1857 – 423 die when steamship SS Central America, the “Ship of Gold,” sinks in a hurricane off Cape Romain, South Carolina, carrying tons of gold coins and bricks from the California Gold Rush (rediscovered in 1988)
1901 – Arabs attack Gadara, Palestine
1925 – George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin’s first collaborative musical “Lady, Be Good!,” featuring siblings Fred Astaire and Adele Astaire as a brother and sister dance team, closes at the Liberty Theatre, NYC, after 330 performances
1958 – US performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1965 – Hurricane Betsy strikes Florida and Louisiana, killing 75 people
1982 – European Championship marathon won by Gerard Nijboer of the Netherlands (2:15:16) and Rosa Mota of Portugal (2:36:04)
2001 – Ansett Australia, Australia’s first commercial interstate airline, collapses due to increased strain on the international airline industry, leaving 10,000 people unemployed
2018 – According to a leaked report, more than 3,600 children were abused by Catholic priests in Germany between 1946 and 2014
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