2015 Event A SpaceX cargo rocket explodes shortly after launch; the unmanned vessel was carrying over two tons of food, provisions, supplies and equipment for the International Space Station 2013 Event Indonesia's Mount Sinabung explodes, causing nearly 6,000 people in the country's North Sumatra province to flee 2012 Event An estimated 90 - 115 people die when an oil tanker in Okobge, Rivers State Nigeria crashes and explodes 2011 Event An extremist explodes a car bomb in Oslo, Norway, killing at least seven people; he then opens fire at a Labour Party youth camp in Utoya, Norway, killing 84 2010 Event A fuel tanker overturns and explodes in South Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, killing over 230 people and injuring 2010 Event A car bomb explodes in a courthouse located in Newry, Northern Ireland. The area's last incidence of a car bombing was in the year 2000 2009 Event A bomb explodes outside of Athens' stock exchange, damaging the building and a female passer-by 1996 Event Bomb explodes at Atlanta Olympic Park, 1 killed, 110 injured 1995 Event Car bomb explodes in Karachi at shite mosque, 17+ killed 1995 Event Car bomb explodes in Zakho, North-Iraq (54-80 killed) 1995 Event Car bomb explodes in Algiers, 42 killed/296 injured 1993 Event C-130 flies into a Philippines hill and explodes, 16 killed 1993 Event Gas field in Caracas explodes, 53 killed 1993 Event 1000 kg heavy IRA car bomb explodes in London, killing 1 1993 Event Grenade explodes in Sarajevo, killing 63 and injuring 160 1992 Event Gas explodes in sewer, kills 200 in Guadalajara Mexico 1992 Event Gas explodes in coal mine at Zonguldak Turkey, 100s die 1991 Event Austrian Boeing 767-300 explodes at Bangkok, 223 die 1991 Event Fuel pipe explodes under 58th street and Lexington Ave, New York City 1991 Event Freighter with dynamite explodes in Phang Nga Thailand, 120 die 1990 Event Chinese plane explodes, about 100 die 1990 Event Meteorite explodes above Pacific Ocean 1990 Event BASF plant in Cincinnati explodes in flames, 1 person dies 1990 Event Gas explodes on passenger train in Kumrahar India, 80 die 1989 Event Gas explodes near 2 passenger trains in U.S.S.R., kills 100s 1989 Event Gun turret explodes on USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors 1988 Event New York bound Pan Am jumbo jet explodes over Scotland all 258 aboard die 1988 Event North Sea oil platform Piper Alpha explodes, 166 die 1987 Event 11 die as a bomb planted by Irish Republican Army explodes 1987 Event Bomb blamed on Unabomber explodes by computer store in Salt Lake City 1986 Event Worst nuclear disaster, 4th reactor at Chernobyl U.S.S.R. explodes, 31 die 1986 Event Titan rocket explodes seconds after liftoff from Vandenberg AFB 1986 Event Space Shuttle Challenger 10 explodes 73 sec after liftoff 1985 Event Exploratory well at Ranger Tx, explodes spilling 6.3 m gallons of oil 1985 Event Fireworks factory near Hallett, OK explodes, 21 die 1984 Event Liquid gas tank in Mexico City explodes; 334 die 1984 Event Puerto Rican tanker, San Francisco explodes spilling 2 million gallons of oil as ship caught fire 1984 Event Bomb explodes in rebel leader Eden Pastora headquarters in Nicaragua 1983 Event A truck bomb explodes at U.S. Embassy in Kuwait 1983 Event A bomb planted on a bus in Jerusalem explodes, kills 6 Israelis 1983 Event Bomb explodes in U.S. Capitol, causing heavy damage but no injuries 1982 Event Heater explodes at Star Elementary School-Okla, kills 6 kids and teacher 1979 Event IRA bomb explodes on Brussels Great Market 1979 Event