2005 Earthquake in Kashmir kills approximately 80,000 people
2004 Tropical Storm Jeanne kills more than 550 during flooding in Haiti
2004 Paraguay supermarket fire kills at least 300
2004 Train fire and explosion in Ryongchon, North Korea kills at least 160 and levels several buildings
2003 Earthquake kills more than 30,000 in Bam, Iran
2003 Earthquake kills at least 2,266 in northern Algeria
2003 Fire at the Station rock club in Rhode Island kills nearly 100
2003 Arsonist set a fire in a trian station in Daegu, South Korea kills nearly 200
2002 Earthquake kills at least 260 in western Iran
2002 Earthquake kills at least 1,000 100 miles north of Kabul, Afghanistan
2002 Earthquake kills at least 150 100 miles north of Kabul, Afghanistan
2002 Stove mishap sets Egyption train on fire, kills over 360 people
2001 Police tear gas unruly soccer fans, ensuing panic kills over 100 in Ghana
2001 Earthquake kills 20,000 in Bhuj, India
1999 Earthquake kills 700 in Duzce, Turkey
1999 Cyclone/tidal surge kills as many as 10,000 in eastern India
1999 Earthquake kills 2,295 in central Taiwan
1999 Earthquake kills 17,000 in northwest Turkey
1999 Earthquake kills about 1,185 in Armenia, Colombia
1998 Earthquake kills about 5,000 in northern Afghanistan
1998 Matt Beck, an angry lottery accountant kills 4 at Connecticut state lottery
1998 Tornadoes in Florida kills at least 31
1998 Earthquake kills about 2,300 in northern Afghanistan
1998 U.S. military plane clips cable car lines in northern Italy, kills 20
1997 Typhoon Linda kills at least 208 in southern Vietnam
1997 Hurricane kills 123 in Acapulco Mexico
1997 Typhoon Winnie kills 140, injures 3,000 in East China
1997 Terrorist double suicide bombing in Jerusalem, kills 14
1997 Bomb in Algiers kills 21 and wounds 40
1997 Tornado in Jarrell Texas kills at least 28
1997 Earthquake in Pakistan, kills 45
1997 Ali Abu Kamal opens fire in Empire State Building and kills 1
1996 Martin Bryant shoots and kills 35 in Port Arthur Tasmania
1996 Thomas Hamilton kills 16 kindergardeners, their teacher and himself
1995 Suicide bomber blasts into Egyptian embassy in Islamabad, kills 16
1995 Emillio and Gloria Estefan's boat hits and kills a jet skiier
1995 Truck bomb at Federal Building in Oklahoma City, kills 168
1995 Major earthquake kills 5,092 in Kobe Japan
1994 Liberia militia kills 48 inhabitants of Monrovia
1994 Palestinian bomb attack on bus in Tel Aviv, kills 22
1994 7.9 earthquake strikes Koerilen, flood kills 18+
1994 Pinatubo volcano in Philippines erupts, kills at least 14
1994 5.6 earthquake in Algeria, kills 171
1994 India army kills 27 Moslem militants
1994 Cambodia's Red Khmer surprise attack on train, kills 13
1994 Bodo kills 37 Moslems in Bashbari NE India
1994 Ferry boat smashes into Mombasa Harbor Kenya, kills over 300
1994 Palestinian suicide bomber kills 7 Israelis and himself
1994 Train accident at Pinetown, Natal kills 47
1994 Peruvian Yak-40 crashes into mountain near Tingo Maria, kills 31
1994 6.5 earthquake strikes SE Sumatra, kills 200
1994 Ship disaster near Ranong Thailand, kills 200
1994 Mine fire at Asansol India, kills 55
1993 Paramilitia kills 22 demonstrators at Bijbihara Kashmir
1993 Liberian Charles Taylors rebellion kills 550 fugitives
1993 Mafia bombs Uffizi-museum in Florence, kills 6
1993 Kurd rebellion kills 33 soldiers and 5 citizens in Turkey
1993 Boeing 727 crashes into mountain at Medellin Colombia, kills 132
1993 Methane gas explosion in Secunda coal mine South-Africa, kills 50
