A powerful hurricane in the eastern Pacific washed away an 11-acre island in the French Frigate Shoals, part of a national monument in the remote northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
Approximately a half mile long and 400 feet wide, East Island was the second-largest islet in French Frigate Shoals ―...
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Famous people born on this day:
--> 1797, Mary Shelley, author of "Frankenstein", in 1910
--> 1896, Raymond Massey
--> 1901, John Gunther
--> 1901, Roy Wilkins
--> 1908, Fred Macmurry, actor.
--> 1909, Shirley Booth, actress.
--> 1918, Ted Williams
--> 1943, Jean Claude Killy
--> 1943, R. Crumb...
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