight on the seas and oceans"

1932 Dutch South Seas rebaptized in IJsselmeer

1932 Dam closed, at current monument (South Seas)

1918 Dutch government reclaims South seas

1913 Amsterdam reroutes sewage of canals to South Seas

1869 Suez Canal (Egypt) opens, links Mediterranean and Red seas

1866 Immigrant ship Monarch of the Seas sinks in Liverpool; 738 die

1816 French frigate "Medusa" runs aground off Cap Blanc. Gross incompetence kills 150 in calm seas

1772 Captain James Cook begins 2nd trip (Resolution) to South Seas

1714 Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lutheran pastor, Lithuanian poet, The Seas

1573 Battle of South Seas - Dutch rebels beat Spanish navy


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