1993 Fire in clothing factory at Bangkok, kills 145
1993 Landslide in Nambija Ecuador, kills 300
1993 Afghan Antonov AN-32 crashes at Tashqurgan, kills 76
1993 Boeing 737 crashes at Aurangabad, kills 56
1993 Fire in psychiatric institute in South Korea, kills 40
1993 Republican Guard kills 64 in Chad
1993 IRA-bomb kills 3 year old in Warrington England
1993 Fire in Linxi department store in Tangshan China, kills 79
1993 Army of opium king Khun Sa kills 60 in NE Burma
1992 6.8-7.5 earthquake strikes Flores Island (tsunami kills 3,000)
1992 Boeing 734 crashes into mountain in China, kills 141
1992 Mud storm kills 30 in South France
1992 Army of Ciskei homeland kills 28 ANC demonstrators
1992 Slaughtering by Inkhata-followers at Boipatong, South Africa, kills 42
1992 Eric Houston kills 4 in a California HS where he failed history 4 years prior
1992 Gas explodes in sewer, kills 200 in Guadalajara Mexico
1992 Plane crash at Perris Valley Airport California, kills 16 parachutists
1991 Dr. Jack Kevorkian's suicide machine kills 2 women
1991 George Jo Hennard, 35, kills 23 and himself and wounds 20 in Texas
1991 Ex-postal worker Joseph Harris kills 4 postal workers
1991 Mud storm in Antofagasta Chile, kills 80
1991 Earthquake in Georgia, kills 100
1991 Earthquake strikes Costa Rica and Panama, kills 95
1991 United Airlines crashes near Colorado Springs, kills 25
1991 U.S., barracks in Dhahran Saudi Arabia, hit by scud missile, kills 28
1990 Albert Salmi, (Caddyshack), kills terminally ill wife and self at 62
1990 Fire kills 110 on a ferry in Norway, in an unrelated event, 30 die in a ferry flip over in Burma
1990 Fire in illegal New York City social club, kills 87
1989 Mafia drug kingpin bombs security force at Bogota, kills 52
1989 Worst Canadian mass murder: Marc Lepine kills 14 women at U Montreal
1989 Earthquake in San Francisco (6.9) cancels 3rd game of World Series, kills 67
1989 IRA-bomb kills 10 British marines in Kent
1989 Hurricane Hugo, kills 85 in Charleston SC
1989 United Airlines DC-10 crashes at Sioux City Iowa, kills 112
1989 Rare tornado in Philadelphia kills 1
1989 Gas explodes near 2 passenger trains in U.S.S.R., kills 100s
1989 Hurricane in Bangladesh, kills 500
1988 Reggie Rogers, Det Lion's # 1 pick, kills 3 by driving intoxicated
1988 Car bomb kills 7 Israelis, wounds 11 near Lebanon border
1988 Hurricane Gilbert, kills 300 in Jamaica, Texas and Yucatan
1988 U.S. Navy shoots down Iranian civilian jetliner over Gulf, kills 290
1988 U.S. Vincennes in Strait of Hormoez shoots Iran Airbus A300, kills 290
1988 Train crash in Zeeland Neth, kills 2
1988 IRA attack in Roermond, kills 3
1988 Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 roof tears off in flight; kills stewardess
1988 Avalanche at Klosters, a Swiss Ski resort, nearly kills Prince Charles
1987 In Arkansas R Gene Simmons kills 2, later bodies of 14 of his relatives are found at his home near Dover Ark
1987 Pacific Southwest crashes near Los Angeles, kills 43
1987 Violent rainfall/floods in Bangladesh, kills 100s
1987 6.8 earthquake hits Ecuador, kills 100
1986 Dupont Plaza Hotel fire in San Juan, Puerto Rico kills 97
1986 Vrijkomend vulkaangas kills 1500 people in Nyos-more, Cameroon
1986 Lake Nios Volcano in Cameroon kills 1,746
1986 Car bomb kills 20 in Tehran, Iran
1986 De Havilland Twin Otter and Bell 206 helicopter collide, kills 25
1985 Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupts in Colombia, kills 25,000
