1994 Cruiser Achille Lauro destroyed by fire at Somalia, 4 die
1993 Historical Kapelbrug in Luzern Switz, destroyed by fire
1993 Paramaribo Suriname TV studio destroyed by fire
1992 Part of Vienna Hofburg destroyed by fire
1988 6.9 earthquake in Armenia, Spitak destroyed, 60,000 killed
1988 Winnie Mandella's home in Soweto, South Africa destroyed by arson
1988 Utrecht conservatory destroyed by fire
1986 800,000 books destroyed by fire in Los Angeles Central Library
1986 English Hampton Court palace destroyed by fire, 1 dead
1984 12th minster of York destroyed in lightening storm
1983 Madison Hotel (Boston) destroyed by implosion
1977 Hotel Poland in Amsterdam destroyed by fire, 33 killed
1976 Zeiss planetarium in Hague destroyed by fire
1974 Symbionese Liberation Army destroyed in shoot-out, 6 killed
1973 Acting FBI director L Patrick Gray resigns after admitting he destroyed evidence in the Watergate scandal
1972 Passenger ship Queen Elizabeth destroyed by fire
1967 Ossip Zadkine, [Zadkin], Russ sculptor (Destroyed City), dies at 77
1966 An IRA bomb destroyed Nelson's Column in Dublin
1963 Skopje, Yugoslavia, destroyed by earthquake, kills 1,000+
1963 Cyclone hits Chittagong, Bangladesh; about 1 million houses destroyed
1962 Black church is destroyed by fire in Macon Georgia
1954 Scapino Ballet Studio in Amsterdam destroyed by fire
1953 Osip Zadkines monument to "The destroyed city" unveiled in Rotterdam
1945 Japanese city Toyama destroyed by B-29's
1944 Battle in Straits of Surigao: Japanese fleet destroyed
1944 Italian town of Cassino destroyed by Allied bombing
1943 Jewish ghetto of Riga Latvia is destroyed
1943 Uprising at Treblinka Concentration Camp (crematorium destroyed)
1942 500 die in a fire that destroyed Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Boston
1941 England's House of Commons and Holborn Theater destroyed in a blitz
1941 Battle of Beda Fomm: Italian 10th army destroyed
1940 2nd battle of Narvik-8 German destroyers, destroyed
1939 English Spook house Borley Rectory destroyed in a fire
1938 Utrecht Central Station destroyed by fire
1938 Jews injured and property destroyed in Przemyal Poland
1936 London's Crystal Palace (built 1851), destroyed by fire
1933 2 billion board feet of lumber destroyed in Tillamook Oregon fire
1931 Crystal Palace in Hyde Park London destroyed by fire
1931 Grasshoppers in Iowa, Nebr and SD destroyed thousands of acres of crops
1918 Cloquet Minnesota and 25 other communities destroyed by forest fire, 559 die
1914 Dinant Belgium destroyed by German bombs
1913 Dayton, Ohio almost destroyed when Scioto, Miami, and Muskingum River reach flood stage simultaneously
1907 Sutro's ornate Cliff House in San Francisco destroyed by fire
1904 Much of Toronto destroyed by fire
1904 Baltimore catches fire (1500 buildings destroyed in 80 blocks)
1901 Fire destroyed 1,700 buildings in Jacksonville, Florida
1896 Tsunami strikes Shinto festival on beach at Sanriku Japan 27,000 are killed, 9,000 injured, with 13,000 houses destroyed
1894 Scheveningse fishing boats destroyed by storm
1894 Great fire in Shanghai; over 1,000 buildings destroyed
1894 Columbus World's fair in Chicago destroyed by fire
1892 Oil City and Titusville Penn, destroyed by oil tank explosion; 130 die
1890 Ossip Zadkine, Russ/French sculptor, Destroyed City
1890 Amsterdam Theater destroyed by fire
1883 Shocks triggered by volcano Epomeo (Isle of Ischia, Italy) destroyed 1,200 houses at Casamicciola killing 2,000
1881 Vienna's Ring Theater destroyed by fire, kills between 640-850
1874 Barracks on Alcatraz Island destroyed in fire
1864 Most of Calcutta destroyed by cyclone (approx 60,000 die)
1862 Gen B. Butler orders William Mumford hanged after he removed and destroyed U.S. flag on display over New Orleans Mint
1862 Much of Enschede Netherlands destroyed by fire
1860 Comanche, Iowa completely destroyed by 1 of a series of tornadoes
1856 Covent Garden Opera House destroyed in a fire
1854 San Salvador destroyed by earthquake
1851 Most of San Francisco destroyed by fire; 30 die
1850 Rangoon Burma, destroyed by fire
1850 Mormon Temple in Nauvoo, Illinois destroyed by tornado
1845 Fire in Quebec Canada, 1,500 houses destroyed
1835 Concepcion, Chile destroyed by earthquake; 5,000 die
1830 Edwin Budding of England signs an agreement for manufacture of his invention, lawn mower. Saturdays are destroyed forever
1828 More than 100 vessels destroyed in a storm, Gibraltar
1816 Teatro San Carlo in Naples destroyed by fire
1808 Covent Garden Theatre Royal destroyed by fire
1798 Federal St. Theater, Boston, becomes 1st in U.S. destroyed by fire
1788 Fire destroyed 856 buildings in New Orleans Louisiana
1772 Amsterdam theater destroyed by fire, 18 killed
1764 Gov Winthrop Telescope, is destroyed in a Harvard fire
1752 3rd great fire in Moscow in 2 weeks; 1/3 of city destroyed
1752 Moscow houses and churchs destroyed by fire
1708 Haverhill, Mass destroyed by French and Indians
1687 Acropolis in Athens attacked by Venetian army trying to eject Turks Parthenon destroyed in war between Turks and Venetians
1672 Joan Blaeus publishers destroyed by fire in Amsterdam
1666 St. Paul's in London destroyed by fire
1666 Great London Fire begins in Pudding Lane. 80% of London is destroyed
1639 Virginia is 1st colony to order surplus crops (tobacco) destroyed
1634 Beach Island in North sea destroyed by a heavy storm flood
1588 Spanish Armada heavily destroyed in storm at Coruna
1568 Abdij Church in Middelburg destroyed by fire
1558 Westmunster Church in Middelburg destroyed by heavy storm
1535 Bloemkamp Abbey (Oldeklooster) attacked and destroyed
1291 Akko reconquered after 200 years by French crusaders, and destroyed
1061 Halley's Comet sparks English monk to predict country'll be destroyed
642 Arabs conquer Alexandria, library destroyed
70 Tower of Antonia destroyed by Romans
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