2015 Event Airplane debris is found off the coast of France's Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean; officials believe the debris is from a Boeing 777 and may be part of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared over a year ago without a trace 2015 Event U.S. President Barack Obama vetoes the Keystone XL project, which would extend the existing Keystone pipeline and connect Canadian oil directly to U.S. Gulf Coast refineries; environmentalists claim the pipeline extension will add to climate change 2015 Event The Ezadeen, an abandoned ship carrying 450 Syrians, is rescued from choppy waters and brought safely to shore in Italy; the ship is the second to be abandoned by human traffickers off the nation's coast in the last four days 2014 Event A ship carrying 900 Syrians is intercepted and safely brought to shore by the Italian coast guard; the ship had been manned by human traffickers who abandoned the vessel after setting the navigation system on a collision course with the Italian coast 2014 Event 174 people have been rescued from a South Korean ferry that capsized off the coast; the ferry was carrying 476 people, mainly students; rescue efforts are ongoing 2014 Event The coast of Puerto Rico is hit by a 6.5-magnitude earthquake 2013 Event A report from Japan's Coast Guard and earthquake experts claims that a new islet has been created; a volcanic eruption raised the new island, which is located off the coast of Nishinoshima - a small, uninhabited island in the Ogasawara chain, far south of Tokyo 2013 Event An 7.3-magnitude earthquake off of Japan's east coast prompts the country's emergency agencies to issue a tsunami warning 2013 Event The east coast of India expects Cyclone Phailin to make landfall today 2013 Event Engineers working off of Italy's Tuscan coast pull the MS Costa Concordia cruise ship upright after it ran aground in early 2012 2013 Event An area located off the coast of the Aleutian Islands records a magnitude 7.0 earthquake 2013 Event Hercules 264, a Gulf of Mexico natural gas drilling rig, partially collapses off the coast of Louisiana; the rig remains standing but sustained extensive damage to the derrick package as a result of a continuing fire 2013 Event The oldest European remains of a white man are discovered in Australia; the Manning River Skull may belong to a man born in 1650, predating the country's history that Captain James Cook was the first to land on Australia's east coast in 1770 2013 Event A rare 19th century torpedo is discovered off the coast of California by the US Navy dolphins 2013 Event As part of its effort to protect America from an attack by North Korea, the U.S. invests $1 billion in ground-based missile interceptors on the West Coast 2013 Event A magnitude 8.0 earthquake causes significant damage to villages along the coast of the Solomon Islands 2013 Event Thousands of people on Australia's east coast are threatened by over 130 wildfires burning, and are forced to leave their homes 2012 Event The Japanese Coast Guard reports six Chinese Marine Surveillance ships are sighted near the disputed Senkaku Islands; China claims the 'two surveillance ship fleets' are in waters around the islands for purposes of 'patrols and law enforcement' 2012 Event The West coast of Washington state is hit by a 5.6 magnitude earthquake 2012 Event President of France, Francois Holland finalizes a deal with Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara to forgive $4.7 billion dollars in debt incurred by the Ivory Coast when it was a French Colonial Power 2012 Event Ireland is struck by another earthquake off of the County Mayo coast 2012 Event According to the U.S. Hurricane Center, Hurricane Bud has formed off of the Pacific Ocean's coast of Mexico, and has reached category two strength 2012 Event More than 1,000 birds, mostly pelicans and hundreds of dolphins die off the coast in the north of Paru, under unexplained circumstances 2012 Event A 6.8 magnitude earthquake causes a small tsunami to hit the coast of Aomori prefecture on the Japanese island of Hokkaido 2012 Event Facing fuel shortages after a fall storm, preparations are made for the US Coast Guard icebreaker USCGC Healy to accompany Russian tanker Renda to deliver fuel 2012 Event Two survivors are found trapped inside the capsized cruise ship