Atlantic Ocean and its main islands

Atlantic Ocean and its main islands Related Important Events ⚡

Date of Event	Event / Incident
21 May 1502	João da Nova of Portugal discovered the island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.
12 March 1609	The island of Bermuda, located in the Atlantic Ocean, became a colony of the British.
01 January 1739	Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic Ocean, the most remote island in the world, was discovered by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier.
20 June 1819	Arriving at Liverpool, SS Sawan became the first campaign to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
17 October 1907	The first commercial wireless telegraph is sent above the Atlantic Ocean.
10 October 1913	The Panama Canal formally connected the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean when Gambia Dike was destroyed with allegations of dynamite.
15 August 1914	The Panama Canal (Construction Picture) was opened for traffic, which provides a shortcut from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean via the Estmus of the Panama.
08 December 1914	The Falkland Water War was fought between Britain and Germany around the islands of the same name in the Atlantic Ocean.
12 November 1928	Around 111 people, mostly women and children, died, the British ocean liner SS Westris was abandoned due to drowning in the West Atlantic Ocean.
28 December 1942	Robert Sullivan became the first pilot to fly over the Atlantic Ocean a hundred times.
28 February 1942	Robert Sullivan became the first pilot to fly over the Atlantic Ocean a hundred times.
05 May 1961	Commander Allen Shepard landed in the Atlantic Ocean from his spacecraft.
08 February 1965	After taking evasive action to avoid a mid-air collision just after take off from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean and exploded, killing all 84 people on board.
17 May 1970	Thor Hairdal began the journey from Morocco on this day and crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 57 days.
20 September 1971	Hurricane Irein (satellite picture.) Successfully became the first known tropical cyclone to successfully crossed the Nicaraguato from the Atlantic Ocean.
09 January 1972	RMS Queen Elizabeth, an ocean liner which sailed the Atlantic Ocean for the Cunard White Star Line, was destroyed by fire in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong.
09 January 1972	Seawise University, formerly RMS Queen Elizabeth, an ocean liner which sailed the Atlantic Ocean for the Cunard White Star Line,was destroyed by fire in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong.
10 July 1973	Bahamas gained independence within the common country. Bahama is a island country located in the Atlantic Ocean. It consists of more than seven hundred small islands. It is a general nation head as Queen Elizabeth II of England.
05 July 1975	Cape Varde achieved his freedom from Portugal. It is an island country that crosses an archipelago of ten volcanic islands in the Central Atlantic Ocean. It is located 570 km from the coast of West Africa and the islands cover the joint area of slightly more than four thousand kilometers.
17 August 1978	For the first time, three Americans successfully crossed the Atlantic Ocean via balloon.
12 April 1980	Terry Fox submerged his artificial legs into the Atlantic Ocean in St. John, Newfoundland and Labrador, and running its own 'Marathon of Hope' towards the Pacific Ocean in Vancouver, British Columbia to raise funds across Canada for cancer research. Start
23 June 1985	The Air India Flight 182, above the Atlantic Ocean, blamed a bomb blamed to the Sikh separatist group Babbar Khalsadstroid, killing all 329 on boards.
17 July 1996	The TWA Flight 800 exploded in the mid-hwa and fell into the Atlantic Ocean near Eastern Moriches, New York.
02 September 1998	The route from Swiss City Flight 111, New York City to Geneva crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 229 people.
31 October 1999	All 217 people aboard the Egyptian AAR Flight 990 were killed in a sudden falling plane in the Atlantic Ocean from the coast of Massachusetts, the United States, Massachusetts.
01 June 2009	The route to Paris from Rio de Janeiro crashed in Air France Flight 447 Atlantic Ocean, killing all 228 people.
30 October 2009	NASA has revealed that a partial parachute failure caused damage to the splashing-e-X test booster in the Atlantic Ocean after its test flight on Wednesday.