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1994 Cruiser Achille Lauro destroyed by fire at Somalia, 4 die

1993 Historical Kapelbrug in Luzern, Switzerland, 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, Russian 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, Russian/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 General 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 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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