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Wave
1989 Cold wave: -4 degrees F in Oklahoma City, -6 degrees F in Tulsa, -12 degrees F in Pitts,

1985 Cold wave damages 90 percent of Florida's citrus crop

1983 Ringo releases "Old Wave" album in West Germany

1976 An earthquake and tidal wave in the Philippines kills up to 8,000

1971 Cyclone and tidal wave off Bay of Bengal kills as many as 10,000

1967 Ilja G Ehrenburg, Russian poet and writer (9th wave), dies at 76

1952 9" of rain fall creates a 20' wave in Lynmouth, England killing 34

1949 Freak heat wave sent central coast of Portugal to 158 degrees F for 2 minutes

1948 WAVE TV channel 3 in Louisville, Kentucky (NBC) begins broadcasting

1947 Dave Pegg, British pop bassist, Jethro Tull-Crest of a Wave

1933 112 foot ocean wave observed near Manila

1933 Highest recorded sea wave (not tsunami), 34 m, in Pacific hurricane

1932 Hurricane storm wave sweeps over Santa Cruz del Sur Cuba kills 2,500

1928 Alvin Toffler, author, Future Shock, Power Shift, The Third Wave

1919 "Tidal wave" of molasses 15 m high x 25 m wide kills dozens, Boston

1906 Karl Nessler demonstrates 1st 'permanent wave' for hair, in London

1900 6,000 killed when a hurricane and tidal wave strikes Galveston, Texas

1885 Carl Clinton Van Doren, U.S. literary, 9th Wave

1868 An Hawaiian surfs on highest wave ever, he rides a 50' tidal wave



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