Costa Concordia, which ran aground off the coast of Tuscany January 13 2011 Event In Washington, D.C., thousands protest the proposed Keystone XL pipeline project, which would carry Alberta oil sands crude through six U.S. states to Gulf Coast refineries 2011 Event The oil spill from MV Rena, the ship stranded off the coast of Tauranga, New Zealand, becomes the country's worst environmental disaster 2011 Event Off the coast of Tauranga, New Zealand, the MV Rena container ship runs aground, causing a large oil spill and affecting wildlife in the Bay of Plenty 2011 Event A 6.6 magnitude earthquake occurs off the coast of Japan, setting off a series of aftershocks 2011 Event BP announces plans to begin drilling for oil off the coast of Libya 2011 Event A tourist boat travelling off the coast of Baja California in Mexico sinks; 23 people are reported missing 2011 Event The U.S. Coast Guard responds to heavy flooding by closing a section of the Mississippi River near Caruthersville, Missouri 2011 Event A 7.2 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Honshu, Japan prompts the release of tsunami alert 2011 Event Archeologists working off the coast of Panama recover six cannons from ships owned by Welsh privateer Henry Morgan 2011 Event A Mongolian bulk carrier sailing off the coast of Oman is seized by Somali pirates 2010 Event While world leaders back Africa's Alassane Ouattara as the Ivory Coast presidential election winner, a swearing-in ceremony is held for Laurent Gbagbo in Cote D'Ivoire 2010 Event A substantially large oil field that is estimated to contain between 8 and 15 billion barrels, is discovered off the coast of Brazil 2010 Event Somali pirates seized Indian crewmen and the Panamanian-flagged ship they were sailing off the coast of Tanzania 2010 Event Hurricane Earl shifts toward the east coast of the U.S., placing most of North Carolina's coast on hurricane watch 2010 Event In Hong Kong, 80,000 people rally in response to last week's fatal tourist coast hijacking hostage crisis in the Philippines 2010 Event The Gulf of Mexico oil spill threatens sensitive marshes and wildlife along the Gulf Coast; Admiral Thad Allan is appointed to lead the Federal response to the spill 2010 Event Somali pirates seize a German-owned tanker, MS Marida Marguerite, off the coast of Somalia 2010 Event The Deepwater Horizon oil spill reaches the Louisiana Coast; weather is projected to impede cleanup efforts 2010 Event Economic losses mount and class action lawsuits are filed as the U.S. Coast Guard plans a controlled burn to remove spilled oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster 2010 Event The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig that exploded off the coast of Louisiana two days ago, sinks; the wreck is leading crude oil and diesel at an alarming rate 2010 Event 35 suspected pirates off the coast of Somalia are captured by the French Navy, the European Union's most successful mission 2009 Event Pirates from Somalia capture the Maran Centaurus, a Greek-owned oil tanker, off the coast of Somalia 2009 Event A magnitude 7.0 quake strikes off the coast of Indonesia, setting off a tsunami alert which is then withdrawn 2009 Event A Sri Lankan migrant ship seized off of Canada's Pacific Coast, carried 76 suspected Sri Lankan immigrants 2009 Event Panic ensues when an earthquake strikes off the Bali coast in Indonesia, causing few injuries and little material damage 2009 Event One person out of 183 passengers and crew survives the crash of Yemenia Flight 626 off the coast of Moroni, Comoros 2005 Event Hurricane Katrina causes sever damage to the Gulf Coast killing 1836 2005 Death Fay Godwin, British photographer, noted for black-and-white landscapes of British coast and countryside, took portraits of literary figures, Saul Bellow, Salman Rushdie, Anthony Powell, dies at age 74, in Hastings, England 2000 Event Alaska Airlines flight 261 crashes off coast of southern California, killing 88, crash caused by a bad stabilizer 1999 Event EgyptAir flight 990 crashes 60m off coast of Nantucket, killing 217, likely cause was an Islamist suicide replacement pilot 1998 Event SwissAir flight 111 crashes off the coast of Nova Scotia killing all 229 onbaord, likely cause was an electrical fire 1997 Event Emerald Coast Senior Golf Classic 1996 Death Alfredo