History Home
Events     Birthdays     Deaths     Years

Add "Today in History" or "Today's Birthdays" to Your Site - it's Easy!

Sink


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


History Home    Copyright 2010 BrainyMedia.com