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6 days ago · Genghis Khan (c. 1162–1227), captured after a raid and enslaved by the Taichiud. George Africanus (1763–1834), an enslaved African man from Sierra Leone who became a successful entrepreneur in Nottingham. George Edward Doney (1758–1809), Gambian man enslaved by William Capell, 4th Earl of Essex.
3 days ago · 94.8% (first ballot) Rickey Nelson Henley Henderson (born December 25, 1958) is an American former professional baseball left fielder who played 25 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for nine teams from 1979 to 2003, including four separate tenures with his original team, the Oakland Athletics. Nicknamed " the Man of Steal ", he is widely ...
4 days ago · Sport[edit] Main article: Sailing (sport) Sailing as a sport is organized on a hierarchical basis, starting at the yacht clublevel and reaching up into national and international federations; it may entail racing yachts, sailing dinghies, or other small, open sailing craft, including iceboats and land yachts.
Apr 12, 2024 · The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Berck, Pas-de-Calais, France with the loss of all eight of her crew. James United Kingdom: The brig foundered in the English Channel 3 nautical miles (5.6 km) off Berck. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Cephalonia, Greece to Leith, Lothian.
2 days ago · Simón Bolívar, 15 August 1805 In April 1805, Bolívar left Paris with Rodríguez and del Toro on a Grand Tour to Italy. Beginning in Lyon, they traveled through the Savoy Alps and then to Milan. The trio arrived on 26 May 1805 and witnessed Napoleon's coronation as King of Italy. From Milan, they traveled down the Po Valley to Venice, then to Florence, and then finally Rome, where Bolívar ...
4 days ago · Üsküdar – A small passenger ferry sank due to heavy lodos weather in the Gulf of İzmit on 1 March. 272 passengers including seven crew died; 39 people survived. 272. 1994. Kenya. Likoni Ferry – On 29 April the overloaded passenger ferry Mtongwe One capsized and sank killing 272 of the more than 300 aboard.
Apr 14, 2024 · List of shipwrecks: 5 January 1910 Ship State Description Farallon United States During a voyage from Valdez, Territory of Alaska, to Unalaska in the Aleutian Islands and way ports with eight passengers, a crew of 30, and a cargo of 30 tons of general merchandise aboard, the 749-gross register ton, 158.5-foot (48.3 m) passenger steamer was wrecked without loss of life on a reef in Cook Inlet ...
