** ( formerly SS Sgt.

** ( formerly SS PFC Eugene A. Obregon, SS Thomas Heywood )

** ( formerly SS Maj. Stephen W. Pless, SS Charles Carroll )

** The Cathedral of SS.

** Former SS Captain Erich Priebke is retried ; on July 22 he is sentenced to 5 years in prison.

** The SS E. A. Bryan, loaded with ammunition, explodes at the Port Chicago naval base ; 320 are killed.

** Resistance fighters ambush and attempt to execute SS general Hanns Albin Rauter, the arch-persecutor of the Dutch.

** Wilhelm Rediess, SS and Police Leader of Nazi-occupied Norway ( suicide ) ( b. 1900 )

** Eduard Wirths, German doctor, chief SS doctor at Auschwitz concentration camp ( suicide ) ( b. 1909 )

** The SS Sussex is torpedoed, resulting in the Sussex pledge.

** The-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm from the entrance to Whitefish Bay on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board ( an event immortalized in song by Gordon Lightfoot ).

** The first successful shipment of frozen mutton from Australia arrives in London aboard the SS Strathleven.

** The Nazi SA camp Oranienburg becomes a national camp, taken over by the SS.

** 16 October: Sailed for Europe on board the Dutch packet SS Vlydte

** Acta SS.

** SS, a common naming prefix for any Merchant vessel

** SS, a Ship prefix identifying a ship's propulsion as steam powered

** SS San Mateo

** SS Shasta

** Community building turned into a pig slaughterhouse by the SS, with Jewish gravestones from the Konskie Jewish cemetery

** 88th Oak Leaves on 20 April 1942 as SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen-SS and commander of SS -" Totenkopf " Division

** 7. 92 mm Solothurn M SS 41

** C. v. mexicanus ( Linnaeus, 1766 )-eastern United States west of Atlantic Seaboard to Great Plains

** 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.

** Virgin Atlantic Airways makes its inaugural flight.

** 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.

** Arthur L. Bristol becomes Rear Admiral for the U. S. Navy's Support Force, Atlantic Fleet.

** WWII: Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic, killing 2, 300.

** 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.

** An annular solar eclipse is seen on Atlantic Ocean and Africa.

** Explorer program: The United States launches Explorer 6 from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

** British luxury liner leaves Southampton on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic

** 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

** A Solar Eclipse passes along the Atlantic coast region.

** Intelsat IV ( F2 ) is launched ; it enters commercial service over the Atlantic Ocean March 26.

** 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.

** During this year's Atlantic hurricane season, probably the most severe of the pre-1600 seasons, at least eight intense hurricanes occur.

** In the Atlantic

** Brevoortia tyrannus ( Atlantic menhaden )

** Archosargus rhomboidalis, Western Atlantic seabream