1998 U.S. hockey team destroys their rooms at Olympic village in Japan
1995 7.2 earthquake destroys Kobe Japan killing 5,372 die
1994 6.0 earthquake/avalanche destroys Toez Colombia, about 1000 killed
1990 Fire destroys some of Universal Studio's stages
1988 Heavy fire destroys historic center of Lisbon
1985 Bomb destroys Air India Boeing 747 in air near Ireland, 329 die
1985 Explosions destroys 2 tankers off of Gibraltar, 30 die
1984 Fire destroys a set in "A View to the Kill"
1981 Israeli F-15's and F-16's destroys Iraqi plutonium production facility
1978 High Council destroys judgment against war criminal Pieter Menten
1974 Cyclone Tracy virtually destroys Darwin Australia
1974 Worst fire in Argentine history destroys 1.2 million acres
1972 6.25 Earthquake destroys central Managua Nicaragua, 10,000 die
1970 1,086 die when 7.4 quake destroys 254 villages (Gediz Turkey)
1968 Earthquake destroys Ferdows Persia, 2,000 killed
1968 12,000 die in 7.8 quake destroys 60,000 buildings in NE Iran
1966 Flooding of Arno River (Italy) destroys countless art works, kills 113
1965 Bomb destroys USAF base Bien Hoa South Vietnam
1953 Typhoon destroys 1/3 of Nagoya Japan
1949 Fire in Chiang-king, China, destroys 7,000 lives
1947 Chemical mixing error causes explosion that destroys 42 blocks in Los Angeles
1945 US drops 2nd atomic bomb "Fat Man" on Japan destroys part of Nagasaki
1945 US Task Force 38 destroys 41 Jap ships in Battle of South China Sea
1942 1 salvo Katjoesja-rocket destroys nazi battalion in Stalingrad
1942 Tornado destroys Pryor, Oklahoma killing 100, injuring 300
1940 British air attack destroys half of Italian fleet
1940 British destroys French battle fleet at Oran, Algeria, 1267 die
1939 Oil refinery fire kills 500 and destroys Lagunillas, Venezuela
1937 German Luftwaffe destroys Basque town of Guernica in Spain
1934 Fire destroys Hakodate Japan (kills 1,500, injures 1,000)
1934 Fire destroys Hakodate Japan, killing about 1,500
1920 8.6 earthquake destroys 15,000 miles (Kansu China); Over 180,000 die
1919 Romanian forces destroys Bela Kun Republic in Budapest
1911 Great fire destroys downtown Constantinople/Istanbul Turkey
1910 Great Idaho Fire destroys 3 million acres of timber
1906 8.6 earthquake destroys Valparaiso Chile, fire kills 20,000
1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire kills nearly 4,000 and destroys 75% of city
1905 Japanese fleet destroys Russian East Sea fleet in Straits of Tushima
1902 Earthquake destroys Turkish city of Tochangri
1901 Battle at Elands River Port: Boer Gen Smuts destroys unit 17th Lancers
1900 Fire in Cincinnati nearly destroys Reds' grandstand
1898 Lord Kitchener destroys Mahdi's tomb in Omdurman
1894 Fire in Boston destroys baseball stadium and 170 other buildings
1893 Tornado destroys coast of Savannah and Charleston, about 1000 die
1889 Great Fire in Seattle destroys 25 downtown blocks
1886 Eruption of Tarawera volcano destroys famous pink and white calcium carbonate hot-spring terraces (North Island, New Zealand)
1886 Fire destroys nearly 1,000 buildings in Vancouver
1883 Battle at El Obeid Sudan: Mahdi's army destroys Egyptian army
1882 British HMS Flirt destroys village of Asaba Niger
1872 Fire destroys nearly 1,000 buildings in Boston
1872 "3 Fingers" Mackenzie destroys Kwahadi-Commanche village
1871 Gas explosion destroys Peshtigo, Wisconsin
1871 Great Fire kills 200, destroys over 4miles (10 km) of Chicago buildings, and original Emancipation Proclamation
1866 Great fire in Quebec destroys 2,500 houses
1852 Fire destroys 1,100 construction sites in Montreal Canada and no one die
1851 Fire devastates Library of Congress in Wash, destroys 35,000 volumes
1851 Fire destroys part of San Francisco
1850 Fire destroys part of San Francisco
1849 Pack destroys Astor Place opera house in New York City (22 killed)
1845 Fire in New York City destroys 1,000 homes and kills many
1844 Fire destroys U.S. mint at Charlotte, North Carolina
1839 Earthquake at Martinique destroys half of Port Royal-700 die
1838 Fire destroys half of Charleston
1832 U.S. ship destroys Sumatran village in retaliation for piracy
1822 2nd eruption of Galunggung (Java) destroys summit of mountain
1812 Fire in Moscow destroys 90% of houses and 1,000 churchs
1812 Earthquake destroys Caracas, Venezuela
1812 Earthquake destroys 90% of Caracas; about 20,000 die
1797 Battle at Kamperduin: English fleet destroys Bataafse
1788 Russian fleet destroys Swedish
1760 Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings
1751 Fire in Stockholm destroys 1,000 houses
1737 Earthquake kills 300,000 and destroys of Calcutta India
1718 Battle at Cape Passaro: English fleet destroys Spanish
1718 Battle at Cape Passaro: English fleet destroys Spanish
1718 Avalanche destroys every building in Leukerbad, Switz; kills 53
1667 Michiel de Ruyter destroys English fleet
1666 Fire in London destroys 13,000 houses and kills 8
1654 Fire after heavy storm destroys 2/3 of De Rijp Neth, 1 dies
1651 Battle at Worcester-Oliver Cromwell destroys English royalists
1649 Treaty of Rueil destroys 1st Fronde-uprising
1643 Battle at Rocroi/Allersheim: French army destroys Spanish army
1631 Mount Vesuvious, Italy erupts, destroys 6 villages and kills 4,000
1623 Fire at Plymouth, Massachusetts destroys several buildings
1618 "Rodi" avalanche destroys Plurs Switzerland, 1,500 killed
1608 Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia
1572 Spanish army occupies/plunders/destroys Mechelen
1571 Battle at Lepanto: Saint League (Spain and Italy) destroys Turkish fleet
1549 Battle at Dussindale: John Dudley destroys English boer army
1401 Mongol monarch Timur Lenk destroys Baghdad
1360 Danish King Waldemar IV destroys Visby Gotland
1348 Earthquake destroys Villach, killing 5,000
1340 In the Hundred Years War, British fleet destroys French at Sluys
1014 Battle of Strumitsa-valley: Byzantine destroys Bulgarian armies
902 Aghlabidisch emir Ibrahim II destroys Taormina, Sicily
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