1975 – Ella
Grasso becomes Governor of
Connecticut, becoming the first woman to serve as a Governor in
the United States other than by succeeding her husband.
2005 – The nuclear sub collides with an
undersea mountain at full speed south of Guam. One man is killed,
but the sub surfaces and is repaired.
2006 – A magnitude 6.9
earthquake with its epicenter just off
the Greek island of Kythira hits much of the country and is felt throughout the
entire eastern Mediterranean Sea.
2009 – A 6.2 magnitude earthquake hit Costa
Rica´s region of Volcan Poás, with an epicenter near Cinchona. It
was caused by Varablanca-Angel fault.