2015 Event Researchers discover a biofluorescent hawksbill sea turtle in waters off of the Solomon Islands; though biofluorescence has been observed in captive reptiles, this is the first occurrence seen in a wild reptile 2015 Event Airplane debris is found off the coast of France's Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean; officials believe the debris is from a Boeing 777 and may be part of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared over a year ago without a trace 2015 Event A 6.7-magnitude aftershock sets off new avalanches on Mt. Everest and frightens victims of yesterday's devastating earthquake in Nepal; Google executive Dan Fredinburg was one of at least 17 climbers on Mt. Everest who died in yesterday's disaster 2015 Event The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is planning rules for commercial drones that will limit flights to uncrowded areas within the operator's line of sight, meaning that uses such as package delivery or long-range news reporting are off limits 2015 Event E-commerce company eBay announces that it will lay off 2,400 employees in advance of its plans to spin off its PayPal unit; the split is expected to take place in mid-2015 2015 Event U.S. President Barack Obama gives his State of the Union address, promoting free community college education, increased capital gains taxes on the rich, more paid time off for employees, and greater tax credits for the middle class 2015 Event The Ezadeen, an abandoned ship carrying 450 Syrians, is rescued from choppy waters and brought safely to shore in Italy; the ship is the second to be abandoned by human traffickers off the nation's coast in the last four days 2014 Event James Watson, one of three scientists to co-discover DNA structure, has auctioned off the 1962 Nobel Prize medal he received for the achievement; Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov paid $4.8 million for the medal but then returned it to Watson 2014 Event Movie studio Warner Brothers announces plans to lay off employees and reduce costs in order to improve efficiency; parent company Time Warner Inc. is seeking improvements across its divisions after rejecting a buyout offer by Rupert Murdoch earlier this year 2014 Event Microsoft announces that it will lay off 14% of its workforce, equalling approximately 18,000 employees; many of the cuts are expected to come from recently-acquired Nokia 2014 Event A shipwreck off of Haiti may be that of the Santa Maria, one of the three ships led by Christopher Columbus; the wreck was discovered about 10 years ago, but has only now been tentatively identified in light of Columbus' writings and other evidence 2014 Event 174 people have been rescued from a South Korean ferry that capsized off the coast; the ferry was carrying 476 people, mainly students; rescue efforts are ongoing 2014 Event Papua New Guinea is shaken by a 7.1-magnitude earthquake with an aftershock registering at 6.1 on the Richter scale; the quakes were centered off the island of Bougainville 2014 Event Google sells Motorola Mobility to Lenovo for $2.91 billion after purchasing it three years ago for $12.5 billion, and selling off it's cable-box division for $2.4 billion 2013 Event The LAM Mozambique Airlines Flight 470 that went off the radar Friday is discovered in Namibia's Bwabwata National Park; all 33 passengers died in the crash 2013 Event A report from Japan's Coast Guard and earthquake experts claims that a new islet has been created; a volcanic eruption raised the new island, which is located off the coast of Nishinoshima - a small, uninhabited island in the Ogasawara chain, far south of Tokyo 2013 Event An 7.3-magnitude earthquake off of Japan's east coast prompts the country's emergency agencies to issue a tsunami warning 2013 Event Engineers working off of Italy's Tuscan coast pull the MS Costa Concordia cruise ship upright after it ran aground in early 2012 2013 Event An area located off the coast of the Aleutian Islands records a magnitude 7.0 earthquake 2013 Event Hercules 264, a Gulf of Mexico natural gas drilling rig, partially collapses off the coast of Louisiana; the rig remains standing but sustained extensive damage to the derrick package as a result of a continuing fire 2013 Event Dunedin and Christchurch, New Zealand, have roads cut off and flights cancelled due to adverse weather conditions 2013 Event A rare 19th century torpedo is discovered off the coast of California by the US Navy dolphins 2013 Event Caterpillar, a heavy construction equipment manufacturer, announces plans to lay off 300 additional employees at its Decatur, Illinois facility by July 2013 2013 Event Muslim terrorists set off two explosions near the finish line