The tsunami of 26 December 2004. The cause of the tsunami in Sumatra on 26 December 2004 which affected the entire Indian Ocean was a very violent earthquake of magnitude 9.3 on the Richter scale.
DuSable High School Team, 1954 The first sport that Chicago-area schools adopted for competition was baseball. The earliest match-up on record took place between two academies in 1868, in the midst of the nation's postâCivil War baseball rage.niversities also played central roles in the growth of high-school sports. The University of Chicago sponsored major interscholastic track-and-field meets (1902â1933), tennis tournaments (1895â1932), and basketball tournaments (1917â1930). Northwestern sponsored swim meets (1914â1930) and indoor track (1910â1930).
In 2006, the UK School Games was established by the Youth Sport Trust as an annual sporting competition for elite school age athletes in the United Kingdom, and for 2008 was expanded to include nine sports over four days.ports culture is stronger in independent schools in the United Kingdom, and these schools contribute disproportionate numbers of elite competitors in almost all sports with the exceptions of football, rugby league, boxing and perhaps athletics.