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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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