at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, killing 3, injuring 183 people, and at least 15 requiring amputations 2012 Event Hostess Brands reveals its plan to file for bankruptcy and liquidate its assets, claiming contract disputes from the bakery's union worker strike crippled its operations; about 18,500 workers will be laid off 2012 Event Amid tension with China, Keen Sword, the biennial naval training exercise between the United States and Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force, takes place off the shore of Okinawa 2012 Event The Republic of Ireland switches off its analog television service at 10:00am 2012 Event The U-550, a sunken German U-Boat, is discovered off the cost of Massachusetts 2012 Event Ireland is struck by another earthquake off of the County Mayo coast 2012 Event According to the U.S. Hurricane Center, Hurricane Bud has formed off of the Pacific Ocean's coast of Mexico, and has reached category two strength 2012 Event Yahoo! sells off its stake in Alibaba Group for $7.1 billion 2012 Event More than 1,000 birds, mostly pelicans and hundreds of dolphins die off the coast in the north of Paru, under unexplained circumstances 2012 Event Two survivors are found trapped inside the capsized cruise ship Costa Concordia, which ran aground off the coast of Tuscany January 13 2011 Event In Taipei, protesters demand Taiwan's 200,000 foreign live-in caregivers receive the legal right to a weekly day off 2011 Event The cargo ship MV Swanland sinks off of north wales due to gale force weather, with two of eight crew members are rescued 2011 Event The oil spill from MV Rena, the ship stranded off the coast of Tauranga, New Zealand, becomes the country's worst environmental disaster 2011 Event Off the coast of Tauranga, New Zealand, the MV Rena container ship runs aground, causing a large oil spill and affecting wildlife in the Bay of Plenty 2011 Event A 6.6 magnitude earthquake occurs off the coast of Japan, setting off a series of aftershocks 2011 Event BP announces plans to begin drilling for oil off the coast of Libya 2011 Event Major League Baseball history is made when Derek Jeeter of the New York Yankees makes a home run off of the Tampa Bay Rays, becoming the 28th member of the 3,000 hit club 2011 Event Space Shuttle Atlantis takes off to conduct the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program 2011 Event A tourist boat travelling off the coast of Baja California in Mexico sinks; 23 people are reported missing 2011 Event In Yafran, Libya, thousands risk potential death and starvation after Muammar Gaddafi's forces shut off water and block food supplies 2011 Event A 7.2 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Honshu, Japan prompts the release of tsunami alert 2011 Event Archeologists working off the coast of Panama recover six cannons from ships owned by Welsh privateer Henry Morgan 2011 Event Responding to anti-government protests in Egypt, the government cuts off access to the internet, cell phones, and imposes a curfew 2011 Event A Mongolian bulk carrier sailing off the coast of Oman is seized by Somali pirates 2010 Event A substantially large oil field that is estimated to contain between 8 and 15 billion barrels, is discovered off the coast of Brazil 2010 Event Sony takes its original cassette Walkman off the market 2010 Event Somali pirates seized Indian crewmen and the Panamanian-flagged ship they were sailing off the coast of Tanzania 2010 Event In the Atlantic Ocean, tropical storm Lisa forms off the Cape Verde Islands 2010 Event In New Zealand, 100,000 people are left without water after a large storm; the storm took the roof off of Stadium Southland in Invercargill 2010 Event Raul Castro, head of the Cuban government, declares they will lay off half a million state workers to improve their economy by the middle of 2011 2010 Event Heavy winds knock down the Anne Frank tree in Amsterdam, breaking off approximately one meter above the ground 2010 Event Senior Rwandan opposition politician Andre Kagwa Rwisereka is found, after reported missing, with his head nearly severed off 2010 Event After South Korea's ROKS Cheonan ship is sunk by North Korea, South Korea cuts off trade with North Korea and announces North Korean ships will no longer be allowed to use South Korean waters 2010 Event Somali pirates seize a German-owned tanker, MS Marida Marguerite, off the coast of Somalia 2010 Event The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig that exploded off the coast of Louisiana two days ago, sinks; the wreck is leading crude oil and diesel at an alarming rate 2010 Event Shen Neng 1, a Chinese coal ship, is reported to be leaking oil after running aground on the Great Barrier Reef off Queensland, Australia 