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** field guns: capable of long range fire.
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** gun howitzers: capable of high or low angle fire with a long barrel.
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** Tver – a wooden fortress was burned down in a fire in 1763
** Renewal of the Vestal fire
** The terrestrial region, according to Aristotle, consisted of concentric spheres of the four elements — earth, water, air, and fire.
** A 51-day stand-off at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, ends with a fire that kills 76 people, including David Koresh.
** Colin Ferguson opens fire with his Ruger 9 mm pistol on a Long Island Rail Road train, killing 6 and injuring 19.
** A fire at the Windscale power station in the UK releases radioactive material into the surrounding environment, including Iodine-131.
** The Cuyahoga River fire helps spur an avalanche of water pollution control activities resulting in the Clean Water Act, Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement and the creation of the federal Environmental Protection Agency
** A fire breaks out in the Bannerman's Castle in the Hudson River ; most of the roof collapses and crashes down to the lower levels.
** A fire in a Buddhist monastery Shanghai kills 20 monks.
** Borley Rectory in England is destroyed by fire.
** The Grand Opera House in Cincinnati is destroyed in a fire.
** In Evansville, Indiana, a fire burns through the business district, causing $ 175, 000 of damage.
** Hartford circus fire: More than 100 children die in one of the worst fire disasters in the history of the United States.
** Ernie Pyle, American journalist ( sniper fire ) ( b. 1900 )
** The ocean liner catches fire while being converted into the troopship USS Lafayette ( AP-53 ) for WWII.
** Cocoanut Grove fire: A fire in the Cocoanut Grove night club in Boston, Massachusetts, kills 491.
** A fire at the Sheraton Hotel in Cairo, Egypt, kills 16 people.
** In New York City, a fire due to arson at an illegal social club called " Happy Land " kills 87.
** Scandinavian Star, a Bahamas-registered ferry, catches fire en route from Norway to Denmark, leaving 158 dead.

** and aboard
** Pacific Air Lines Flight 773 crashes near San Ramon, California, killing all 44 aboard ; the FBI later reports that a cockpit recorder tape indicates that the pilot and co-pilot had been shot by a suicidal passenger.
** An explosion aboard the USS Enterprise near Hawaii kills 27 and injures 314.
** STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched aboard Space Shuttle Discovery.
** U. S. astronaut Norman Thagard breaks NASA's space endurance record of 14 days, 1 hour and 16 minutes, aboard the Russian space station Mir.
** Zagreb mid-air collision: A British Airways Trident and a Yugoslav DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia ( now Croatia ), killing all 176 aboard.
** STS-42: Dr. Roberta Bondar becomes the first Canadian woman in space, aboard Space Shuttle Discovery.
** STS-47: Dr. Mae Jemison becomes the first African American woman to travel into space, aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour.
** Fidel Castro and Che Guevara depart from Tuxpan, Veracruz, Mexico, enroute to Santiago de Cuba aboard the yacht Granma with 82 men.
** The HMS Hampshire sinks off the Orkney Islands, Scotland, with Lord Kitchener aboard.
** After a successful mission aboard Salyut 1, the world's first manned space station, the crew of the Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply leaks out through a faulty valve.
** An explosion and fire aboard the U. S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Forrestal in the Gulf of Tonkin leaves 134 dead.
** The first successful shipment of frozen mutton from Australia arrives in London aboard the SS Strathleven.
** Slaves aboard the Amistad rebel and capture the ship.
** On the other hand, in the Crusade episode Visitors From Down the Street, Captain Matthew Gideon would launch a full spread of modified probes ( uploaded with considerable information about Earth and other Interstellar Alliance worlds, and about certain recent events which had transpired aboard the EAS Excalibur ) at a pre-hyperspace planet where Humans had been cast ( by the local government ) in a role reminiscent of the Grey Aliens in our culture, in order to expose the locals to the truth.
** Futurama A Big Piece of Garbage NASA sends all of Earth's garbage into space in a cluster of a giant sphere aboard a rocket ( 2000 )
** A deck officer aboard a merchant vessel, such as the Chief Mate, Second Mate, or Third Mate
** Aquarius ( SAC-D instrument ), an instrument aboard the SAC-D satellite
** The second completed Boeing B-29 Superfortress heavy bomber catches fire in the air and crashes into a building just north of Boeing Field in Seattle, Washington, killing all ten aboard the plane – including famed Boeing test pilot Edmund " Eddie " Allen – and 19 or 20 people on the ground.
** In the North Atlantic Ocean, the first U. S. Navy antisubmarine hunter-killer group begins combat operations, centered around the escort aircraft carrier and the aircraft of Composite Squadron 9 ( VC-9 ) embarked aboard her.
** Luftwaffe Dornier Do 217 bombers sink the Italian battleship Roma west of Corsica with two Fritz X radio-controlled glide bombs as she steams to surrender to the Allies ; 1, 253 of the 1, 849 aboard are lost.
** A U. S. Army Air Forces B-17G Flying Fortress of the 422nd Bomb Squadron, 305th Bombardment Group ( Heavy ), crashes at Yielden, England, on takeoff from RAF Chelveston, killing all 10 men aboard the bomber and 11 people on the ground.
** The Royal Navy tests an aircraft catapult for the first time, using a compressed-air catapult aboard the catapult trials ship Slinger to launch an unmanned Short 184 with its fuselage fabric removed and engine replaced by ballast.
** The French semi-rigid airship La Patrie breaks loose from her moorings at Souhesmes, France, with no one aboard and is swept northwest across France, England, and Ireland before disappearing over the North Atlantic Ocean.
** 26 October: The fishing boat Arthur operated by three Norwegians left Britain with seven British frogmen and two chariots hidden aboard.

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