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** Off the coast of Japan, bombers hit the aircraft carrier USS Franklin, killing about 800 of her crewmen and crippling the ship.
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** Battle of Cape Matapan: Off the Peloponnesus coast in the Mediterranean, British naval forces defeat those of Italy, sinking 5 warships.
** Off Scotland, sinks on rocks ; 206 die.
** WWI: Off the coast of Chile, the Royal Navy force SMS Dresden to scuttle.
** Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the DSV Alvin submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb.
** Life on an Island: Early Settlers Off the Rock-Bound Coast of Maine, an NPS Teaching with Historic Places ( TwHP ) lesson plan
* Street Level Recordings / F ** k Off Records website including west London squat scene DIY and Idiot Ballroom
** Murder, She Wrote: episode entitled " We're Off to Kill the Wizard "
** Face / Off -- Mark Stoeckinger, Per Hallberg
** Off On A Comet
** Stop the World – I Want to Get Off – Book, music, and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley.
** George Benson for " Off Broadway "
** Noises Off by Michael Frayn
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** The 1986 film Ferris Buellers Day Off features a black beret bearing the regiment's emblem
** The Donnas-" Take It Off "
** The Robert Cray Band for Take Your Shoes Off
* Off Ramp Exit to Paradise **
** A Chip Off the Old Tooth
** Off suite diamonds: K, Q, J, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, A
** Off suite hearts: K, Q, J, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2
** Off suite clubs: K, Q, J, A, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
** Off suite spades: K, Q, J, A, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
** Steve Jordan ( producer ), The Robert Cray Band for Take Your Shoes Off
** Blair Underwood -( Rules of Engagement, Set It Off )
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** Tell Atlas, the Atlas mountain range that parallels the Mediterranean coast
** C. v. virginianus ( Linnaeus, 1758 )-nominate-Atlantic coast from Virginia to northern Florida and southeast Alabama
** Ratchet: typical bicycles have these so that the rider can stop pedaling and coast
** Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crashes off the California coast into the Pacific Ocean, killing 88.
** 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.
** WWI: is torpedoed and sunk off the east coast of Ireland by German submarine U-55 ; 218 of the 223 on board are rescued.
** WWI: Action of 17 November 1917: United States Navy destroyers USS Fanning and USS Nicholson capture Imperial German Navy U-boat SM U-58 off the south-west coast of Ireland, the first combat action in which U. S. ships take a submarine ( which is then scuttled ).
** More than 1, 000 British bombers drop 5, 000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day.
** The paddlewheel steamer sinks off the Georgia coast, with a cargo of $ 400, 000 in coins.
** The Australian Hospital Ship Centaur is sunk off the coast of Queensland, by a Japanese submarine.
** An overcrowded ferry sinks off the coast of Irois, Haiti, killing more than 200 people.
** Paris and Rome-bound TWA Flight 800 ( Boeing 747 ) explodes off the coast of Long Island, New York, killing all 230 on board.
** Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 125.
** United States Bicentennial: From coast to coast, the United States celebrates the 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
** Roberto Clemente dies in a plane crash off the coast of Puerto Rico while en route to deliver aid to Nicaraguan earthquake victims.
** 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 ).
** A Solar Eclipse passes along the Atlantic coast region.
** A low-pressure system moving from South Australia and redeveloping off the New South Wales coast dumps a record of rain in a day on Sydney.
** Cold War: In a meeting off the coast of Malta, U. S. President George H. W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev release statements indicating that the Cold War between their nations may be coming to an end.
** 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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