2010 Event 8 Indian vessels are hijacked and 120 sailors are abducted by Somali pirates and off the cost of Kismayo 2010 Event 35 suspected pirates off the coast of Somalia are captured by the French Navy, the European Union's most successful mission 2010 Event Six Venezuelan cable television channels are taken off the air by the Venezuelan government after refusing to transmit government messages 2009 Event Pirates from Somalia capture the Maran Centaurus, a Greek-owned oil tanker, off the coast of Somalia 2009 Event A magnitude 7.0 quake strikes off the coast of Indonesia, setting off a tsunami alert which is then withdrawn 2009 Event A Sri Lankan migrant ship seized off of Canada's Pacific Coast, carried 76 suspected Sri Lankan immigrants 2009 Event Panic ensues when an earthquake strikes off the Bali coast in Indonesia, causing few injuries and little material damage 2009 Event One person out of 183 passengers and crew survives the crash of Yemenia Flight 626 off the coast of Moroni, Comoros 2009 Event Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, endorses Russia's decision to turn off gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine 2006 Event Al-Askari Mosque is bombed, setting off protests and violence across Iraq 2000 Event Alaska Airlines flight 261 crashes off coast of southern California, killing 88, crash caused by a bad stabilizer 1999 Event EgyptAir flight 990 crashes 60m off coast of Nantucket, killing 217, likely cause was an Islamist suicide replacement pilot 1998 Event SwissAir flight 111 crashes off the coast of Nova Scotia killing all 229 onbaord, likely cause was an electrical fire 1998 Event NFL Europe (Formerly WLAF), kicks off season 1997 Event Shirley Allen, 51, held Illinois police off for 39 days captured 1997 Event Christies auctions off Princess Di's clothing for $5.5 million 1997 Event Travis Fryman homers off R Hernandez in both games of double header 1st time since 1961 that 2 doubleheaders are played in the same city Giants vs Mets and Oakland A's vs Yankees in NY 1996 Event Yankees (3) and Orioles (3) combine to tie play off record of 6 home runs 1996 Event Albert Belle shows off his arm by hitting Sports Illustrated photographer Tony Tomsic in the hand prior to a game 1996 Event Jayasuriya hammers 82 off 44 balls (13x4 3x6) vs. England in WC QF 1995 Event Expos pitcher Pedro Martinez perfect game is broken up in 10th inning as San Diego's Bip Roberts leads off with a double, Mont wins 1-0 1995 Event Ferry boat sinks off Sumbe Angola, 42+ killed 1994 Event Bomb goes off on #4 train on Fulton Street New York City 1994 Event Achille Lauro sinks off the coast of Somalia 1994 Event WIIZ (98.7) FM goes off the air 1994 Event Lorena Bobbitt found temporarily insane of chopping off spouse's penis 1994 Event Queen Elizabeth falls off her horse and breaks her left wrist 1993 Event Northern Exposure star Barry Corbin falls off his horse 1993 Event U.S. warship Harlan County anchors off Port-au-Prince Haiti 1993 Event Long fly ball by Indians' Carlos Martinez bounces off Jose Canseco's head and goes over fence for a home run 1992 Event "Show Off" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 45 performances 1992 Event NBC announces that "Cheers" will go off the air in May, 1993 1992 Event "Show Off" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 45 performances 1992 Event Carlos Martinez hits a ball off Jose Canseco's head for a home run 1992 Event Weird Al Yankovic begins his Off The Deep End tour 1992 Event Imran Khan scores 72 and takes 1-43 off 6 2 overs in last ODI 1992 Event U.S. Air New York to Cleveland crashes on take off at LaGuardia, 27 die 1991 Event Jackie Martling walks off of Howard Stern show for one day 1991 Event Bjorn Borg loses 6-2, 6-3 to Jordi Arrese after 8 year lay off 1990 Event Sri Lanka all out 82, Venkatapathy Raju (I) 6-12 off 17 lose, Phil Eagles beat Giants 31-13 and L.A. Rams beat 49ers 28-17 1989 Event Rickey Henderson steals a record 8 bases in a play off (5 games) 1989 Event Worst U.S. oil spill, Exxon's Valdez spills 11.3 mil gallons off Alaska 1988 Event Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 roof tears off in flight; kills stewardess 1987 Event Korean Air jetliner disappears off Burma, all 115 lost 1987 Event Carlton Fisk clubs his 300th career home run off Danny Jackson 1987 Event Andy Van Slyke home runs off R. McDowell in both ends of double header 1987 Death Pam Ewing, (Victoria Principal) character on Dallas, is killed off 1987 Event 1st 3 San Diego Padres hit home runs off San Francisco starter Roger Mason 1987 Death Peggy Bacon, author/illustrator (Off With Their Heads), dies at 91 1986 Event Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, took off from