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2009 En route from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Paris, Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic ocean, killing all 228 on board
2006 Java, Indonesia suffers a 6.3 magnitue earthquake, killing more than 6,000 2006 Egyptian ferry, Al Salam Boccaccio, sinks killing over 1200 people in the Red Sea 2005 Hurricane Katrina causes sever damage to the Gulf Coast killing 1836 2004 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 Hurricane Ivan hits Alabama and Florida killing nearly 30 2004 Flash Airlines flight 604 crashes near Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, killing 148 2003 Sudan Airways flight 139 crashes near Port Sudan, killing 116 2003 Air Algrie flight 6289 crashes at Tamanrasset Airport in Alegeria, killing 103 2003 Iranian Revolutionary Guard military flight crashes into the Sirach Mountains, killing 275 2002 China Airlines flight 611 crashes near Taiwan, killing 225, crash probably due to structural failure 2002 China Northern Airlines flight 6163 crashes in the ocean near Dalian, China after a fire is reported onboard, killing 112 2002 Air China flight 129 crashes into a mountain near Pusan, South Korea killing 128 2002 Iran Air Tours flight 956 crashes into a mountain in Iran killing 119 2001 American Airlines flight 587 crashes in Belle Harbor, New York, killing 265, vertical stabilizer failure 2001 SAS flight 686 crashes near Milano-Linate, killing 114, crash caused by flight crew and tower confusion 2001 19 Islamist terrorists hijack four commercial jets, killing nearly 3,000 in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania 2001 Vladivostokavia flight 352 crashes near Burdakovka, killing 145 2000 USS Cole bombed in the port of Aden, Yemen, killing 17 sailors 2000 A Concorde jet crashes outside of Paris after takeoff killing 113 passengers 2000 Gulf Air flight 72 crashes near Bahrain, killing 143 2000 Air Philippines flight 541 crashes into a hill near Davao, killing 131 2000 Alaska Airlines flight 261 crashes off coast of southern California, killing 88, crash caused by a bad stabilizer 2000 Kenya Airways flight 431 crashes near Cote d'Ivoire, killing 170, likely cause was a mechnical problem 1999 EgyptAir flight 990 crashes 60m off coast of Nantucket, killing 217, likely cause was an Islamist suicide replacement pilot 1999 During a bombing run over Belgrade, NATO accidentally bombs the Chinese embassy, killing four which launches massive protests throughout China 1998 SwissAir flight 111 crashes off the coast of Nova Scotia killing all 229 onbaord, likely cause was an electrical fire 1998 U.S. embassies bombed in Kenya and Tanzania killing at least 200 1998 Philippine DC-9 crashes apparently killing all 104 on board 1997 Indonesian ferry sinks, killing at least 77 1997 Melissa Drexler, 18, charged with killing her baby during her prom 1997 Timothy McVeigh found guilty of 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, killing 168 1997 Iranian military plane crashes, killing 80 1996 Erik and Lyle Menendez found guilty of killing their parents 1996 Haing S Ngor, doctor/actor (Killing Fields), dies at 45 1995 Rosemary West, found guilty in England, of killing 10 women 1995 Earthquake hits Russian town of Khabarovsk, killing 2,000 people 1995 Serb missiles exploded in the heart of Zagreb, killing six 1995 Package bomb, linked to Unabomber, blows up killing Gilbert B. Murray 1995 Colin Fergusson found guilty of killing 6 people on the LIRR in NY 1995 7.2 earthquake destroys Kobe Japan killing 5,372 die 1994 American Eagle commuter plane crashes in NC, killing 15 1994 6.7-8.1 earthquake strikes Philippines, killing 45 1994 U.S. Air Boeing 737 crashes at Pittsburgh Airport, killing all 132 on board 1994 Danny Harold Rolling, sentenced to death in Florida, for killing 5 1994 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 6.6 Earthquake hits Los Angeles killing 60, $30B in damage 1994 United Express commuter plane crashes in Ohio, killing 5 1993 Northwest Airlink plane crashes in Minn, killing 18 1993 1000 kg