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2013 Event - Officials at the Kremlin announce that the 2014 G8 summit will be held at Sochi, its southern Black Sea resort 2013 Event - A small pyrotechnics show ignited foram sound insulating material in the ceiling of Kiss, a crowded, windowless nightclub in southern Brazil's city of Santa Maria, killing 237 partygoers and injuring 169 others 2012 Event - The toll of those afflicted by Typhoon Bopha in the southern Philippines rises to 179,000 left homeless after the storm passed 2012 Event - Typhoon Bopha, striking New Bataan and parts of the southern Philippines, leads to the deaths of 283 people with 339 injured, over 300 missing, and over 87,000 evacuated from the area 2012 Event - Following severe floods in southern France, hundreds of pilgrims are evacuated from the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes 2012 Event - Scientists reveal new research identifying a mechanism by which Earth-warming carbon is pulled deep into the Southern Ocean, and locked away; scientists claim this process may be threatened by global warming 2012 Event - Tornadoes that struck the midwestern and southern United States claimed 39 lives 2012 Event - Marysville, Indiana and Henryville, Indiana experience widespread damage from tornadoes that hit the midwestern and southern United States 2011 Event - Protestors demonstrating against the construction of a power plant in Haimen, southern China, are fired upon with teargas and arrested 2011 Event - The Southern United States experiences a heat alert for fourteen states; several dozen heat-related deaths occurred since July 2011 Event - Tropical Storm Arlene, the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season's first tropical storm, lands near Cabo Rojo and brings heavy rain to Mexico and southern Texas 2011 Event - The Mid-April 2011 Southern United States tornado outbreak results in over 30 deaths; North Carolina is the state worst affected 2010 Event - Five Palestinians are wounded when Israel conducts four air raids in the Gaza Strip, a response to a fourth rocket attack in southern Israel from Gaza 2010 Event - Major floods in Southern Sudan, near Aweil, Northern Bahr el Ghazal leave 57,000 people homeless 2010 Event - Six people are killed by a remotely operated bomb while travelling in southern Afghanistan in Tirin Kot, the capital of Afghanistan's Uruzgan province 2009 Event - A train travelling through heavy rain in Hua Hin in southern Thailand, is derailed, killing serval people and injuring dozens 2000 Event - Alaska Airlines flight 261 crashes off coast of southern California, killing 88, crash caused by a bad stabilizer 1997 Event - Typhoon Linda kills at least 208 in southern Vietnam 1996 Event - Southern Mexico hit with 6.5 earthquake 1995 Death - Terry Southern, writer, dies at 71 1995 Event - Southern California begins using new area code 562 1995 Event - Southern Alabama begins using new area code 334 1994 Event - 76th PGA Championship: Nick Price shoots a 269 at Southern Hills Tulsa 1994 Event - 14" of snow in Southern California 1992 Event - 2 earthquakes including 7.4 hits southern California 1991 Event - 6.0 earthquake hits southern California 1989 Death - Sterling A Brown, U.S. poet/critic (Southern Road), dies at 87 1987 Event - 175-kph winds cause blackout in London, much of southern England 1987 Event - Southern League no-hit record-Bob Milacki pitches 11 1/3 no-hit inn 1986 Event - Tupolev-134 crashes in Southern Africa 1986 Event - 5th NCAA Women Basketball Championship: Texas beats Southern California 97-81 1984 Event - Southern Baptist convention decide on no women clergy members 1984 Event - 3rd NCAA Womens Basketball Championship: Southern California beats Tennessee 72-61 1983 Event - Don Genalo needs just 3 of 5 pins to win Southern California Open bowling tournament, miscalculates his score and intentionally gutters his ball 1982 Event - 64th PGA Championship: Ray Floyd shoots a 272 at Southern Hills Tulsa 1981 Event - 47th Heisman Trophy Award: Marcus Allen, Southern California (RB) 1980 Event - 4,800 die in series of earthquakes that devastated southern Italy 1980 Event - Zimbabwe (formerly Southern Rhodesia) declares independence from UK 1979 Event - 45th Heisman Trophy Award: Charles White, Southern California (RB) 1977 Event - 77th U.S. Golf Open: Hubert Green shoots a 278 at Southern Hills Tulsa 1974 Event - Courageous (U.S.) beats Southern Cross (Australia) in 23rd America's Cup 1973 Event - Israeli counter offensive in southern Syria 1971 Birthday - James Baldwin, Jr., born in Southern Pines, North Carolina, pitcher, Chicago White Sox 1970 Event - 52nd PGA Championship: Dave Stockton shoots 279 at Southern Hills OK 1969 Event - Launch of Mariner 7, flies 2,190-mi above southern Mars 1968 Event - 34th Heisman Trophy Award: O J Simpson, Southern California (RB) 1968 Event - Chuck Hixson (Southern Methodist) completes 37 of record 69 passes 1967 Event - Monterey International Pop Festival rocks Southern California 1967 Event - Lucius Amerson, becomes 1st southern (Ala) black sheriff in 20th cent 1965 Event - 31st Heisman Trophy Award: Mike Garrett, Southern California (RB) 1965 Birthday - Tim Simpson, born in Atlanta, Georgia, Nike golfer, 1985 Southern Open 1964 Event - Southern Democrats filibuster on civil rights bill ends; cloture