Edwards AFB, California on 1st non-stop, non-refueled flight around world 1986 Event Soviet Yankee-class sub sinks off NC, 3 die 1986 Event Kathy Ormsby, a 21-year-old member of North Carolina State track team jumps off a bridge permanently paralyzing herself 1986 Event Viv Richards century off 56 balls vs. England in Antigua Test Cricket 1985 Death Leon Klinghoffer, hijackers of Achille Lauro, threw him off boat 1985 Event Pete Rose of Cincinnati Reds gets career hit 4,192 off Eric Show of San Diego Padres, eclipsing Ty Cobb's record 1985 Event U.S. - French expedition locates wreckage of Titanic off Newfoundland 1985 Event 1,400 meatpackers walk off the job at a Geo A Hormel and Co plant 1985 Event A's Dave Kingman is 21st to hit 400 home runs (off Matt Young at Seattle) 1985 Event Explosions destroys 2 tankers off of Gibraltar, 30 die 1985 Event Les Anderson, catches record 97 lb 4 oz Chinook Salmon, off Alaska 1985 Death Bobby Ewing, (Patrick Duffy) killed off on Dallas 1984 Event Dolphin rocket launched off San Clemente Island 1984 Event Greenidge scores brilliant 214 off 241 balls to win Lord's Test 1984 Event After 37 weeks, "Thriller" is knocked off as top album by "Footloose" 1984 Event Soviet sub crashes into USS aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off Japan 1982 Event 1st annual Cracker Jack Oldtimers Classic 75-year-old Luke Appling hits a 250-foot home run off Warren Spahn, AL beats NL 7-2 1982 Event Jean-Loup Chretien, 1st spacionaut, 2 others, lift off (Soyuz T-16) 1982 Event British torpedo boat Sheffield off Falkland hit by Exocet rocket 1982 Event Michael Frayn's "Noises Off," premieres in London 1982 Event Ocean Ranger oil-drilling platform lost off Newfoundland, 84 die 1982 Event Air Florida 737 took off in a snowstorm, crashes into 14th St. Bridge in Washington, D.C., and falls into Potomac River, killing 78 1981 Event Red Sox rookie Bob Ojeda no-hits Yankees for 8 innings before Rick Cerone and Dave Winfield lead off 9th with back-to-back doubles 1981 Event Phils Mike Schmidt hits his 300th career home run off New York Met Mike Scott 1980 Event John McEnroe and Bjorn Borg stage one of the greatest U.S. Open finals as 21 year old McEnroe fends off Borg to win his 2nd straight title 1980 Event Yankees Reggie Jackson hits his 400th home run off Chicago's Britt Burns 1980 Event Soviet sub catches fire off Japan, 9 die 1980 Event Oil tanker explosion off Pilos, Greece, causes 37-million-gallon spill 1979 Event Tanker Burmah Agate off Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 10.7 m gallons of oil, in US's worst oil spill disaster 1979 Event Larry Parrish (Expos) home runs off Rawly Eastwick (Phillies) in DH 1979 Event 2 supertankers collide off Tobago - 260,000 TONS of oil spill 1979 Event New York Islanders didn't get a shot off in 1 period against New York Rangers 1978 Event 6 masked men bound 10 employees at Lufthansa cargo area at New York Kennedy Airport and made off with $5.8 M in cash and jewelry 1978 Event Neo-Nazis call off plans to march in Jewish community of Skokie, Illinois 1978 Event Fee Waybill of Tubes breaks a leg falling off stage 1978 Event Amoco Cadiz tanker spills 1.6 mil gallons of oil off French coast 1978 Event Amoco Cadiz spills 223,000 tons of crude oil off French coast 1977 Event Dutch Antilles: premier Boy Rozendal points independence off 1977 Event Orioles forfeit to Blue Jays when manager Earl Weaver pulls team off field in 5th citing hazardous condition (small tarpaulin on bullpen mound) 1977 Event Toby Harrah and Bump Wills hit back-to-back inside-the-park-homers off Yankee Ken Clay at Yankee Stadium, Rangers won 8-2 1977 Event Turkey: premier Ecevit goes off 1977 Event 20.2-kg lobster caught off Nova Scotia (heaviest known crustacean) 1976 Event Argo Merchant tanker off Massachusetts' SE coast, spills 7.6 m gallons of crude when ship ran aground 1976 Event Chris Chambliss' 9th inning lead off homer gives New York Yankees pennant #30 1976 Event Only home run of Joe Niekro's 22-year career, comes off brother Phil 1976 Event Oil tanker Urqui Ola explodes off Spanish coast 1975 Event Rocker Alice Cooper falls off stage in Vancouver, breaks 6 ribs 1974 Event Mike Schmidt hits a ball off public address speaker on Astrodome roof 1973 Event Ferryboat capsized off coast of Equador, drowning 200 1973 Event Willie Mays hits 660th and last home run (off Don Gullett of Cincinnati) 1973 Event Phil Everly storms off stage declaring an end to Everly Brothers 1973 Event San Francisco Giants Bobby Bonds sets NL record with 22 lead off home runs 1972 Event Ringo releases "Back off Bugaloo" in UK 1971 Event Cyclone and tidal wave off Bay of Bengal kills as many as 10,000 1971 Birthday Jada Pinkett, actress, Set it