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1993 Ricky Ponting hits twin tons for Tasmania aged 18 years 84 days
1991 Tennessee Ernie Ford, country singer (16 Tons), dies at 72 1991 Asanka Gurusinha scores twin Test Cricket tons vs. New Zealand (119 and 102) 1991 Andrew Jones scores twin Test Cricket tons vs. Sri Lanka (122 and 100*) 1990 Dean Jones scores twin Test tons vs. Pakistan at Adelaide Oval 1988 Carlos Lehder Rivas, of Colombia's Medellin drug cartel, is convicted in Florida for smuggling more than 3 tons of cocaine into US 1987 "Bobro 400," a barge carrying 3,200 tons of garbage, set sail from NY, beginning an unsuccesful 8-week search for a dumping site 1986 Fire in Sandoz-factory Basel, 30 tons of chemicals in the Rhine 1986 Border completes twin Test tons (140 and 114*) vs. New Zealand 1984 Javed Miandad completes twin Test Cricket tons, vs. New Zealand, Hyderabad 1983 George Headley, cricket (10 tons in 22 Tests, 1st black WI captain), dies 1982 Duleep Mendis completes twin cricket tons for Sri Lanka vs. India 1982 DEA announces seizure of 3,192 tons of marijuana, 495 people 1979 2 supertankers collide off Tobago - 260,000 TONS of oil spill 1979 Gavaskar gets twin tons for India for the third time (v WI) 1978 Gavaskar gets twin cricket tons for India for 2nd time 1978 Amoco Cadiz spills 223,000 tons of crude oil off French coast 1976 Sadiq and Mushtaq Mohammad score tons in same Test Cricket innings vs. New Zealand 1974 Glenn Turner scores twin tons for New Zealand's 1st win against Australia 1971 Gavaskar scores 1st of his 34 Test Cricket tons, 116 at Georgetown 1961 Kanhai completes twin tons (117 and 115) vs. Australia at Adelaide 1958 Giant splash caused by fall of 90 million tons of rock and ice into Lituya Bay, Alaska washes 1,800 feet up the mountain 1954 Weekes, Worrell and Walcott complete tons in innings vs. England 1952 Hanif Mohammad scores twin 100s vs. N Zone (Ind) his 1st fc cricket tons 1948 Bradman completes dual Test tons (132 and 127*) vs. India MCG 1947 Compton and Arthur Morris both complete dual tons in same Test Cricket 1944 Bomber Command drop 2,572 tons of bombs on Caen, France 1942 98 U-boats sunk this month (485,000 tons) 1942 20 tons of gelignite in a stone quarry at Easton Pennsylvania, kills 21 1941 53 U-boats sunk this month (202,000 tons) 1940 59 U-boats sunk this month (295,000 tons) 1935 Russian Aleksei Stachanov digs 6 hours, 105 tons of cabbages 1930 George Headley completes twin tons in Test Cricket vs. England (114 and 112) 1909 Warren Bardsley (136 and 130) 1st to get twin tons in a Test 1907 Merle Travis, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, country singer, 16 Tons 1901 Arch Rock, danger to Bay shipping, blasted with 30 tons of nitro 1893 2 Clydesdale horses set record by pulling 48 tons on a sledge, Michigan |
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