IRA-bomb explodes in British consulate in Antwerp 1978 Event Auto with liquid gas crashes and explodes in Spain, 160 killed 1978 Event Air India B747 explodes near Bombay killing 213 1977 Event 36 die as grain elevator at Continental Grain Company plant explodes 1976 Event Chemical factory in Milan explodes (dioxane cloud) 1976 Event Oil tanker Urqui Ola explodes off Spanish coast 1975 Event Gas stove explodes and starts fire killing 138 (Mecca Saudi Arabia) 1975 Event Bomb explodes at annex of Amsterdam metro station 1974 Event Chemical plant explodes in Flixborough Lincs kills 29 in UK 1973 Event 83m wide gas tank on Staten Island explodes, 40 die 1973 Event Gas tank on Staten Island explodes, 40 die 1972 Event Illegal fireworks factory explodes killing 15 (Rome Italy) 1970 Event Peruvian Airlines jet carrying 45 U.S. exchange students explodes 1970 Event Apollo 13 announces "Houston, we've got a problem!" as Beech-built oxygen tank explodes en route to Moon 1970 Event French submarine "Eurydice" explodes 1969 Event 1st launching of heavy N-1 rocket at Baikonur Kazachstan (explodes) 1968 Event France became world's 5th thermonuclear power, explodes on Mururoa 1967 Event Liquid gas tanker explodes in Martelange Belgium, 22 killed 1967 Event Surveyor 4 launched to Moon; explodes just before landing 1967 Event 1st Chinese hydrogen bomb explodes 1966 Event Canadian Pacific airliner explodes on landing at Tokyo, 64 die 1965 Event Volcano explodes on Luzon Philippines; 500 killed 1965 Event 2nd Chinese atom bomb explodes 1964 Event Egyptian munition ship "Star of Alexandria" explodes at dockside in Bone, Algeria. 100 die, 160 injured, $20 million damage 1963 Event 3 fuel tanks explodes when jetliner is struck by lightning crashing near Elkton, Maryland-Only case of lightning caused crash, 81 die 1963 Event Leaking propane gas explodes, kills 64 at "Holiday on Ice" (Indiana) 1961 Event Unmanned Mercury test explodes on launch pad 1961 Event British liner "Dara" explodes in Persian Gulf, kills 236 1960 Event 2nd French atom bomb explodes in the Reggane Proving Grounds, Algeria 1960 Event Scotch factory explodes burying 20 fire fighters (Glasgow Scotland) 1960 Event French freighter "La Coubre" explodes in Havana Cuba, killing 100 1958 Event World's 1st Moon probe, US's Thor-Able, explodes at T +77 sec 1957 Event Hand grenade explodes in Israel's Knesset (Parliament) 1956 Event Dynamite transport explodes in Colombia; about 1200 die 1956 Event U.S. explodes 1st airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll 1956 Event Mount Bezymianny on Kamchatka Peninsula (U.S.S.R.) explodes 1954 Event U.S. explodes 15 megaton hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll 1953 Event Coal mine in Seraing Belgium explodes, 26 die 1953 Event U.S.S.R. explodes its 1st hydrogen bomb 1952 Event Underwater volcano explodes under research vessel Kaiyo-maru-5 1949 Event U.S.S.R. explodes its 1st atomic bomb 1949 Event U.S.S.R. explodes their 1st atom bomb 1948 Event Chinese refugee ship "Kiangya" explodes in E China Sea, killing 1,100 1948 Event I G Farben chemical plant explodes in Ludwigshafen, Germany, 182 die 1947 Event Dutch Dakota explodes near Coopenhagen, 16 die 1947 Event Naval torpedo and mine factory explodes at Cadiz, Spain killing 300 1947 Event Gas leak explodes in a beauty parlor, 10 women die in Harrisonburg, Virginia 1947 Event French ship explodes in Texas City harbor, kills about 522 1947 Event Muiden Netherlands ammunition factory explodes, 16 die 1945 Event 1st atom bomb explodes in New Mexico 1945 