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** A 14-meter high tsunami strikes Hilo and Laupāhoehoe on the Big Island of Hawaii ; 173 are killed, thousands injured.
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** Light level reduction of 0 % in low latitudes to 90 % in high smoke injection areas
** Darlington transistors are two BJTs connected together to provide a high current gain equal to the product of the current gains of the two transistors.
** Insulated gate bipolar transistors ( IGBTs ) use a medium power IGFET, similarly connected to a power BJT, to give a high input impedance.
** Dual gate FETs have a single channel with two gates in cascode ; a configuration optimized for high frequency amplifiers, mixers, and oscillators.
** Conventional: Chemicals such as gunpowder and high explosives store significant energy within their molecular bonds.
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** Three high school friends in Hoboken, N. J., open the first BLIMPIE on Washington Street.
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** The Super Dimension Fortress Macross ( 1982 – 1983 ): A huge spaceship appears high above Earth and crashes into an island in the Pacific, triggering a world war.
** The 6th World Festival of Youth and Students, a high point of the Khruschev Thaw, kicks off in Moscow.
** British forces launch Operation Goodwood, an armoured offensive aimed at driving the Germans from the high ground to the south of Caen.
** 1996 Everest disaster: A sudden storm engulfs Mount Everest with several climbing teams high on the mountain, leaving 8 dead.
** Stefan Holm, Swedish high jumper
** Battle of George Square: The British Army is called in to deal with riots and protests against high rents in Glasgow, Scotland.
** Ulrike Meyfarth, German high jumper
** A major heat wave strikes North America ; high temperature records are set and thousands die.
** A tsunami 85 m high rises over the Ryukyu Islands in Japan.
** Javier Sotomayor, Cuban high jumper
** The Dow Jones Industrial Average surges 43. 41 points, or 4. 25 %, to close at 1, 065. 49, its first all-time high in more than 9 years.
** and tsunami
** At least 1, 362 people are killed in an earthquake and associated tsunami in Japan.
** A tsunami triggered by an undersea earthquake destroys 10 villages in Papua New Guinea, killing an estimated 1, 500, leaving 2, 000 more unaccounted for and thousands more homeless.
** A major earthquake and tsunami kills 259 people in Colombia.
** A powerful earthquake and tsunami hit Honshū, Japan, killing some 3, 000.
** Ryō Un Maru, a Japanese fishing boat washed away from her moorings after the 2011 Tōhoku tsunami, and was deliberately sunk on 5 April 2012 after entering U. S. waters off the coast of Alaska.
** Sendai Airport ( route suspended until July 24, 2011 due to 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami )
** New Year's celebrations all over the UK fall silent for two minutes as a mark of respect for those who died in the tsunami.
** World ; A small tsunami will hit India and Sri Lanka ; ".. there will be a feeble assassination attempt on Barack Obama ".
** and strikes
** Thai boxing or Muay Thai – the modern Thai martial art with strong emphasis on knee and elbow strikes.
** Burmese Lethwei, a traditional Burmese martial art of which has now grown into a popular kickboxing event with strong emphasis on knee, elbow strikes and headbutt.
** Allows knee strikes
** Vietnam War: Operation Pierce Arrow – Aircraft from carriers USS Ticonderoga and USS Constellation bomb North Vietnam in retaliation for strikes against U. S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.
** NATO launches air strikes against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
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** Flooding in the Rhine River strikes Cologne.
** 1948 Fukui earthquake strikes Fukui, Japan.
** The attempted assassination of Palmiro Togliatti, general secretary of the Italian Communist Party, incites numerous strikes all over the country.
** Sit-down strikes are outlawed by the Supreme Court of the United States.
** Terror strikes are carried out against British military bases in Palestine.
** Prime Minister of Bulgaria Andrey Lukanov and his government of former Communists resign under pressure from strikes and street protests.
** A devastating category 4 Cyclone strikes Andhra Pradesh, India.
** An ice storm strikes the U. S., killing 26 directly, hundreds more from accidents.
** After weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland, the nationwide independent trade union Solidarity is established.
** The USS Samuel B. Roberts ( FFG-58 ) strikes a naval mine in the Persian Gulf, while deployed on Operation Earnest Will, during the Tanker War phase of the Iran – Iraq War.
** Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins with air strikes against Iraq.
** Typhoon Wanda strikes Hong Kong, killing at least 130 and wounding more than 600.
** The infamous Columbus Day Storm strikes the U. S. Pacific Northwest with wind gusts up to 170 mph ( 270 km / h ); 46 are killed, 11 billion board feet ( 26 million m³ ) of timber is blown down, with $ 230 million U. S. in damages.
** The Spanish government declares a 3-month martial law in the Basque county of Guipuzco, over strikes and demonstrations.
** An outbreak of tornadoes strikes the upper Midwest section of the United States ( in particular the Chicago area, including the suburbs of Belvidere and Oak Lawn, Illinois, where 33 people are killed and 500 injured ).
** Earthquake strikes Himachal Pradesh, India
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