** Structural mapping: the locations of the major rock units and the faults and folds that led to their placement there.

** for his profound contributions to three major areas of operations research and management science: inventory theory, dynamic programming and lattice programming.

** for his profound contributions to two major areas of operations research and management science: stochastic networks and mathematical finance.

** International telephone system: landline connections to Latvia and Poland ; major international connections are to Denmark, Sweden, and Norway by submarine cable for further transmission by satellite

** Panzer General, SSI ( 1994 ), video game ; strategic simulation game: Sea Lion ' 40 and Sea Lion Plus ( the latter with prestige points used to take over Gibraltar allowing Italian naval assistance ) scenarios are available given major victories in early operations, or the Sea Lion ' 43 after initial delays and later major victories in North Africa or Russia.

** Engine configuration for a discussion of the layout of the major components of a reciprocating piston internal combustion engine.

** Some 400 – 1, 000 students march through Times Square, New York and another 700 in San Francisco, in the first major student demonstration against the Vietnam War.

** British battleship HMS Britannia is sunk by German submarine U-50 off Trafalgar with the loss of around fifty lives, the last major naval engagement of WWI.

** Russian General Brusilov begins a major offensive in Galicia, initially advancing towards Lemberg.

** Battle of the Kasserine Pass: German General Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps launch an offensive against Allied defenses in Tunisia ; it is the United States ' first major battle defeat of the war.

** President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt's " Infamy " Address to a Joint Session of Congress at 12: 30 p. m. EST ( 17. 30 GMT ) and transmitted live over all four major national networks attracts the largest audience ever for an American radio broadcast, over 81 % of homes.

** Vernon Jordan is shot and critically injured in an assassination attempt in Fort Wayne, Indiana by Joseph Paul Franklin ( the first major news story for CNN ).

** At Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, the first All-Star Game tie in major league baseball history occurs, when the game is stopped in the 9th inning due to rain ( the only tie until 2002 in MLB All-Star Game history ).

** Conrail ( Consolidated Rails Corporation ) is formed by the U. S. government, to take control of 13 major Northeast Class-1 railroads that had filed for bankruptcy protection.

** Singer Paul Simon is the first major artist to tour South Africa after the end of the cultural boycott.

** A major heat wave strikes North America ; high temperature records are set and thousands die.

** A major collapse of ground at the Emaswati Colliery in Swaziland traps 26 miners 65 m below the surface.

** The 1962 New York City newspaper strike begins, affecting all of the city's major newspapers ; It would last for 114 days.

** Rising prices cause major riots in Munich.

** Lubbock Tornado: An F5 tornado hits downtown Lubbock, Texas, the first to hit a downtown district of a major city since Topeka, Kansas in 1966 ; 28 are killed.

** Carl B. Stokes is elected mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American mayor of a major United States city.

** Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned major sweep operations to neutralize Viet Cong forces during the next year are to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam will have to be increased from 120, 000 to 400, 000.

** A major tube train crash at Moorgate station, London kills 43 people.

** 1837 Galilee earthquake

** 2005 Lake Tanganyika earthquake

** 2008 Lake Kivu earthquake

** An earthquake hits Banggai, Indonesia, leaving 54 dead.

** A 7. 5 earthquake hits Japan, killing 385 people.

** An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and Marche, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse.

** A strong earthquake shakes Mexico City and Mexican port city Acapulco.

** 1948 Fukui earthquake strikes Fukui, Japan.

** An earthquake hits San Juan, Argentina, killing an estimated 10, 000 people in the worst natural disaster in Argentina's history.

** At least 1, 400 people are killed in an earthquake measuring 7. 4 on the Richter Scale, in the Ancash Region and Quiches District in Peru.

** At least 1, 362 people are killed in an earthquake and associated tsunami in Japan.

** In Irian Jaya, an earthquake of magnitude 7. 5 and associated tidal waves kills 102 people and causes widespread devastation.

** El Asnam, Algeria is destroyed by an earthquake, which claims more than 2, 600 lives.

** A 6. 6 magnitude earthquake hits northern Afghanistan, killing up to 5, 000.

** 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.

** An earthquake in Skopje, Yugoslavia ( now in the Republic of Macedonia ) leaves 1, 800 dead.

** The 1992 Cairo earthquake kills 543 people and injures more than 6, 500.

** A 7. 0 Richter scale earthquake kills 5, 000 people in the Iranian province of Fars.

** A 6. 25 Richter scale earthquake in Nicaragua kills 5, 000 – 12, 000 people in the capital, Managua ; President Somoza is later accused of pocketing millions of dollars worth of foreign aid intended for relief.

** Roberto Clemente dies in a plane crash off the coast of Puerto Rico while en route to deliver aid to Nicaraguan earthquake victims.

** An 8. 6 Richter scale Haiyuan earthquake causes a landslide in Gansu Province, China, killing 180, 000.

** An earthquake completely destroys Mendoza, Argentina.

** An earthquake in Varto town, Turkey, kills 2, 394 and injures 10, 000.

** A deadly earthquake kills at least 1, 200 people in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

** A 7. 6 earthquake kills 82 in Costa Rica and Panama.