Event Liberty ship at Bari Italy carrying aerial bombs explodes, kills 360 1944 Event 3,500-40,00 ton explosive, explodes in Staffordshire, 68 killed 1944 Event Liquid-gas tanks in Cleveland explodes, 135 die, 3,600 homeless 1944 Event 2 ammunition ships explodes at Port Chicago, California kills 322 1944 Event Freighter "Fort Stikene" explodes in Bombay India, killing 1,376 1944 Event Mount Vesuvius, Italy explodes 1943 Event Load of "ammunition in transit" explodes at Norfolk Naval Air Station 1942 Event British destroyer Campbeltown explodes in St-Nazaire: 400 Germans die 1941 Event Ammunition plant at Fort Smederovo in Belgrade explodes; kills 1,500 1941 Event German bombardment on Piraeus (munitions ship explodes) 1940 Event 49 die and 200 injured when Hercules Powder Company plant explodes, New Jersey 1937 Event Dirigible Hindenburg explodes in flames at Lakehurst, New Jersey (36 die) 1932 Event Steamboat SS Observation explodes in New York City East River (71 killed) 1932 Event Oil tanker Cymbeline explodes in Montreal, Canada 1928 Event "Firedamp" explodes in Mather Pennsylvania coal mine killing 195 of 273 miners 1927 Event Worlds largest gas tank in Pittsburgh Penn explodes; 28 die 1926 Event Lake Denmark, New Jersey arsenal explodes, kills 21, $75m damage 1922 Event Airship Rome explodes at Hampton Roads Virginia; 34 die 1921 Event Gas explodes at Bradishe Aniline chemical works in Germany, 565 die 1918 Event Japanese battleship explodes in Bay of Tokayama, 500 killed 1917 Event French munition ship "Mont Blanc" explodes in Halifax, kills 1,700 1917 Event British warship "Vanguard" explodes at Scapa Flow killing 804 1917 Event Ammunition factory in Boleweg Bohemia explodes, killing 1,000 1917 Event Train near Chirurcha Romania catches fire and explodes; 100s die 1917 Event Ammunitions ship explodes in Archangelsk harbor, about 1,500 die 1917 Event Silvertown Essex's ammunition factory explodes; 300 die 1916 Event U.S.S.R. La Satannaya ammunitions factory explodes, killing 1,000 1916 Event British battle cruiser Invincible explodes, killing all but 6 1916 Event German munitions bunker in Fort Douaumont explodes 1915 Event Cromarty Harbour, Scot-British cruiser Natal explodes: 405 die 1915 Event French battleship Bouvet explodes, 640 killed 1914 Event Battleship HMS Bulwark explodes at Sheerness Harbor England, 788 die 1911 Event French battleship Liberte explodes at Toulon Harbor, 285 killed 1908 Event Dirigible explodes over San Francisco Bay, 16 passengers fall, none die 1907 Event Dynamite explodes on locomotive kills engineer Jesus Garcia in Mexico 1905 Event Japanese battleship Mikasa explodes 1888 Event Ferry in San Pablo Bay explodes 1887 Event Cliff House damaged when schooner "Parallel"'s powder cargo explodes 1883 Event Krakatoa, west of Java, explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons 1879 Event British battleship Thunder explodes in Gulf of Ismid, 9 die 1866 Event Nitroglycerine at Wells Fargo and Co office explodes 1865 Event Steamboat "Sultana" explodes in Mississippi River, kills up to 1,547. 1450 of 2000 paroled Union POWs on their way home are killed when river steamer "Sultana" blows up 1863 Event CSS Chattahoochie explodes on Chattahoochie River GA, 18 die 1856 Event Gunpowder in church explodes killing 4,000 in Rhodos 1844 Event 12-inch gun aboard USS Princeton explodes 1807 Event Gunpowder-ship explodes in Leiden, Netherlands, 150 die 1769 Event Gunpowder in Brescia Italy church explodes, killing 3,000 1654 Event Kruittoren van Delft, explodes, 50-100 killed
