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** Thousands storm the Stasi headquarters in East Berlin in an attempt to view their government records.
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** Thousands of African Americans, many of them children, are arrested while protesting segregation in Birmingham, Alabama.
** Thousands riot in Algiers, Algeria against the National Liberation Front government ; by October 10 the army has killed and tortured about 500 people in crushing the riots.
** and storm
** West Ice accidents: During a severe storm in the West Ice, east of Greenland, 78 seal hunters on 5 Norwegian seal hunting vessels perish without a trace.
** A 126-day hostage crisis at the residence of the Japanese ambassador in Lima, Peru, ends after government commandos storm and capture the building, rescuing 71 hostages.
** 1996 Everest disaster: A sudden storm engulfs Mount Everest with several climbing teams high on the mountain, leaving 8 dead.
** The Greek oil tanker Aegean Sea, carrying 80, 000 tonnes of crude oil, runs aground in a storm while on approach to La Coruña, Spain, and spills much of its cargo.
** The Russian ironclad Rusalka disappears in a storm en route from Tallinn to Helsinki ; her hulk is eventually discovered in July 2003, off Helsinki.
** An unexpected storm buries Maine under five feet of snow, forcing the Bangor Daily News to miss a publication date for the only time in history.
** 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 ).
** Hedley Verity establishes a new first-class cricket record by taking all ten wickets for only ten runs against Nottinghamshire on a pitch affected by a storm.
** 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.
** Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: A tornado spawned from the same storm system as the Flint tornado hits in Worcester, Massachusetts, killing 94.
** The same storm which pounded the U. S. earlier in the month hits England, Scandinavia and the Baltic States, leaving 13 dead with widespread flooding and power cuts.
** in the play and film Bent by Martin Sherman, the hero has the misfortune to spend the night with a storm trooper on the Night of the Long Knives, and is caught up in the arrests and sent to a concentration camp.
** Currently, the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge is once again being tolled ; because of the age of the bridge and its inability to withstand more than a 20-year storm, it is planned to be replaced by a new floating bridge in 2014.
** Darjeeling Himalayan Railway has six full zig zags, most are from the construction of the current railway but one was added in the 1940s and at least one other was used temporarily following storm damage, narrow gauge
** and headquarters
** Post Tower, the tallest building in the state North Rhine-Westphalia, housing the headquarters of Deutsche Post / DHL
** In Uzbekistan, an apparent assassination attempt against President Islam Karimov takes place at government headquarters.
** Mir Aimal Kasi fires a rifle and kills 2 employees outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
** U. S. President Bill Clinton orders a cruise missile attack on Iraqi intelligence headquarters in the Al-Mansur District of Baghdad, in response to an Iraqi plot to assassinate former U. S. President George Bush during his visit to Kuwait in mid-April.
** Chechen rebels attack the Russian government headquarters in Grozny ; 70 Russian soldiers and policemen and 130 Chechen fighters are killed.
** In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergei Kirov is shot and killed at the Communist Party headquarters in Leningrad by Leonid Nikolaev ( it is widely thought that Soviet leader Joseph Stalin ordered this murder ).
** Headquarters of two Warrior, one FV432 ambulance, two Land Rovers, one 8-ton truck, headquarters and sniper section
** Three platoons of four Warriors, platoon headquarters ( L9A1 51 mm Light Mortar ), three sections ( two L86 LSW each )
** Pioneer platoon of four Warriors, platoon headquarters ( L9A1 51 mm Light Mortar ), three sections ( two L86 LSW each )
** 19th Bomb Group ( Heavy ) ( Headquarters, Clark Field, collectively, 4 B-17C, 15 B-17D, 10 B-18 ) The B-17s were distributed eight to a squadron, with three attached to the group headquarters squadron.
** The Dag Hammarskjöld Library, a part of the United Nations headquarters, was dedicated on 16 November 1961 in honour of the late Secretary-General.
** The headquarters of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean ( CEPAL ) in Santiago, Chile lies on Avenida Dag Hammarskjöld.
** The headquarters of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit ( German Society for International Cooperation, GIZ ), is on Dag-Hammarskjöld-Weg in Eschborn, Germany.
* 70: Cumberland Mall west to WellStar Cobb Hospital and Cobb County Health Center via East-West Connector and Powder Springs Road, including Home Depot world headquarters **
** Itochu moved the Osaka headquarters from 4-1 Kyutaromachi Sanchome, Chūō-ku to the North Gate Building on August 15, 2011.
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