9299, skipper Gareth Eastwood ) was at a point adjacent the windward jibe buoy around two kilometers offshore when the gale struck.

A hurricane moved east-northeast from the Gulf of Mexico on 31 August, struck Apalachee Bay, and moved just offshore the Carolinas by 2 September.

The storm surge feared in Galveston and Houston struck farther east as the storm's center came ashore at the Louisiana border ; winds blowing offshore in Texas actually flattened the surge, which was only seven feet ( 2 m ), well below the height of the Galveston seawall.

He appeared in the hopples about November 14, was treated for worms on the 18th, the latter date being the first time he struck a real pace.

Sometimes they struck me as horribly over-arranged -- which was the way I felt about her `` Come Rain or Come Shine '' -- and sometimes they were just plain magnificent, like her shatteringly beautiful `` Beautiful Weather ''.

The aimless milling about of what had been a well-trained, well-organized crew struck Alexander with horror.

As the story would later be told by the Anglo-Saxon monk and historian Bede, Gregory was struck by the unusual appearance of the slaves and asked about their background.

When asked by a reporter after getting struck by lightning why they were flying a kite in a thunderstorm, the duo explained that they were inspired by a documentary about Benjamin Franklin.

Eyewitness Lieutenant Edward Doherty, the officer in charge of the soldiers who captured Booth and Herold, stated that " the bullet struck Booth in the back of the head, about an inch below the spot where his shot had entered the head of Mr. Lincoln.

An agreement was struck, but as the deal was about to be finalized, Marshall called for a change in terms.

Such a pattern was observed in the sequence of about a dozen earthquakes that struck the North Anatolian Fault in Turkey in the 20th century and has been inferred for older anomalous clusters of large earthquakes in the Middle East.

His education there ended when plague struck the city about 1483, and his mother, who had moved there to provide a home for her sons, died of the infection.

As a warning, he adds that one official, who was bribed into handing some of it over to the Empire's enemies, was struck down by a " flame from heaven " as he was about to enter a church.

On 12 September 1942,, carrying some 80 civilians, 268 British Army soldiers, about 1, 800 Italian prisoners of war, and 160 Polish soldiers ( on guard ), was struck and sunk by a torpedo from Kriegsmarine submarine off the coast of west Africa.

One day, while Bennett was crossing the Miramichi River on the ferry boat, a well-dressed lad about nine years younger came over to him and struck up a conversation.

Up to around 450, 000 gallons ( about 11, 000 bls ) of crude oil spilled over the Sabine River when the tanker Eagle Otome which was carrying the shipment struck two chemical-carrying barges due to loss of engine power on January 24, 2010, at 10 AM local time.

Driver Bryan Smith, distracted by an unrestrained dog moving in the back of his minivan, struck King, who landed in a depression in the ground about 14 feet from the pavement of Route 5.

He struck up a friendship with Cranmer and after his return to Basel, he wrote about Cranmer to the German reformer Martin Bucer in Strasbourg.

The Tunguska event was an enormously powerful explosion that occurred near ( and later struck ) the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in what is now Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, at about 7: 14 a. m. KRAT ( 0: 14 UT ) on, 1908.

An estimated four to seven thousand Pacific walruses are harvested in Alaska and in Russia, including a significant portion ( about 42 %) of struck and lost animals.

A second fire, or series of fires, struck from the German air-raids in April and May 1940, and destroyed about two thirds of the town.

A considerable part of the gold and silver objects taken at the time of the European and Asian campaigns were melted in ingots and then sent to the monetary foundries of Pella and Amphipolis, most active of the kingdom at that time: an estimate judges that during the reign of Alexander only the mint of Amphipolis struck about 13 million silver tetradrachms.

" When the idea struck, he raced to his sister's apartment and proclaimed: " I am about to become a genius.

Besides these two discoveries, little else is known about David Fabricius except his unusual manner of death, which occurred at Osteel: after denouncing a local goose thief from the pulpit, the accused man struck him in the head with a shovel and killed him.

The object that excavated the crater was a nickel – iron meteorite about 50 meters ( 54 yards ) across, which struck the plain at a speed of several kilometers per second.

When I read so many other stories about public school life, I am struck by the fact that I suffered no such purgatory as their authors apparently did, and much of this miracle was due to Balgarnie.

The reason given for the war was that the viceroy of Algeria, angry about French failure to pay its debts stemming from Napoleon's invasion of Egypt, had struck the French ambassador with the handle of his fly swat.

