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Waves
1994 Mildred Mcafee Horton, U.S. 1st head mistress of WAVES, dies

1967 Emily Watson, actress, Breaking the Waves, Boxer

1956 East Pakistan struck by cyclone and tidal waves

1951 Stellan Skarsgard, Swedish actor, Breaking the Waves

1944 Navy says black women can join WAVES

1942 Franklin D. Roosevelt signs bill creating women's Navy auxiliary agency (WAVES)

1940 Robby Mueller, cinematographer, Breaking the Waves, Dead Man, Korczak

1905 James Robertson Justice, born in Scotland, actor, Above Us the Waves

1897 Possibly most severe quake in history strikes Assam India, shock waves felt over an area size of Europe (negligible death toll)

1890 Chicago Mainbocher, uniform designer, Red Cross, Girl Scouts, Waves

1883 Seismic sea waves created by Krakatoa eruption create a rise in English Channel 32 hours after explosion

1857 Heinrich Hertz, physicist, 1st to broadcast and receive radio waves

1737 40 foot waves sink 20,000 small craft and kill 300,000 (Bengal, India)



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