Nobre Coast, Prime Minister of Portugal (1978), dies 1994 Event Achille Lauro sinks off the coast of Somalia 1993 Event Ivory Coast Premier Ouattara resigns 1993 Event Henri Konan Bedie names himself President of Ivory coast 1993 Death Felix Houphouet-Boigny, President of Ivory Coast (1960-93), dies at 88 1993 Event 25 people killed during Ghana-Ivory Coast soccer match 1993 Event Ferry boat leaves for west coast of South Korea, 120 killed 1992 Event President Bush orders Coast Guard to intercept boats with Haitian refugees 1991 Event Largest crowd to watch Atlantic Coast Womens Basketball game (11,520) 1988 Event Tug hits oil barge, spreads 231,000 gal on 300 mi of WA and BC coast 1985 Event Hurricane Juan ravages U.S. Gulf states and east coast, 49 die 1985 Event Hurricane Gloria's 130 MPH wind hits Atlantic coast 1982 Event ABC's All Talk network begins on radio (2 west coast stations) 1978 Birthday Karen Kwan, Torrance California, figure skater, 1995 Pac Coast Sr champ 1978 Event Amoco Cadiz tanker spills 1.6 mil gallons of oil off French coast 1978 Event Amoco Cadiz spills 223,000 tons of crude oil off French coast 1977 Birthday Beata Handra, born in San Francisco, California, dance skater, & Sinek-1997 Pac Coast Sr 3rd 1976 Event Argo Merchant tanker off Massachusetts' SE coast, spills 7.6 m gallons of crude when ship ran aground 1976 Event Oil tanker Urqui Ola explodes off Spanish coast 1975 Event Coast Guard Academy 1st allows women to enroll 1975 Birthday Trifun Zivanovic, born in Santa Monica, fig skater, 1995 Pac Coast, Jr. champ 1975 Birthday Claude N'Goran, born in Adzope Ivory Coast, tennis pro 1974 Event Hurricane Fifi hits coast of Honduras; about 5,000 die 1973 Event Ferryboat capsized off coast of Equador, drowning 200 1973 Event West African Economic Community formed (Benin, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Upper Volta) 1972 Death Miriam Hopkins, actress (Carrie, Barbary Coast), dies at 69 1971 Birthday Michael Chack, Toms River, New Jersey, figure skater, 1997 Pac Coast Sr champ 1971 Death Chips Rafferty, actor (Kona Coast, Walk into Hell), dies at 62 1971 Death Matt McHugh, actor (Taxi, Freaks, Barbary Coast), dies at 77 1970 Birthday Martha Plimpton, New York City, actress, Goonies, Mosquito Coast 1969 Birthday Anna Acker-Macosko, Marshfield WI, LPGA golfer, 1995 Gold Coast Tour 1968 Birthday Sandra Beikoff, Mackay QLD, golfer, 1990 Sunshine Coast Open 1966 Birthday Mike Small, born in Aurora Illinois, Canadian Tour golfer, 1993 Emerald Coast 1966 Event B-52/KC-135 tankers crash near Spanish coast at Palomares, 7 die 1964 Birthday Charles Sinek, dance skater, & Beata Handra-1997 Pac Coast Sr 3rd 1964 Event Mickey Wright wins LPGA Mary Mills Miss Gulf Coast Golf Invitational 1964 Event Guinee, Liberia and Ivory Coast form joint market 1964 Death Joseph Schildkraut, Austr actor (Flame of Barbary Coast), dies at 68 1964 Birthday Skip Ewing, Redlands California, country vocalist, Coast of Colorado 1963 Event Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Mary Mills Miss Gulf Coast Golf Invitational 1963 Birthday John Elliot, Bristol CT, Nike golfer, 1994 NIKE Miss Gulf Coast 1963 Birthday Joe Lloyd, Highland Park, Illinois, Canadian Tour golfer, 1993 Space Coast 1962 Event Canadian Marine Service renamed Coast Guard 1961 Birthday Matt Cole, born in Stratford, Ontario, Canadian Tour golfer, 1990 Space Coast 1960 Event Ivory Coast claims independence from France 1960 Event Dr. Felix Houphouet-Boigny becomes president of Ivory Coast 1960 Event Ivory Coast adopts constitution 1960 Event Cyclone hits coast of Gulf of Bengal; about 10,000 die 1960 Event Cyclone hits coast of Gulf of Bengal; about 4000 die 1960 Event Ivory Coast, Cote d'Ivoore, gains independence from France 1960 Event Ivory Coast, Dahomey, Upper Volta and Niger declare independence 1958 Event Dahomey (Benin), Ivory Coast become autonomous within French Community 1958 Event Oman turns over Gwadur (on Baluchistan coast) to Pakistan 1958 Birthday Ray Freeman, born in Greensboro, North Carolina, Canadian Tour golfer, 1992 Coast Carolina 1957 Birthday Craig Marseilles, Toronto, Canadian Tour golfer, 1995 Gold Coast 1957 Event SF Seals (Pacific Coast League) play their last game 1957 Event Heavy storm ravages Belgian coast 1957 Birthday Bruce Plummer, born in Seattle, Washington