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2013 Event - Muslim terrorists set off two explosions near the finish line at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, killing 3, injuring 183 people, and at least 15 requiring amputations

2013 Event - A small pyrotechnics show ignited foram sound insulating material in the ceiling of Kiss, a crowded, windowless nightclub in southern Brazil's city of Santa Maria, killing 237 partygoers and injuring 169 others

2012 Event - A Union Pacific train strikes a parade float in Midland, Teas, killing four people and injuring 17 others

2012 Event - Mexico's drug war continues in Monterey, when alleged members of the Gulf Cartel storm a bar in Monterey, killing 10 people

2012 Event - Mexico's state, Veracruz, experiences a natural disaster when Hurricane Ernesto makes landfall, killing at least three people

2012 Event - Egypt's former president, Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life in prison, along with his former interior minister, Habib al-Adly, for being complicit in killing of demonstrators in the 2011 revolution

2012 Event - The midwestern United States is hit by tornadoes, killing 12 people

2011 Event - Libya's National Transitional Council raises concerns about the mass killing of political prisoners by Muammar Gaddafi's government

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

2011 Event - After no-fly zone was imposed on Libya, its government announced a ceasefire, which it immediately violated, killing 25 civilians in Misrata

2011 Event - In Canada's Arctic regions, scientists study an outbreak of avian cholera responsible for killing thousands of eider ducks

2010 Event - Hezbollah members are indicted for killing Lebanon�s former prime minister, Rafiq Hariri, in a car bombing

2010 Event - A stampede occurs in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, during the Khmer Water Festival celebrations, killing at least 339 people

2010 Event - Sumatra's Sinabung volcano erupts for the first time in 400 years, killing one and causing Indonesia to evacuate thousands of people

2010 Event - Monsoon rains delay salvage of the wreckage of Airblue Flight 202 which crashed in the Margalla Hills outside Islamabad, Pakistan, killing all 152 people onboard

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 - Joran van der Sloot is extradited from Chile to Peru to face charges of killing a Peruvian woman; he is suspected of killing Natalie Holloway in Aruba

2010 Event - Suicide bombers carry out a number of attacks in Kabul, Afghanistan, killing at least 17 people

2009 Event - A train travelling through heavy rain in Hua Hin in southern Thailand, is derailed, killing serval people and injuring dozens

2009 Event - En route from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Paris, Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic ocean, killing all 228 on board

2006 Event - Java, Indonesia suffers a 6.3 magnitue earthquake, killing more than 6,000

2006 Event - Egyptian ferry, Al Salam Boccaccio, sinks killing over 1200 people in the Red Sea

2005 Event - Hurricane Katrina causes sever damage to the Gulf Coast killing 1836

2004 Event - Earthquake, greatest in over 40 years, strikes the Pacific Ocean near Sumatra, triggering a massive Indian Ocean tsunami, killing as many as 266,000 in coastal regions of Asia and Africa

2004 Event - Hurricane Ivan hits Alabama and Florida killing nearly 30

2004 Event - Flash Airlines flight 604 crashes near Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, killing 148

2003 Event - Sudan Airways flight 139 crashes near Port Sudan, killing 116

2003 Event - Air Algrie flight 6289 crashes at Tamanrasset Airport in Alegeria, killing 103

2003 Event - Iranian Revolutionary Guard military flight crashes into the Sirach Mountains, killing 275

2002 Event - China Airlines flight 611 crashes near Taiwan, killing 225, crash probably due to structural failure

2002 Event - China Northern Airlines flight 6163 crashes in the ocean near Dalian, China after a fire is reported onboard, killing 112

2002 Event - Air China flight 129 crashes into a mountain near Pusan, South Korea killing 128

2002 Event - Iran Air Tours flight 956 crashes into a mountain in Iran killing 119

2001 Event - American Airlines flight 587 crashes in Belle Harbor, New York, killing 265, vertical stabilizer failure

2001 Event - SAS flight 686 crashes near Milano-Linate, killing 114, crash caused by flight crew and tower confusion

2001 Event - 19 Islamist terrorists hijack four commercial jets, killing nearly 3,000 in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania

