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** Meanwhile at sea, the Persians are defeated by a Greek fleet headed by Leotychidas of Sparta and Xanthippus of Athens in the Battle of Mycale, off the coast of Lydia in Asia Minor.
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** Big Dipper ( Geauga Lake ), a wooden roller coaster currently Standing but not operating at Geauga Lake
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** won the Golden Palm at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival and an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
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** A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the, marking the first time a U. S. Navy vessel has captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.
** A 3-front revolutionary invasion by air and sea takes place in the Dominican Republic, consisting of exiles aided by Fidel Castro and the Venezuelan government, whose objective is to overthrow dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo.
** A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, dropping three 70-kiloton hydrogen bombs near the town of Palomares, and one into the sea, in the 1966 Palomares B-52 crash.
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** Francis Drake, English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, pirate and politician ( d. 1596 )
** In the Netherlands, a fringing barrier between the North Sea and a shallow lake collapses, causing the fifth largest flood in recorded history which creates the Zuider Zee inlet and kills over 50, 000 people ; it also gives sea access to Amsterdam, allowing its development as an important port city.
** In the English Fenland through the vehemence of the wind and the violence of the sea, the monastery of Spalding and many churches are overthrown and destroyed " All the whole country in the parts of Holland was for the most part turned into a standing pool so that an intolerable multitude of men, women and children were overwhelmed with the water, especially in the town of Boston, a great part thereof was destroyed.
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** The star also represents the island itself: a land of often red soil bordered by white beaches in a blue sea.
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