In addition to Billy Williams, the first Bee inducted into the Hall of Fame, former players who have enjoyed major league success include Sal Bando, Vida Blue ( who struck out a team-record 231 batters in 1968 ), Jim " Catfish " Hunter George Hendrick, Phil Garner, Chet Lemon, Claudell Washington, Hall of Famer Paul Molitor, Randy Ready, Larry Walker, Rubén Sierra, Kenny Rogers, José Vidro, Ugueth Urbina, Javy López, Mark Buehrle, Mike Mordecai, Shawn Estes, Ruben Gotay and Gus Zernial.

In July 1994, an earthquake rated at 8. 2 struck just 200 miles north of La Paz, the largest earthquake since the Sumbawa earthquake of 1977.

The first American oil well was struck 3 miles north of Burkesville in 1829 on highway 61, but it is generally not recognized as such because the drillers were not searching for oil.

On October 1, 1987, at 7: 42 a. m., the Whittier Narrows earthquake struck, the epicenter six miles ( 10 km ) north by northwest of Whittier.

A quake with a preliminary magnitude of 3. 2 struck at 9: 53 pm centered at four miles ( 6 km ) east-southeast of the city of Oxnard on October 16, 2009.

An F2 tornado struck two miles south of Cadwell and moved northeast four miles south of Arthur on April 7, 1998.

Dressed as Federal troops, they crossed the Ohio River on horseback a few miles downstream from Leavenworth, then struck out for Paoli, pretending to be in pursuit of Union deserters.

On July 19, 1996, an F3 ( which has wind speeds of 158 – 206 mph ) tornado struck 5. 5 miles away from the Westminster city center, injuring three people and causing $ 5 million in damages.

At approximately 8: 05 pm local time ( Central ), Yazoo City was struck by two tornadoes: first, an EF-2 tornado three miles southwest of town, then a second EF-2 within the city limits, causing significant damage to several downtown buildings.

Davis observed that at Casa Colorada his party “ struck a young desert, an excellent pocket edition of the great African Zahara, over which we journeyed for about four miles .” Through the area north of “ La Hoya ” the sand made travel difficult and the land barren with the exception of “ occasional small patches in some of the valleys close to the river ” ( Davis 1938: 200 ).

On 13 September, Graziani struck: his leading divisions advanced sixty miles into Egypt where they reached the town of Sidi Barrani and, short of supplies, began to dig in.

In June 1984 Douglas was injured when he was struck by a bus, but he quickly recovered and on his 80th birthday he claimed to The Globe and Mail that he usually walked up to five miles a day.

On March 22, 2006 the M / V Queen of the North sank 135 km ( 81 mi, 70 nautical miles ) south of Prince Rupert, British Columbia when she struck Gil Island at approximately 1 am PST.

He was struck by a bullet in the chest and taken to the town of Huy, about 20 miles away, where he died three days later.

On February 9, 1971, a magnitude 6. 6 event struck about 20 miles ( 32 km ) northeast of the epicenter of the 1994 event.

Captain Atwood took necessary precautions, but the vessel struck West Island, one of the islands in the Three Kings group, about 35 nautical miles ( 65 km ) north of Cape Reinga on the northern tip of mainland New Zealand.

The United States Geological Survey ( USGS ) said the larger earthquake had a preliminary 5. 3 magnitude, it was so superficial that the magnitude was like a 7 magnitude normal earthquake, and struck 220 miles ( 350 km ) south-southeast of Madrid at 6: 47 p. m. ( 1647 GMT, 12: 47 p. m. EDT ).

When it struck the tiny town of Glazier, it may have been as much as two miles ( 3 km ) wide.

Press reports told of two people who were known to be together in Glazier before the tornado struck were found three miles ( 5 km ) apart afterward.

On April 10, 1992, Kinison died after his white 1989 Pontiac Trans Am was struck on U. S. Route 95, four miles ( 6 km ) north of Interstate 40 and several miles west of Needles, California, by a pickup truck driven by a 17-year-old male who had been drinking alcohol.

Lewis of the Lewis & Clark Expedition struck this river approximately 50 miles west of here.

Lieutenants Wead and Price struck again on the 11th and 12 July 1924, with new Class C seaplane records for distance ( 994. 19 miles ) and duration ( 14 hours 53 min 44 sec ) using a CS-2 with a Wright Tornado engine.