** Two of them are triple-centuries ( matched by Australia's Donald Bradman, India's Virender Sehwag, and West Indies ' Chris Gayle ).

** Mine Exploder T1E2 Roller: Two forward units with 7 discs only.

** Mine Exploder T1E3 / M1 Roller ( Aunt Jemima ): Two forward units with five 10 ' discs.

** Part Two of Booknotes interview with Keneally on The Great Shame, January 9, 2000.

** Two 8-way, one-button, digital joysticks.

** Two airbags as standard in LHD models during model year production for most markets.

** " The Two April Mornings "

** Two separate register files, which could be quickly switched, to speed up response to interrupts

** Halifax Explosion: Two freighters collide in Halifax Harbour at Halifax, Nova Scotia and cause a huge explosion that kills at least 1, 963 people, injures 9, 000 and destroys part of the city ( until the Trinity nuclear test, the biggest manmade explosion in recorded history ).

** Two trains crash at Hunan, China ; 126 are killed.

** Two trains collide in Turkey ; 95 die.

** Two cosmonauts transfer from Soyuz 5 to Soyuz 4 via a spacewalk while the two craft are docked together, the first time such a transfer takes place.

** WWII – Operation Varsity: Two airborne divisions capture bridges across the Rhine River to aid the Allied advance.

** Two U. S. Army helicopters collide in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, killing 17 servicemen.

** Two small earthquakes are felt at about 9: 30 and 10: 15 local time in Managua, Nicaragua.

** Italian unification: The surrender of Civitella del Tronto ends the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.

** British Army SAS patrol, Bravo Two Zero is deployed in Iraq during the Gulf War.

** Two CS gas canisters are thrown into the chamber of the British House of Commons.

** Cerro Maravilla incident: Two Puerto Rican pro-independence activists are killed in a police ambush.

** Two million demonstrate against the Shah in Iran.

** Two commuter trains collide head-on on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia ; 102 are killed.

** Hyatt Regency walkway collapse: Two skywalks filled with people at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri collapse into a crowded atrium lobby, killing 114.

** Two Japanese government-owned corporations, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation, and Japan Tobacco and Salt Public Corporation, are privatized and change their names to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, and Japan Tobacco.

** Two tourist coaches collide on the Pacific highway north of Kempsey, Australia, killing 35.

** 1, 000, 000, 000 ( number ), one thousand million, 10 < sup > 9 </ sup >, in the short scale

** 1, 000, 000, 000, 000 ( number ), one million million, 10 < sup > 12 </ sup >, in the long scale

** Samogitian (~ 0. 5 million speakers ; usually considered a dialect of Lithuanian )

** Number of mobile connections: 4. 7 million ( 2010 )

** Number of fixed line connections: 1. 92 million ( 2000 )

** Vehicles on road: 4. 2 million vehicles 250, 000 commercial vehicles ( 2004 estimate )

** Five million shares of stock in the Communications Satellite Corporation ( Comsat ) are offered for sale at $ 20 a share, and the issue is quickly sold out.

** Bhopal Disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, kills more than 8, 000 people outright and injures over half a million ( with more later dying from their injuries the death toll is now 23, 000 +) in the worst industrial disaster in history.

** The Holocaust, also known as The Shoah ( Hebrew:, Latinized ha ' shoah ; Yiddish:, Latinized churben or hurban ) is the term generally used to describe the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, a program of systematic state-sponsored extermination by Nazi Germany, under Adolf Hitler, its allies, and collaborators.

** The Danish West Indies is sold to the United States for $ 25 million.

** US $ 7. 4 million is stolen from Brink's Armored Car Depot in Rochester, New York in the 5th largest robbery in U. S. history.

** The so-called " Big Three " banks in Switzerland announced the creation of a $ 71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.

** Microsoft buys a $ 150 million share of financially troubled Apple Computer

** A Jean Michel Jarre Oxygene in Moscow concert, celebrating the city's 850th anniversary, draws 3. 5 million people.

** One million men gather for Promise Keepers ' " Stand in the Gap " event in Washington, DC.

** Loomis Fargo Bank Robbery: The second largest cash robbery in U. S. history ($ 17. 3 million, mostly in small bills ) occurs at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Wells Fargo.

** The westbound tube AKA the first tube of the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel linking to Norfolk, Virginia and Hampton, Virginia opens at a cost of $ 44 million dollars.

** Twelve paintings, collectively worth $ 100 to $ 300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts by 2 thieves posing as police officers.

** An F3 tornado away from the Westminster, Maryland city center injures 3 people and causes $ 5 million in damages.

** United States The Roseburg Oregon Blast kills 14 and causes $ 12 million worth of damage.

** U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the use of $ 1. 0 million for the relief and resettlement of Cuban refugees, who had been arriving in Florida at the rate of about 1, 000 per week.

** Pierre Hotel Robbery: Six men rob the safety deposit boxes of The Pierre Hotel in New York City of at least $ 4 million.

** – Fears are growing about the economy of the United Kingdom, where unemployment is now exceeding 1 million for the first time since World War II.

** 17 million unemployed in the USA.