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2008 U.S. Navy destroys a U.S. spy satellite with a missile
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 U.S. drops 2nd atomic bomb "Fat Man" on Japan destroys part of Nagasaki 1945 U.S. Task Force 38 destroys 41 Japanese 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 General 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, Switzerland; 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, Netherlands, 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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