2005 Shuttle Discovery STS-114 launches, first flight since Columbia disaster
1994 Ship disaster near Ranong Thailand, kills 200
1989 Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 mill damages for Bhopol disaster
1986 Rogers Comm report on Challenger disaster blames Morton Thiokol
1986 Chernobyl, U.S.S.R. site of world's worst nuclear power plant disaster
1986 Worst nuclear disaster, 4th reactor at Chernobyl U.S.S.R. explodes, 31 die
1986 Christa McAuliffe, astronaut, dies in Challenger disaster
1986 Ellison S Onizuka, Hawaii, Mjr USAF/ast, dies in Challenger disaster
1986 Francis R Scobee, Wash, USAF/astronaut, dies in Challenger disaster
1986 Judith Arlene Resnik, Akron Oh, astr, dies in Challenger disaster
1986 Ronald E McNair, Lake City SC, astr, dies in Challenger disaster
1985 India files suit against Union Carbide over Bhopal disaster
1979 Tanker Burmah Agate off Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 10.7 m gallons of oil, in US's worst oil spill disaster
1977 583 die in aviation's worst disaster KLM-Pan Am 747 crash on Tenerife
1975 Worst motor vehicle disaster in U.K.; bus full of elderly women plunges Dibble's Bridge Yorkshire, killing 38
1974 World's worst air disaster, Turkish DC-10 crashes in Paris (346 die)
1972 Hurricane Agnes is costliest natural disaster in American history
1965 NL adopts emergency team replacement plan to restock any club struck by disaster
1963 Worst Canadian air disaster kills 118 in Montreal
1960 Disaster on U.S.S.R. (Baikonoer) launch pad, kills missile expert Nedelin and team (165 die-unconfirmed); U.S.S.R. claims killed in plane crash
1956 Mine disaster in Quaregnon Belgium, 8 die
1950 Ronald E McNair, Lake City, South Carolina, astr, STS 41B, 51L-Challenger disaster
1950 Belgium mine disaster at Borinage, 39 die
1949 Judith Arlene Resnik, born in Akron, Ohio, ast, STS 41D, 51L-Chal disaster
1946 Ellison S. Onizuka, born in Hawaii, Mjr USAF/ast, STS 51C, 51L-Chal disaster
1945 Michael J. Smith, born in Beaufort, North Carolina, Cmdr USN, astr, 51L-Challenger disaster
1939 Francis R. Scobee, Wash, USAF/astronaut, STS 41C, 51L-Chal disaster
1926 Train disaster at Wassenaar Neth, 4 die
1924 119 die in Benwood West Virginia coal mine disaster
1916 Worst train disaster ever (Modane France-543 killed)
1915 1st submarine disaster; a U.S. F-4 sank off Hawaii, killing 21
1874 1st recorded dam disaster in U.S. (Williamsburg Mass)
1853 1st major U.S. rail disaster kills 46 in Norwalk, Connecticut
1570 Netherlands hit by flood disaster, 1,000s killed
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