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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 |
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