2001 Event - Vladivostokavia flight 352 crashes near Burdakovka, killing 145

2000 Event - USS Cole bombed in the port of Aden, Yemen, killing 17 sailors

2000 Event - A Concorde jet crashes outside of Paris after takeoff killing 113 passengers

2000 Event - Gulf Air flight 72 crashes near Bahrain, killing 143

2000 Event - Air Philippines flight 541 crashes into a hill near Davao, killing 131

2000 Event - Alaska Airlines flight 261 crashes off coast of southern California, killing 88, crash caused by a bad stabilizer

2000 Event - Kenya Airways flight 431 crashes near Cote d'Ivoire, killing 170, likely cause was a mechnical problem

1999 Event - EgyptAir flight 990 crashes 60m off coast of Nantucket, killing 217, likely cause was an Islamist suicide replacement pilot

1999 Event - During a bombing run over Belgrade, NATO accidentally bombs the Chinese embassy, killing four which launches massive protests throughout China

1998 Event - SwissAir flight 111 crashes off the coast of Nova Scotia killing all 229 onbaord, likely cause was an electrical fire

1998 Event - U.S. embassies bombed in Kenya and Tanzania killing at least 200

1998 Event - Philippine DC-9 crashes apparently killing all 104 on board

1997 Event - Indonesian ferry sinks, killing at least 77

1997 Event - Melissa Drexler, 18, charged with killing her baby during her prom

1997 Event - Timothy McVeigh found guilty of 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, killing 168

1997 Event - Iranian military plane crashes, killing 80

1996 Event - Erik and Lyle Menendez found guilty of killing their parents

1996 Death - Haing S Ngor, doctor/actor (Killing Fields), dies at 45

1995 Event - Rosemary West, found guilty in England, of killing 10 women

1995 Event - Earthquake hits Russian town of Khabarovsk, killing 2,000 people

1995 Event - Serb missiles exploded in the heart of Zagreb, killing six

1995 Event - Package bomb, linked to Unabomber, blows up killing Gilbert B. Murray

1995 Event - Colin Fergusson found guilty of killing 6 people on the LIRR in NY

1995 Event - 7.2 earthquake destroys Kobe Japan killing 5,372 die

1994 Event - American Eagle commuter plane crashes in NC, killing 15

1994 Event - 6.7-8.1 earthquake strikes Philippines, killing 45

1994 Event - U.S. Air Boeing 737 crashes at Pittsburgh Airport, killing all 132 on board

1994 Event - Danny Harold Rolling, sentenced to death in Florida, for killing 5

1994 Death - Agatha Uwilingiyimana, Prime Minister of Rwanda (first female prime minister in Africa), assassinated, the day after President Habyarimana's plane was shot down, killing him and the president of Burundi

