The 1927 Nova Scotia hurricane Catastrophe ( also known as the 1927 Great August Gale or the Great Gale of August 24 ) was the deadliest Canadian hurricane Catastrophe since at least 1900 .

The 1927 Nova Scotia hurricane Catastrophe ( also known as the 1927 Great August Gale or the Great Gale of August 24 ) was the deadliest Canadian hurricane Catastrophe since at least 1900 .

The British 6th Airborne Division , under the command Control of Major-General Richard Nelson Gale , was one of the first Allied units to arrive in Arriving Normandy on D-Day , 6 June 1944 , and successfully secured Getting the left flank of the invasion zone .

This was just 6 years after the destructive Catastrophe Great September Gale of 1815 .

Philip Gale ( November 15 , 1978 – March 13 , 1998 ) was an American pioneering Internet software developer , computer prodigy , and sophomore student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ) .

By the age of 17 , Gale had earned Earnings_and_losses roughly a million dollars ' worth of stock options at EarthLink for his innovative ISP programs .

In 1995 , Gale 's father died Death from a heart attack , and friends said Telling Gale struggled to come to terms with the loss .

In 1995 , Gale 's father died Death from a heart attack , and friends said Telling Gale struggled to come to terms with the loss .

After complaints of boredom and depression , on March 13 , 1998 , Gale jumped Body_movement to his death from a classroom on the 15th floor of a building on the MIT campus .