Feb. 3, 2009 - Old video footage of Sullenberger telling Marx Brothers' "Why a duck?" routine at party becomes widespread hit on YouTube; Sullenberger claims to have never seen "The Cocoanuts" but, ironically, has seen "Duck Soup".
In July/August last year, widespread flooding hit the Soroti district during the dry season.
North Korea has struggled with chronic food shortages since the mid-1990s, when a widespread famine hit the country.
Widespread instability hit eastern regions of Ukraine, as separatist elements, with suspected backing from Russia, took control of several cities and towns.
Exactly one year ago today, a widespread outage hit Google's GrandCentral (recently upgraded and relaunched as Google Voice).
In the wake of the tornadoes and severe thunderstorms, widespread flooding hit the Midwest, South, and Eastern Seaboard, with extensive flood and flash flood warnings issued.
One way that the invention of the chicken wing seems to have improved morale is that there now exists among Buffalonians a widespread commercial fantasy of hitting it rich by introducing Buffalo chicken wings to some virgin territory.
Though festival organizers have never confirmed this, the widespread belief is that hitting a certain threshold of unused tickets would result in a downgrade in one's badge the following year.
For now, electronic piracy of books does not seem as widespread as what hit the music world, when file-sharing services like Napster threatened to take down the whole industry.
But the huge leap in meth use since the mid-1990s has left plenty of addicts across America's heartland craving for the stuff and organised drug pushers from Mexico and the south-west have been happy to rush in and supply it.Although meth use is widespread, it has hit some rural areas hardest.
