** Two of them are triple-centuries ( matched by Australia's Donald Bradman, India's Virender Sehwag, and West Indies ' Chris Gayle ).

** The 1977 Rugby League World Cup culminates in Australia's 13 – 12 victory over Great Britain at the Sydney Cricket Ground before about 24, 450 spectators.

** All of Australia's 1, 645 domestic airline pilots resign over an airline's move to sack and sue them over a dispute.

** Montevideo Maru, a Japanese ship sunk in World War II, resulting in the loss of large numbers of Austalian prisoners of war and civilians and Australia's worst maritime disaster

** Penny Wong 黃英賢 / 黃英贤 ( 1968, born in Malaysia ), the current Australian Minister for Climate Change and Water, Australia's first Asian Cabinet Minister, 2007 -

** Alfred Huang 黃國鑫 / 黄国鑫 ( Jiaoling, Guangdong, born in China ), Lord Mayor, Adelaide, 2000 – 2003 ; Australia's first Chinese Lord Mayor

** Macquarie Lighthouse, Australia's first and longest operating navigational light

** Macabre: A Journey through Australia's Darkest Fears edited by Angela Challis and Marty Young

** Bill Morgan is establishing Western Australia's first population health data base in glaucoma.

** The Greek ferry Express Samina sinks off the coast of the island of Paros ; 80 out of a total of over 500 passengers perish in one of Greece's worst sea disasters.

** Bhopal Disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, kills more than 8, 000 people outright and injures over half a million ( with more later dying from their injuries the death toll is now 23, 000 +) in the worst industrial disaster in history.

** Malbone Street Wreck: The worst rapid transit accident in world history occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue, in Brooklyn, New York City, with at least 93 dead.

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

** Hartford circus fire: More than 100 children die in one of the worst fire disasters in the history of the United States.

** The worst coal dust explosion to date, in Honkeiko, China, claims 1, 549 lives.

** The MV Bukoba sinks in Tanzanian waters in Lake Victoria, killing nearly 1, 000 in one of Africa's worst maritime disasters.

** Trans-Canada Airlines Flight 831, a Douglas DC-8 carrying 118, crashes into a wooded hillside after taking-off from Dorval International Airport near Montreal, killing all on board ( the worst air disaster for many years in Canada's history ).

** Serb troops take Vukovar after an 87-day siege, and commit the worst massacre in Croatian history.

** 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 blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 600, 000 tons ( 176, 400, 000 gallons ) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the worst oil spill to date.

** A hurricane and huge waves kill about 2, 500 in Santa Cruz del Sur in the worst natural disaster in Cuban history.

** Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party loses control of the House of Councillors, the LDP's worst electoral showing in 34 years, leading to Prime Minister Uno announcing he will resign to take responsibility for the result.

** In the Republic of China legislative election, the Kuomintang suffers its worst election setback in 40 years in power, winning only 53 % of the popular vote.

** A Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes at an air show in Ukraine, killing 77 and injuring more than 100, making it the worst air show disaster in history ( see Sknyliv airshow disaster ).

** Johnstown Flood, one of the worst flood disasters in US history

** Worst case ontario ( worst case scenario )

** Danny Way clipped his shins on the lip of the quarterpipe after a 20 + foot freefall during the big air competition, which the commentators refer to as the " second worst fall ever at the X Games " ( the first being Jake Brown's the year before ).

** Pierre Levegh killed along with more than 80 spectators in the worst auto racing accident in history

** The Hyatt Regency Kansas City in Kansas City, Missouri, was the site of one of the worst hotel disasters in U. S. history.

** Catastrophizing – Inability to foresee anything other than the worst possible outcome, however unlikely, or experiencing a situation as unbearable or impossible when it is just uncomfortable.

** the worst were: Liu Kang's " Cartwheel " in MK, Kano's " Knee Stomp " in MK vs DC, Kitana's " Kiss of Death " in MKII, Kabal's " Inflating Head " and " Scary Face " in MK3, Rain's " Upside-Down Uppercut " in Trilogy, Bo ' Rai Cho's " Fart of Doom " in Deception ;

** They later published a list of their top worst MK Fatalities: Tanya's " Neck Breaker " ( MK4 ), Kabal's " Scary Face " ( MK3 ), Sindel's " Hara-Kiri " ( MK: D ), Kenshi's " Eyeball-Popper " ( MK: DA ), Quan Chi's " Neck-Stretcher " ( MK: DA ), Raiden's " Accident " ( MK: D ), Reptile's " Animality " ( MK3 ), Motaro's " Head Yoink " ( MK: T ), Liu Kang's " Somersault Kick " ( MK ), and every Fatality / Heroic Brutality from MK Vs. DC.

** Aberdeen railway station, New South Wales

** Bangor ( Gwynedd ) railway station

** Basel SBB railway station

** Between Basel SBB and Basel Badischer Bahnhof – Basel Badischer Bahnhof, and all other railway property and stations on the right bank of the Rhine belong to DB and are classed as German customs territory.

** WWII: A train stalls inside a railway tunnel outside Salerno, Italy ; 521 choke to death.

** Romania opens its first mountain railway ( from Anina to Oravita ).

** The Swansea and Mumbles Railway in South Wales, at this time known as the Oystermouth Railway, becomes the first passenger carrying railway in the world.

** Docklands Light Railway in London, the first driverless railway in Great Britain, is formally opened by Elizabeth II.

** George Westinghouse patents the " failsafe " automatic railway air brake.

** George Hudson, English railway financier ( d. 1871 )

** Rail transport in Belgium: a railway is opened between Brussels and Mechelen, the first in continental Europe.

** The Bavarian Ludwig Railway opens between Nuremberg and Fürth, with a train hauled by Der Adler (" The Eagle "), the first railway in Germany.

** Hackney Central railway station

** Hackney Downs railway station

** Hackney Wick railway station

** Montpelier Junction, the section of track outside Brighton railway station

** Montpelier railway station, a train station in Bristol on the Severn Beach Line

** Train station or railway station

** Wimbledon station, a railway station in the suburb

** Wimbledon Chase railway station, a railway station in the area

** London King's Cross railway station a major London railway terminus

** King's Cross Thameslink railway station a former railway station connecting with King's Cross station and King's Cross St Pancras tube station