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).
History of Australian Football. The history of Australian football can be traced to 1858 when Tom Willis, hit upon an idea of introducing football with a set of rules, so that Australian cricketers could be kept healthy in the bitter cold of the winters.The first Australian Rules football was played in 1858 in the Yarra Park on 31st July, 1858.nitially Rugby school rules were set as a model on which to draw Australian football rules, but other members of the panel stuck to some more rigid rules keeping in mind the dry conditions in Australia and the age of the players.