1994 Event - 6.6 Earthquake hits Los Angeles killing 60, $30B in damage

1994 Event - United Express commuter plane crashes in Ohio, killing 5

1993 Event - Northwest Airlink plane crashes in Minn, killing 18

1993 Event - 1000 kg heavy IRA car bomb explodes in London, killing 1

1993 Event - Venezuelan DC-10 crashes at Margarita, killing 10

1993 Event - Grenade explodes in Sarajevo, killing 63 and injuring 160

1993 Event - DC-3 crashes in Kinshasa, killing 12

1992 Event - Military transport plane crashes in Lagos, Nigeria killing 163

1992 Event - Irish Republican Army bombs London financial district, killing 3

1992 Event - Jeffrey Dahmer found sane and guilty of killing 15 boys

1991 Event - El Sayid Nosair acquitted of killing Meir Kahane

1991 Event - Jeffrey Dahmer confesses to killing 17 males in 1978

1991 Event - L'Express Airlines Beechcraft C-99 crashes in Alabama, killing 13

1991 Event - Boat rams a tanker in Livorno Italy fog, killing about 138

1991 Event - Southeast Airlines Embracer 120 crashes in Georgia, killing 23

1991 Event - U.S. bombs Iraqi air raid shelter, killing 334

1991 Event - U.S. Air and Skywest Fairchild jet collide at LA Airport killing 32

1990 Event - Israeli ferry capsizes killing 21 U.S. servicemen

1990 Event - Gunman holds 33 people (killing 1) hostage in Berkeley California

1990 Event - C-5 transport plane crashes at Ramstein AFB, Germany, killing 13

1990 Event - Earthquake hit Peru, killing 135

1990 Event - An earthquake hit Peru, killing 56

1989 Event - Colombian jetliner bombed killing 107

1989 Event - Hurricane Hugo begins 4 day sweep through Caribbean, killing 62

1989 Event - Suriname SLM-173 (DC-8) crashes near Paramaribo Airport killing 173

1989 Event - Gun turret explodes on USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors

1989 Event - Joel Steinberg sentenced to 25 years for killing his adopted daughter

1988 Event - Italian stunt flyers crashes in flames in West Germany, killing 50

1988 Event - U.S. accuses Renamo of killing 100,000 Mozambiquians

1988 Event - Airliner crashes in SW China, killing all 108 on board

1986 Event - Volcanic eruption in Cameroon releases poison gas, killing 2,000

1986 Event - Air Lanka crashes, killing 22

1986 Event - ETA bomb attacks Madrid killing 5

1986 Event - Double-decker ferry sinks in stormy weather in Bangladesh killing 200

1985 Event - 41 tornadoes hit Northeast U.S., killing 88

1984 Event - 1st documented case of a robot killing a human in U.S.

1984 Death - James Oliver Huberty, shot by police after killing 21 in McDonalds

1983 Event - 2 jets collided at Madrid Airport killing 93

1983 Event - Colombian jetliner Boeing 747 crashes in Madrid killing 185

1982 Event - Pan Am Boeing 727 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana, killing 153

1982 Event - Falklands War: Argentine cruiser General Belgrano sunk by British submarine Conqueror, killing more than 350 men

1982 Event - National Guard jet tanker crashes killing 27

1982 Event - World Airways DC-10 skids at Boston Logan Airport killing 2

1982 Event - Air Florida 737 took off in a snowstorm, crashes into 14th St. Bridge in Washington, D.C., and falls into Potomac River, killing 78

1981 Event - Joseph Paul Franklin, avowed racist, sentenced to life imprisonment for killing 2 black joggers in Salt Lake City

1981 Event - 2 Habash terrorists attack a travel agency in Greece killing 2

1981 Event - Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to killing John Lennon

1981 Event - Marine jet crashes on flight deck of USS Nimitz, killing 14

1980 Event - A Jewish owned hotel in Nairobi Kenya is bombed killing 18

1980 Event - Vostok rocket exploded on launch pad while being refueled, killing 50

1980 Event - Police storm occupied Spanish embassy in Guatemala City, killing 41

1979 Event - American Airlines DC-10 crashes in Chicago killing 275

1979 Event - Record blizzard struck midwest killing over 100

1978 Event - Colombian Avianca Airlines Boeing 747 crashes in Madrid killing 183

1978 Event - 2 tankers with propane gas explode killing 15 at Waverly, Tennessee

1978 Event - Strikers riot in Tunisia, killing about 40

1978 Event - Air India B747 explodes near Bombay killing 213

1977 Event - West German commandos storm hijacked Lufthansa in Mogadishu, Somalia freeing all 86 hostages and killing 3 of 4 hijackers

1977 Event - North Korea shoots down U.S. helicopter, killing 3

1977 Event - 2 Boeing 747s by Pan Am and KLM collide in Canary Islands, killing 582

1975 Event - Gas stove explodes and starts fire killing 138 (Mecca Saudi Arabia)

1975 Event - Il-62 crashes south of Damascus, Syria, killing 126

1975 Death - Faisal Ibn Mussed Abdul Aziz, Saudi prince, beheaded in Riyadh shopping center parking lot for killing his uncle the king

