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Tons
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. NZ (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. NZ

1984 Javed Miandad completes twin Test Cricket tons, vs. NZ, Hyderabad

1983 George Headley, cricket (10 tons in 22 Tests, 1st black WI capt), 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. NZ

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. Aust 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, Mich



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