heavy IRA car bomb explodes in London, killing 1 1993 Venezuelan DC-10 crashes at Margarita, killing 10 1993 Grenade explodes in Sarajevo, killing 63 and injuring 160 1993 DC-3 crashes in Kinshasa, killing 12 1992 Military transport plane crashes in Lagos, Nigeria killing 163 1992 Irish Republican Army bombs London financial district, killing 3 1992 Jeffrey Dahmer found sane and guilty of killing 15 boys 1991 El Sayid Nosair acquitted of killing Meir Kahane 1991 Jeffrey Dahmer confesses to killing 17 males in 1978 1991 L'Express Airlines Beechcraft C-99 crashes in Alabama, killing 13 1991 Boat rams a tanker in Livorno Italy fog, killing about 138 1991 Southeast Airlines Embracer 120 crashes in Georgia, killing 23 1991 U.S. bombs Iraqi air raid shelter, killing 334 1991 U.S. Air and Skywest Fairchild jet collide at LA Airport killing 32 1990 Israeli ferry capsizes killing 21 U.S. servicemen 1990 Gunman holds 33 people (killing 1) hostage in Berkeley California 1990 C-5 transport plane crashes at Ramstein AFB, Germany, killing 13 1990 Earthquake hit Peru, killing 135 1990 An earthquake hit Peru, killing 56 1989 Colombian jetliner bombed killing 107 1989 Hurricane Hugo begins 4 day sweep through Caribbean, killing 62 1989 Suriname SLM-173 (DC-8) crashes near Paramaribo Airport killing 173 1989 Gun turret explodes on USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors 1989 Joel Steinberg sentenced to 25 years for killing his adopted daughter 1988 Italian stunt flyers crashes in flames in West Germany, killing 50 1988 U.S. accuses Renamo of killing 100,000 Mozambiquians 1988 Airliner crashes in SW China, killing all 108 on board 1986 Volcanic eruption in Cameroon releases poison gas, killing 2,000 1986 Air Lanka crashes, killing 22 1986 ETA bomb attacks Madrid killing 5 1986 Double-decker ferry sinks in stormy weather in Bangladesh killing 200 1985 41 tornadoes hit Northeast U.S., killing 88 1984 1st documented case of a robot killing a human in U.S. 1984 James Oliver Huberty, shot by police after killing 21 in McDonalds 1983 2 jets collided at Madrid Airport killing 93 1983 Colombian jetliner Boeing 747 crashes in Madrid killing 185 1982 Pan Am Boeing 727 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana, killing 153 1982 Falklands War: Argentine cruiser General Belgrano sunk by British submarine Conqueror, killing more than 350 men 1982 National Guard jet tanker crashes killing 27 1982 World Airways DC-10 skids at Boston Logan Airport killing 2 1982 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 Joseph Paul Franklin, avowed racist, sentenced to life imprisonment for killing 2 black joggers in Salt Lake City 1981 2 Habash terrorists attack a travel agency in Greece killing 2 1981 Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to killing John Lennon 1981 Marine jet crashes on flight deck of USS Nimitz, killing 14 1980 A Jewish owned hotel in Nairobi Kenya is bombed killing 18 1980 Vostok rocket exploded on launch pad while being refueled, killing 50 1980 Police storm occupied Spanish embassy in Guatemala City, killing 41 1979 American Airlines DC-10 crashes in Chicago killing 275 1979 Record blizzard struck midwest killing over 100 1978 Colombian Avianca Airlines Boeing 747 crashes in Madrid killing 183 1978 2 tankers with propane gas explode killing 15 at Waverly, Tennessee 1978 Strikers riot in Tunisia, killing about 40 1978 Air India B747 explodes near Bombay killing 213 1977 West German commandos storm hijacked Lufthansa in Mogadishu, Somalia freeing all 86 hostages and killing 3 of 4 hijackers 1977 North Korea shoots down U.S. helicopter, killing 3 1977 2 Boeing 747s by Pan Am and KLM collide in Canary Islands, killing 582 1975 Gas stove explodes and starts fire killing 138 (Mecca Saudi Arabia) 1975 Il-62 crashes south of Damascus, Syria, killing 126 1975 Faisal Ibn Mussed Abdul Aziz, Saudi prince, beheaded in Riyadh shopping center parking lot for killing his uncle the king 1975 2 passenger trains collided near Munich Germany killing 35 1975 Worst motor vehicle disaster in U.K.; bus full of elderly women plunges Dibble's