Off, Nutty Professor, Menace II Society 1971 Birthday Corey Yothers, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Off the Rock 1971 Event European council accepts Mansholt plan laying off 5 million farmers 1971 Event National Emergency Center erroneously orders U.S. radio and TV stations to go off the air. Mistake wasn't resolved for 30 minutes 1970 Event Linus Pauling declares large doses of Vitamin C could ward off colds 1970 Event Donald Boyles sets record for highest parachute jump from a bridge, by leaping off of 1,053' Royal George Bridge in Colorado 1969 Event Alcatraz Island off SF, is seized by militant Native Americans 1969 Event San Francisco Giant Willie Mays, becomes 2nd player to hit home run number 600 off Mike Corkins 1969 Event U.S. nuclear sub Guitarro sinks off San Francisco 1969 Event Turtles play White House, Mark Volman falls off stage 5 times 1969 Event After 88 weeks Sgt Pepper drops off the charts 1968 Birthday Margaret Cho, actress/comedienne, Face/Off 1968 Event Brave Hank Aaron hits his 500th home run off San Francisco Giant Mike McCormick 1968 Event Off duty Dutch military permitted to wear regular clothing 1968 Event Nuclear-powered sub Scorpion, with 99 men, reported missing and is later found at the bottom of the ocean off Azores 1968 Event Lynda Johnson ordered off San Francisco cable car for eating an ice cream cone 1967 Event Surveyor 6 becomes 1st man-made object to lift off Moon 1967 Event Radio Scotland and Radio Swinging Holland go off the air 1967 Event Astro Eddie Matthews hits his 500th home run off San Francisco Giant Juan Marichal 1967 Event Mickey Mantle's 500th home run off Oriole's Stu Miller 1967 Event Shortwave Radio New York Worldwide goes back on the air after a week off 1967 Event New York Yankee Mickey Mantle hits career home run #500 off Stu Miller 1967 Event 2 homemade buses collided on a mountain road in Terpate, Philippines plunging off a cliff, killing 84, injuring 140 1966 Birthday John Cusack, born in Chicago, actor, Stand By Me, Sure Thing, Better Off Dead 1966 Event All-Nippon Airways 727 crashes off Haneda Airport (Japan); kills 133 1965 Event "Yarmouth Castle" burns and sinks off Bahamas, killing 89 1965 Event Rolling Stones release "Get Off of My Cloud" 1965 Event Willie Mays's 500th home run (off Don Nottebart), Giants 11th straight win 1965 Event Cubs slugger Ernie Banks hits his 400th home run off Curt Simmons 1965 Event Bob Dylan booed off Newport Folk Festival for using electric guitar 1965 Event Eastern DC-7B crashes into Atlantic off Jones Beach, New Jersey, kills 84 1964 Event In El Paso, Texas, Lyndon Baines Johnson and Mexican President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz set off an explosion diverting Rio Grande, to reshape US-Mexico border 1964 Event Destroyer Voyager sinks off Australia after colliding with aircraft carrier Melbourne 1963 Event Harmon Killebrew (Twins) home runs off Pete Burnside (Senators) in DH 1963 Event Mickey Mantle hits a ball off Yankee Stadium's facade 1963 Event Bob Dylan walks off Ed Sullivan Show 1962 Event "Stop the World, I Want to Get Off" opens at Shubert New York City for 886 performances 1962 Event Laser beam successfully bounced off Moon for 1st time 1962 Death Tom Shirley, actor/TV announcer (They're Off), dies at 62 1962 Birthday Patrick Cassidy, born in Los Angeles, California, actor/composer, Fever Pitch, Off the Wall 1961 Event Roger Maris sets record of 61 home runs off of Tracy Stallard 1961 Event Roger Maris hits home run number 60 off Jack Fisher, tying Babe Ruth's record 1961 Event Portuguese steamer "Save" breaks up off Mozambique, 227 die 1961 Event Mercury/Atlas rocket lifted off with an electronic mannequin 1960 Event Pirate's Mazeroski's bottom of 9th lead off home run beats New York Yankees 10-9 in game 7 of 57th World Series 1960 Event Ted Williams last at bat is his 521st home run off Jack Fisher 1960 Event 60 people die when bus plunges off bridge into Turvo River, Brazil 1960 Event 1st photograph bounced off a satellite, Cedar Rapids, Iowa 1960 Birthday Nancy Giles, born in New York City, actress, Connie-Delta, Off Beat, Big, Angie 1960 Death Sammy White, actor (711 Ocean Drive, Sound Off), dies at 65 1960 Event U.S. nuclear submarine USS Triton set off on underwater round-world trip 1960 Event Jack Paar walks off his TV show 1959 Death Maria EG "Lizzy" Ansingh, Dutch painter (Cast Off), dies at 84 1959 Birthday Amanda Pays, born in London, England, actress, Max Headroom, Off Limits 1959 Event Eisenhower routes Canadian premier Diefenbaker message off the Moon 1959 Event Radar 1st bounced off Sun from Stanford, California 1958 Birthday Jennifer Tilly, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Let it Ride, Off