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2013 Event - Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard formally apologizes to people affected by forced adoptions during the 1950s through 1970s

2012 Event - The U.S. Space Shuttle Endeavor inches through the streets of Los Angeles on a trolley, making its way to a museum

2012 Event - A drought spreading through the United States leads to over 1,000 counties declared natural disaster areas

2012 Event - After a year of being held hostage by pirates, 15 Georgian soldiers are released through efforts of the Somalian government

2011 Event - In Washington, D.C., thousands protest the proposed Keystone XL pipeline project, which would carry Alberta oil sands crude through six U.S. states to Gulf Coast refineries

2011 Event - Severe damage to homes and infrastructure occurs as wildfires sweep through the U.S. states of Oklahoma and Texas

2011 Event - The U.S. Federal Reserve declares it will keep interest rates at exceptionally low levels through mid-2013

2011 Event - Germany determines it must shut down part of its airspace as volcanic ash from Iceland's Grisvotn eruption spreads through northern Europe

2011 Event - Sendai, a major 9.0 earthquake strikes offshore of Japan's Miyagi Prefecture; 10-meter high tsunami's are produced near its epicenter, reaching land through the Pacific ocean

2011 Event - For the first time since 1979 Iranian Revolution, two ships from the Iran Navy are sent through the Suez Canal

2010 Event - Denisova hominin - a previously unknown type of ancient human, is identified by scientists through DNA analysis from a finger discovered in a cave near Siberia, Russia

2009 Event - Slovenia agrees to allow Russia's South Stream gas pipeline to Europe pass through their country

2009 Event - A train travelling through heavy rain in Hua Hin in southern Thailand, is derailed, killing serval people and injuring dozens

2009 Event - Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, endorses Russia's decision to turn off gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine

1997 Event - Dick Vitale signs with ESPN through year 2004

1997 Event - Oprah Winfrey announces she will continue her show through 2000

1996 Death - Mohamed Amin, cameraman, photojournalist, known for photos of Ethiopian famine, fall of Idi Amin, wrote, 'Journey Through Pakistan', dies at 53

1994 Death - Kristen Pfaff, U.S. bass guitarist (Hole-Live through this), dies at 24

1993 Event - 13th Golden Raspberry Awards: Shining Through wins

1990 Event - New York Daily News goes on strike (lasts through March, 1991)

1989 Event - Hurricane Hugo begins 4 day sweep through Caribbean, killing 62

1989 Event - Reverend Al Sharpton leads a civil rights march through Bensonhurst

1989 Event - 100 march through Bensonhurst protesting racial killings

1989 Event - Peter Ueberroth deal to purchase Eastern Airlines falls through

1987 Event - "334" club forms as 334 brave Devil fans journey through 20" of snow to attend New Jersey Devils 7-5 victory over Calgary at Meadowlands

1986 Event - Senate convicted U.S. District Judge Harry E Claiborne making him 5th federal official to be removed from office through impeachment

1983 Event - Tornado tears through LA, injuring 33 people

1982 Event - Mudassar Nazar scores century, then Imran rips through Indians

1982 Event - Ozzie Smith for Garry Templeton trade finally goes through

1979 Event - 22.2-km Oshimizu railroad tunnel holed through, central Honshu, Japan

1978 Event - Chanting "Allah is great," anti-Shah protesters poured through Tehran

1977 Death - George Hamilton Combs, TV host (Through the Curtain), dies at 78

1977 Event - 1st oil through the TransAlaska Pipeline System reach Valdez, Alaska

1976 Event - Rain out! Astrodome cancels game heavy rains make it difficult for visiting team and umpires to get through flooded streets to the stadium

1976 Event - East-Timor People's Assembly accepts annexation through Indonesia

1976 Event - Erapalli Prasanna takes 8-76 to rip through New Zealand at Eden Park

1974 Event - John Lennon's only solo #1 "Whatever Gets You Through the Night"

1973 Event - Israeli tanks under General Sharon move through Suez Canal

1971 Event - Series of tornadoes cuts through Mississippi and Louisiana killing 117

1970 Death - Frank Laubach, taught reading through phonetics, dies

1967 Event - Gladys Knight and Pips releases "I Heard it Through the Grapevine"

1967 Birthday - Tim Vine, born in London, Enlgand, actor, comedian, performs stand up comedy, television, appears at festivals, tours through the United Kingdom include 'Current Puns' and 'Punslinger', achieved Guinness World Record for most jokes told in an hour

1965 Death - Shirley Hardie Jackson, U.S. author (Road Through the Wall), dies at 45

1962 Event - Brian Epstein signs a contract to manage Beatles through 1977

1962 Event - French and Italian workers break through at Mount Blanc Vehicular Tunnel

1961 Event - Benaud rips through England team for Aussie win at Old Trafford

1961 Event - Fred Trueman takes 5-0 in 24 balls to rip through Aussies

1961 Event - 13 Freedom riders began bus trip through South

1960 Death - Jimmy Savo, comedian (Through the Crystal Ball), dies at 65

1960 Event - Fire raging through a Guatemala City, Guatemala insane asylum kills 225, severly injuring 300

1958 Event - Commuter train crashes through drawbridge, killing 48 in Newark, New Jersey

1956 Birthday - Bruce Edgar, cricketer, New Zealand opener through the 80'

1953 Birthday - Jules Shear, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, musician, singer, performed with The Funky Kings, Raisins in the Sun, created, hosted, first 13 episodes of MTV series, Unplugged, song, All Through the Night, recorded by Cyndi Lauper, ranked number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100, co-wrote title track for Everything's Different Now album, with Matthew Sweet