1975 Event - 2 passenger trains collided near Munich Germany killing 35

1975 Event - Worst motor vehicle disaster in U.K.; bus full of elderly women plunges Dibble's Bridge Yorkshire, killing 38

1975 Event - Farm truck packed with wedding party struck by a train, killing 66 in truck, 40 miles south of Poona, India

1975 Event - USAF transport carrying orphans from Saigon crashes killing 155

1974 Event - Airport terminal roof collapses killing 17 (Teheran Iran)

1974 Event - Dutch DC-8 charter crashes in Sri Lanka killing 191 Moslem pilgrims

1974 Event - Express train runs full speed into Zagreb, Yugo rail yard killing 153

1974 Event - Petty thief Peter Leonard sets fire to cover burglary that torches "Gulliver's" nightclub killing 24 (Port Chester New York)

1974 Event - Pan Am 707 crashes into mountains of Bali, killing 107

1974 Event - 16th Grammy Awards: Killing Me Softly, Bette Midler wins

1973 Event - Heavy fog causes 65 car collision killing 9 on New Jersey Turnpike

1973 Event - 74-year-old Hafnia Hotel burns, killing 35 (Copenhagen, Denmark)

1973 Event - Delta Airlines DC-9 crashes in fog at Logan Airport, Boston, killing all but one of 89 aboard. Lone survivor dies 6 months later

1973 Event - BEA flight to Basel, Switzerland, crashes on landing, killing 104 of 143

1973 Event - Israeli fighters shoot Libyan aircraft down, killing 108

1972 Event - Eastern Tristar Jumbo Jet crashes near Everglades killing 101

1972 Event - United Airlines crashes at Chicago's Midway Airport killing 45

1972 Event - Illegal fireworks factory explodes killing 15 (Rome Italy)

1972 Event - Passenger train derails killing 48 (Rust Stasie South Africa)

1972 Event - East German Aeroflot Illyushin 62 crashes near Moscow, killing 156

1972 Event - 2 passenger trains collide head-on killing 76, Seville, Spain

1972 Event - BEA Trident crashes after takeoff from Heathrow killing 118

1972 Event - Angela Davis, black activist, acquitted of killing a white guard

1972 Event - Bus plunges into Nile River killing 50 pilgrims. (Minia Egypt)

1972 Event - Overloaded South Korean bus plunges into reservoir, killing 77

1972 Event - Alitalia DC-8 crashes west of Palermo Sicily; killing 115

1972 Event - Danish airliner hit mountain in Sheikdom of Oman killing 112

1971 Event - Peruvian Airlines Electra crashes at headwaters of Amazon, killing all except Juliane Margaret Koepcke found 10 days later

1971 Birthday - Eric Menendez, New York, accused of killing his parents, Menendez Brothers

1971 Event - Japanese Boeing 727 collides with an F-86 fighter killing 162

1971 Event - A commuter bus plunges into Panama Canal, killing 38 of 43 aboard

1971 Event - Series of tornadoes cuts through Mississippi and Louisiana killing 117

1971 Event - A barrier collapses at Ibrox Park football ground at end of a soccer match in Glasgow Scotland, killing 66

1970 Event - Bridge over Yarra River in Melbourne crashes; killing 35

1970 Event - Plane carrying Wichita State University football team crashes killing 30

1970 Event - Air Canada DC-8 crashes 7 miles from Toronto's airport killing 109

1970 Event - Chartered Dan-Air Comet crashes into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain killing 112 vacationing Britons

1970 Event - Dry powder avalanche moving at 120 mph smashes into youth hostel killing 40 Belgian, French, and German youths (Val d'Isere, France)

1969 Event - Australian aircraft carrier "Melbourne" slices U.S. destroyer "Frank E. Evans" in half, killing 74 (South Vietnam)