Bridge Yorkshire, killing 38 1975 Farm truck packed with wedding party struck by a train, killing 66 in truck, 40 miles south of Poona, India 1975 USAF transport carrying orphans from Saigon crashes killing 155 1974 Airport terminal roof collapses killing 17 (Teheran Iran) 1974 Dutch DC-8 charter crashes in Sri Lanka killing 191 Moslem pilgrims 1974 Express train runs full speed into Zagreb, Yugo rail yard killing 153 1974 Petty thief Peter Leonard sets fire to cover burglary that torches "Gulliver's" nightclub killing 24 (Port Chester New York) 1974 Pan Am 707 crashes into mountains of Bali, killing 107 1974 16th Grammy Awards: Killing Me Softly, Bette Midler wins 1973 Heavy fog causes 65 car collision killing 9 on New Jersey Turnpike 1973 74-year-old Hafnia Hotel burns, killing 35 (Copenhagen, Denmark) 1973 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 BEA flight to Basel, Switzerland, crashes on landing, killing 104 of 143 1973 Israeli fighters shoot Libyan aircraft down, killing 108 1972 Eastern Tristar Jumbo Jet crashes near Everglades killing 101 1972 United Airlines crashes at Chicago's Midway Airport killing 45 1972 Illegal fireworks factory explodes killing 15 (Rome Italy) 1972 Passenger train derails killing 48 (Rust Stasie South Africa) 1972 East German Aeroflot Illyushin 62 crashes near Moscow, killing 156 1972 2 passenger trains collide head-on killing 76, Seville, Spain 1972 BEA Trident crashes after takeoff from Heathrow killing 118 1972 Angela Davis, black activist, acquitted of killing a white guard 1972 Bus plunges into Nile River killing 50 pilgrims. (Minia Egypt) 1972 Overloaded South Korean bus plunges into reservoir, killing 77 1972 Alitalia DC-8 crashes west of Palermo Sicily; killing 115 1972 Danish airliner hit mountain in Sheikdom of Oman killing 112 1971 Peruvian Airlines Electra crashes at headwaters of Amazon, killing all except Juliane Margaret Koepcke found 10 days later 1971 Eric Menendez, New York, accused of killing his parents, Menendez Brothers 1971 Japanese Boeing 727 collides with an F-86 fighter killing 162 1971 A commuter bus plunges into Panama Canal, killing 38 of 43 aboard 1971 Series of tornadoes cuts through Mississippi and Louisiana killing 117 1971 A barrier collapses at Ibrox Park football ground at end of a soccer match in Glasgow Scotland, killing 66 1970 Bridge over Yarra River in Melbourne crashes; killing 35 1970 Plane carrying Wichita State University football team crashes killing 30 1970 Air Canada DC-8 crashes 7 miles from Toronto's airport killing 109 1970 Chartered Dan-Air Comet crashes into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain killing 112 vacationing Britons 1970 Dry powder avalanche moving at 120 mph smashes into youth hostel killing 40 Belgian, French, and German youths (Val d'Isere, France) 1969 Australian aircraft carrier "Melbourne" slices U.S. destroyer "Frank E. Evans" in half, killing 74 (South Vietnam) 1969 Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death for killing Bobby Kennedy 1969 Tornado strikes Dacca East Pakistan killing 540 1969 Viasa DC-9 crashes at Maracaibo's Grano de Oro airport, killing 155 1968 A tornado strikes Jonesboro Arkansas at 10 PM, killing 36 1968 Gunpowder stocks at a sporting-goods store explode, killing 43 (Va) 1968 Lyle Menendez, New York, accused of killing his parents, Menendez Brothers 1967 Prison brawl ignites barracks, killing 37 (Jay, Florida) 1967 Israel attacks USS Liberty in Mediterranean, killing 34 U.S. crewmen 1967 2 homemade buses collided on a mountain road in Terpate, Philippines plunging off a cliff, killing 84, injuring 140 1966 Matthew Laborteaux, actor, Killing Stone, Deadly Friend 1965 "Yarmouth Castle" burns and sinks off Bahamas, killing 89 1965 Pakistani Boeing 720-B crashes at Cairo Egypt, killing 121 1965 40 tornadoes strike U.S. midwest killing 272 and injuring 5,000 1964 3 cars of a commuter train derails in South Africa killing 81 1964 Typhoon Gloria strikes Taiwan killing 330, with $17.5 million damage 1964 Iranian motor launch catches fire and sinks killing 113 (Persian Gulf) 1964 Australian