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** During this year's Atlantic hurricane season, probably the most severe of the pre-1600 seasons, at least eight intense hurricanes occur.
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** During his visit to the Polish capital, German Chancellor Willy Brandt goes down on his knees in front of a monument to the victims of the Warsaw Ghetto.
** During a severe thunderstorm over Washington, a man calling himself D. B. Cooper parachutes from the Northwest Orient Airlines plane he hijacked, with US $ 200, 000 in ransom money, and is never seen again ( as of March 2008, this case remains the only unsolved skyjacking in history ).
** Luzhniki disaster: During the UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem, 66 people are crushed to death.
** During designated overs of an innings ( see Powerplay ( cricket )), there may be no more than two fielders standing outside an oval line marked on the field, being semicircles centred on the middle stump of each wicket of radius 30 yards, joined by straight lines parallel to the pitch.
** During the beginning of Porky in Wackyland, a newspaper man arrives behind the title card, yelling " Extra!
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** During the pre-merge portion of the 2006 season two former contestants returned to the game to lead the tribes.
** During the 2009 season the two tribes were initially composed of only women while a smaller tribe of men were hidden on a secluded beach.
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** USA Cycling canceled the BMC Software Tour of Houston scheduled for September 16, which was a key event in that year's Pro Cycling Tour, involving elite domestic and international cyclists.
** If both teams on the front row at the Daytona 500 are even-positioned teams from the previous year's points ( and would be in Duel 2 ), the slowest exempt team of the odd-positioned teams, based on the final points standings from the previous year, is moved to Duel 2.
** On February 8, Blink-182 announced at this year's Grammys that they would reunite for a tour and new album.
** Women in Victoria, Australia were unintentionally enfranchised by the Electoral Act ( 1863 ), and proceeded to vote in the following year's elections.
** It is reported that Fox are to make a sequel to this year's Fantastic Four movie, with a proposed release date of July 4, 2007. newsarama
** The Harvey Awards announce they have added a " Best Online Comics Work " category to this year's awards.
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** international: country code-56 ; submarine cables provide links to the US and to Central and South America ; satellite earth stations-2 Intelsat ( Atlantic Ocean ) ( 2007 )
** In 1999, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) led by the United States launched air attacks against Yugoslavia ( then composed of only Serbia and Montenegro ) to pressure the Yugoslav government to end its military operations against ethnic Albanian separatists in Kosovo due to accusations of war crimes being committed by Yugoslav military forces working alongside nationalist Serb paramilitary groups.
** British liner becomes the first civilian casualty of the war when she is torpedoed and sunk by in the eastern Atlantic.
** At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team.
** 150 women ( members of New York Radical Women ) arrive in Atlantic City, New Jersey to protest against the Miss America Pageant, as exploitative of women.
** Explorer program: The United States launches Explorer 6 from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
** Gemini 12 ( James A. Lovell, Buzz Aldrin ), splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean, 600 km east of the Bahamas.
** 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 ).
** The body of publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell is found floating in the Atlantic Ocean near the Canary Islands.
** The North Atlantic Cooperation Council ( NAC-C ) meets for the first time, the day on which the Soviet Union ceases to exist. source
** Intelsat IV ( F3 ) is launched ; it enters commercial service over the Atlantic Ocean February 18, 1972.
** The wreck of the RMS Titanic ( 1912 ) in the North Atlantic is located by a joint American-French expedition led by Dr. Robert Ballard ( WHOI ) and Jean-Louis Michel ( Ifremer ) using side-scan sonar from RV Knorr.
** The third hurricane of the season, the first recorded example of a storm crossing from the Eastern Pacific basin into the Atlantic basin, occurred in Oaxaca.
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