1969 Event - Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death for killing Bobby Kennedy

1969 Event - Tornado strikes Dacca East Pakistan killing 540

1969 Event - Viasa DC-9 crashes at Maracaibo's Grano de Oro airport, killing 155

1968 Event - A tornado strikes Jonesboro Arkansas at 10 PM, killing 36

1968 Event - Gunpowder stocks at a sporting-goods store explode, killing 43 (Va)

1968 Birthday - Lyle Menendez, New York, accused of killing his parents, Menendez Brothers

1967 Event - Prison brawl ignites barracks, killing 37 (Jay, Florida)

1967 Event - Israel attacks USS Liberty in Mediterranean, killing 34 U.S. crewmen

1967 Event - 2 homemade buses collided on a mountain road in Terpate, Philippines plunging off a cliff, killing 84, injuring 140

1966 Birthday - Matthew Laborteaux, actor, Killing Stone, Deadly Friend

1965 Event - "Yarmouth Castle" burns and sinks off Bahamas, killing 89

1965 Event - Pakistani Boeing 720-B crashes at Cairo Egypt, killing 121

1965 Event - 40 tornadoes strike U.S. midwest killing 272 and injuring 5,000

1964 Event - 3 cars of a commuter train derails in South Africa killing 81

1964 Event - Typhoon Gloria strikes Taiwan killing 330, with $17.5 million damage

1964 Event - Iranian motor launch catches fire and sinks killing 113 (Persian Gulf)

1964 Event - Australian destroyer "Voyager" sinks in collision, killing 82

1963 Event - Train struck makeshift bus full of migrant workers, killing 32

1962 Event - Express train crashed into wreckage of a commuter train and a freight, killing 163, injuring 400 (Tokyo, Japan)

1962 Event - American Airlines 707 plunges nose 1st into Jamaica Bay New York killing 95

1960 Event - 2 passenger trains collided at high-speed killing 110 (Czechoslovakia)

1960 Event - House packed with wedding celebrants collapses killing 30 (Pakistan)

1960 Event - French freighter "La Coubre" explodes in Havana Cuba, killing 100

1959 Event - American Airlines Electra crashes in New York's East River, killing 65

1958 Event - Our Lady of Angels School burns, killing 92 students and 3 nuns (Chic)

1958 Event - Commuter train crashes through drawbridge, killing 48 in Newark, New Jersey

1958 Event - KLM Superconstellation crashes west of Ireland, killing 99

1957 Event - 2 commuter trains collide in heavy fog killing 92 (St. John's England)

1957 Event - Excursion train crashed into a ravine killing 175, injuring 400

1956 Event - 7 Army trucks loaded with dynamite explode in middle of Cali, Columbia killing 1,100-1,200, destroying 2,000 buildings

1956 Event - United DC-7 and TWA collide over Grand Canyon killing 128

1956 Event - Aircraft carrier "Bennington" burns off RI, killing 103

1956 Birthday - Lynda Barry, born in Richland Center, Wisconsin, cartoonist, author, known for comic strip, 'Ernie Pook's Comeek', wrote 'The Good Times are Killing Me', 'What It Is'

1955 Event - Hurricane Diane, following hurricane Connie floods Connecticut River killing 190 and doing $1.8 billion damage

