Video: 'FROM THE ARCHIVES: The exploding whale of Florence, Oregon'

(Thursday, November 12, 1970, 3:45 p.m. PST) — A dead 45-foot Pacific gray whale, estimated to weigh 8 tons, was blown up today on a beach near Florence, Oregon, after engineers figured it was the best way to dispose of the big mammal.
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Video: 'Bhola Cyclone 13 November 1970 : What is the real lesson of Bhola in 1970'

(Thursday, November 12, 1970, made landfall on the East Pakistan coastline during the evening, Bangladesh Standard Time) — Half a million people died tonight as the 1970 Bhola cyclone struck East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh) and India’s West Bengal, devastating the Ganges Delta region.
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