1985 Philadelphia Police bomb a house held by group "Move," kills 11
1985 Booby trap bomb kills 86 people in India
1985 "Communist" bomb attack kills 2 firemen in Brussels
1985 Express train derails in Ethiopia, kills at least 428
1984 Suicide car bomb attacks U.S. Embassy annex in Beirut, kills 23
1984 James Huberty kills 21 McDonald's patrons in San Ysidro California
1984 Christopher Wilder, FBI's "most wanted man," accidentally kills self
1984 Oil fire in Cubatao Brazil kills 500
1984 Riot in Tunis kills over 100
1983 A bomb planted on a bus in Jerusalem explodes, kills 6 Israelis
1983 Suicide terrorist truck bomb kills 241 U.S. personnel in Beirut
1983 Hurricane Alicia, kills 17 in Texas
1983 While warming up before 5th inning Yankee Dave Winfield accidentally kills a seagull
1983 Bridge section along I-95 in Greenwich, Ct collapsed kills 3
1983 Fire in Nassermeer Egypt kills 357
1983 Suicide bomber kills 63, at U.S. Embassy in Lebanon
1983 Earthquake in Colombia kills some 5,000 people
1982 Gas explosion in Israeli army headquarters by Tyrus; kills 60
1982 Bomb attack in Teheran, kills 60, injures 700
1982 Cyanide laced Tylenol capsules kills 7 in Chicago
1982 Penn prison guard George Banks kills 13 (5 were his own children)
1982 Heater explodes at Star Elementary School-Okla, kills 6 kids and teacher
1981 El Salvador army kills 900
1981 Riots at Casablanca, kills 66-200
1980 Fire at MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas kills 84
1980 Hurricane Aline, kills 272 in Texas and Caribbean
1980 Italian plane crashes into Tyrrheense Sea, kills 81
1980 Fire in nursing home in Kingston Jamaica, kills 157
1980 Polish airliner crash kills all 87 aboard (22 are U.S. amateur boxers)
1979 Air New Zealand DC-10 crashes into Mt Erebus on Antarctica kills 257
1979 American Airlines DC-10 crashes on takeoff from Chicago, kills 275
1979 Hurricane David, a strong Atlantic storm kills over 1,000
1979 Rocker Nigel Olsson runs a stop sign, crashes and kills a driver
1979 Moslem Brotherhood kills 62 sheiks in Aleppo, Syria
1979 Brenda Spencer kills 2, inspires Boomtown Rats "I Don't Like Mondays"
1978 Gig Young, kills his bride of 3 weeks and then commits suicide at 64
1978 Theodore Bundy kills Florida State University coeds Lisa Levy and Margaret Bowman
1977 West German RAF terrorist kills policeman in Utrecht
1977 Flash flood hits Johnstown, Pennsylvania, kills 80 and causing $350 mil damage
1977 Floods in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, kills 76
1977 Violence during Puerto Rican Day in Chicago kills 2
1977 Fire in hotel Duc de Brabant Brussels, kills 19
1977 Nightclub in Cincinnati fire kills 164
1977 Earthquake in Romania, kills 1,541
1976 2 airliners collide over Yugoslavia, kills all 176 aboard
1976 An earthquake and tidal wave in the Philippines kills up to 8,000
1976 Flash flood in Big Thompson Canyon Colorado on Route 34, kills 139
1976 8.2 Tangshan earthquake kills estimated 240,000 Chinese
1976 1st outbreak of "Legionnaire's Disease" kills 29 in Phila
1976 Train collision at Schiedam Netherlands, kills 24
1976 Israel kills 6 Palestinians protesting land confiscation
1976 7.5 earthquake kills 22,778 in Guatemala and Honduras
1975 Hurricane Eloise, kills 71 in Caribbean and U.S.
1975 6.8 quake along Anatolian Fault kills over 2,000 in Lice Turkey
1975 3 truck pile up kills 10, injures 26 on French highway
1975 Eastern 727 crashes at JFK Airport New York, kills 113
1975 Fire in prison hospital kills 10 prisoners and 1 guard (Sanford Fla)
1975 Christian Falange kills 27 Palestinians, begins Lebanese civil war
1975 James Rupers kills his family to inherit
1974 LA Skid Row slasher kills 1st of 8
1974 Fire kills 189 in less than 25 min (Sao Paulo Brazil)
1974 Head-on collision between two buses kills 21 (Ankara, Turkey)
1974 Chemical plant explodes in Flixborough Lincs kills 29 in UK
1974 L A Landslide kills 9, Canyonville, Oregon
1973 Fire at Taiyo department store, kills 101 and injures 84 (Kumamoto Japan)
1973 6.8 quake centered in Oaxaca State in Mexico kills 527
1973 Black September kills 3 wounds 55 Athens
1973 Arab terrorists open fire at Athens airport, kills 3 injures 55
