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1996 Sri Lanka 9-349 in 50 overs beat Pakistan 315 all out, Singapore Jayasuriya hits ton in 48 balls, world ODI record at Singapore

1993 Anthonius AM "Ton" Kors, writer (Time of Anton de Lange), dies at 47

1992 David Houghton gets Zimbabwe's 1st Test ton (121 vs. India, debut)

1992 Ton Hasebos, cameraman/TV director (Gnome Hasebos), dies

1992 Englishman Dave Gauder, 224 lbs, pulls 196 ton jumbo jet, 3 inches

1992 Ton Brandsteder, CEO (Sony Netherland BV), dies at 74

1991 55 ton concrete beam falls in Montreal's Olympic Stadium

1991 Ton Sijbrands improves world record blind checker games (15 wins)

1991 Mark Waugh scores ton in 1st Test Cricket innings, vs. England Adelaide

1989 Ton Regtien, Dutch student leader, dies at 51

1980 Imran Khan scores his 1st Test Cricket ton, 123 vs. WI Lahore

1980 Shahid Afridi, cricketer, ton in 37 balls in 1st ODI innings

1975 G S Chappell gets ton in each inn of 1st Test Cricket as capt vs. WI

1975 Mike Vail extends hitting streak ton rookie-record 23 straight game

1974 Viv Richards scores 1st Test Cricket ton 192 vs. India 20 fours 6 sixes

1973 Garry Sobers scores 26th and last Test Cricket ton 150 vs. Eng Lord's

1973 Biggest U.S. tanker "Brooklyn" christened (230,000 ton)

1972 Ton Sijbrands becomes world checker champion

1970 1st Test Cricket ton of Barry Richards, 126, 164 balls, 20 fours 1 six

1969 Romesh Kaluwitharana, cricket, big-hit SL batsman, ton on Test debut

1969 Ton Duc Thang elected president of North Vietnam

1969 U.S. B-52's drop 3,000 ton bombs at Cambodian boundary

1969 Meteorite weighing over 1 ton falls in Chihuahua, Mexico

1965 Doug Walters makes maiden Test ton in 1st Test, goes on to 155

1965 Tom Moody, cricket batsman, Australian 1989-92 Ton in 26 mins

1965 Bruce Taylor takes 5-86 in debut innings for NZ after ton

1963 Mike Rindel, cricketer, N Transvaal opening bat ODI ton vs. Pak 1995

1961 Kevan James, cricketer, all-rounder 4 wkts/4 balls and ton vs. India 1996

1959 Ton Lokhoff, Dutch soccer player, NAC

1954 2 ton locomotive swept into ravine by avalanche 10 die (Austria)

1952 Ton Scherpenzeel, Dutch rock keyboardist, Earth and Fire

1950 Alan Turner, Aussie cricket left-handed opener, World Cup ton 1975

1949 Ton [Teunis] Sijbrands, Dutch world checkers champion

1949 A M de Jong's murderer, Ton van Gog arrested in Scheveningen Neth

1947 180-metric ton blue whale (record) caught in South Atlantic

1946 Anthonius A M "Ton" Kors, Dutch writer, Hannie Schaft

1945 Dutch author A M de Jong's murderer Ton van Gog escapes

1945 1,000 allied bombers harass Essen, 4,662 ton bombs

1945 Almost 1000 Flying Fortresses drop 3000 ton bombs on Berlin

1944 3,500-40,00 ton explosive, explodes in Staffordshire, 68 killed

1944 RAF drops 2300 ton bombs on Berlin

1943 63 U Boats (359,300 ton) sinks this month

1943 39 U boats sunk this month (203,100 ton)

1942 60 U boats sunk this month (330,000 ton)

1942 109 U boats sunk this month (729,000 ton)

1942 94 U boats sunk this month (619,000 ton)

1942 U boats sunk this month 108 ships (544,000 ton)

1942 U boats sank 96 allied ships this month: 476,000 ton

1942 144 U boats (700,000 ton) sunk this month

1942 Ton [ACHM] de Kok, Dutch MP, CDA

1942 62 U boats sunk this month (327,000 ton)

1941 13 U boats sunk this month (62,000 ton)

1941 13 U boats sunk this month (62,000 ton)

1941 23 U-boats sunk this month (80,000 ton)

1941 U boats sink 21 allied ships this month: 94,000 ton

1941 61 U-boats (310,000 ton) sunk this month

1941 41 U boats sunk this month (325,000 ton)

1941 39 U Boats (197,000 ton) sunk this month

1941 21 U boats sunk this month (127,000 ton)

1940 37 U boats sunk this month (213,000 ton)

1940 32 U boats sunk this month (147,000 ton)

1940 63 U boats sunk this month (325,000 ton)

1940 56 U-boats sunk this month (268,000 ton)

1940 38 U boats sinks this month (196,000 ton)

1940 58 U-boats (284,000 ton) sunk this month

1940 45 U boats sunk this month (170,000 ton)

1940 40 U boats sunk this month (111,000 ton)

1939 25 U boats sunk this month (81,000 ton)

1939 21 U boats sunk this month (52,000 ton)

1939 27 U boats sunk this month (135,000 ton)

1939 41 U-boats sunk this month (153,000 ton)

1939 SA wicketkeeper Bradman gets his 6th straight ton, 135* vs. NSW

1938 Ton Regtien, Dutch student leader

1938 500 ton meteorite lands near Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

1938 Compton scores 1st Test Cricket ton (102 vs. Aust) aged 20 years 19 days

1938 Bradman scores a second innings 113 vs. Qld after a ton in the 1st

1937 Ton de Kruyf, composer

1934 Hobbs scores his 197th and last FC cricket ton at 51 years 163 days

1931 Ton [ABM] Frinking, Dutch MP, CDA

1929 Bradman scores 123 Aust vs. England at MCG, his 2nd Test Cricket ton

1926 Ton de Leeuw, Dutch composer

1922 Ton Lensink, Dutch actor, Rituelen

1919 Antonius C "Ton" Lutz, Dutch actor and director, Lucifer

1918 Ton Brandsteder, CEO/founder, Sony Nederland

1911 Trumper scored double cricket ton vs. South Africa, goes on to get 214

1910 Jack Hobbs 1st Test ton (187 vs. SAfr), his only Test hit wicket

1896 Grease fire ignites ton of dynamite at Cripple Creek Colorado

1819 320 ton Savannah becomes 1st steamship to cross any ocean (Atlantic)



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