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 Algérie 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 US 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, PM 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 US 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 Switz, 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 U 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 (Czech)
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 Neth
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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