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2012 Event - Half of the population of New York City, and millions of others in the Northeastern United States continue to deal with power outages, gas shortages and limited public transportation after Hurricane Sandy struck; the death toll rises to 90

2012 Event - Ireland is struck by another earthquake off of the County Mayo coast

2012 Event - Tornadoes that struck the midwestern and southern United States claimed 39 lives

2011 Event - Millions lose power after the northeastern United States and Mid-Atlantic United States are struck by a rare October snow storm

2011 Event - President Obama's health insurance mandate from his Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is struck down by the U.S. court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

2011 Event - About 193,000 people are without power after severs storms struck the U.S. city of Atlanta, Georgia

2010 Event - A 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, devastating its capital city, Port-au-Prince, an estimated 150,000 were killed and buried later in mass graves

2006 Death - Karin Struck, author, wrote women's literature, politically liberal, openly opposes abortion, converted to Catholicism, 1996 dies

1992 Event - Nicaragua struck by earthquake/floodings; 118 die

1990 Event - A Tampa little leaguer, dies, after being struck by a pitch

1988 Event - Jailed black nationalist Nelson Mandela struck with tuberculosis

1986 Event - Supreme Court struck down Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law

1983 Event - Supreme Court struck down state and local restrictions on abortion

1979 Event - Record blizzard struck midwest killing over 100

1977 Event - Roy C. Sullivan of Virginia is struck by lightning for 7th time

1975 Event - President Ford escapes injury when his limousine is struck broadside

1975 Event - Expos' Jose Mangual struck out 5 times in a game

1975 Event - Golfer Lee Trevino is struck by lightning at Western Open (Ill)

1975 Event - Farm truck packed with wedding party struck by a train, killing 66 in truck, 40 miles south of Poona, India

1971 Event - Orioles' Don Buford struck out 5 times in a game

1965 Event - NL adopts emergency team replacement plan to restock any club struck by disaster

1963 Event - 3 fuel tanks explodes when jetliner is struck by lightning crashing near Elkton, Maryland-Only case of lightning caused crash, 81 die

1963 Event - Train struck makeshift bus full of migrant workers, killing 32

1961 Event - U.S. Supreme Court struck down a provision in Md's constitution requiring state office holders to believe in God

1959 Death - Abdul Aziz, cricket, dies at 17 struck by ball in fc match for Karachi

1957 Event - White Sox' James Landis struck out 5 times in a game

1956 Event - East Pakistan struck by cyclone and tidal waves

1947 Event - NY struck by a blizzard, resulting with 27" of snow

1947 Birthday - Karin Struck, born in Germany, author, wrote women's literature, politically liberal, openly opposes abortion, converted to Catholicism, 1996

1943 Event - Braves manager Casey Stengel is struck by a taxi, fractures a leg

1942 Event - U.S. bombers struck Italian mainland for 1st time in WW II

1933 Event - National Industrial Recovery Act becomes law, later struck down

1908 Event - Messina, Italy struck by an earthquake (nearly 80,000 died)

1907 Event - Test tokens are struck in 1st production of Canadian coins

1899 Event - Louisville's Henry Dowling struck out 5 times in a game

1894 Event - Congress passes Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act, which includes a graduated income tax later struck down by the Supreme Court

1887 Event - French/Italian Riviera struck by Earthquake; 2,000 die

1870 Event - Jem Mace and defends his heavyweight crown against Irish champ Joe Coburn, it lasts 1 hour and 17 minutes, and neither is struck by a punch

1820 Death - Paul Friedrich Struck, composer, dies at 43

1805 Event - Naples/Calabria struck by Earthquake; about 26,000 die

1776 Birthday - Paul Friedrich Struck, composer

1752 Event - Ben Franklin's kite is struck by lightning-what a shock!

526 Event - Antioch struck by Earthquake; about 250,000 die

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