The objective is reportedly to protect another parts of US National Missile Defense from long-range missile strikes from Iran and North Korea, but Czech PM Mirek Topolánek said the main reason is to avoid Russian influence and strengthen ties to US.

* March 13 – March 15 – The Great Blizzard of 1993 strikes the eastern U. S., bringing record snowfall and other severe weather all the way from Cuba to Quebec ; it reportedly kills 184.

Numa, supported and prepared by Egeria, reportedly held a battle of wits with Jupiter himself, in an apparition whereby Numa sought to gain a protective ritual against lightning strikes and thunder.

When a famous torero was asked why he risked his life, he reportedly answered Más cornadas da el hambre (" Hunger strikes more painfully ", lit.

"... some of the money reportedly went to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, which has been involved in terror strikes.

In response to the 1998 al-Qaeda bombings of U. S. embassies in East Africa that killed a dozen Americans and hundreds of Africans, Clinton ordered cruise missile strikes on terrorist targets in Afghanistan and Sudan.

There were gunfights over strikes, landless labourers began to seize land, church officials were killed and churches burnt.

* 1995 – An E-3B AWACS crashes outside Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines soon after takeoff ; all 24 on board are killed.

* December 5 – The British light cruiser HMS Cassandra strikes a mine and sinks in the Gulf of Finland while aiding Estonia against the Bolsheviks, with eleven sailors killed.

** A 14-meter high tsunami strikes Hilo and Laupāhoehoe on the Big Island of Hawaii ; 173 are killed, thousands injured.

** The infamous Columbus Day Storm strikes the U. S. Pacific Northwest with wind gusts up to 170 mph ( 270 km / h ); 46 are killed, 11 billion board feet ( 26 million m³ ) of timber is blown down, with $ 230 million U. S. in damages.

** An outbreak of tornadoes strikes the upper Midwest section of the United States ( in particular the Chicago area, including the suburbs of Belvidere and Oak Lawn, Illinois, where 33 people are killed and 500 injured ).

* December 23 – Henry III of France strikes his ultra-Catholic enemies, having the Duke of Guise and his brother, Cardinal Louis of Guise, killed, and holding the Cardinal de Bourbon a prisoner.

Tensions between Côte d ' Ivoire and France increased on November 6, 2004, after Ivorian air strikes killed 9 French peacekeepers and an aid worker.

The captain and a sailor were killed after various strikes from the Indian Canberras.

The U. S. has claimed that the Predator strikes killed at least nine senior al-Qaeda leaders, and dozens of lower-ranking operatives, depleting its operational tier in what U. S. officials described as the most serious disruption of al-Qaeda since 2001.

By May 2010, counter-terrorism officials said that drone strikes in the Pakistani tribal areas had killed more than 500 militants since 2008, and no more than 30 ( 5 %) nearby civilians — mainly family members who lived and traveled with the targets.

Pakistani authorities released statistics indicating that between January 1, 2009 and December 31, 2009, U. S. Predator and Reaper drone strikes have killed over 700 innocent civilians.

The website PakistanBodyCount. Org ( by Zeeshan-ul-hassan Usmani, a Fulbright Scholar at the Florida Institute of Technology ) shows 1065 civilian deaths between June 2004 to January 30, 2010 and tallying 103 drone strikes carried out by the U. S. With the increase of drone strikes, according to the most recent story in The International News, January 2010 proved to be a deadly month in Pakistan with 123 innocent civilians killed.

The study reports that 114 reported drone strikes in northwest Pakistan from 2004 to present killed between 830 to 1210 individuals, around 550 to 850 of whom were militants.

He is later killed by Diomedes, whose spear strikes him in the face, severing his tongue.

As a destination in the Afterlife, the levels of heaven were reserved mostly for those who had died violent deaths, and Tlalocan was reserved for those who had drowned or had otherwise been killed by manifestations of water, such as by flood, by diseases associated with water, or in storms by strikes of lightning.

The 1891 strike in Morewood, west of Mount Pleasant borough, was the most violent of the area ’ s strikes, in which seven miners were killed by sheriff ’ s deputies.