1973 Flash fire kills 51 at amusement park, Isle of Man, UK
1973 Jordan Air crash at Kano, Nigeria kills 176 Moslem pilgrims
1972 22-car train carrying 2,000 pilgrims derails, kills 208 in Mexico
1972 Aeroflot Il-18 crashes near Black Sea resort of Sochi, kills 105
1972 Antique F86 Sabrejet fails to takeoff at air show, kills 22
1972 Herd of stampeding elephants kills 24, Chandka Forest India
1972 Hurricane Agnes, kills 118 in New York and Florida
1972 Hurricane Agnes kills 117
1972 Explosion at world's largest coal mine kills 427 (Wankie Rhodesia)
1972 3 Jap PFL terrorists kills 24, wound 72 at Tel Aviv's Lod International airport
1972 7.0 earthquake kills 1/5 of population of Iranian province of Fars
1972 Slag heap dam collapses above Buffalo Creek, West Virginia, kills 125
1971 Worst hotel fire in history kills 163 at Taeyokale Hotel in Seoul
1971 Man-made earthslide at Kawasaki Japan, kills 15
1971 John List kills family and moves to Colorado
1971 Cyclone and tidal wave off Bay of Bengal kills as many as 10,000
1971 Alaskan 727 crashes into Chilkoot Mountain, kills 109 (Alaska)
1971 Quake in San Fernando Valley kills 64 and causes over $ B damage
1971 Government exhibit under construction collapses, kills 65 in Brazil
1970 Cyclone kills estimated 300,000 in Chittagong Bangladesh
1970 John Frazier kills Ohta's declares WW 3 has begun
1970 Bomb kills 1 at University of Wisconsin's Army Math Research Center in Madison
1970 Hurricane Dorothy, kills 42 in Martinique
1970 Mississippi Highway Patrol kills 2 at Jackson State College
1970 National Guard kills 4 at Kent State in Ohio
1970 Dominican DC-9 crashes into sea at Santo Domingo, kills 102
1969 Blues artist Muddy Waters involved in a car crash that kills 3
1969 Allegheny 853 collides with Piper Cherokee above Indiana, kills 82
1969 Seaplane crashes at Indianapolis, kills 83
1969 Hurricane Camille strikes U.S. Gulf Coast kills 255
1969 Hurricane Camille, kills 256 in Miss and Louisiana
1968 Arab terrorists in Athens fire on El Al plane, kills 1
1968 Mount Arenal, Costa Rica kills 80 in Pelee-type eruption
1968 Earthquake kills 47 in Japan
1967 Cloud burst over Lisbon kills about 450
1967 Bridge at Annabaai crashes on Willemstad, Curaeao, kills 15
1967 Hurricane Beulah hits Texas-Mexican border, kills 38
1967 Mount Washington cog railway train derails, kills 8 (NH)
1967 Hurricane Beuleah, kills 54 in Caribbean, Mexico and Texas
1967 6.5 earthquake of Kolya Dam India, kills 200
1967 Train crash at Arnhem Neth, kills 5
1967 Fire aboard carrier USS Forrestal in Gulf of Tonkin kills 134
1967 Fire at L'Innovation department store kills 322 (Brussels, Belgium)
1967 Apollo 1 fire kills astronauts Grissom, White and Chaffee
1967 Earthquake in Sicily kills 231
1966 USAF C144 military charter crashes near Binh Thai Vietnam kills 129
1966 High schooler Robert Smith kills 7 for fame
1966 Flooding of Arno River (Italy) destroys countless art works, kills 113
1966 Hurricane Inez, kills 293 in Caribbean, Florida and Mexico
1966 Former marine Charles Whitman kills 13 and wounds 31 at University of Texas
1966 Charles Whitman, former marine, kills 13 at University of Texas, shot by cops
1966 Charles Whitman wounds 46 and kills 5 at University of Texas
1966 Hurricane Alma, kills 51 in Honduras
1966 Drunk driver kills 10 children in Asse Belgium
1966 All-Nippon Airways 727 crashes off Haneda Airport (Japan); kills 133
1966 Belgian state police kills 2 striking mine workers
1966 Snow storm in north east U.S. kills 165
1965 3rd cyclone of year kills another 15,000 at mouths of Ganges River
1965 Bangladesh windstorm kills 10,000
1965 2 trucks crashed into a crowd of dancers (Sotouboua Togo) kills 125
1965 Hurricane Betsy strikes Florida and Louisiana kills 75
1965 Hurricane Betsy kills 75 in Louisiana and Florida
1965 Hurricane Betsy, kills 74 in Florida, Miss and La
1965 2nd of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000, Ganges R India
1965 coal mine explosion in Fukuoka Japan kills 236
1965 Fire and explosion at Dhori mine in Dhanbad India kills 400
1965 Pontoon ferry overturned on Shire River Malawi, kills 150
1965 1st of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (India)
