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| 1 | Attack on Pearl Harbor ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : -1 Lat/Lng : 21.365 / -157.95 | The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack, also known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor, led to the United States' entry into (...) | |
| 2 | Myanmar ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 121 Lat/Lng : 19.75 / 96.1 | Myanmar , officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma, is a country in Southeast Asia. Myanmar is bordered by India and Bangladesh to its west, Thailand and Laos to its east and China to its north and northeast (...) | |
| 3 | Haiti ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 38 Lat/Lng : 18.5392 / -72.3364 | Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti and formerly called Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola, east of Cuba in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island, which it shares with the Dominican Republic (...) | |
| 4 | Akutan, Alaska ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 42 Lat/Lng : 54.1356 / -165.7731 | Akutan (ACK-oo-tan) (Achan-ingiiga in Aleut) is a city on Akutan Island in the Aleutians East Borough of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, United States. The population was 1,027 at the 2010 census, up from 713 in 2000. Akutan Harbor is adjacent. (...) | |
| 5 | NKVD ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 171 Lat/Lng : 55.7606 / 37.6281 | The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyy Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del), abbreviated NKVD (listen), was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union. Established in 1917 as NKVD of Russian SFSR, the agency was originally tasked with conducting regular police work and overseeing the (...) | |
| 6 | London Southend Airport ![]() FeatureType : airport Elevation : 14 Lat/Lng : 51.5714 / 0.6956 | London Southend Airport is an international airport in the district of Rochford in Essex, England, approximately from the centre of London. Southend was London's third-busiest airport from the 1960s until the end of the 1970s, when it was overtaken in passenger numbers by London Stansted Airport (...) | |
| 7 | Bollinger County, Missouri ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 140 Lat/Lng : 37.3189 / -90.0274 | Bollinger County is a county located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the county's population was 12,363. The county seat is Marble Hill. The county was officially organized in 1851 (...) | |
| 8 | Arctic Village, Alaska ![]() FeatureType : city Lat/Lng : 68.1219 / -145.5278 | Arctic Village (Vashrąįį K'ǫǫ in Gwich'in) is an unincorporated Native American villageArctic Village is recognized by the Bureau of Indian Affairs as an unincorporated Native Village under the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 (...) | |
| 9 | Robins Air Force Base ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 76 Lat/Lng : 32.64 / -83.5917 | Robins Air Force Base is a major United States Air Force installation located in Houston County, Georgia, United States. The base is located just east of and adjacent to the city of Warner Robins, south-southeast of Macon and approximately south-southeast of Atlanta, Georgia (...) | |
| 10 | United Airlines Flight 232 ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : 330 Lat/Lng : 42.4081 / -96.3839 | United Airlines Flight 232 was a regularly scheduled United Airlines flight from Denver to Chicago, continuing to Philadelphia. On July 19, 1989, the DC-10 (registered as N1819U) serving the flight crash-landed at Sioux City, Iowa, after suffering catastrophic failure of its tail-mounted engine, (...) | |
| 11 | 2013 Southeast Asian Games ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 61 Lat/Lng : 16.8 / 96.15 | The 2013 Southeast Asian Games , officially known as the 27th Southeast Asian Games, was a Southeast Asian multi-sport event took place in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar. Around 4730 athletes from 11 participating nations participated at the games, which featured 460 events in 34 sports (...) | |
| 12 | East New Market, Maryland ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 14 Lat/Lng : 38.5961 / -75.9236 | East New Market is a town located in Dorchester County, Maryland. The population was 400 at the 2010 census. The ZIP code is 21631. (...) | |
| 13 | Siege of Sidney Street ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 51.5182 / -0.0555 | The Siege of Sidney Street of January 1911, also known as the Battle of Stepney, was a gunfight in the East End of London between a combined police and army force and two Latvian revolutionaries. The siege was the culmination of a series of events that began in December 1910, with an attempted (...) | |
| 14 | Soe Moe Tun ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 121 Lat/Lng : 19.75 / 96.1 | Soe Moe Tun (ca. 1981 – 13 December 2016) was a murdered Burmese investigative journalist for the Daily Eleven in Monywa, Sagaing Region, Myanmar (also known as Burma). He was best known for his investigative reporting about sensitive issues, such as illegal logging, the Letpadaung Copper Mine (...) | |
| 15 | Penistone rail accidents ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 252 Lat/Lng : 53.5203 / -1.6752 | Over the latter years of the 19th and early years of the 20th centuries, Penistone in Yorkshire gained a name as an accident black-spot on Britain's railway network; indeed, it could be said to hold the title of the worst accident black-spot in the country (...) | |