At its peak in the 16th through the 18th centuries, the Ottoman Empire had wrested control of the entire Black Sea area, which was for the time an " Ottoman lake ", on which Russian warships were prohibited.

*" Families Of 39 Lost At Sea Begin $ 20-Million Suit Here ", The New York Times, June 4, 1969.

*" Ship Missing In Bermuda Triangle Now Presumed To Be Lost At Sea ", The New York Times, October 19, 1976.

In the Victory At Sea suite, Richard Rodgers wrote " Beneath The Southern Cross " to depict the battleships in convoy and the loneliness of the sailors in the Southern Pacific during World War II.

At the same time, with the aid of numerous merchant ships converted to auxiliary cruisers, a loose naval blockade on the Ottoman coasts from the Dardanelles to Suez was instituted, which disrupted the Ottomans ' flow of supplies ( only the Black Sea routes to Romania remained open ) and left some 250, 000 Ottoman troops immobilized in Asia.

At about the 2nd century AD Goths migrated to the Black Sea, and in the 3rd and 4th centuries AD, a semi-legendary Gothic kingdom of Oium existed in Southern Russia until it was overrun by Huns.

At the Sea Islands Conference of the G8 in 2004, the Carabinieri were given the mandate to establish a Center of Excellence for Stability Police Units ( CoESPU ) to spearhead the development of training and doctrinal standards for civilian police units attached to international peacekeeping missions.

At age twelve, Moon joined his local Sea Cadet Corps band as a bugle player but traded his position to be a drummer.

At 9, 500 BP, Lake Onega, previously draining into the White Sea, started emptying into Ladoga via the River Svir.

At Standard Sea Level conditions ( corresponding to a temperature of 15 degrees Celsius ), the speed of sound is 340. 3 m / s ( 1225 km / h, or 761. 2 mph, or 661. 5 knots, or 1116 ft / s ) in the Earth's atmosphere.

* 1940 – World War II: At the Battle of Cape Spartivento, the Royal Navy engages the Regia Marina in the Mediterranean Sea.

At the close of the Permian, lycopod and equicete swamps reminiscent of Carboniferous flora were relegated to a series of equatorial islands in the Paleotethys Sea that later would become South China.

At its peak, the civilisation hosted a population of approximately 5 million in hundreds of settlements extending as far as the Arabian Sea, present-day southern and eastern Afghanistan, southeastern Iran and the Himalayas.

At Phnom Penh it merges with the Tonle Sap and divides into two branches-the Sông Hậu Giang ( Hau Giang river ) ( known as the Bassac River on the Cambodian side ) and the Sông Tiền Giang ( Tien Giang river )-and continues through Cambodia and the Mekong basin before draining into the South China Sea through nine mouths known as the Cửu Long ( nine dragons ).

* December 4 – American Civil War – Sherman's March to the Sea: At Waynesboro, Georgia, forces under Union General Judson Kilpatrick prevent troops led by Confederate General Joseph Wheeler from interfering with Union General Sherman's campaign of destroying a wide swath of the South on his march to Savannah, GA ( Union forces suffer more than 3 times the casualties as the Confederates, however ).

* February 21 – 26 – Seven Years ' War – At the Battle of Carrickfergus in the north of Ireland, a force of French troops under the command of privateer François Thurot captures and holds the town and castle of Carrickfergus before retiring ; the force is defeated ( and Thurot killed ) in a naval action in the Irish Sea on February 28.

At the time, this was virtually monopolized by the Republic of Venice, who operated overland routes via Levantine and Egyptian ports, through the Red Sea across to the spice markets of India.

At the end of the 19th century, the western European market — and by extension their overseas empires — was dominated by French and Spanish brandies, and eastern Europe was dominated by brandies from the Black Sea region, including Bulgaria, the Crimea, and Georgia.

At the end of this campaign, known as Sherman's March to the Sea, his troops captured Savannah on December 21, 1864.

At Arles, the Rhône divides itself in two arms, forming the Camargue delta, with all branches flowing into the Mediterranean Sea.

At its southeastern reaches, the Andaman Sea narrows to form the Straits of Malacca, which separate the Malay Peninsula from the island of Sumatra.

At the end of the last ice age the North Sea was a great plain, and anthropological material, as well as the remains of animals such as mammoths are sometimes recovered by trawlers.

At the time, his son, Admiral Sir Caspar John was First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff.

At least at one point in his life, Baum stated that he considered The Patchwork Girl of Oz " one of the two best books of my career "— the other being The Sea Fairies.

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 ).