1965 Bangladesh windstorm kills 17,000
1965 Gas explosion kills 28 in apartment complex (La Salle, Quebec)
1965 Eastern DC-7B crashes into Atlantic off Jones Beach NJ, kills 84
1964 Hurricane Hilda, kills 38 in La, Miss and Ga
1964 Panic in Lima Peru soccer stadium, kills 300
1964 Fire in Wegimond Belgium resort, kills 19
1963 Worst Canadian air disaster kills 118 in Montreal
1963 Train crash in Japan, kills 164
1963 Leaking propane gas explodes, kills 64 at "Holiday on Ice" (Indiana)
1963 Hurricane Flora ravages Cuba and Haiti, kills 6,000
1963 Hurricane Flora hits Haiti and Dominican Republic, kills 7,190
1963 Hurricane Flora, kills 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti
1963 Landslide into Vaiont Dam emptys lake, kills 3-4,000 (Italy)
1963 Skopje, Yugoslavia, destroyed by earthquake, kills 1,000+
1963 Eruptions of Mount Agung Bali, kills 1,900 Balinese
1963 Sylvia Plath, poet and novelist (Ariel), kills herself in London at 30
1962 Battles to decide Algeria-Morocco boundary kills 130
1962 Air France Boeing 707 crashes on takeoff from Paris, kills 130
1962 U.S. Super-Constellation disappears above Pacific Ocean, kills 167
1962 Storm in Hamburg, kills 265
1962 Gas explosion in Luisanthal coal mine Voelklingen Germany kills 298
1961 Hurricane Hattie, kills 400 in British Honduras
1961 Portuguese ship explode near Mozambique, kills 300
1961 Dutch Lockheed Electricity "Sirius" accident at Cairo, kills 20
1961 British liner "Dara" explodes in Persian Gulf, kills 236
1961 Landslide in U.S.S.R., kills 145
1961 Mine cave-in in Japan, kills 72
1960 TWA 266 and United 826 collide over Staten Island, kills 134
1960 Fire in movie theater kills 152 children (Amude Spain)
1960 Chartered C46 carrying California State's football team crashes, kills 16
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
1960 Hurricane Donna, kills 148 in Caribbean and US
1960 Fire raging through a Guatemala City, Guatemala insane asylum kills 225, severly injuring 300
1960 South Africa police kills 11 Pondo's at Nqusa Hill
1960 Earthquake kills 1/3 of Agadir Morocco population (12,000) in 15 sec
1960 Chinese army kills 12 Indian soldiers
1959 Snow falling in Lowarai Pass West Pakistan kills 48
1959 Rare Pacific hurricane kills 2,000 in Western Mexico
1959 Typhoon kills 2,000 in Japan and Korea
1959 Tornado in St. Louis kills 19 and injures 265
1958 Lenny Von Dohlen, Augusta Georgia, actor, Love Kills, Electric Dreams
1958 Bogota warehouse fire kills 82
1957 Assassination attempt on Indonesian president Sukarno, kills 8
1957 Hurricane Audrey, kills 526 in Louisiana and Texas
1957 Fire in Warreton Mo, kills 72
1956 Collapse of a RR bridge under a train kills 120 (India)
1956 Battle at Oran, Algeria, kills 300
1956 Violent clashes in Algeria, kills at least 380
1955 Time bomb aboard United DC-6 kills 44 above Longmont Colorado
1955 Hurricane Connie, kills 43 in NC, SC, Virginia and Maryland
1955 Hurricane Hazel, kills 68 in Haiti
1955 Hurricane Janet, kills 500 in Caribbean
1955 Hurricane Hilda, kills 200 in Mexico
1955 Hurricane Diane kills 200 and 1st billion $ damage storm (N.E. U.S.)
1955 Hurricane Diane, kills 400 in US
