1994 Event Spanish fishing boats sink a French fishing boat over fishing rights 1988 Event Knick's set NBA record of 11 3-pointers and sink Bucks, 113-109 1985 Event French agents sink Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior 1985 Event -69 degrees F (-56 degrees C), Peter's Sink, Utah (state record) 1975 Event 500 drown when 2 river boats collide and sink in China's West River 1959 Event Yankees sink to last place, 1st time since May 25, 1940 1954 Event Typhoon hits Japan - 5 ferryboats sink killing about 1,600 1951 Birthday Peter Davison, actor, Dr. Who, Sink or Swim, Fiddlers Three 1946 Event 2 British ships sink near Albania 1944 Event Destroyers "Hull," "Spence" and "Monaghan" sink in typhoon (Philippines) 1944 Event U.S. destroyers sink in storm off Philippines, 790 killed 1944 Event RAF sink German battleship "Tirpitz" at Tromso Fjord Norway 1944 Event Battle at Cape Engano: 4 Japanese ships sink 1944 Event U-955, U-970, U-629, U-373 sink in Gulf of Biskaje 1944 Event U-666/U-545/U-283 sink off Ireland 1943 Event British sink German battle cruiser Scharnhorst 1943 Event Liberators sink U-540 and U-631 1943 Event 15 German JU-88's sink Italian flag ship Rome 1943 Event Sunderland seaplanes sink U-454 and U-383 1943 Event Liberator bombers sink U-535 in Gulf of Biskaye 1943 Event Adm Cunningham of British fleet: "Sink, burn and destroy; let nothing pass" 1941 Event USS Swordfish becomes 1st U.S. submarine to sink a Japanese ship 1941 Event U boats sink 21 allied ships this month: 94,000 ton 1940 Event Germany battle cruisers sink British aircraft carrier Glorious 1937 Event Japanese aircraft shell and sink U.S. gunboat Panay on Yangtze River in China. (Japan apologized and eventually paid U.S. $2.2M in reparations) 1916 Event Germans sink French transport ship Provence II, killing 930 1866 Event Paraguayan canoes sink 2 Brazilian ironclads on Rio Parana 1737 Event 40 foot waves sink 20,000 small craft and kill 300,000 (Bengal, India) 1694 Event Hurricane hits Carlisle Bay Barbados; 27 British ships sink and 3,000 die
