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A Wickes-class destroyer that was bombed as a target off San Diego. USS Knight United States Navy: 27 October 1967 A Gleaves-class destroyer that was sunk as a target off San Diego. USS Marcus United States Navy: 25 June 1935 A Clemson-class destroyer that was sunk as a target off San Diego. Monte Carlo United States: 1 January 1937
San Diego, California: 140 2000 2000 Southern United States heat wave: Heat wave Southern United States: 139 1840 Lexington: Accident – shipwreck Long Island Sound: Steamship sank due to fire on board 139 1874 Mill River (Northampton, Massachusetts) Accident – dam failure Hampshire County, Massachusetts: 139 1917 Eddystone explosion: Explosion
The casualties included 36 children; the youngest person killed was 10 months old, and 25 were people over age 80. [ 21 ] [ 254 ] The attack was the deadliest day in Israel's history. [ 256 ] Some, including then-US President Joe Biden, have said it was also the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust. [ 257 ]
California (1907–1914) San Diego (1914–1918) Namesake: State of California; City of San Diego, California; Ordered: 3 March 1899: Awarded: 10 January 1901: Builder: Union Iron Works, San Francisco, California: Cost: $3,800,000 (contract price of hull and machinery) Laid down: 7 May 1902: Launched: 28 April 1904: Sponsored by: Miss F. Pardee ...
U.S. Navy Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat, BuNo 66237, c/n A-1257, 'Z 11', suffers engine failure on functional check flight out of Naval Air Station San Diego, North Island, California, pilot Ens. Robert F. Thomas ditches in the Pacific Ocean ~12 miles (19 km) from the base, gets clear of sinking airframe and survives to become an ace in the Pacific ...
Established in the early 1900s by United Engineering Works, the yard was purchased by Union Iron Works (Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation) in 1916 and came to be known as the Alameda Works. During the World War I period the yard built cargo ships, tankers and 2 small tugboats. For the UK Admiralty. War Knight, War Monarch, War Sword (1917, 7 ...
280,120 Soviet casualties; German casualties unknown Battle of Aachen: 1944: World War II: 21,000: Gothic Line offensive 1944-1945 World War II: 92,000: Battle of Hürtgen Forest: 1944 –1945 World War II: 63,000 [143] Courland Pocket: 1944 –1945 World War II: 278,819: Battle of Leyte Gulf: 1944: World War II: 12,000 killed [144] Battle of ...
A drawing from the Catalog of the Royal Armoury of Madrid by the medievalist Achille Jubinal in the 19th century. The original specimen was destroyed by a fire in 1884. The maquahuitl (Classical Nahuatl: māccuahuitl, other orthographic variants include mākkwawitl and mācquahuitl; plural māccuahuimeh), [4] a type of macana, was a common weapon used by the Aztec military forces and other ...