The largest abalone in South Africa, the perlemoen, Haliotis midae, occurs along approximately two-thirds of the country ’ s coastline.

Australia is one of the largest producers of abalone and rock lobster.

The town's largest employer, the abalone co-operative, was formed in 1967.

* 1580 – One of the largest earthquakes recorded in the history of England, Flanders, or Northern France, takes place.

Black Caimans grow to 16. 5 feet ( 5 m ),< ref >< http :// www. flmnh. ufl. edu / cnhc / cbd-faq-q2. htm ></ ref > with the largest recorded size 5. 79 m ( 19 ft ).

In 1986, Bombardier acquired Canadair after the Canadian government-owned aircraft manufacturing company had recorded the largest corporate loss in Canadian business history.

The state-owned firm CODELCO is the world's largest copper-producing company, with recorded copper reserves of 200 years.

Adults average in length ; the largest recorded specimen weighed 2. 65 kg ( 5. 8 lb ) with a length of from snout to vent.

" Prinsen ", a toad kept as a pet in Sweden, is listed by the Guinness Book of Records as the largest recorded specimen.

The largest elephant ever recorded was shot in Angola in 1974.

The ten largest recorded earthquakes have all been megathrust earthquakes ; however, of these ten, only the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake is simultaneously one of the deadliest earthquakes in history.

* 1851 – The largest Australian bushfires in a populous region in recorded history take place in the state of Victoria.

The largest species is probably the Collared Grosbeak ( Mycerobas affinis ) at up to and, although larger lengths, to in the Pine Grosbeak ( Pinicola enucleator ), and weights, to in the Evening Grosbeak ( Coccothraustes vespertinus ), have been recorded in species which are slightly smaller on average.

Also, this period saw one of the largest mass migrations ever recorded in modern history, with a total of 12 million Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims moving between the newly created nations of India and Pakistan ( which gained independence on 15 and 14 August 1947 respectively ).

The March 11 quake was the largest ever recorded in Japan and is the world's fourth largest earthquake to strike since 1900, according to the U. S. Geological Service.

The wave is recorded at 524 meters high, the largest in recorded history.

Studies conducted in 2010 at the University of Derby by Karim Vahed, Darren Parker and James Gilbert found that the Tuberous Bushcricket ( Platycleis affinis ) has the largest testes in proportion to body mass of any animal recorded.

In 2007, on 22 and 23 June, numerous tornadoes touched down, the largest of which was an F5 Tornado that devastated parts of Elie ( the strongest officially recorded tornado in Canada ).

* 1960 – Following the 1960 Valdivia earthquake, the largest ever recorded earthquake, Cordón Caulle begins to erupt.

The largest Antarctic ozone hole recorded as of September 2006

Kumbh Mela: Kumbh Mela is the largest pilgrimage recorded in history.

It has recorded about 100, 000 passengers in 2011, and has been visited by the largest passenger ships, such as the MS Voyager of the Seas.

The island is the site of one of the largest volcanic eruptions in recorded history: the Minoan eruption ( sometimes called the Thera eruption ), which occurred some 3600 years ago at the height of the Minoan civilization.

Theo Barker explains in the official account of the Brewery, that it all began with a Captain Richard Marsh who in 1678 is recorded in the Faversham Wardmote Books as contributing by far the largest of the ‘ Brewers Fines ’ made at that date.

Sea transport has been the largest carrier of freight throughout recorded history.

Edwin Hubble's arrival at Mount Wilson, California, in 1919 coincided roughly with the completion of the Hooker Telescope, then the world's largest telescope.

* 1935 –, one of the two largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and sinks.

* Hyperion sewage treatment plant, Los Angeles ' oldest and largest wastewater treatment facility, located in Playa del Rey, California.

* 1980 – In Norco, California, five masked gunman hold up a Security Pacific bank, leading to a violent shoot-out and one of the largest pursuits in California history.

The King Fahd Mosque in Culver City, California and the Islamic Cultural Center of Italy in Rome represent two of Saudi Arabia's largest investments in foreign mosques as former Saudi king Fahd bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud contributed US $ 8 million and US $ 50 million to the two mosques, respectively.

* 1910 – Lakeview Gusher, the largest U. S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vented to atmosphere.

* 1947 – In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden ( and only ) flight of the Spruce Goose or H-4 The Hercules ; the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.

In 1957, the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants relocated from New York to California to become the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants, leaving the largest city in the United States with no National League franchises and only one Major League team.

The world's largest geothermal power installation is the Geysers in California, with a rated capacity of 750 MW.

San Francisco Bay is spanned by eight bridges, all of them dedicated to vehicle traffic: the Golden Gate Bridge on Highway 101 ( which was the largest single span suspension bridge ever built at the time of its construction ) which connects San Francisco and Marin counties and is the only bridge in the area not owned by the State of California.

* California, whose supreme court is headquartered in San Francisco and maintains only branch offices in the state capital, Sacramento, and the state's largest city, Los Angeles.

The world record for largest bowl of spaghetti was set in March 2009 and reset in March 2010 when a Buca di Beppo restaurant in Garden Grove, California, successfully filled a swimming pool with more than of pasta.

The largest adult league is the San Francisco Ultimate League, with 350 teams and over 4000 active members in 2005, located in San Francisco, California.

At 34 million items, the University of California library system contains one of the largest collections in the world.

The University of Southern California Warner Bros. Archives is the largest single studio collection in the world.

* May 21 – The largest teach-in to date begins at Berkeley, California, attended by 30, 000.

Next, the green glob entered Shasta Lake, California ’ s largest reservoir.

* Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier, California, the largest single-site operating cemetery in the world at.

The success of California and new world Chardonnays, partly encouraged by the Californian showing at the Judgment of Paris wine tasting, brought varietal wine labeling to more prominence and the easy to pronounce Chardonnay grape was one of the largest beneficiaries.

With an enrollment of about 27, 000 undergraduate and about 12, 000 graduate students from the United States and around the world, UCLA is the largest university in the state of California in terms of student body, and the most popular university in the United States by number of applicants. The university was elected to the Association of American Universities in 1974.

By the end of World War Two, the US had built eight new wind tunnels, including the largest one in the world at Moffett Field near Sunnyvale, California, which was designed to test full size aircraft at speeds of less than 250 mph and a vertical wind tunnel at Wright Field, Ohio, where the wind stream is upwards for the testing of models in spin situations and the concepts and engineering designs for the first primitive helicopters flown in the US.

9 p. m .) – Cascadia earthquake: One of the largest earthquakes known ruptures the Cascadia subduction zone offshore from Vancouver Island spreading along more than 600 miles ( 966 km ) of North America's West Coast to Cape Mendocino in northern California.

The current LLNS Chairman is Norman J. Pattiz-founder and chairman of Westwood One, America's largest radio network, and he also currently serves on the Board of Regent of the University of California.