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The Morecambe Bay cockling disaster occurred on the evening of 5 February 2004 at Morecambe Bay in North West England , when at least 21 cockle pickers were drowned by an incoming tide off the Lancashire / Cumbrian coast. A group of Chinese workers, who were collecting cockles at low tide on sand flats at Warton Sands, near Hest Bank , and who were to have been paid 5 per 25 kg of cockles, Although the emergency services were alerted by a mobile phone call made by one of the workers, only one worker was rescued from the waters.
In 1980, an estimated 83 million TV viewers tuned in to the CBS prime-time soap opera "Dallas" to find out "who shot J.R." In 1922, Rebecca L. Felton, a Georgia Democrat, was sworn in as the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate; her term, the result of an interim appointment, ended the following day as Walter F. George, the winner of a special ... (more)