* 1989 – The deadliest tornado in world history strikes Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1, 300, injuring 12, 000, and leaving as many as 80, 000 homeless.

* In February 2003, the Boomerang Nebula was observed to have been releasing gases at a speed of 500, 000 km / h ( over 300, 000 mph ) for the last 1, 500 years.

Buddhist inscriptions from around 300 BCE use the symbols which became 1, 4 and 6.

In 1947, Poland founded a museum on the site of Auschwitz I and II, which by 2010 had seen 29 million visitors — 1, 300, 000 annually — pass through the iron gates crowned with the infamous motto, Arbeit macht frei (" work makes free ").

Founded in 1957, the Aircraft Electronics Association ( AEA ) represents more than 1, 300 member companies, including government-certified international repair stations specializing in maintenance, repair and installation of avionics and electronic systems in general aviation aircraft.

A classic use of an abatis was found at the Battle of the Chateauguay, 26 October 1813, when approximately 1, 300 Canadian voltigeurs, under the command of Charles-Michel de Salaberry, defeated an American corps of approximately 2, 300 men.

The University has about 430 professors ( with Ph. D. degrees ), 11, 000 undergraduate students, and 1, 300 post-graduate students.

The total naval strength of 64, 700 in 1997 included Naval Aviation ( Aviação Naval ) with 1, 300 members, the Marines ( Corpo de Fuzileiros Navais-CFN ) with 14, 600 members, and only 2, 000 conscripts.

A crew of the Minas Gerais with full air complement consisted of 1, 300 officers and enlisted personnel.

They are altitudinal migrants, generally nesting in the lower grasslands of an elevation of around 1, 300 to 2, 000 m and moving down to lower altitudes for winter.

Franks, was followed by an immense bequest of 3, 300 finger rings, 153 drinking vessels, 512 pieces of continental porcelain, 1, 500 netsuke, 850 inro, over 30, 000 bookplates and miscellaneous items of jewellery and plate, among them the Oxus Treasure.

The Mack Library ( named for John Sephus Mack ) holds a collection of more than 300, 000 books and includes seating for 1, 200 as well as a computer lab and a computer classroom.

The front part of the mouth is thick with baleen plates ; around 300 plates ( each around one metre ( 3. 2 ft ) long ) hang from the upper jaw, running 0. 5 m ( 1. 6 ft ) back into the mouth.

According to the Cayman Islands Chamber of Commerce, in 1999 an estimated 1, 300 people lived on Cayman Brac, while only 115 resided on Little Cayman.

# Asgard-Callisto-Diameter: 300 km, with rings to 1, 400 km diameter

Dr. Stephen Barrett has reported that since 1971, the number of practitioners and teachers in the United States listed in the Christian Science Journal has fallen from nearly 5, 000 to just over 300 and the number of churches in the United States has fallen from about 1, 800 to about 900.

Other cuts included 200 at the Independence, Kansas plant that builds the single-engined Cessnas and the Mustang, reducing that facility to 1, 300 workers.

The school has an enrollment of more than 1, 300 students and offers Associate's and Bachelor's degrees, in addition to professional certifications.

Estimates for the main centres of Christadelphian population are as follows: United Kingdom ( 18, 000 ), Australia ( 9, 987 ), Malawi ( 7, 000 ), United States ( 6, 500 ), Mozambique ( 5, 300 ), Canada ( 3, 375 ), New Zealand ( 1, 782 ), Kenya ( 1, 700 ), India ( 1, 300 ), Tanzania ( 1, 000 ), and Philippines ( 1, 000 ).

He completed the course ( 1, 178 km or 732 miles ) in 48 hours and 47 minutes, finishing nearly six hours before the runner-up.

total: 1, 254 km

7, 700 km ( including 1, 561 km of expressways )

Averaging at least 1. 6 km thick, the ice is so massive that it has depressed the continental bedrock in some areas more than 2. 5 km below sea level ; subglacial lakes of liquid water also occur ( e. g., Lake Vostok ).

Helicopter pads are available at 27 stations ; runways at 15 locations are gravel, sea-ice, blue-ice, or compacted snow suitable for landing wheeled, fixed-wing aircraft ; of these, 1 is greater than 3 km in length, 6 are between 2 km and 3 km in length, 3 are between 1 km and 2 km in length, 3 are less than 1 km in length, and 2 are of unknown length ; snow surface skiways, limited to use by ski-equipped, fixed-wing aircraft, are available at another 15 locations ; of these, 4 are greater than 3 km in length, 3 are between 2 km and 3 km in length, 2 are between 1 km and 2 km in length, 2 are less than 1 km in length, and data is unavailable for the remaining 4.

209 km ; navigable by craft drawing less than 1. 2 m ( 2008 )

Total waterways cover 4, 800 km ( 3, 000 mi ), of which 2, 000 km ( 1, 250 mi ) are navigable all year.

900 km ; traditional trade carried on by means of shallow-draft dugouts ; Oubangui is the most important river, navigable all year to craft drawing 0. 6 m or less ; 282 km navigable to craft drawing as much as 1. 8 m.

Main inland waterways are the Magdalena – Cauca River system, which is navigable for 1, 500 kilometers ; the Atrato, which is navigable for 687 kilometers ; the Orinoco system of more than five navigable rivers, which total more than 4, 000 kilometers of potential navigation ( mainly through Venezuela ); and the Amazonas system, which has four main rivers totaling 3, 000 navigable kilometers ( mainly through Brazil ).

As of 2003, Gabon had 1, 600 km of perennially navigable waterways, including 310 km on the Ogooué River.

Gabon has 1, 600 km of perennially navigable waterways

1, 295 km navigable by shallow-draft native craft

1, 373 km permanently navigable ( 1997 )

1, 015 km ; Shatt al Arab is usually navigable by maritime traffic for about 130 km ; channel has been dredged to 3 m and is in use ; Tigris and Euphrates Rivers have navigable sections for shallow-draft watercraft ; Shatt al Basrah canal was navigable by shallow-draft craft before closing in 1991 because of the Gulf War

Mali has 1, 815 kilometers of inland waterways, principally the Niger River, some portions of which are navigable for medium and large shipping during the rainy season ( June / July – November / December ) in years of normal rainfall.

New Zealand has 1, 609 km of navigable inland waterways ; however these are no longer significant transport routes.

the Congo and Ubangi ( Oubangui ) rivers provide 1, 120 km of commercially navigable water transport ; other rivers are used for local traffic only

As of 2006, there are 1, 731 km of navigable waterways of which:

To create a navigable channel through the Long Sault rapids and to allow hydroelectric stations to be established immediately upriver from Cornwall, Ontario and Massena, New York, Lake St. Lawrence was created through the flooding on 1 July 1958 of six villages and three hamlets in Ontario, now collectively known as " The Lost Villages.

Turkey's coastline has 1, 200 km of navigable waterways.

The 1, 400-kilometer canal, designed mainly for irrigation, is navigable for 450 kilometers from its Caspian terminus.

Transport in nation of Uruguay consists of 2, 835 km of rail network, 8, 983 km of roads, 1, 600 km of navigable waterways, and 15 airports / landing fields serviced by the national airline PLUNA.

As of 2010 the river is only navigable for some 1. 5 miles ( 2 km ) upstream of Castle Mills Lock.