He was finally killed through decapitation, which did not succeed until after several strikes.

Although 36 people were killed by the air strikes, the coup was unsuccessful.

Bryde's whales are also sometimes killed or injured by ship strikes.

High unemployment led to violent confrontations between workers and the police in 1926 and hunger strikes killed 20 in 1930.

Adela Kogălniceanu was robbed and murdered in October 1920 ; rumor had it that she had been killed by her own son, but this path was never pursued by authorities, who were quick to cancel the investigation ( at the time, they were faced with the major strikes of 1920 ).

At the height of the strikes, nearly 30, 000, 000 working days were lost in Britain during 1979, but that had fallen dramatically to some 5, 000, 000 during 1981 as a result of the Thatcher government's union reform policies.

* 2011 – An E. coli outbreak strikes Europe, mostly in Germany, leaving more than 30 people dead and many others sick from the bacteria outbreak.

* 1481 – The largest of three earthquakes strikes the island of Rhodes and causes an estimated 30, 000 casualties.

* 1293 – An earthquake strikes Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan, killing about 30, 000.

* July 30 – An earthquake strikes Naples, killing 10, 000.

* January 30 – Danish passenger / cargo ship, returning to Copenhagen after its maiden voyage to Greenland, strikes an iceberg and sinks off the Greenland coast with the loss of all 95 on board.

The ball bounces quickly off the side wall, then strikes the floor and then the opposite side wall about 30 – 35 feet back.

In response to largely peaceful mass demonstrations and crippling general strikes, Ratsiraka replaced his prime minister in August 1991 but suffered an irreparable setback soon thereafter when his troops fired on peaceful demonstrators marching on Iavoloha, the suburban presidential palace, killing more than 30.

After more than 30 drone strikes hit civilian homes in Afghanistan in 2012, President Hamid Karzai demanded that such attacks end, but the practice continues in areas of Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia that are not in war zones.

Following Mrs Thatcher's election win, she brought the post-war consensus to an end and made drastic changes to trade union laws ( most notably the regulation that unions had to hold a ballot among members before calling strikes ) and as a result strikes were at their lowest level for 30 years by the time of the 1983 general election, which the Tories won by a landslide.

A longer version of the song was released as a single on Atlantic Records, reaching No. 30 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart early in 1972 ; the additional lyrics in this longer version lend the song a greater sense of sadness, and make poignant reference to social changes taking place in the 1960s and early 1970s A few perceptible drifts can be observed when listening to each version chronologically: In the original version Jean Stapleton was wearing glasses and after the first time the lyric " Those Were The Days " was sung over the tonic ( root chord of the song's key ) the piano strikes a Dominant 7th chord in transition to the next part which is absent from subsequent versions.

The natural harbour is the hollow of the principal crater, which, with a depth diminishing from 70 to 30 fathoms ( 130 – 55 m ), strikes in from the northwest so as to separate the island into two fairly equal portions ( see photo ), with an isthmus not more than broad.

On 30 August, the Secretary General of NATO announced the start of air strikes, supported by UNPROFOR rapid reaction force artillery attacks.

When PAVN launched the Nguyen Hue Offensive ( known in the West as the Easter Offensive ) into South Vietnam on 30 March, Massive U. S. air support was required inside South Vietnam and its air strikes in Laos dropped to their lowest point since 1965.

However, beginning at noon on 30 July 1967, Sourith directed two days of RLAF T-28 air strikes on a smuggler's caravan of 300 mules carrying 16 tons of opium that entered western Laos from Burma at Ban Khwan.

The Mahdi fighters were able to destroy two HMMWVs and two MRAPs, however, the unit responded with combined air and ground strikes and used tanks, attack helicopters, and heavy weapons to repel the assault while claiming the deaths of nearly 30 militants.

However, strikes continued, reaching Tilbury by 25 April and he allegedly received his 30, 000th letter supporting him, with 30 protesting against his speech.

Liang was thus given a beating of 30 strikes, as ordered by the court.

* September 30: A car bomb strikes an American Humvee handing out candy to children, killing up to 35 children.