destroyer "Voyager" sinks in collision, killing 82 1963 Train struck makeshift bus full of migrant workers, killing 32 1962 Express train crashed into wreckage of a commuter train and a freight, killing 163, injuring 400 (Tokyo, Japan) 1962 American Airlines 707 plunges nose 1st into Jamaica Bay New York killing 95 1960 2 passenger trains collided at high-speed killing 110 (Czechoslovakia) 1960 House packed with wedding celebrants collapses killing 30 (Pakistan) 1960 French freighter "La Coubre" explodes in Havana Cuba, killing 100 1959 American Airlines Electra crashes in New York's East River, killing 65 1958 Our Lady of Angels School burns, killing 92 students and 3 nuns (Chic) 1958 Commuter train crashes through drawbridge, killing 48 (Newark NJ) 1958 KLM Superconstellation crashes west of Ireland, killing 99 1957 2 commuter trains collide in heavy fog killing 92 (St. John's England) 1957 Excursion train crashed into a ravine killing 175, injuring 400 1956 7 Army trucks loaded with dynamite explode in middle of Cali, Columbia killing 1,100-1,200, destroying 2,000 buildings 1956 United DC-7 and TWA collide over Grand Canyon killing 128 1956 Aircraft carrier "Bennington" burns off RI, killing 103 1955 Hurricane Diane, following hurricane Connie floods Connecticut River killing 190 and doing $1.8 billion damage 1955 Night express train in Guadalajara derails, killing 300 1954 Typhoon hits Japan - 5 ferryboats sink killing about 1,600 1954 Hurricane Edna batters NE U.S., killing 20 1953 2 fast express trains crash head-on killing 103 (Czechoslovakia) 1953 John Malkovich, born in Christopher, Illinois, actor and director, Killing Fields 1953 USAF C124 Globemaster crashes near Tokyo killing 129 servicemen 1953 Cluster of 6 tornadoes touch down in Flint Michigan killing 113 1953 Korean ferryboat "Chang Tyong-Ho" sank off Pusan killing 249 1952 9" of rain fall creates a 20' wave in Lynmouth, England killing 34 1952 Dutch DC-6 crashes near Frankfurt, killing 44 1952 31 storms crosses 6 states killing 340 in South-Central U.S. 1951 British submarine Affray sank in English Channel, killing 75 1951 "Broker Special" train crashes in Woodbridge NJ, killing 84 1950 2 self-propelled trains of Long Island RR collide, killing 77 1948 SS Kiangya hits mine in Whangpoo River China, sinks killing 2,750 die 1948 Chinese refugee ship "Kiangya" explodes in E China Sea, killing 1,100 1947 Naval torpedo and mine factory explodes at Cadiz, Spain killing 300 1947 Coal dust explosion rocks Centralia Coal Co's Mine #5 killing 111 1946 "Exposition Flyer" rammed at Napierville Illinois, killing 48 1945 Roland Joffe, director, City of Joy, Mission, Killing Fields 1945 SS open fire on crowd in Amsterdam, killing 22 1945 RAF bombing error hits The Hague killing 511 1944 Nazis crush Warsaw Uprising killing 250,000 people 1944 4 tornadoes strike Appalachia, killing 153 1944 Freighter "Fort Stikene" explodes in Bombay India, killing 1,376 1944 Bus falls off bridge into Passaic River New Jersey, killing 16 1942 Train crashes into bus, killing 16 and injuring 20 (Detroit Michigan) 1942 "Queen Mary" slices cruiser "Curacao" in half, killing 338 1942 Nazis burn village of Lidice Bohemia, as reprisal of killing Heydrich 1942 Tornado destroys Pryor, Oklahoma killing 100, injuring 300 1941 Vichy-French planes bomb Tel Aviv, killing 20 Jews 1941 Blizzard hits North Dakota and Minnesota killing 60 1941 1st mass killing of Jews in Romania 1940 Blizzard strikes midwestern U.S. killing over 100 1940 "Lake Shore Ltd" derails speed killing 34 near Little Falls NY 1940 German air force sinks 2 German destroyers, killing 578 1938 "Olympian Flyer" express train crashes in Montana, killing 47 1937 Bus blew a tire, going out of control, killing 18 (Salem Illinois) 1935 A hurricane slams Florida Keys killing 423 1934 Luxury liner "Morro Castle" burns off NJ, killing 134 1934 Fire destroys Hakodate Japan, killing about 1,500 1928 "Firedamp" explodes in Mather Pennsylvania coal mine killing 195 of 273 miners 1926 Troop ship sinks in Yangtze River, killing 1,200 1924 Tornado strikes Sandusky Ohio and