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1983 Klaus Barbie, SS chief of Lyon in Nazi-France, arrested in Bolivia

1977 SS chief Kappler escapes from prison hospital in Rome

1976 Egyptian SS Patria sinks in Red Sea, about 100 killed

1975 Otto Skorzeny, German/Austrian SS (Mussolini/Ardennen), dies

1970 Treblinka SS commander Franz Stangl sentenced to life imprisonment

1966 Alecia Stephenson, born in North Vancouver, British Columbia, softball ss 1996 Olympics

1965 Twins SS Zoilo Versalles is named AL MVP

1962 Lee Harvey Oswald departs Rotterdam on SS Maasdam to U.S.

1961 SS Col Adolf Eichmann found guilty of war crimes in Israel

1952 SS United States crosses Atlantic in 84:12 (record westward)

1952 SS United States cross Atlantic in record 82:40

1950 Robert W. Lehnhoff, [Executioner of Groningen], SS fuhrer, executed

1949 Amsterdam Telegraph-director/SS'er Henri Holdert sentenced to 12 years

1949 Lightning strikes a baseball field in Florida, kills SS and 3rd baseman

1949 SS police chief Rauter request for a pardon, denied

1949 Dutch court affirms death sentence against SS chief Hanns Rauter

1948 SS Kiangya hits mine in Whangpoo River China, sinks killing 2,750 die

1948 The Hague Court of Justice convicts Hans Rauter (SS) to the death

1947 SS Himera runs aground at Athens, kills 392

1946 Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian Nazi (SS), hanged

1946 U.S. court martials 46 SS to death (Battle of Bulge crimes) in Dachau

1945 SS open fire on crowd in Amsterdam, killing 22

1945 SS burns and shoots 1,100 at Gardelegen

1945 Assassination attempt on Hohere, SS Police fuhrer Rauter

1944 99 inhabitants of Tulle, hanged by SS

1943 1st warship named for a Black person, SS Leonard Roy Harmon, launched

1943 SS Police in Amsterdam sentence for 12 resistance fighter to death (Jewish, communists, homosexuality) at the census bureau

1943 SS police chief Rauter threatens to kill half Jewish children

1942 SS exterminates 3,500 Jews in Zelov Lodz Poland in 6 week period

1942 SS begins transporting Jews of Maastricht Neth

1942 German SS gases 1,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia

1942 German SS kills 25,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia

1942 SS shoots 1,500 Jews in Josefov Poland

1942 Dutch SS vows loyalty to Hitler

1942 SS murders 200 inmates of Trawniki labor camp

1941 All elderly Jewish men of Kerenchug Ukraine, are killed by SS

1941 German raider attacks Dutch SS Kota Nopan

1941 SS drowns 40 Jews in Dvina River, Belorussia

1941 1st U.S. ship sunk by a U-boat (SS Robin Moore)

1941 Nazi SS begin rounding up Jews of Amsterdam

1940 Anton Mussert establishes Dutch SS

1940 SS rounds up 31 German/Polish/Dutch Jews in Roermond Neth

1939 SS St. Louis departs Hamburg with 937 Jews fugitives

1939 SS Van Dine, [William Huntingdon Wright], detective writer, dies at 50

1932 Steamboat SS Observation explodes in New York City East River (71 killed)

1929 60,000 SA'ers/SS'ers march by Munich

1925 German NSDAP form SS

1925 Dirk de Vroome, [Red Giant], SS'er

1916 Charles Fryatt, British capt of SS Brussels, executed by Germans, dies

1912 SS Kichemaru disappears in storm off Japanese coast, 1,000 die

1910 Passenger on SS Arawatta throws bottle with note overboard, found June 6, 1983 in Queensland

1909 British SS Waratah disappears on Sydney to London, 300 killed

1908 Otto Skorzeny, German/Austrian SS Fuhrer, Mussolini/Horthy

1907 SS Berlin sinks off Hoek van Holland Netherlands (142 dead)

1903 Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian nazi, SS/SD

1902 British SS Camorta sinks off Rangoon; 739 die

1901 SS Islander hits iceberg near Alaska and sinks killing 70

1900 Heinrich Himmler, Nazi SS leader

1899 Ernst H Ridder van Rappard, Dutch SS officer/founder, NSNAP

1898 SS Portland leaves for Cape Cod, 157 killed

1895 Hanns [Johann] Rauter, German SS-lt-general/SS police chief in Neth

1895 SS Elbe sinks after collision in North Sea, 332 killed

1893 Joachim von Ribbentrop, German SS fuhrer/foreign minister

1887 British SS Wah Yeung catches fire on Canton River off Hong Kong

1883 SS Daphne sinks on Clyde River Scotland; 195 die

1882 1st cargo of frozen meat leaves NZ for Britain, on SS Dunedin

1882 SS Dunedin leaves NZ with 1st frozen meat to England

1881 SS Ceylon begins 1st round-the-world cruise from Liverpool

1880 SS Strathleven arrives in London with 1st Australian frozen mutton

1878 French SS Byzantin sinks after collision in Dardanellen, 210 killed

1875 German SS Schiller sinks near Scilly Islands, 312 killed

1873 Britains SS Northfleet sinks at Dungeness England, 300 die

1870 British SS Cambria leaves for Noth sea coast, 196 killed

1865 Trans Atlantic Cable being laid by SS Great Eastern snaps and is lost

1865 SS General Lyon at Cape Hatteras catches fire and sinks, killing 400

1854 SS City of Glasgow leaves Liverpool harbor and is never seen again

1850 Ireland's SS Royal Adelaide sinks in storm; 200 die



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