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** The Firth is off the Solway Coast.

** The Firth is off the Solway Coast.

** International Harvester International Harvester Loadstar ( 1962 – 1978 )

** International Harvester S-Series " Schoolmaster " ( 1979 – 1989 )

** 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.

** The sailing ship Pamir sinks off the Azores in a hurricane.

** The paddlewheel steamer sinks off the Georgia coast, with a cargo of $ 400, 000 in coins.

** WWII: A Japanese submarine sinks the surfaced U. S. submarine USS Corvina near Truk.

** An Indonesian ferry sinks off the northern tip of Sumatra, drowning more than 100 people.

** An overcrowded ferry sinks off the coast of Irois, Haiti, killing more than 200 people.

** The MV Bukoba sinks in Tanzanian waters in Lake Victoria, killing nearly 1, 000 in one of Africa's worst maritime disasters.

** Off Scotland, sinks on rocks ; 206 die.

** The HMS Hampshire sinks off the Orkney Islands, Scotland, with Lord Kitchener aboard.

** Severe earthquakes strike the Azores and the village of São Miguel sinks.

** WWII: A Luftwaffe Junkers 88 bomber sinks the British ship RMS Lancastria, which was evacuating troops from near Saint-Nazaire, France, killing some 5, 800 men.

** The Spanish liner Santa Isabel sinks off Villa Garcia ; 244 die.

** An Egyptian surface-to-surface missile sinks the Israeli destroyer Eilat, killing 47 Israeli sailors.

** 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 ).

** Falklands War: The nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano, killing 323 sailors.

** The Soviet liner Mikhail Lermontov sinks in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.

** The Soviet passenger liner Admiral Nakhimov collides with the bulk carrier Pyotr Vasev in the Black Sea and sinks almost immediately, killing 398.

** The oil tanker Prestige sinks off the Galician coast, causing a huge oil spill.

** A 60-plane U. S. strike from Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, sinks two Japanese destroyers and badly damages a third off Kolombangara.

** The Japanese submarine I-175 torpedoes and sinks the U. S. Navy escort aircraft carrier 20 nautical miles ( 37 km ) southwest of Butaritari with the loss of 644 lives, including that of Rear Admiral Henry M. Mullinnix ; there are 272 survivors.

** The U. S. Navy submarine torpedoes and sinks the Japanese aircraft carrier Chūyō near Hachijōjima with the loss of over 1, 243 lives, including 20 American prisoners-of-war.

** " ABC " ( Jin song ), Jin's first single off his 4th album " ABC " ( American-born Chinese )

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** If a team is penalized in the final minute of a half and the penalty causes the clock to stop, the opposing team now has the right to have 10 seconds run off the clock in addition to the yardage penalty.

** Mine Exploder T11: Six forward firing mortars to set off mines.

He remains continuously optimistic ; even his being told to " p ** s off " by Victor is laughed off.

** The family observed pots and pans being thrown around the kitchen, blinds moving up and down, lights going on and off, doors locking themselves, chairs flying across the room, and cupboard doors opening and banging shut before being ripped off their hinges among other phenomena.

** Major League Baseball-Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig called off games for one day, extending cancellations for three days, then all games through September 16 were postponed.

** Division I college football games to be played on September 13 and 15 were called off.

** Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crashes off the California coast into the Pacific Ocean, killing 88.

** The first Ford Mustang rolls off the assembly line at Ford Motor Company.

** WWI: is torpedoed and sunk off the east coast of Ireland by German submarine U-55 ; 218 of the 223 on board are rescued.

** 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.

** 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 ).

** M / V Braer, a Liberian oil tanker, runs aground off the Scottish island of Mainland, causing a massive oil spill.

** All members of the Zambia national football team die in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon in route to Dakar, Senegal.

** 185, 000 Teamsters Union United Parcel Service drivers walk off the job.

** The 6th World Festival of Youth and Students, a high point of the Khruschev Thaw, kicks off in Moscow.

** Fourteen black athletes are kicked off the University of Wyoming football team for wearing black armbands into their coach's office.

** In a response to Georges Bonnet's speech of January 26, German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, referring to Bonnet's alleged statement of December 6, 1938 accepting Eastern Europe as being in Germany's exclusive sphere of influence, protests that all French security commitments in that region are " now off limits ".

** The steamer Danae () carrying 350 Cretan Jews and 250 Cretans on the first leg of their way to Auschwitz was sunk without survivors off the shore of Santorini.