invoked 1962 Event - Southern University closed due to demonstrations 1960 Birthday - John Rocca, English funk singer, Southern Freeze 1960 Birthday - Denise Strebig, born in San Bernardino, California, Denise Strebig-Haigh, professional golfer, toured with LPGA 1982-1990, married tour official Kerry Haigh, 1988, played college golf at University of Southern California 1960 Birthday - David Peoples, Augusta ME, Nike golfer, 1991 Buick Southern Open 1959 Birthday - David Laurence Frost, Cape Town South Africa, PGA golfer, 1988 Southern Open 1958 Event - Southern Pacific Bay ferries stop running 1958 Event - 58th U.S. Golf Open: Tommy Bolt shoots a 283 at Southern Hills in Tulsa 1957 Event - Southern Christian Leadership Conference organizes in New Orleans 1957 Event - Southern Christian Leadership Conference forms 1957 Event - Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC) founded 1955 Birthday - Michael James Sullivan, born in Gary, Indiana, PGA golfer, 1980 Southern Open 1954 Birthday - Rick Warren, San Jose, California, Pastor of Saddleback Church in Southern California 1953 Birthday - Edward Ray Fiori, born in Lynwood, California, PGA golfer, 1979 Southern Open 1948 Event - 5 day southern filibuster succeeds in maintaining poll tax 1945 Event - Koreas divided on 38th parallel with U.S. occupying the southern area 1944 Event - Bomb assassination against Southern Tirol congregation in Rome, 33 die 1942 Birthday - Thom Mayne, born in Waterbury, Connecticut, architect, awarded Pritzker Prize, 2005, principal, Morphosis, famous architecture firm in Santa Monica, California, founder, Southern California Institute of Architecture 1939 Birthday - O. V. Wright, born in Leno, Tennessee, singer, sang gospel, considered southern soul artist, first pop recording, 'That's How Strong My Love Is' 1939 Birthday - DeWitt T Weaver, Jr., Danville, Kentucky, PGA golfer, 1972 Southern Open 1939 Event - Pan Am opens southern route transatlantic air service, Dixie Clipper 1935 Birthday - James Graham, born in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, Africa, 8th Duke of Montrose, the only Duke with a seat in the House of Lords as a hereditary peer 1926 Birthday - Ralph Abernathy, civil rights leader, Southern Christian Leadership 1925 Birthday - Robert Linn, born in America, composer, educator, University of Southern California, composed music for chorus and chamber ensembles, symphony orchestra and wind orchestra 1924 Birthday - Terry Southern, writer 1923 Event - Britain takes over Southern Rhodesia from British South Africa Co 1922 Event - 1st southern radio station begins (WSB, Atlanta Georgia) 1920 Birthday - Antony Duff, born in England, served Royal Navy during World War II, Deputy Governor of Southern Rhodesia, diplomat, Director-General of Military Intelligence, section 5, 1985 - 1988, the United Kingdom's internal security service 1915 Event - Southern Methodist University (Dallas Texas) holds its 1st class 1914 Event - Northern and Southern Nigeria united in British colony of Nigeria 1900 Event - British protectorates of Northern and Southern Nigeria established 1899 Event - Southern California Golf Association forms 1891 Event - 1st great train robbery by Dalton Gang (Southern Pacific #17) 1887 Event - Harvey Wilcox of Ks subdivides 120 acres he owned in Southern California and starts selling it off as a real estate development (Hollywood) 1880 Event - Southern University forms 1879 Event - "Exodus of 1879" southern blacks flee political/economic exploitation 1877 Event - Southern blacks led by Pap Singleton settle in Kansas 1877 Event - 1st U.S. municipal railroad, Cincinnati Southern, begins operations 1877 Event - British annex Walvis Bay in southern Africa 1876 Event - Southern Pacific line from LA to San Francisco completed 1871 Death - John Herschel, cataloguer of southern hemisphere stars, dies at 79 1868 Event - Despite bitter opposition, President A Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all persons involved in Southern rebellion (Civil War) 1861 Event - Jefferson Davis of Mississippi and 4 other southern senators resign 1853 Event - Gadsden Purchase 45,000 mi (120,000 km) by Gila River from Mexico for $10 million, area is now southern Arizona and New Mexico 1837 Event - Earthquake in southern Syria kills thousands 1814 Event - Belgium King Willem I accept blame in Southern defeat 1805 Event - 1st recorded tornado in "Tornado Alley", Southern Illinois 1800 Event - Wild Boy of Aveyron discovered in southern France 1795 Event - Pinckney's Treaty between Spain and U.S. is signed, establishing southern boundary of U.S. and giving Americans right to send goods down Mississippi 1795 Event - France annexes Southern Netherlands 1794 Event - Hard frost in southern New England 1783 Event - Laki Volcano in southern Iceland begins 8-month eruption 1748 Event - France and Austria signs treaty about Southern Netherlands 1670 Event - Don Juan Domingo Zuniga y Fonseca becomes Governor-General of Southern Netherlands 1667 Event - French troops attack into Southern Netherlands 1598 Event - Arch duke Albrecht and Isabella become monarch of Southern Netherlands 1535 Birthday - Emanuel van Meteren, Southern Netherlands, merchant/historian 1421 Event - Southern sea floods 72 villages, killing est 10,000 in Netherlands |
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