At its narrowest point between Kent County's Plum Point ( near Newtown ) and the Harford County shore near Romney Creek, the bay is 2. 8 miles ( 4. 5 km ) wide ; at its widest point, just south of the mouth of the Potomac River, it is 30 miles ( 50 km ) wide.

At the Battle of Plum Creek, August 12, 1840, he served as a scout against the Comanches, and then commanded the right wing of the Texas army.

At the northern end of the road, the northern tip of the island, is the Plum Island Lighthouse, the only lighthouse remaining on the island.

At the age of 17 he became an apprentice machinist at the shop of Walcott & Harris in Valley Falls, Rhode Island, and following two or three other jobs in quick succession after graduation, he went into business for himself in 1831, making lathes and small tools.

At the same time, the most western island of the Juan Fernández Islands was renamed Alejandro Selkirk Island although Selkirk probably never saw that island ( 97 miles west ).

At the same time, another part of the Colony of Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Island, was split off to become the Colony of Cape Breton Island.

At the close of the 20th Century, all of the Earth's kaiju have been collected and confined in an area known as Monster Island, by the United Nations Science Committee, in the Ogasawara island chain.

At this time, they decided to name the large island on which Nootka was now proven to be located as Quadra and Vancouver Island.

At the beginning of World War II, an Imperial Japanese Navy submarine surfaced off the west coast of the Island.

* 1863 – American Civil War: Morgan's Raid – At Buffington Island in Ohio, Confederate General John Hunt Morgan's raid into the north is mostly thwarted when a large group of his men are captured while trying to escape across the Ohio River.

At the same conference, a panel devoted to Jaynes was also held, with John Limber ( University of New Hampshire ), Marcel Kuijsten, John Hainly ( Southern University ), Scott Greer ( University of Prince Edward Island ), and Brian J. McVeigh presenting relevant research.

At Western discovery, Christmas Island was uninhabited.

At Phillip Island, a viewing area has been set up at the Phillip Island Nature Park to allow visitors to view the nightly " penguin parade ".

At 22: 00 on 12 September 1942, U-156 was patrolling off the coast of West Africa midway between Liberia and Ascension Island.

At age two, the family moved to Toronto, Canada where her father worked at the Norwegian air force base on Toronto Island during World War II.

* At Coney Island ( 1912, actor, director and producer )

* 1957 – At Malden Island in the Pacific, Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb in Operation Grapple.

* 1927 – At 07: 52 Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, on the world's first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

At the start of each episode of the 1998 television series Fantasy Island, a darker version of the original, bookings for would-be visitors to the Island were sent to Mr. Roarke via a pneumatic tube from a dusty old travel agency.

At Parris Island, Clemente received his basic training with Platoon 346 of the 3rd Recruit Battalion.

At the time, the Rhode Island constitution was the old royal charter established in the 17th century, under which most free white males in the state were disenfranchised.

At 09: 01, two minutes before impact as United Airlines Flight 175 continued its descent into Lower Manhattan, the New York Center alerted another nearby Air Traffic Facility responsible for low-flying aircraft, which was able to monitor the aircraft's path over New Jersey, and then over Staten Island and New York Harbor in its final moments.

** Operation Grapple: At Malden Island in the Pacific, Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb, which fails to detonate properly.

* May 8 / May 9 – WWII: At night, gunners of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on Horsburgh Island in the Cocos Islands rebel.

* July 21 – At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American Old West ( US $ 3, 000 from the Rock Island Express ).

At the estuary of the Isère River, the Teutons and the Ambrones met Marius, whose well-defended camp they did not manage to overrun.

At Cairo, the Nile spreads out over what was once a broad estuary, subsequently filled by silt deposits to form what is now a fertile, fan-shaped delta some 250 km wide at its seaward extremity and extending about 160 km from north to south.

At the start of the 21st century, Sydney faces a significant challenge in the cleanup of the Sydney Tar Ponds, a tidal estuary contaminated with a variety of coal-based wastes from coke ovens that supplied the steel industry.

At its mouth is a large estuary on which the port city of Lisbon is situated.

At this time Wisbech was on the estuary of the River Great Ouse, but silting caused the coastline to move north, and the River Nene was diverted to serve the town.

At 13: 10, Beatty turned northwest and ordered all the British ships to withdraw since the tide had now risen sufficiently for larger German ships to pass out through the Jade estuary.

At Onna ( Nursling ), the Romans erected a bridge ( probably a wooden one as no trace of stone abutments remains ) across the River Test, below which it widens into its estuary, and there are traces of the Roman road from Nursling to Stoney Cross.

At high tide, the estuary forms a large body of water that is heavily used for water sports especially sailing, windsurfing and water skiing.

At this time, the Lea was a wide, fast flowing river, and the tidal estuary stretched as far as Hackney Wick .< ref >< cite >' Bethnal Green: Communications ', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 11: Stepney, Bethnal Green ( 1998 ), pp. 88-90 accessed: 15 November 2006 </ cite ></ ref > Evidence of a late Roman settlement at Old Ford, dating from the 4th and 5th centuries, has been found.

At its estuary the river has formed the wide shallow ria of Poole Harbour.

At the Volga estuary, the French were supposed to be joined by Russian forces.

At the confluence of the Elwy and the Clwyd, the river becomes tidal and enters a narrow estuary with lots of wildlife before meeting the Irish Sea at Rhyl.

At Wimborne Minster it is joined by the River Allen, and at its estuary at Christchurch it is joined by the River Avon before it flows through the harbour into the English Channel.

At the time of European colonialization of the Hudson River estuary in the 17th century, much of the west side Upper New York Bay contained large tidal flats which hosted vast oyster beds, a major source of food for the Lenape people who lived there at the time.

At the time of his arrival the estuary of the Taw and Torridge rivers was wooded, as was a portion of Braunton Burrows.

At Wilmington, it receives the Northeast Cape Fear River and Brunswick River, turns south, widening as an estuary and entering the Atlantic approximately 3 miles ( 5 km ) west of Cape Fear.

At Little Ferry, it is joined by the broad Overpeck Creek, then flows southward, widening in a broad meandering tidal estuary through the Meadowlands, forming extensive side streams and wetlands.

At its highest point it stands at only 352 metres ( 1155 feet ), but offers uninterrupted views of the Cumbrian coast from the Ravenglass estuary in the south to the Solway Firth and across to Scotland in the north.

At the estuary of the river dwelt the Beormas, who unlike the nomadic Sami peoples were sedentary, and their land was rich and populous.

At the mouth of the estuary is the Wightlink car ferry terminal for connections to Portsmouth.

At Ayton the Eye Water swings NNE for the final five km leg to its estuary.

At dusk, bats, owls and otters may be seen, while the mudflats of the estuary are favoured by black-headed gulls, redshanks and oystercatchers.

At its mouth the estuary is 500 metres wide but the 20 metre deep ( chart ) channel is only 50 metres wide.

At this point, recognizing the opportunity, Field-Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery, issued a directive that made the opening of the Scheldt estuary the top priority of 21st Army Group.