Canadian Tour golfer, 1994 West Coast 1957 Event New York City Mayor Robert Wagner says he plans to confer with the Giants and Dodgers about the proposed move to the west coast 1957 Event NL approves Brooklyn Dodgers' and New York Giants' move to west coast 1957 Event Ghana (formerly Gold Coast) declares independence from U.K. 1956 Event Fidel Castro lands with "Granma" on coast of Cuba 1956 Event AL President Will Harridge bars Washington Senators move to West Coast, unless unanimously approved by the other AL owners 1954 Birthday Bob Beauchemin, Winnipeg, Canada, golfer, West Coast Open-1982, 83 1953 Birthday Alpha Blondy, Seydou Kone, Ivory coast, reggae singer, Jerusalem 1951 Birthday Dick Mast, born in Bluffton, Ohio, Nike golfer, 1990 Mississippi Gulf Coast 1951 Event Kwame Nkrumah wins 1st parliamentary election on Gold coast (Ghana) 1949 Event Freak heat wave sent central coast of Portugal to 158 degrees F for 2 minutes 1947 Event Pacific Coast League application for major league status rejected 1947 Birthday Hans Vermeulen, singer/guitarist, Sandy Coast 1945 Event 1st U.S. units reach east coast of Okinawa 1945 Event U.S. minesweepers reach Kerama Retto, South coast of Okinawa 1945 Event British troops land on Ramree, near coast of Burma 1945 Event Allies land on west coast of Burma, conquer Akyab 1944 Event U.S. Army announces end of excluding Japanese-Americans from West Coast 1944 Event Operation Anvil: Allies land on French Mediterranean sea coast 1943 Event U.S. amphibians land at Brolo on north coast of Sicily 1943 Event U.S. amphibians land at St. Agata on North coast of Sicily 1943 Event U.S. 45th Infantry division occupies north coast of Termini 1942 Event Coast Guard Woman's Auxiliary (SPARS) authorized 1942 Death Douglas Munro, only U.S. Coast Guard with WW II-Med of Honor, dies 1942 Event 1st WW II American expeditionary force lands in Africa (Gold Coast) 1942 Event Nightly "dim-out" begins along East Coast 1942 Event Destroyer Roper sinks German U-85 of U.S. east coast 1942 Event German U-boats begin harassing shipping on U.S. east coast 1941 Event Eddie Mayo (LA-Pacific Coast League), spits in face of ump Ray Snyder 1941 Birthday Paul Theroux, American travel book writer, Mosquito Coast 1939 Event Russian Indigirka capsizes in blizzard off Japanese coast; 750 die 1937 Event Japanese fleet blockades Chinese coast 1934 Event New York Yankees buy Joe DiMaggio from San Francisco Seals (Pacific Coast League) 1934 Birthday Ramon Sender, born in Madrid, Spain, composer, co-founder, San Francisco Tape Music Center, co-designed the first west coast synthesizer, the Buchla Box 1933 Birthday Robert Blake, Nutley, New Jersey, Baretta, Little Rascals, Coast to Coast 1933 Event Joe Dimaggio ends 61 game hitting streak in Pacific Coast League 1933 Event U.S. Dirigible Akron crashes off coast of New Jersey, 73 die 1931 Birthday Fay Godwin, born in Berlin, Germany, British photographer, noted for black-and-white landscapes of British coast and countryside, took portraits of literary figures, Saul Bellow, Salman Rushdie, Anthony Powell 1927 Event 1st flight from West Coast arrives in Hawaii 1920 Event 1st U.S. coast guard air station established (Morehead City NC) 1919 Event Hurricane tides 16 feet above normal drown 280 along Gulf Coast 1916 Event German-British sea battle off Belgian coast 1916 Event French cruiser "Admiral Charner" torpedoed off Syrian coast, kills 374 1915 Event German cruiser Dresden blows itself up near coast of Chile 1915 Event British fleet fire on Dardanellen coast 1915 Event U.S. Coast Guard created from Life Saving and Revenue Cutter services 1914 Event German fleet bombs English coast 1914 Event German fleet under Admiral Souchon fire on Algerian coast 1912 Event SS Kichemaru disappears in storm off Japanese coast, 1,000 die 1909 Birthday Kwame Nkrumah, communist/premier Gold Coast/president Ghana, 1960-66 1906 Event Heavy storm ravages Dutch west coast 1905 Birthday Felix Houphouet-Boigny, President of Ivory coast, 1960-93 1901 Event Great Britain annexes Gold Coast (Ghana) 1901 Birthday Brian Donlevy, Ireland, actor, Barbary Coast, Glass Key, Wake Island 1898 Birthday Dorothy Stratton, organizer, SPARS-women's branch of U.S. Coast Guard 1897 Event British troops occupy Bida Gold Coast (Ghana) 1897 Event Battle at Bida Gold Coast: British troops beat Nupe's army 1894 Event 1st midwestern football team to play on west coast, University of Chicago defeats Stanford 24-4 at Palo Alto, California in football 1894 Event Dutch coast hit by hurricane 1894 Event British troops occupy Ilorin, Gold Coast 1894 Birthday Matt McHugh, Pennsylvania, actor, Taxi, Freaks, Barbary Coast, Innocent Affair 1893 Event Hurricane hits coast between Savannah Georgia and Charleston SC 1893 Event Tornado destroys coast of Savannah and Charleston, about 1000 die 1893 Event Ivory Coast becomes a French colony 1893 Event Great Northern Railway connects Seattle with east coast 1889 Event Flood ravages Dutch coast 1889 Event Ivory Coast declared a protectorate of France 1876 Event U.S. Coast Guard officers' training school established New Bedford, Massachusetts 1876 Event Tsunami's after earthquake floods NE coast of Japan, kills 28,000 1875 Event Verney Cameroon reaches Benguela Angola, from Africa's east coast 1871 Event Cameroon reaches coast of Angola after trip through Africa 1870 Event British SS Cambria leaves for Noth sea coast, 196 killed 1864 Event Off New England coast, CSS Tallahassee captures 6 yankee schooners 1862 Event Steamer "Golden Gate" burns and sinks off west coast of Mexico 1860 Event Britain formally returns Mosquito Coast to Nicaragua 1858 Event Regular mail to Pacific coast begins 1854 Event "New Era" sinks off New Jersey coast with loss of 300 1854 Event English pirate Plumridge robs along pro-English Finnish coast 1849 Event 1st boat load of gold rush prospectors arrives in San Francisco from east coast 1848 Event Britain takes Mosquito Coast from Nicaragua 1846 Event "Oregon Spectator" is 1st newspaper to be published on the West Coast 1839 Event 2 day storm off Irish and English coast immortalized as "Big Wind" 1825 Event Dutch North Sea coast floods 1817 Event 1st coffee planted in Hawaii on Kona coast 1814 Death Matthew Flinders, English cartographer (Australia coast), dies at 40 1811 Event 1st U.S. colonists on Pacific coast arrive at Cape Disappointment, WA 1807 Event U.S. Coast Survey authorized by Congress 1806 Event Lewis and Clark reach Pacific coast 1804 Event Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis for Pacific Coast 1799 Event British frigate HMS Lutine sinks off Dutch coast 1794 Event New York City formally declares coast of Ellis Island publically owned, so they can build forts to protect New York City from British 1790 Event U.S. Coast Guard founded as Revenue Cutter Service 1790 Event Revenue Marine Service, U.S. Coast Guard, created 1788 Event 1st British ship built on Pacific coast begun at Nootka Sound 1778 Event Captain James Cook 1st sights Oregon coast, at Yaquina Bay 1775 Event Floods ravage Dutch coast provinces 1774 Birthday Matthew Flinders, English navigator/cartographer, coast Australia 1757 Birthday George Vancouver, surveyed Pacific coast from San Francisco to Vancouver I 1718 Death Edward "Blackbeard" Teach, English pirate, killed off Virginia coast 1717 Event Floods ravage Dutch coast provinces, 1000s killed 1715 Event 10 Spanish treasure galleons sinks off Florida coast by hurricane 1712 Event French hijacker Jacques Cassard seen on Suriname coast 1665 Event Duke of York defeats Dutch fleet off the coast of Lowestoft 1665 Event Battle at Elmina, Gold Coast: Vice-Admiral De Ruyter beats English 1620 Event Mayflower reaches Cape Cod and explores the coast 1579 Event Sir Francis Drake lands on coast of California 1552 Event Dutch coast hit by heavy storm 1552 Event Dutch west coast hit by heavy storm, 100s killed 1551 Event Dutch west coast hit by hurricane 1542 Event Explorer Cabrillo discovered Catalina Island off California coast 1530 Event St. Felix Flood ravages Dutch coast 1526 Event Heavy storm strikes Dutch coast, many die 1519 Event Flood ravages Dutch/Friese coast 1519 Event Pizarro receives royal charter for South American west coast 1509 Event Storm ravages Flemish/Dutch/Friese coast, 1000s killed 1502 Event Storm ravages Friese coast 1424 Event Storm flood ravages Dutch coast 1360 Event France invasion army lands on English south coast, conquers Winchel 1334 Event St. Clemens Flood: Dike breaks at Flemish/Zeeuwse/Dutch coast 1262 Event Flemish/Dutch coast ravaged by north western storm 1196 Event Northern Dutch coast flooded, "Saint-Nicolaas Flood"
