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** A cyclone in the Palk Strait destroys the Indian town of Dhanushkodi, killing 1800 people.
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** and cyclone
** A South Atlantic tropical cyclone develops in the Southern Hemisphere off the coast of Angola ( the first of its kind to be documented by weather satellites ).
** A tropical cyclone hits Bangladesh, killing an estimated 138, 000 people.
** 1970 Bhola cyclone: A 120-mph ( 193 km / h ) tropical cyclone hits the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan ( now Bangladesh ), killing an estimated 500, 000 people ( considered the 20th century's worst cyclone disaster ).
** A cyclone in the Arabian Sea causes flooding in Bombay harbor, leaving about 100, 000 dead.
** and Strait
** Operation Active Endeavour, from 2001 ( Mediterranean and Strait of Gibraltar ) – 220 soldiers
** Education module on the separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families ( 2007 )
** The South Korean ferry Namyong Ho capsizes off Korean Strait ; 308 people are killed.
** The Oregon Treaty establishes the 49th parallel as the border between the United States and Canada, from the Rocky Mountains to the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
** China Airlines Flight 611 disintegrates near the Penghu Islands at Taiwan Strait, killing all 225 people on board.
** Torres Strait Islanders
** 9 April: Entered the Strait of Magellan
** 15 – 17 September: In transit to the town of Crissey, Madura Strait
** Loch Broom ( fjord ), Loch Eriboll ( fjord ), Loch Fyne ( fjord ), Loch Hourn ( fjord ), Loch Tarbert, Jura ( fjord ), Loch Torridon ( fjord ); Loch Sween, a fjord, The Minch ( Strait, " Skotlandsfjörð " (" Scotland's fjord / firth ") in Old Norse.
** Bass Strait, Victoria, 50 % owned
** Makassar Strait, a strait in Indonesia
** 46 U. S. bombers attack a Japanese convoy in Bougainville Strait, sinking the seaplane carrier Nisshin.
** In support of the upcoming U. S. invasion of Okinawa, Twentieth Air Force B-29s strike airfields and an aircraft factory on Kyushu and lay naval mines in Shimonoseki Strait.
** Japanese seaplane carrier Nisshin that was sunk in the Bougainville Strait in July 1943
** Arctic small tool tradition, prehistoric culture, 2500 BCE, Bering Strait
** Valdes Island, one of the Gulf Islands located in the Strait of Georgia, British Columbia, Canada
** Bering Strait: spoken on King Island and the Diomede Islands and in the villages north of Nome, Alaska ; subdialects:
** The Naval Battle of Surigao Strait ( October ' 44 )
** Nemuro Strait
** Taman Bay, an inlet of the Strait of Kerch off the peninsula
** Cape York-Torres Strait ( CYP3 )
** languages in and around the Vitiaz Strait
** July 7 — " Love Without End, Amen " by George Strait is Billboards first five-week No. 1 song, matching 1977's " Here You Come Again " by Dolly Parton.
** Livingston Island, McFarlane Strait ( Livingston )
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** Battle of Pavia — Aurelian destroys the retreating Alemanni army.
** One of 4 bombs detonated in Lusaka, Zambia, destroys the Angolan Embassy.
** Halifax Explosion: Two freighters collide in Halifax Harbour at Halifax, Nova Scotia and cause a huge explosion that kills at least 1, 963 people, injures 9, 000 and destroys part of the city ( until the Trinity nuclear test, the biggest manmade explosion in recorded history ).
** Albert Guay affair: A dynamite bomb destroys Canadian Pacific Airlines Douglas DC-3 in Quebec.
** Fire destroys La Fenice, Venice's opera house.
** 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 large Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb destroys the forensic laboratories in Belfast.
** Rioting Maze Prison inmates cause a fire that destroys most of the camp.
** An earthquake completely destroys Mendoza, Argentina.
** An Irish Republican Army bomb destroys Nelson's Pillar in Dublin.
** The One Meridian Plaza fire in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania kills 3 firefighters and destroys 8 floors of the building.
** A tornado destroys parts of Itu, a city in southeastern Brazil, killing 16 and leaving 176 injured.
** The Oakland Hills firestorm kills 25 and destroys 3, 469 homes and apartments.
** Serious bushfires in southern Tasmania claim 62 lives, and destroys 2, 642. 7 square kilometres ( 653, 025. 4 acres ) of land.
** An earthquake in the Izu Peninsula of Japan kills 223 people and destroys 650 buildings.
** Anglo-Spanish War: Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet under heavy fire at Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
** May – Publius Servilius Vatia Isauricus, co-consul with Julius Caesar, destroys Caelius's magistrate's chair on his tribunal.
** Sir George Rooke fails to take Cadiz, but captures a Spanish treasure fleet and destroys French and Spanish warships.
** destroys Punic and Achean capitols: Carthage and Corinth
** August 24, An eruption of Vesuvius destroys much of Pompeii and Herculaneum
** A single Japanese bomber destroys 11 U. S. Navy PV-1 Ventura patrol aircraft parked at Tacloban Airfield on Leyte.
** Muhammad II – great-grandson of Abd al-Rahman III – deposes Hisham II as Caliph and destroys Al-Mansur's palace complex of al-Madinat al-Zahira near Córdoba.
** Screened and treated in a manner that destroys viruses.
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