2014 Event Costa Rica shocks World Cup fans by beating Uruguay 3-1; The Uruguay team is considered one of the strongest and the Costa Rica team one of the weakest in the competition 2013 Event Columbia University researchers believe the new material, graphene, even if stitched together, is the strongest material in the world 1992 Event 2 earthquakes, including 3rd strongest in U.S. (7.4) rock California 1991 Death W Hudson, U.S. "strongest man to the world" (540 kg), dies 1990 Event West-Europe's strongest hurricane 1988 Event Gilbert is strongest (26.13 barometer) hurricane in Western Hemisphere 1988 Event Gilbert, strongest hurricane ever (160 mph), devastates Jamaica 1984 Death Peter Yarrall, strongest Englishman/weighed 826 lb (374.7 kg), dies 1978 Event World's strongest dog, 80-kg St. Bernard, pulls 2909-kg load 27 m 1977 Event Earthquake in San Francisco, at 5.0, strongest since 1966 1976 Event Scientists in Pasadena, California, announce Viking I found strongest indications to date of possible life on Mars 1958 Birthday Cammie Lusko, born in Los Angeles, California, Guinness' World Strongest Woman 1949 Birthday Geoff Capes, born in Holbeach, England, shot putter, two-time winner, World's Strongest Man title, two-time Commonwealth Games shot put champion 1944 Event Strongest Hurricane of century in Netherlands (wind force 12) 1906 Event Strongest instrumentally recorded earthquake, Colombia, 8.6 Richter
