2015 Event A SpaceX cargo rocket explodes shortly after launch; the unmanned vessel was carrying over two tons of food, provisions, supplies and equipment for the International Space Station 2013 Event Britain agrees to help Syria destroy over 165 tons of chemical weapons; the stockpile includes substances that could be used to make highly toxic nerve agents 2013 Event The Organization on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons reports it has completed the inspection of 21 out of 23 chemical weapons sites across Syria, resulting in the destruction of over 1,000 metric tons of toxic agents and munitions 2013 Event Guinness World Records records the largest flag ever made, by a village in Romania; the flag of Romania weighs five tons and used 44 miles of thread 2010 Event 2 tons of elephant ivory and five rhino horns are seized in Nairobi, Kenya, the items were disguised as avocados destined for Malaysia 1993 Event Ricky Ponting hits twin tons for Tasmania aged 18 years 84 days 1991 Death Tennessee Ernie Ford, country singer (16 Tons), dies at 72 1991 Event Asanka Gurusinha scores twin Test Cricket tons vs. New Zealand (119 and 102) 1991 Event Andrew Jones scores twin Test Cricket tons vs. Sri Lanka (122 and 100*) 1990 Event Dean Jones scores twin Test tons vs. Pakistan at Adelaide Oval 1988 Event Carlos Lehder Rivas, of Colombia's Medellin drug cartel, is convicted in Florida for smuggling more than 3 tons of cocaine into US 1987 Event "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 Event Fire in Sandoz-factory Basel, 30 tons of chemicals in the Rhine 1986 Event Border completes twin Test tons (140 and 114*) vs. New Zealand 1984 Event Javed Miandad completes twin Test Cricket tons, vs. New Zealand, Hyderabad 1983 Death George Headley, cricket (10 tons in 22 Tests, 1st black WI captain), dies 1982 Event Duleep Mendis completes twin cricket tons for Sri Lanka vs. India 1982 Event DEA announces seizure of 3,192 tons of marijuana, 495 people 1979 Event 2 supertankers collide off Tobago - 260,000 TONS of oil spill 1979 Event Gavaskar gets twin tons for India for the third time (v WI) 1978 Event Gavaskar gets twin cricket tons for India for 2nd time 1978 Event Amoco Cadiz spills 223,000 tons of crude oil off French coast 1976 Event Sadiq and Mushtaq Mohammad score tons in same Test Cricket innings vs. New Zealand 1974 Event Glenn Turner scores twin tons for New Zealand's 1st win against Australia 1971 Event Gavaskar scores 1st of his 34 Test Cricket tons, 116 at Georgetown 1961 Event Kanhai completes twin tons (117 and 115) vs. Australia at Adelaide 1958 Event 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 Event Weekes, Worrell and Walcott complete tons in innings vs. England 1952 Event Hanif Mohammad scores twin 100s vs. N Zone (Ind) his 1st fc cricket tons 1948 Event Bradman completes dual Test tons (132 and 127*) vs. India MCG 1947 Event Compton and Arthur Morris both complete dual tons in same Test Cricket 1944 Event Bomber Command drop 2,572 tons of bombs on Caen, France 1942 Event 98 U-boats sunk this month (485,000 tons) 1942 Event 20 tons of gelignite in a stone quarry at Easton Pennsylvania, kills 21 1941 Event 53 U-boats sunk this month (202,000 tons) 1940 Event 59 U-boats sunk this month (295,000 tons) 1935 Event Russian Aleksei Stachanov digs 6 hours, 105 tons of cabbages 1930 Event George Headley completes twin tons in Test Cricket vs. England (114 and 112) 1909 Event Warren Bardsley (136 and 130) 1st to get twin tons in a Test 1907 Birthday Merle Travis, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, country singer, 16 Tons 1901 Event Arch Rock, danger to Bay shipping, blasted with 30 tons of nitro 1893 Event 2 Clydesdale horses set record by pulling 48 tons on a sledge, Michigan