Lorain Ohio, killing 93 1923 Allies occupy Ruhrgebied: killing railroad striker 1922 "Egypt" sinks off Ushant after colliding with "Seine," killing 90 1921 Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti convicted in Dedham Massachusetts, of killing their shoe company's paymaster 1921 Steamer "Hong Koh" runs aground off Swatow China killing 1,000 1919 British troops fire on Amritsar India demonstrators; killing 350 1919 Dirigible crashes through bank skylight killing 13 (Chicago, Ill) 1919 Volcano Keluit on Java, erupts killing 550 1919 Mount Kelud (Indonesia) erupts, boiling crater lake which broke through crater wall killing 5,000 people in 104 small villages 1918 Stands at Hong Kong Jockey Club collapse and burn, killing 604 1917 French troop train derails in French Alps killing 543 1917 Pravda calls for killing all capitalists, priests and officers 1917 British warship "Vanguard" explodes at Scapa Flow killing 804 1917 Ammunition factory in Boleweg Bohemia explodes, killing 1,000 1916 U.S.S.R. La Satannaya ammunitions factory explodes, killing 1,000 1916 A bomb went off during a Preparedness Day parade in San Francisco killing 10 1916 British battle cruiser Invincible explodes, killing all but 6 1916 Pancho Villa leads Mexican band raid on Columbus NM, killing 12 1916 Germans sink French transport ship Provence II, killing 930 1915 Italian liner Ancona sinks by German torpedos, killing 272 1915 Local train collides with troop train killing 226 (Gretna Scotland) 1915 Croatians plunder Armenia, killing 250 1915 1st submarine disaster; a U.S. F-4 sank off Hawaii, killing 21 1914 Battle at Morhange: German troops chase French, killing 1000s 1912 "Kiche Maru" sinks off Japan, killing 1,000 1908 Rhodes Opera House burns in Boyertown Pa, killing 170 1905 Cyclone hit Tahiti and adjacent islands, killing some 10,000 people 1904 Dutch troops occupies Kuto Reh, Sumatra, killing all inhabitants 1901 SS Islander hits iceberg near Alaska and sinks killing 70 1900 Premature blast collapses mine tunnel killing 200 at Scofield, Utah 1898 Jay C. Flippen, born in Little Rock, Arkansas, actor, Jet Pilot, Killing, Thunder Bay 1896 Tornado hit St. Louis, killing 255 and leaving thousands homeless 1892 Striking steel workers in Homestead, Pennsylvania fire on scabs, killing 7 1891 British Steamer "Utopia" sinks off Gibraltar killing 574 1888 Teatotalers excursion train crushed, killing 64 (Mud Run Pa) 1887 Gas lamp at Theater Royal in Exeter catches fire killing about 200 1887 Excursion train crashes killing 101. (Chatsworth, Illinois) 1885 Maria "Goeie Mie" Swanenburg sentence to life for killing 27 in Netherlands 1883 Shocks triggered by volcano Epomeo (Isle of Ischia, Italy) destroyed 1,200 houses at Casamicciola killing 2,000 1876 White terrorists attack Black Republicans in Hamburg, South Carolina, killing 5 1870 Staten Island ferry "Westfield" burns, killing 100 1865 SS General Lyon at Cape Hatteras catches fire and sinks, killing 400 1864 Troop train loaded with Confederate prisoners collided with a coal train killing 65 and injuring 109 of 955 aboard 1856 Gunpowder in church explodes killing 4,000 in Rhodos 1837 Steamboat "Home" sinks off Okracoke North Carolina killing 100 1831 Jan van Speijk blows up his gunboat in Antwerp, killing about 30 1824 Storm causes St. Petersburg flood, killing 10,000 1814 Volcano Mayon on Luzon Philippines erupts killing 1,200 1810 British frigate Minotaur sinks killing 480 1805 Sailing ship "Aeneus" sinks off Newfoundland killing 340 1793 Volcano Unsen on Japan erupts killing about 53,000 1783 Skaptar Volcano on Iceland erupts killing about 9,000 1783 Earthquakes ravage Calabria, killing 30,000 1769 Gunpowder in Brescia Italy church explodes, killing 3,000 1669 Mount Etna in Sicily erupts, destroying Nicolosi, killing 20,000 1669 Volcano Etna in Italy erupts killing 15,000 1491 6 Jews and 5 Conversos accused of killing Christians in La Guardia Spain 1421 Southern sea floods 72 villages, killing est 10,000 in Netherlands 1348 Earthquake destroys Villach, killing 5,000 |
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