Beat, Psycho II 1958 Event King Hussein of Jordan breaks off diplomatic relations with UAR 1958 Death Josephina OFF "Frieda" Herberich, actress (Salontiroler), dies at 85 1957 Event New volcanic island appears off Fayal Island Azores 1957 Event Indians' pitcher Herb Score is hit by a line drive off Gil McDougald 1956 Event Aircraft carrier "Bennington" burns off RI, killing 103 1956 Event Gus Bell (Reds) homers off Bob Miller in both ends of a double header 1955 Birthday Mark Mitchell, actor, Larger than Life, Lift Off, Ground Zero 1955 Event Willie Mays (Giants) homers off Vern Law (Pirates) in both ends of DH 1955 Event After playing 274 straight games at 2nd base, Nellie Fox is given a day off he comes back next 798 consecutive games 1955 Event Harmon Killebrew hits his 1st home run (off Billy Hoeff) 1955 Event New York Yankee Mickey Mantle hits 550' home run off Chicago Billy Pierce 1953 Event American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on South Carolina, the bomb doesn't go off due to 6 safety catches 1953 Event "Princess Victoria" capsized off Stanraer Scotland; 133 die 1953 Event Korean ferryboat "Chang Tyong-Ho" sank off Pusan killing 249 1951 Event New York Times reports the New York City subway will auction off things found 1950 Event U.S. troop land on Wolmi-Do island off of Seoul 1950 Birthday Teddy Pendergrass, born in Philadelphia, singer, Turn Off the Lights 1949 Event Chinese liner "Taiping" collides with a collier off south China 1947 Event Al Gionfriddo makes a great catch off Joe Dimaggio in World Series 1946 Event Henry Morgan is 1st to take off shirt on TV 1945 Event Riverboat sinks off Hong Kong; kills 1,550 1945 Event Stan Musial gets 5 hits off 5 pitchers on 5 consecutive pitches 1945 Event Barometric pressure at 856 mb (25.55") off Okinawa (record low) 1945 Event Scheduled demonstrations at Polo Grounds and Ebbets Field to end segregation in organized baseball are called off 1945 Event U.S. Marines conquer Minna Shima off Okinawa 1945 Event Ruhrgebied sealed off by U.S. 1st and 9th army 1945 Event 800 killed as Kamikaze attacked USS Franklin off Japan 1945 Event "Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed off Danzig by Soviet sub-c 7,700 die 1944 Event U.S. destroyers sink in storm off Philippines, 790 killed 1944 Event German occupier turn off electricity in Amsterdam 1944 Event Frank McCormick (Reds) home run off Ace Adams (Giants) in both games of DH 1944 Event Bus falls off bridge into Passaic River New Jersey, killing 16 1944 Event U-264 sinks off Ireland 1944 Event U-424 sunk off Ireland 1944 Event U-666/U-545/U-283 sink off Ireland 1944 Event U-734/U-238 sunk off Ireland 1944 Event U-762 sunk off Ireland 1944 Event U-592 sunk off Ireland 1944 Event U-271 and U-571 sunk off Ireland 1942 Event German scout ship Altmark explode and sinks off Yokohama 1942 Event U.S. aircraft carrier Hornet sinks off Santa Cruz 1942 Event Sea battle off Eastern Solomon Islands 1942 Event FBI captures 8 Nazi saboteurs from a sub off New York's Long Island 1942 Event Japanese troop march into Lashio, cuts off Burma Road 1941 Event British battleship Prince of Wales sinks off Singapore 1941 Event 1st U.S. destroyer (Kearney) torpedoed in WW II, off Iceland 1940 Birthday Peter Koelewijn, Dutch writer/vocalist, Come off that Roof 1940 Event Nazi Germany began walling off the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw 1940 Event Wrestling returns to Madison Square Garden after 12 year lay off 1940 Event British destroyers board German Altmark off Norway 1940 Event British search plane finds German Altmark off Norway 1939 Event German pocket battleship Graf Spee scuttled by its crew off Uruguay 1939 Event Russian Indigirka capsizes in blizzard off Japanese coast; 750 die 1939 Event Submarine Squalis sank off Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 26 die 1939 Event Ted Williams' 1st hit (off of Yankee Red Ruffing) a double 1938 Event Paul Waner (Pirates) homers off Pete Sivess (Phillies) in DH 1938 Event Phillies Harold Kelleher faces 16 batters in 6th, as Cubs score 12 runs, both marks are NL records off one hurler in a single inning 1938 Birthday John Guare, U.S. writer, 6 degrees of Separation, Atlantic City, Taking Off 1936 Event Red Sox Wes Ferrell, walks off mound when he feels he did no get good feilding, Sox suspend him 1936 Event 1st time in 20th century, 1st 2 batters in a game-Roy Johnson and Rabbit Warstler of Boston Bees-lead off with home runs 1936 Event WOS-AM in Jefferson City Missouri goes off the air 1935 Event China Clipper (flying boat) took off from Alameda, California, carrying 100,000 pieces of mail on 1st trans-Pacific airmail flight 1934 Event Luxury liner "Morro Castle" burns off New