* June 12 – In Michigan, the wooden steamer Ryan is lost near Thunder Bay Island.

There are automated lighthouses on Middle Island and Thunder Bay Island.

Ghost Recon's success has spawned 2 expansion packs, Desert Siege and Island Thunder, as well as numerous sequels for video game consoles and the PC.

Ghost Recon: Island Thunder was released later in 2003 as an expansion pack for the PC and as a standalone game for Xbox.

On the Xbox, Island Thunder features five additional missions and twelve multiplayer maps.

The first champions of the new USISL Pro League were the Long Island Rough Riders, who beat Minnesota Thunder 2-1 in the championship game.

* 1995: Long Island Rough Riders 2-1 Minnesota Thunder

* Thunder Bay Island, an island within the sanctuary, near Thunder Bay

Delicate Sound of Thunder is a Pink Floyd live double album which was recorded over five nights at the Nassau Coliseum on Long Island, New York in August 1988 and mixed at Abbey Road Studios in September 1988.

The Thunder Bay Generating Station is located on Mission Island in the river's delta.

At the same time, former bandmate Jay Ferguson was having success in his solo career in late 1970s with the hits " Thunder Island " & " Shakedown Cruise ".

His other works include the story collection Dark Testament ( 1942 ) and the novels The Path of Thunder ( 1948 ), A Wreath for Udomo ( 1956 ), A Night of Their Own ( 1965 ), the Jamaica-set This Island Now ( 1966, the only one of his novels not set in Africa ) and The View from Coyaba ( 1985 ).

Thunder Bay Island lies just east of North Point outside the bay.

* This Island Earth Sourcebook at The Thunder Child

Follow-up add-ons like Island Thunder continued to expand the world of the Ghosts, while Red Storm itself grew and moved offices to a new location in Morrisville, NC.

** Ghost Recon: Island Thunder ( expansion ; 2002 )

* Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Island Thunder ( Xbox ) ( 2003 )

In 1995, Viper, a wooden roller coaster with a layout based on a mirror image of the Coney Island Cyclone, was built next to Rolling Thunder, which was removed later that year.

After the band broke up, Ferguson recorded several solo albums, including the hit singles " Thunder Island " and " Shakedown Cruise ", and scored TV shows and mostly non-notable movies.

Positioned on the shore of Bay Lake near Discovery Island in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, River Country was a rustic wilderness theming, replete with rocks and manmade boulders ( created by the same man who created Big Thunder Mountain Railroad at the Magic Kingdom ).

* 1923-The Lure of Thunder Island — Jenkins

The earliest performances in other cities included matches with other troupes of costumed wrestlers at venues such as Fort Thunder in Providence, Rhode Island.

Since Rhode Island at that time did not have such sanction, his opinion was not popular.

East Greenwich was one of the first Rhode Island towns to enter into contract agreement with the Rhode Island Development Council for planning services we could not provide for ourselves.

Below in the open bay facing Manhattan was Staten Island, gritty with clam shells and mud flats behind which nested farms, cattle barns, and berry thickets.

Along Wappinger Creek in Dutchess County, past the white church at Fishkill, past Verplanck's Point on the east bank of the Hudson, to the white salt-crusted roads of the Long Island Rockaways there was a watching and an activity of preparing for something explosive to happen.

The resulting setup, it was declared, `` would be similar to that which is in successful operation in a number of metropolitan counties as large or larger than Rhode Island ''.

To determine the practice and attitude of municipal governments concerning tangible movable property, a questionnaire was sent to all local government assessors or boards of assessors in Rhode Island.

Local industry's investment in Rhode Island was the big story in 1960's industrial development effort.

With minor exceptions, this expansion was instituted either by firms based in Rhode Island or out-of-state manufacturers already operating here.

What made these new location figures particularly impressive was the fact that although 1960 was a year of mild business recession throughout the nation, Rhode Island scored marked progress in new industry, new plants, and new jobs.

The State Ballet of Rhode Island, the first incorporated group, was formed for the purpose of extending knowledge of the art of ballet in the Community, to promote interest in ballet performances, to contribute to the cultural life of the State, and to provide opportunity for gifted dance students who, for one reason or another, are unable to pursue a career and to develop others for the professional state ; ;

Sydney Le Blanc, age 15, Staten Island, N.Y., showing a Doberman Pinscher, was 2nd.

Timothy Palmer, who invented and later patented the arch type of construction for wooden bridges, was the genius who planned and supervised the building of the Essex, or `` Deer Island '' bridge although the actual work was carried out under the direction of William Coombs, who received $300 as recompense.

Between the abutments on the Newbury shore and the south bank of Deer Island there was one span or arch measuring 160 feet ; ;

between the north shore of Deer Island and the Salisbury side there was an arch of 113 feet and a series of piers with a draw forty feet long.

During the month of November hardly a day passed when there was not some mention of John Brown in the Rhode Island newspapers.

Such was not the case in Rhode Island.

Her husband, who was sentenced to 15 years in the federal prison at McNeil Island last April for robbery of the Hillsdale branch of Multnomah Bank, also was charged with the store holdup.

A check for $4,177.37 representing the last payment of a $50,000 federal grant to Rhode Island Hospital was presented to the hospital administrator, Oliver G. Pratt, yesterday by Governor Notte.

Prior to that he was associated with Long Island University in Brooklyn.

My cousin Alma, at whose home I was staying during the convention, introduced me to a group of young people from Rhode Island.

On July 9, 2011, Agassi was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame at a ceremony in Newport, Rhode Island.