Van Buren had been president for just a few days when an economic crisis and a political storm struck the country.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

In that event,astronomers were able to observe the icy comet long before it struck the solar system's biggest planet.

VOA: special.2009.08.25

The walls of water also struck a number of other nations, and killed more than two hundred thirty thousand people.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

A crash of thunder sounded as a bolt of lighting struck the ground close to the basket where the rain babies slept.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

Scientists believe it is evidence that a large object struck Jupiter, cutting a hole in the atmosphere of the huge, gaseous planet.

VOA: special.2009.08.25

Survivors and rescue workers stopped for one minute on Friday to remember the hour when the earthquake struck.

VOA: special.2011.03.19

But the object that struck Jupiter in July is estimated to have been much smaller and harder to see than comet Shoemaker-Levy.

VOA: special.2009.08.25

It struck the Lady Elgin. But the Augusta's Captain D.M.Malott continued on to Chicago, failing to help victims on the passenger boat.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

The court struck down what were known as anti-miscegenation laws in the sixteen states that still had them.

VOA: special.2011.06.06

He said the world knows of her because of a single act of bravery that struck a deadly blow to racial hatred.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

The summit was moved from an island to the area in central Italy where a powerful earthquake struck just three months ago.

VOA: special.2009.07.11

Ron Rivera improved the design after a deadly storm, Hurricane Mitch, struck Central America in nineteen ninety-eight.

VOA: special.2009.06.22

We were down south, in Alabama C Bill Driscoll and myself when this kidnapping idea struck us.

VOA: special.2011.01.22

Colony collapse disorder first struck honey bees in the United States in late two thousand six.

VOA: special.2009.09.15