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