2014 Event U.S. President Barack Obama meets with Central American leaders, asking their assistance in curbing the flood of children attempting to immigrate; Obama asserted that children without proper documentation would be returned to their home countries 2014 Event In an effort to address the flood of unaccompanied immigrant children crossing the Texas border, Governor Rick Perry sends 1,000 National Guard troops to provide border security 2014 Event The Obama administration requests $3.7 billion to address a flood of children crossing the U.S. border unaccompanied by adults; the children are to be returned to their home countries 2012 Event Heavy rain and high winds across England and Wales kill two people and flood 800 homes 2011 Event Australia's enormous flood effects 13,000 properties in rural Victoria 1997 Death Curt Flood, centerfielder (Cards), dies of throat cancer at 59 1994 Event 7.9 earthquake strikes Koerilen, flood kills 18+ 1992 Event 900 die in flood in Pakistan 1992 Event Great Chicago Flood - Chicago's underground tunnels flood 1989 Event Berendrechtsluis opens in Antwerp, biggest flood lock in world 1987 Event 10 teens die in Guadalupe River flood, Comfort, Texas 1977 Event Flash flood hits Johnstown, Pennsylvania, kills 80 and causing $350 mil damage 1976 Event Flash flood in Big Thompson Canyon Colorado on Route 34, kills 139 1975 Event 5 drown in flash flood of sewer and water tunnel (Niagara Falls New York) 1973 Event 78 drown as flash flood sweeps a bus into a river, India 1972 Event U.S. Supreme Court, 5-3, confirms lower court rulings in Curt Flood case, upholding baseball's exemption from antitrust laws 1971 Birthday Lisa Flood, Scarborough Ontario, 100m Breaststroker 1996 Olympics 1971 Event Curt Flood resigns Senators after 13 games and departs for Denmark 1971 Event Dismissal of Curt Flood's suit against baseball is upheld by 1970 Event Curt Flood loses his $41 million antitrust suit against baseball 1970 Event Curt Flood files a civil lawsuit challenging baseball's reserve clause 1969 Event New York Times reports Curt Flood will sue baseball and challenge the reserve clause 1967 Event Curt Flood's record 568 straight chances without an error ends (227 straight games) 1965 Event Curt Flood's record of 568 straight chances without an error begins 1964 Event St. Louis Card Curt Flood gets 8 straight hits in a doubleheader 1954 Birthday Stevie Ray Vaughan, born in Dallas, Texas, guitarist, Sky is Crying, Texas Flood 1954 Event 200 pilgrims drown in Farahzad Iran rain storm flood 1953 Event Wellington-Auckland (New Zealand) express train swept away in flood kills 166 1953 Event Hurricane-like winds flood Netherlands drowning 1,835 1952 Event Earthquake and flood strike Kamshatka-South America 1945 Event German occupiers flood Beemster and Fencer 1945 Event German occupiers flood Wieringermeer, Netherlands 1934 Birthday Ann Flood, Jamaica, New York, actress, Edge of Night 1928 Death William Henry Grattan Flood, composer, dies at 68 1926 Event Flood in Rhine strikes Cologne 1919 Event 2 million gallons of molasses flood Boston MA, drowning 21 1913 Event Dayton, Ohio almost destroyed when Scioto, Miami, and Muskingum River reach flood stage simultaneously 1913 Event Great Dayton Flood 1913 Event Flood in Ohio, kills 400 1904 Event Train derailed on bridge in Eden Colorado during a flash flood, kills 96 1889 Event Johnstown Flood; 2,209 die in Pennsylvania 1889 Event Flood ravages Dutch coast 1877 Event Storm flood ravages Dutch coastal provinces 1875 Event Garonne Flood: great damage in Verdun and Toulouse, kills about 1,000 1863 Event Storm flood ravages Netherlands coastal provinces 1859 Birthday William Henry Grattan Flood, composer 1829 Event Danzig (Gdansk) dike break flood kills 1,200 1824 Event Storm causes St. Petersburg flood, killing 10,000 1824 Event St. Petersburg flood 1675 Event Storm hits about West-Europe: flood in Amsterdam 1634 Event Beach Island in North sea destroyed by a heavy storm flood 1587 Event Dutch County Groningen flood by dike break 1570 Event Netherlands hit by flood disaster, 1,000s killed 1541 Event Hernan de Soto observes 1st recorded flood in America (Mississippi R) 1530 Event St. Felix Flood ravages Dutch coast 1519 Event Flood ravages Dutch/Friese coast 1424 Event Storm flood ravages Dutch coast 1334 Event St. Clemens Flood: Dike breaks at Flemish/Zeeuwse/Dutch coast 1196 Event Northern Dutch coast flooded, "Saint-Nicolaas Flood" 1134 Event Storm flood ravages Zeeland county