Jersey, killing 134 1934 Event FDIC pays off 1st insured depositors, Fon du Lac Bank, East Peoria, Illinois 1934 Event WOQ-AM in Kansas City Missouri goes off the air 1933 Event WNJ-AM in Newark New Jersey goes off the air 1933 Event U.S. Dirigible Akron crashes off coast of New Jersey, 73 die 1932 Birthday Joe Clark, born in Los Angeles, California, WLAF off coordinator coach for the Amsterdam Admirals 1931 Event Babe Ruth hits his 600th home run, off George Blaeholder of Browns 1931 Event Wiley Post and Harold Catty took off for flight around world 1931 Event French "St. Philbert" overturns off St. Nazaire France, drowns 450 1931 Event Phillies Chuck Klein homers off Ben Cantwell (Braves) in both ends DH 1931 Birthday Leslie Bricuse, English/US composer, Stop the world I want to get off 1929 Event Babe Ruth becomes 1st to hit 500 homers off Willis Hudlin of Cleveland 1929 Event Mel Ott (Giants) homers off Leo Sweetland (Phillies) in doubleheader 1928 Event British steamer "Vestris" capsizes and sinks off Virginia, kills 110 1928 Event 1st aerial cross of Pacific takes off from Oakland 1928 Death Henrich Federer, Switzerland, writer (I Switch Off The Light), dies at 61 1928 Event 1st solo England to Australia flight takes off (Bert Hinkler) 1927 Event Babe Ruth hits record setting 60th home run, off Tom Zachary 1927 Event New York Yankee Babe Ruth hits record 60th home run of season off Tom Zachry 1927 Event At 7:40 AM, Lindbergh takes off from New York to cross Atlantic for Paris 1927 Event Babe Ruth hits 1st of 60 home runs of season (off A's Howard Ehmke) 1926 Event Arthur Mailey takes 4-362 off 64 overs (no maidens) NSW vs. Vic 1926 Event Hack Wilson is 1st to hit a home run off Wrigley Field scoreboard 1925 Event Italian sub "Sebastiano Veniero" lost off Sicily with 54 dead 1923 Event Red Sox 1st baseman George Burns pulls off an unassisted triple play 1922 Event "Egypt" sinks off Ushant after colliding with "Seine," killing 90 1922 Birthday James C "Jim" Laker, Bradford England, cricket off spinner 1921 Event Steamer "Hong Koh" runs aground off Swatow China killing 1,000 1919 Event Babe Ruth sets season homer mark at 28 off of Yankee Bob Shawkey 1919 Event Babe Ruth hits his 26th home run off Jack Quinn in New York, breaking Buck Freeman's 1899 home run mark of 25 1918 Event Canadian steamship "Princess Sophia" hit a reef off Alaska, 398 die 1918 Event 1st WW I U.S. Army troop ship torpedoed and sunk by Germany, off Ireland 1917 Event British Mendi sinks off Isle of Wight, 627 die 1916 Event General Douglas Haig finally calls off 1st Battle of the Somme in Europe 1916 Event A bomb went off during a Preparedness Day parade in San Francisco killing 10 1916 Event German-British sea battle off Belgian coast 1916 Event French cruiser "Admiral Charner" torpedoed off Syrian coast, kills 374 1915 Event Germany cruiser Konigsberg sinks off Dar-es-Salam 1915 Event 1st submarine disaster; a U.S. F-4 sank off Hawaii, killing 21 1914 Event British trader Oceanic sinks off Scotland 1914 Event British Gloucester vs German Breslau/Goeben off Greece 1913 Birthday Horace Smith, cricketer, New Zealand, only Test wkt off his 1st ball, Paynter, 1912 Event "Kiche Maru" sinks off Japan, killing 1,000 1912 Event SS Kichemaru disappears in storm off Japanese coast, 1,000 die 1912 Event Titanic sinks at 2:27 AM off Newfoundland as band plays on 1911 Birthday Ben Alexander, NV, actor, Dragnet, Outer Gate, Mr. Doodles Kicks Off 1910 Event 1st seaplane, takes off from water at Martinques France (Henri Fabre) 1909 Event SOS 1st used by an American ship, Arapahoe, off Cape Hatteras, NC 1908 Birthday Anita Garvin, actress, Swiss Miss, Blotto, Charlatan, Hats Off 1907 Event Nationals steal a record 13 bases off catcher Branch Rickey 1907 Event SS Berlin sinks off Hoek van Holland Netherlands (142 dead) 1905 Event Tiger Ty Cobb makes his debut, doubling off Yank Jack Chesbro 1904 Event Japanese fleet defeat Russians off Port Arthur 1902 Event 2 deaf-mutes face each other for 1st time as Dummy Hoy leads off for the Reds against Dummy Taylor of the Giants, Reds win 5-3 1902 Event British SS Camorta sinks off Rangoon; 739 die 1898 Event Side-wheeler "Portland" sinks off Cape Cod, 190 die 1898 Event U.S. Marines attack Spanish off Guantanamo, Cuba 1897 Event George Davis (Giants) home run off Sport McAllister (Spiders) in DH 1895 Event U.S. Ship Canal (W 225th St) in the Bronx completed; cutting Marble Hill off from Manhattan 1895 Birthday Peggy Bacon, Ridgefield, Connecticut, author/illustrator, Off With Their Heads 1895 Event Spanish cruiser Reina Regente sinks off Gibraltar, 402 die 1894 Birthday Sammy White, Rhode Island, actor, 711 Ocean Drive, Sound Off 1893 Event For only time in history of