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** HMS Clacton ( J151 ) an old turbine engined Bangor class minesweeper named after Clacton-on-Sea
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** 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.
** The HMS Hampshire sinks off the Orkney Islands, Scotland, with Lord Kitchener aboard.
** WWI: The battleship HMS Formidable is sunk off Lyme Regis, Dorset, England, by a German U-Boat.
** British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Rhodesian Prime minister Ian Smith negotiate on the HMS Tiger in the Mediterranean.
** Britain's second Polaris missile submarine, HMS Renown, is launched.
** Falklands War: The nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano, killing 323 sailors.
** Falklands War: HMS Ardent is sunk by Argentine aircraft, killing 22 sailors.
** HMS Sunfish ( 1895 ), the first Sunfish destroyer, launched in 1895
** HMS Sunfish ( 81S ), an S-Class submarine, launched in 1936
** Most famously HMS Terror ( 1813 ), sister ship of HMS Erebus and involved in Captain Sir John Franklin's lost expedition through the Arctic
** HMS Norwich ( 1691 )
** HMS Norwich ( 1693 )
** HMS Norwich ( 1745 )
** HMS Surprise ( novel ), a 1973 historical naval novel by Patrick O ' Brian
** RNAS Stretton ( HMS Blackcap )
** HMS Sultana ( 2001 ), a replica of the 1768 schooner launched in 2001 at Chestertown, Maryland
** HMS Driver ( 1840 )
** HMS Bristol
** HMS Daring ( D32 )
** HMS Dauntless ( D33 )
** HMS Diamond ( D34 )
** HMS Dragon ( D35 )
** HMS Defender ( D36 ) ( not yet in service )
** HMS Duncan ( D37 ) ( not yet in service )
** and Clacton
** Clacton ( UK Parliament constituency ) a county constituency represented in the House of Commons around Clacton-on-Sea
** Clacton Airport an airport serving Clacton-on-Sea
** Clacton Pier a pier in Clacton-on-Sea
** Clacton Coastal Academy a coeducational high school serving the western part of Clacton-on-Sea
** Clacton County High School a comprehensive secondary school located in Clacton-on-Sea
** Great Clacton a village north of Clacton-on-Sea
** Little Clacton a small rural village close to Clacton-on-Sea
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** Altenberg, the German name for Vieille Montagne (" old mountain " in French ), the former zinc mine in Kelmis, Moresnet
** Jamtamót, the old assembly of Jämtland
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** Phlya, near Koropi, in the mysteries of Phlya: These have very old roots, and were probably originally dedicated to Demeter Anesidora, Kore, and Zeus-Ktesios, who was the god of the underground stored corn.
** Hermione: An old cult of Demeter Chthonia, Kore, and Klymenos ( Hades ).
** " Baby-farmer " Ada Williams is hanged at Newgate Prison for murdering a 21-month old girl.
** The old Deutsche Opernhaus in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is returned to its newly rebuilt house as the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
** Swedes start a tradition of eating Gustavus Adolphus pastries to commemorate the old warrior king.
** A general strike in the old quarter of Jerusalem protests Israel's unification of the city.
** Etan Patz was a 6 year old American child who disappeared from lower Manhattan, New York.
** Northwest Airlines Flight 255 ( a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 ) crashes on takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Romulus, Michigan just west of Detroit killing all but one ( 4-year old Cecelia Cichan ) of the 156 people on board.
** Henry, Count of Chambord, refuses to be crowned " King Henry V of France " until France abandons its tricolor and returns to the old Bourbon flag.
** Following the death of Gustavus Adolphus, king of Sweden, he is succeeded by his 6 year old daughter Christina while five regents, headed by Axel Oxenstierna, govern the country since she is underage.
** Under the leadership of British Prime Minister Robert Peel, the British Parliament repeals the Corn Laws, replacing the old Colonial mercantile trade system with Free Trade.
** John Donne is appointed as Reader in Divinity at his old inn of court, Lincoln's Inn.
** BBC 7 Classic Comedy — RealPlayer Audio repeats of the old ' Round the Horne '
** Instruction sets are architecture-specific: old processors and non-x86 processors lack SSE entirely, for instance, so programmers must provide non-vectorized implementations ( or different vectorized implementations ) for them.
** An old basque ; see basque ( clothing )
** The first known underwater diving club in Britain, " The Amphibians Club ", is formed in Aberdeen by Ivor Howitt ( who modified an old civilian gas mask ) and some friends.
** Self-interested closed cliques and " old boy networks ".
** Library of Sant Agustí, current municipal library where there was the old convent of Sant Agustí.
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** Maro Bona ( old noble family from Dubrovnik )
** The fortress stands on the grounds of an ancient grove of yews and boxwood, which may be up to 30 mya old.
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