1955 Mercedes racing car kills 77 at Le Mans, France
1955 Le Mans race car accident kills 83 spectators, race continues
1955 Fire in cinema to Sclessin Belgium, kills 39
1955 Israeli assault on Gaza, kills 48
1954 Israeli act of revenge in Qibiya Jordan, kills 53
1954 12 second shock kills 1,460 in Orleansville Algeria
1954 Hurricane Carol strikes Long Island/New England, kills 68
1954 Hurricane Carol, kills 68
1953 Avalanche of lava kills 150 (Ruapehu volcano, New Zealand)
1953 Wellington-Auckland (NZ) express train swept away in flood kills 166
1953 Tornado kills 114 in Waco Texas and causes $39M damage
1953 Flooding in Netherlands, kills 1,835
1953 Gas explosion in Belgium coal mine kills 14
1952 2 trains collide with a derailed commuter train, kills 112 (England)
1952 Soviet fighters shoot Swedish Dakota down over East Sea, kills 8
1952 U.S. minesweeper "Hobson" rams aircraft carrier "Wasp," kills 176
1952 Snow storm in Sierra Nevada kills 26
1951 Superheated gases roll down Mount Catarman (Philippines), kills 500
1951 "Cloud of Death" rolls down Mount Lamington, New Guinea kills 3-5,000
1950 Heavy typhoon strikes Japan, kills about 250
1950 8.6 earthquake in India kills 20,000 to 30,000
1950 Mental health wing of Mercy Hospital burns, kills 41 (Davenport Ia)
1949 Uranium mine explosions in East Germany kills 3,700
1949 Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in 12 minutes
1949 Fire in riverfront area kills 1,700 (Chungking China)
1949 Lightning strikes a baseball field in Florida, kills SS and 3rd baseman
1947 Eastern DC-4 crashes between Ft. Deposit and Perryville Md, kills 53
1947 Mississippi Valley flooding kills 16 and causes $850M in damage
1947 French ship explodes in Texas City harbor, kills about 522
1947 Massive explosion and fire kills 522 in Texas City, Texas
1947 SS Himera runs aground at Athens, kills 392
1947 Small river steamer sank on Yangtze River, kills 400
1946 Earthquake in South Japan, kills 1,086
1946 Fire at Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, kills 119
1946 French Navy fire in Haiphong Vietnam, kills 6,000
1946 Dutch Dakota flight to Schiphol crashes, kills 11
1946 Fire at LaSalle Hotel cocktail lounge kills 61 (Chicago, Illinois)
1946 Train derailment kills 185 near Aracaju Brazil
1946 Filibuster in U.S. Senate kills FEPC bill
1945 During snow storm, school bus crashes, kills 15 (Washington)
1945 Riverboat sinks off Hong Kong; kills 1,550
1945 Liberty ship at Bari Italy carrying aerial bombs explodes, kills 360
1944 Japanese kamikaze crashes into U.S. cruiser Nashville, kills 138
1944 Hurricane, kills 389 in NC
1944 USAF kills 136, wounds 621 GI's at St-Lo
1944 2 ammunition ships explodes at Port Chicago, California kills 322
1943 "Tamiami Champion" trains collide, kills 73 and injures 200
1943 Fire in decrepit old Gulf Hotel kills 45 (Houston Texas)
1943 "Congressional Limited" train derails near Frankfort Pa, kills 79
1943 Detroit race riot kills 35
1943 U.S. errantly bombs Rotterdam, kills 326
1942 Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire kills 602 (Boston Mass)
1942 Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 south of Calcutta India