U.S. Tennis championships, an event is held off the Eastern seaboard. Men's double championship in Chicago 1892 Event Entire Hong Kong national cricket team, die in shipwreck off Taiwan 1891 Event British Steamer "Utopia" sinks off Gibraltar killing 574 1890 Event Turkish frigate "Ertogrul" burns off of Japan, kills 540 1889 Birthday Franklin Pangborn, Newark, actor, My Best Gal, Hats Off, Easy Living 1888 Event Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh cuts off his left ear 1887 Event British SS Wah Yeung catches fire on Canton River off Hong Kong 1887 Event Harvey Wilcox of Ks subdivides 120 acres he owned in Southern California and starts selling it off as a real estate development (Hollywood) 1881 Event 200 drown as train runs off bridge near Cuautla Mexico 1875 Event "Pacific" collides with "Orpheus" off Cape Flattery Wash, 236 dies 1874 Event Emigrant ship Cospatrick catches fire and sinks off Auckland, New Zealand 1873 Event British White Star steamship Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, 547 die 1868 Event Great Train Robbery-7 men (Reno Brother) make off with $98,000 in cash 1867 Event Mail packets "Rhone" and "Wye" capsizes off St. Thomas Virgin Islands 1866 Event Steamship London sinks in storm off Land's End England, kills 220 1865 Event Battle of Sayler's Creek, 1/3rd of Lee's army cut off 1864 Event Off New England coast, CSS Tallahassee captures 6 yankee schooners 1864 Event CSS "Alabama" sunk by USS "Kearsarge" off Cherbourg, France 1863 Event Federal naval expedition arrives off Sabine Pass 1862 Event Union ironclad ship "Monitor" sank off Cape Hatteras, NC 1862 Event Steamer "Golden Gate" burns and sinks off west coast of Mexico 1862 Event Confederates scuttle CSS Virginia off Norfolk, Virginia 1861 Event 1st naval battle of Civil War, Union frigate "Colorado" sinks privateer "Judah" off Pensacola, Fla 1859 Event 1st air mail (in a balloon) took off from Lafayette Ind 1857 Event 423 die when "Central America" sinks off Cape Romain SC 1854 Event "New Era" sinks off New Jersey coast with loss of 300 1854 Event Steamer "Long Beach" sinks off Long Beach NY, 311 die 1853 Event Emigrant ship "Annie Jane" sinks off Scotland, drowning 348 1852 Event British frigate Birkenhead sinks off South Africa-458 die 1850 Event British ex-premier sir Robert Peel falls off his horse 1850 Event Paddle-wheeler "G P Griffith" burns off Mentor Ohio, 206 die 1841 Event Great Lakes steamer "Erie" sinks off Silver Creek NY, kills 300 1839 Event 2 day storm off Irish and English coast immortalized as "Big Wind" 1837 Event Steamboat "Home" sinks off Okracoke North Carolina killing 100 1835 Event HMS Beagle anchors off Valparaiso, Chile 1835 Event HMS Beagle anchors off Chonos Archipelago 1828 Event 18-gun sloop "Acorn" sinks off Halifax with 115 men aboard 1821 Event Bellingshausen discovers Alexander Island off Antarctica 1820 Birthday Elisha Kent Kane, U.S. Arctic explorer, Kane Basin off NW Greenland 1817 Event English freighter Diana sinks off Malaysia 1816 Event Survivors of French frigate Medusa rescued off Senegal after 17 days 1816 Event French frigate "Medusa" runs aground off Cap Blanc. Gross incompetence kills 150 in calm seas 1805 Event Sailing ship "Aeneus" sinks off Newfoundland killing 340 1799 Event British frigate HMS Lutine sinks off Dutch coast 1799 Event USS Constellation captures French frigate Insurgents off Nevis, W I 1797 Event British naval forces defeat Dutch off Camperdown, Netherlands 1795 Event James Swan pays off the $2,024,899 U.S. national debt 1793 Event 1st hot-air balloon flight in the U.S. lifts off in Philadelphia 1792 Event Vancouver meets Spanish ships Sutil and Mexicana off Vancouver, BC 1772 Event Hurricane destroy ships off Dominica 1772 Event Explosive eruption blows 4,000' off Papandayan Java, kills 3,000 1770 Event Captain James Cook discovers Great Barrier Reef off Australia 1718 Death Edward "Blackbeard" Teach, English pirate, killed off Virginia coast 1715 Event Spanish gold and silver fleet disappears off St. Lucie, Florida 1715 Event 10 Spanish treasure galleons sinks off Florida coast by hurricane 1665 Event Duke of York defeats Dutch fleet off the coast of Lowestoft 1653 Event Defeat of Dutch fleet under Admiral Van Tromp by Adm Blake off Portsmouth 1651 Event English parliament proclaims Navigation Act off 1622 Event Spanish silver fleet disappears off Florida Keys; 1,000s die 1587 Event 2nd English colony forms on Roanoke Island off NC 1559 Event 5 Spanish ships sinks in storm off Tampa, about 600 die 1542 Event Explorer Cabrillo discovered Catalina Island off California coast 1307 Event William Tell shoots apple off his son's head 432 Event St. Patrick, a bishop, is carried off to Ireland as a slave
