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April 14 is the 104th day of the year ... Australia causing A$2.3 billion in insured damages, the most costly natural disaster in Australian history.
The Bombay explosion (or Bombay docks explosion) occurred on 14 April 1944, in the Victoria Dock of Bombay, British India (now Mumbai, India) when the British freighter SS Fort Stikine caught fire and was destroyed in two giant blasts, scattering debris, sinking surrounding ships and setting fire to the area, killing around 800 to 1,300 people. [1]
1986 - In retaliation for the April 5 bombing of the La Belle Discotheque in West Berlin in which two U.S. servicemen were killed, Ronald Reagan orders major bombing raids against Tripoli and Benghazi, in Libya, which kills 60 people.
April 26 continues to be celebrated as "Union Day" in Tanzania. [ 130 ] Thomas Toolen , the Roman Catholic Archbishop of the archdiocese of Mobile, Alabama , ordered the desegregation of all Roman Catholic parochial schools in his jurisdiction, which included all of the state of Alabama , and 11 counties in Florida west of the Apalachicola River.
[14] German submarine U-85 became the first casualty of Operation Drumbeat when she was sunk near Cape Hatteras by the American destroyer Roper. German submarine U-252 was depth charged and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean by British warships. British submarine Upholder was sunk in the Mediterranean Sea, probably by depth charges from an Italian ship.
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RMS Titanic sank on 15 April 1912 in the North Atlantic Ocean.The largest ocean liner in service at the time, Titanic was four days into her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, with an estimated 2,224 people on board when she struck an iceberg at 23:40 (ship's time) [a] on 14 April.
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