1942 German SS kills 25,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia
1942 3' of rain falls on Pennsylvania, flooding kills 15
1942 Tornado kills 35 in Oklahoma City
1942 Massacre at Lidice (Czechoslovakia), Gestapo kills 173
1942 Elwood Ordnance Plant near Joliet Illinois kills 54
1942 Coal mine explosion kills 1,549 at Honkeiko Manchuria
1942 Japan kills about 400 Filipino officers in Bataan
1942 20 tons of gelignite in a stone quarry at Easton Pennsylvania, kills 21
1941 Einsatz group kills 15,000 Jews of Rovno Ukraine
1941 German Einsatzkommando in Russia kills 1,469 Jewish children
1941 Ammunition plant at Fort Smederovo in Belgrade explodes; kills 1,500
1941 Blizzard in North Dakota kills 151
1940 Dance hall fires kills 198 (Natchez Miss)
1939 Oil refinery fire kills 500 and destroys Lagunillas, Venezuela
1939 Venlo-incident: German Abwehr kills 2 English agents
1938 Hurricane (183 MPH winds) in New England kills 700
1937 Forest fire kills 14 and injures 50 in Cody Wyoming
1937 Miami-to-Tampa bus overturned in a canal, kills 13
1936 Jahangir Khan kills a sparrow while cricket bowling, Cambridge U vs. MCC
1936 Tornado, kills 203 and injuring 1,800 in Gainesville Georgia
1935 Floods at Yangtzee Jiang and Hoangh, kills 200,000
1935 Quake kills 50,000 in Quetta Pakistan
1934 Typhoon strikes Honshu Island Japan, kills 4,000
1934 Fire destroys Hakodate Japan (kills 1,500, injures 1,000)
1933 Paris express train derails and kills 160, injures 300 (France)
1932 Earthquake kills 70,000 in Kansu China
1932 Hurricane storm wave sweeps over Santa Cruz del Sur Cuba kills 2,500
1932 Riots at Ford-factory Dearborn Michigan, kills 4
1932 El Salvador army kills 4,000 protesting farmers
1931 Earthquake devastate Managua Nicaragua, kills 2,000
1931 Gas explosion Fire in Fushun-coal mine, Manchuria kills 3,000
1930 Hurricane kills 2,000, injures 4,000 (Dominican Republic)
1930 Fire at Ohio State Penitentiary kills 322
1929 Fire in X-ray film stock kills 125 at Crile Clinic (Cleveland, Ohio)
1928 British steamer "Vestris" capsizes and sinks off Virginia, kills 110
1928 Hurricane in Florida, kills 6,000
1927 U.S. submarine 'S-4' sinks after collision kills all 34 aboard
1927 Tropical storm flooding kills 84 in Winooski River Valley (Vt)
1927 U.S. rum smuggler Horace Alderman kills 3
1926 Hurricane in Cuba, kills 600
1926 Hurricane hits Miami, kills 250
1926 Hurricane in Florida and Alabama, kills 372
1926 Lake Denmark, New Jersey arsenal explodes, kills 21, $75m damage
1926 Forest fire burns 900 acres and kills 2 in San Luis Obispo, California
1924 Coal mine explosion kills 171 at Castle Gate Utah
1923 7.9 earthquake strikes Tokyo and Yokohama, kills 142,000
1923 Coal mine explosion at Dawson, New Mexico kills 120
1921 A sudden cloudburst kills 120 near Pikes Peak, Colorado
1920 Bomb explosion in Wall Street, kills 30
1919 Petlyura's Ukrainian Army kills 35 members of a Jewish defense group
1919 "Tidal wave" of molasses 15 m high x 25 m wide kills dozens, Boston
1918 Spanish flu-virus kills 21,000 in U.S. in 1 week
1918 Forest fire in Minnesota and Northern Wisconsin kills about 800
1918 Sgt Alvin York single-handedly kills 25, captures 132 Germans
1918 Train accident at Weesp Neth, kills 42
1918 Lightning kills 504 sheep in Utah's Wasatch National Park
1918 Circus train rammed by troop train kills 68, Ivanhoe, Illinois
1918 TNT explosion in chemical factory in Oakdale, Pennsylvania kills 200
1918 Electrical fire kills 38 mental patients at Oklahoma State Hospital
1917 French munition ship "Mont Blanc" explodes in Halifax, kills 1,700
1917 Munition factory explosion at Eddystone PA, kills 133 workers
1917 Tornadoes kills 211 over 4 days in Midwest U.S.
1916 Avalanche kills 10,000 Austrian and Italian troops in 24 hours in Tyrol
1916 French artillery kills entire French 72nd division at Samogneux Verdun
1916 French cruiser "Admiral Charner" torpedoed off Syrian coast, kills 374
1915 Hurricane kills 275 in Galveston, Texas with $50 million damage
1915 British transport Royal Edward sank by German U boat kills 1000
1915 Earthquake in Avezzano Italy kills 29,800
1913 Explosion at Dawson New Mexico coal mine kills 263 mine workers
1913 Explosion in coal mine at Cardiff kills 439
1913 Coal mine explosion kills 263 at Dawson New Mexico
1913 Flood in Ohio, kills 400
1910 Explosion at Los Angeles Times kills 21
