On March 5 hundreds of Egyptians stormed offices of the State Security Investigations (SSI) agency in several cities, including the agency's headquarters in Cairo, following rumours that officers had begun destroying documents showing human rights violations.
To make communications between foreign forces more difficult, the Taliban demanded that mobile phone companies shut down at night, and by the end of February it had begun destroying signal towers to force compliance.
A little more than two years later, Nixon was well on his way to re-election, drugs had begun destroying America's cities, the Beatles had thrown in the towel, and Jimi Hendrix was dead.
With the measure on the floor of the Parliament, one Turkish legislator said he felt the mood shift when the word went around that the Iraqi government had begun destroying its illegal missiles that day, as one of the United Nations' chief weapons inspectors had demanded.
Islamic State militants have begun destroying houses belonging to members of the Yazidi community in Iraq.
Islamists in Mali have begun destroying remaining mausoleums in the historic city of Timbuktu, an Islamist leader and a tourism official said.
Specifically, under OPCW supervision Syrian military personnel had begun "destroying munitions such as missile warheads and aerial bombs and disabling mobile and static mixing and filling units".
Some American establishments have even begun destroying their own stocks of microbes.
The initial inspection team has been verifying the extent of the nation's chemical arsenal and has begun to destroy arms and related equipment, using cutting torches and grinders, among other tools.
As new details emerge about Syria's chemical weapons stockpile, work has begun in earnest to destroy its ability to use the arsenal in the ongoing civil war.