1955 Event - Night express train in Guadalajara derails, killing 300

1954 Event - Typhoon hits Japan - 5 ferryboats sink killing about 1,600

1954 Event - Hurricane Edna batters NE U.S., killing 20

1953 Event - 2 fast express trains crash head-on killing 103 (Czechoslovakia)

1953 Birthday - John Malkovich, born in Christopher, Illinois, actor and director, Killing Fields

1953 Event - USAF C124 Globemaster crashes near Tokyo killing 129 servicemen

1953 Event - Cluster of 6 tornadoes touch down in Flint Michigan killing 113

1953 Event - Korean ferryboat "Chang Tyong-Ho" sank off Pusan killing 249

1952 Event - 9" of rain fall creates a 20' wave in Lynmouth, England killing 34

1952 Event - Dutch DC-6 crashes near Frankfurt, killing 44

1952 Event - 31 storms crosses 6 states killing 340 in South-Central U.S.

1951 Event - British submarine Affray sank in English Channel, killing 75

1951 Event - "Broker Special" train crashes in Woodbridge, New Jersey, killing 84

1950 Event - 2 self-propelled trains of Long Island RR collide, killing 77

1948 Event - SS Kiangya hits mine in Whangpoo River China, sinks killing 2,750 die

1948 Event - Chinese refugee ship "Kiangya" explodes in E China Sea, killing 1,100

1947 Event - Naval torpedo and mine factory explodes at Cadiz, Spain killing 300

1947 Event - Coal dust explosion rocks Centralia Coal Co's Mine #5 killing 111

1946 Event - "Exposition Flyer" rammed at Napierville Illinois, killing 48

1945 Birthday - Roland Joffe, director, City of Joy, Mission, Killing Fields

1945 Event - SS open fire on crowd in Amsterdam, killing 22

1945 Event - RAF bombing error hits The Hague killing 511

1944 Event - Nazis crush Warsaw Uprising killing 250,000 people

1944 Event - 4 tornadoes strike Appalachia, killing 153

1944 Event - Freighter "Fort Stikene" explodes in Bombay India, killing 1,376

1944 Event - Bus falls off bridge into Passaic River New Jersey, killing 16

1942 Event - Train crashes into bus, killing 16 and injuring 20 (Detroit Michigan)

1942 Event - "Queen Mary" slices cruiser "Curacao" in half, killing 338

1942 Event - Nazis burn village of Lidice Bohemia, as reprisal of killing Heydrich

1942 Event - Tornado destroys Pryor, Oklahoma killing 100, injuring 300

1941 Event - Vichy-French planes bomb Tel Aviv, killing 20 Jews

1941 Event - Blizzard hits North Dakota and Minnesota killing 60

1941 Event - 1st mass killing of Jews in Romania

1940 Event - Blizzard strikes midwestern U.S. killing over 100

1940 Event - "Lake Shore Ltd" derails speed killing 34 near Little Falls NY

1940 Event - German air force sinks 2 German destroyers, killing 578

1938 Event - "Olympian Flyer" express train crashes in Montana, killing 47

1937 Event - Bus blew a tire, going out of control, killing 18 (Salem Illinois)

1935 Event - A hurricane slams Florida Keys killing 423

1934 Event - Luxury liner "Morro Castle" burns off New Jersey, killing 134

1934 Event - Fire destroys Hakodate Japan, killing about 1,500

1928 Event - "Firedamp" explodes in Mather Pennsylvania coal mine killing 195 of 273 miners

1926 Event - Troop ship sinks in Yangtze River, killing 1,200

1924 Event - Tornado strikes Sandusky Ohio and Lorain Ohio, killing 93

1923 Event - Allies occupy Ruhrgebied: killing railroad striker

1922 Event - "Egypt" sinks off Ushant after colliding with "Seine," killing 90

1921 Event - Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti convicted in Dedham Massachusetts, of killing their shoe company's paymaster

1921 Event - Steamer "Hong Koh" runs aground off Swatow China killing 1,000

1919 Event - British troops fire on Amritsar India demonstrators; killing 350

1919 Event - Dirigible crashes through bank skylight killing 13 (Chicago, Ill)

1919 Event - Volcano Keluit on Java, erupts killing 550

1919 Event - Mount Kelud (Indonesia) erupts, boiling crater lake which broke through crater wall killing 5,000 people in 104 small villages

