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June 20 2009 trim

I will remove some less notable or unsourced events from the list and put them here. Feelfree to discuss. I have rough criteria in mind, but typing them would be too long. Circeus 11:09, June 20, 2009 (UTC) The years are missing from the copied elements.

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Argentine passenger boat Ciudad de Asuncion, Buenos Aires-Montevideo route, carrying 433 people onboard, caught fire, following capsized in Piver Plate, La Plata, Argentina. At least 370 people are rescued, but at least 63 people are drown. ^{[citation needed]}

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March 28

Loss of MV Polurrian on March 28 1963, 10 miles west of Buka Passage, between Sohano and Rabaul, Papua New Guinea. Carrying a cargo of copra, and 111 people, it capsized in a storm. Only 29 survivors. Biggest peace time shipping disaster in the nation’s history. See ^[1] (though it is in error on the number of fatalities, for which see ^[2], p169, table 5. Ptilinopus (talk) 07:14, 26 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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[2] ttps://books.google.com.au/books?id=K23ejNvCi1kC&pg=PA169&lpg=PA169&dq=polurrian+capsized&source=bl&ots=jbN7BvZ0it&sig=ACfU3U2BqMFe437gHRNdYpo9yH3esp2TtA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj0le757orgAhVFWX0KHYDsDb0Q6AEwDXoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=polurrian%20capsized&f=false

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