1947 Event - 252,288 people (record) pass through Grand Central Station, New York City

1947 Event - Babe Ruth Day celebrated at Yankee Stadium and through out United States

1944 Event - U.S. 1st Infantry division pushes through to Westwall

1944 Event - U.S. 4th Ivy League Inf division pushes through Westwall

1944 Event - U.S. 12 Army corp enters Le Mans through Orleans

1943 Birthday - Mohamed Amin, born in Kenya, cameraman, photojournalist, known for photos of Ethiopian famine, fall of Idi Amin, wrote, 'Journey Through Pakistan'

1943 Birthday - Sammi Smith, born in Orange County, California, born Jewel Faye Smith, musician, songwriter, famous hit 'Help Me Make It Through the Night' written by Kris Kristofferson, part of 1970's 'outlaw country' movement

1943 Event - German troops pull back through Kasserine-pass Tunisia

1943 Event - German offensive through de Faid-pass Tunisia

1943 Event - 8th Army sweeps through North Africa to Tunisia

1942 Event - German units go through Red October-factory in Stalingrad

1942 Event - Successful Russian counter attack through 37th Guard division

1939 Event - Grimmett and Ward rip through Qld except Bill Brown (156)

1939 Event - Goering begins plunder through Nazi's occupied areas

1939 Birthday - Alan Connolly, cricketer, Australian pace bowler through 60s

1938 Birthday - Kenny Rogers, singer, Through the Years, actor, Coward of the County

1936 Event - 10,000 watch the 200" mirror blank passing through Indianapolis

1935 Event - Amsterdam city council accept city growth plan through the year 2000

1934 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt became 1st President to travel through Panama Canal

1930 Birthday - Murray Chapple, cricketer, New Zealand Test batsman through the 1950's

1927 Event - Gdanks and Polish accord concerning traffic through Polish corridor

1925 Birthday - Tiny Tim, Herbert Khaury, singer, Tiptoe Through the Tulips

1924 Event - Through regular transcontinental airmail service forms, New York City-SF

1923 Event - Taxi strike in Amsterdam begins (through March 9th)

1922 Birthday - Colin Fletcher, author, Walking Through Time

1919 Birthday - Shirley Jackson, U.S., writer, Road Through the Wall

1919 Birthday - Jan Elburg, Joannes G, Dutch poet, Through the Night

1919 Event - Dirigible crashes through bank skylight killing 13 (Chicago, Ill)

1919 Event - Mount Kelud (Indonesia) erupts, boiling crater lake which broke through crater wall killing 5,000 people in 104 small villages

1918 Event - King Albert I's triumphant procession through Brussels

1917 Event - 1st tank battle (Britain breaks through German lines)

1914 Event - 1st seaworthy ship through Panama Canal

1914 Event - World Alliance for Promoting International Friendship through Churches forms

1914 Event - 1st steamboat passes through Panama Canal

1912 Death - Georg Heym, poet, writer, wrote, 'Der ewige Tag', poetry considered early Expressionist style, dies at 24 from falling through the ice, trying to save a friend

1910 Event - Passage of Earth through tail of Halley's Comet causes near-panic

1899 Event - U.S. Minister of Foreign affairs John Hay publishes his "Open Through Note"

1898 Death - Hubert Howard, British journalist (Times), dies through friendly fire

1896 Event - Henry takes his 1st Ford through streets of Detroit

1891 Birthday - John P Strijbos, Dutch writer, Wandering through South Africa

1889 Event - 1st permit issued to drive a car through Central Park (Curtis P Brady)

1889 Event - Union Pacific begins daily through service, Chicago-Portland and SF

1884 Birthday - Frank Laubach, born in Benton, Pennsylvania, educator, taught reading through phonetics

1883 Birthday - Shiga Naoya, Japan, novelist, Road Through Dark Night

1877 Event - Russia declares war on Turkey through Romania

1871 Event - Cameroon reaches coast of Angola after trip through Africa

1867 Event - 1st ship passes through Suez Canal

1865 Event - Sherman's march through Georgia begins

1865 Event - General Sherman's march through South Carolina begins

1864 Event - Sherman's march through Mississippi

1849 Event - William Bond obtains 1st photograph of Moon through a telescope

1834 Event - Slavery abolished through out the British Empire

1833 Event - Charles Darwin rides through Las Pietras, returning to Montevideo

1833 Event - Charles Darwin rides through Corunda to Santa Fe, Argentina

1832 Event - Charles Darwin begins trip through Rio de Janeiro

1803 Event - U.S. doubles in size through Louisiana Purchase

1698 Event - Czar Peter the Great returns to Moscow after trip through West-Europe

1697 Event - English king Willem III travels through northern Europe

1697 Event - Czar Peter the Great begins tour through West-Europe

1683 Event - Turkish troops break through defense of Vienna

1678 Event - Lady Godiva rode naked through Coventry in a protest of taxes

1620 Event - Pilgrim Fathers depart (through England) to America

1612 Event - Simon Marius, is 1st to observe Andromeda galaxy through a telescope

1595 Event - Cornelis de Houtman's ships depart to Asia through Cape of Good Hope

1535 Event - 12 nude anabaptists run through Amsterdam streets

1532 Event - Sultan Suleiman through Hungary on away to Vienna

1071 Event - Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes captured/Islam advances through Europe

28 Event - Gaius Carrinas' triumphant procession through Rome

13 Event - Tiberius' triumphant procession through Rome after siege of Germany

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