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    SS Kuru was a steam ship which sank on 7 September 1929 in the lake Näsijärvi, in Tampere, Finland. The sinking is still the most severe maritime disaster...
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    Finland. There are boat cruising services on Näsijärvi. In 1929, the steamer SS Kuru suffered the most severe Finnish inland shipping disaster on Näsijärvi...
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  • 1882), Finnish politician, died on 7 September 1929 in the shipwreck of SS Kuru. J. W. H. T. Douglas, (1882–1930), cricketer, died unsuccessfully trying...
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  • his plan for the United States of Europe. September 7 – The steamship SS Kuru sank in Lake Näsijärvi near Tampere, Finland, leading to 138 people drowning...
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  • as love, war, liquor and prohibition, travel and the shipwreck of the SS Kuru in 1929. Even the Simola croft's massacre of Klaukkala in 1899 also ended...
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    Seymour Sharkey, 82, British physician The sinking of the Finnish steamship SS Kuru in Lake Näsijärvi killed 136 passengers and crew. Jews were allowed to...
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    150th birthday of Tampere in fall 1929. A tragic event, sinking of steamer SS Kuru in lake Näsijärvi, cancelled all festivities. The depression years in the...
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    Finnish audiences, albeit outside of the capital. On 7 September, the SS Kuru sank during a storm on Lake Näsijärvi, a tragedy that caused the deaths...
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    the basis of the influential Brahmanical ideology, which developed in the Kuru Kingdom, a tribal union of several Indo-Aryan tribes. The Vedas contain details...
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    Vihuri died on 7 September 1929 on her way to a party meeting in Kuru as the SS Kuru sank in the lake Näsijärvi. The disaster led to the loss of 136 lives...
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