1918 Event - Stands at Hong Kong Jockey Club collapse and burn, killing 604

1917 Event - French troop train derails in French Alps killing 543

1917 Event - Pravda calls for killing all capitalists, priests and officers

1917 Event - British warship "Vanguard" explodes at Scapa Flow killing 804

1917 Event - Ammunition factory in Boleweg Bohemia explodes, killing 1,000

1916 Event - U.S.S.R. La Satannaya ammunitions factory explodes, killing 1,000

1916 Event - A bomb went off during a Preparedness Day parade in San Francisco killing 10

1916 Event - British battle cruiser Invincible explodes, killing all but 6

1916 Event - Pancho Villa leads Mexican band raid on Columbus NM, killing 12

1916 Event - Germans sink French transport ship Provence II, killing 930

1915 Event - Italian liner Ancona sinks by German torpedos, killing 272

1915 Event - Local train collides with troop train killing 226 (Gretna Scotland)

1915 Event - Croatians plunder Armenia, killing 250

1915 Event - 1st submarine disaster; a U.S. F-4 sank off Hawaii, killing 21

1914 Event - Battle at Morhange: German troops chase French, killing 1000s

1912 Event - "Kiche Maru" sinks off Japan, killing 1,000

1908 Event - Rhodes Opera House burns in Boyertown Pa, killing 170

1905 Event - Cyclone hit Tahiti and adjacent islands, killing some 10,000 people

1904 Event - Dutch troops occupies Kuto Reh, Sumatra, killing all inhabitants

1901 Event - SS Islander hits iceberg near Alaska and sinks killing 70

1900 Event - Premature blast collapses mine tunnel killing 200 at Scofield, Utah

1898 Birthday - Jay C. Flippen, born in Little Rock, Arkansas, actor, Jet Pilot, Killing, Thunder Bay

1896 Event - Tornado hit St. Louis, killing 255 and leaving thousands homeless

1892 Event - Striking steel workers in Homestead, Pennsylvania fire on scabs, killing 7

1891 Event - British Steamer "Utopia" sinks off Gibraltar killing 574

1888 Event - Teatotalers excursion train crushed, killing 64 (Mud Run Pa)

1887 Event - Gas lamp at Theater Royal in Exeter catches fire killing about 200

1887 Event - Excursion train crashes killing 101. (Chatsworth, Illinois)

1885 Event - Maria "Goeie Mie" Swanenburg sentence to life for killing 27 in Netherlands

1883 Event - Shocks triggered by volcano Epomeo (Isle of Ischia, Italy) destroyed 1,200 houses at Casamicciola killing 2,000

1876 Event - White terrorists attack Black Republicans in Hamburg, South Carolina, killing 5

1870 Event - Staten Island ferry "Westfield" burns, killing 100

1865 Event - SS General Lyon at Cape Hatteras catches fire and sinks, killing 400

1864 Event - Troop train loaded with Confederate prisoners collided with a coal train killing 65 and injuring 109 of 955 aboard

1856 Event - Gunpowder in church explodes killing 4,000 in Rhodos

1837 Event - Steamboat "Home" sinks off Okracoke North Carolina killing 100

1831 Event - Jan van Speijk blows up his gunboat in Antwerp, killing about 30

1824 Event - Storm causes St. Petersburg flood, killing 10,000

1814 Event - Volcano Mayon on Luzon Philippines erupts killing 1,200

1810 Event - British frigate Minotaur sinks killing 480

1805 Event - Sailing ship "Aeneus" sinks off Newfoundland killing 340

1793 Event - Volcano Unsen on Japan erupts killing about 53,000

1783 Event - Skaptar Volcano on Iceland erupts killing about 9,000

1783 Event - Earthquakes ravage Calabria, killing 30,000

1769 Event - Gunpowder in Brescia Italy church explodes, killing 3,000

1669 Event - Mount Etna in Sicily erupts, destroying Nicolosi, killing 20,000

1669 Event - Volcano Etna in Italy erupts killing 15,000

1491 Event - 6 Jews and 5 Conversos accused of killing Christians in La Guardia Spain

1421 Event - Southern sea floods 72 villages, killing est 10,000 in Netherlands

1348 Event - Earthquake destroys Villach, killing 5,000

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