1910 Matador Juan Belmonte (18) kills his 1st bull
1908 Collingwood Elementary (Cleve) burns, kills 173 kids and 2 teachers
1907 Explosion at Yolande Alabama, coal mine kills 91
1907 Gas explosion at Jacobs Creek Pa, coal mine kills 239
1907 Coal mine explosions in Monongah, WV, kills 361
1907 Dynamite explodes on locomotive kills engineer Jesus Garcia in Mexico
1906 8.6 earthquake destroys Valparaiso Chile, fire kills 20,000
1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire kills nearly 4,000 and destroys 75% of city
1906 Coal dust explosion kills 1,060 at Courrieres France
1905 Mistaking her husband for a burglar, Ty Cobb's mother kills him
1905 Earthquake in Kangra India, kills 20,000
1904 Train derailed on bridge in Eden Colorado during a flash flood, kills 96
1903 Fire at Chicago's Iriquois Theater kills 602
1903 Limestone slides at Turtle Mountain kills 9 (Frank Alberta)
1902 Paul Guilfoyle, born in Jersey City, New Jersey, actor and director, Curiosity Kills
1902 Mt. Pelee erupts, wipes out St. Pierre, Martinique, kills 30,000
1902 Soufriere volcano on St. Vincent kills 2-5,000
1902 Soccer match riot between Scotland and England kills 25
1897 Police shoot at striking mine workers in Penns, kills 20
1897 Fire in Paris bazaar at Rue Jean Goujon kills 200
1896 Tornado kills 78 in Texas
1894 Ohio national guard kills 3 lynchers while rescuing a black man
1893 3rd worst hurricane in U.S. history kills 1,800 (Mississippi)
1893 Heavy rain wash "quick clay" into a deep valley, kills 111 (Norway)
1892 Mine explosion kills 100, Krebs, Okla-blacks trying to help rescue white survivors, driven away with guns
1891 Quake strikes Mino-Owari, Japan kills 7,300
1891 Hail kills 6 horses in Rapid City, SD
1891 Mine explosion kills 109 at Mount Pleasant Pennsylvania
1890 Turkish frigate "Ertogrul" burns off of Japan, kills 540
1889 Single tornado kills 119, injures 146, New Richmond, Wisconsin
1888 Lord Walsingham kills 1070 grouse in a single day
1888 Hail stones kills about 250 in Moradabad district of Delhi
1887 Gele River (Huang Ho) in China floods, kills about 1.5 million
1887 Alvin York, famed U.S. soldier with 25 kills in WW I
1886 Hurricane and sea surge kills 250 at Indianola, Texas
1886 Haymarket riot in Chicago; bomb kills 7 policemen
1885 Roof collapse kills 30 at murder trial in France
1883 Krakatoa erupts with increasingly large explosions kills 36,000
1883 Rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse caused a stampede that kills 12
1883 Fire at un-insured New Hall Hotel in Milwaukee Wisconsin, kills 71
1883 Fire in circus Ferroni in Berditschoft Poland kills 430
1883 Fire at uninsured Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin kills 71. General Tom Thumb of P T Barnum fame, escapes unhurt
1882 Tornado kills 130 in Iowa
1882 Anti-colonization mass society of Alexandria Egypt kills 50 Europeans
1881 Vienna's Ring Theater destroyed by fire, kills between 640-850
1880 Compressed air accident kills 20 workers on Hudson River tunnel, New York
1877 Hurricane strikes Curaeao and Bonaire kills 200
1877 Military shoots on stopped railroad workers in Balt, kills 9
1876 Fire at Brooklyn Theater kills 295, trampled or burned to death
1876 Tsunami's after earthquake floods NE coast of Japan, kills 28,000
1875 Garonne Flood: great damage in Verdun and Toulouse, kills about 1,000
1875 Quake in Venezuela and Colombia kills 16,000
1871 Great Fire kills 200, destroys over 4miles (10 km) of Chicago buildings, and original Emancipation Proclamation
1871 Hurricane kills 300 in Labrador
1869 Mine fire kills 179 at Avondale Pennsylvania
1868 Jesse James gang robs bank in Gallatin Missouri, kills 1
1866 Cholera-epidemic kills hundreds in London
1866 Steamship London sinks in storm off Land's End England, kills 220
1865 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
1864 Colorado militia kills 150 peaceful Cheyenne Indians
1863 Japanese battle cruiser shoots at Dutch warship Medusa, kills 4
1853 1st major U.S. rail disaster kills 46 in Norwalk, Connecticut
1847 Steamer "Phoenix" is lost on Lake Michigan, kills 200
1845 Fire in New York City destroys 1,000 homes and kills many
1845 Fire kills 1,600 in popular theater in Canton, China
1841 Great Lakes steamer "Erie" sinks off Silver Creek NY, kills 300
1840 Tornado strikes Natchez Miss, kills 317
1837 Earthquake in southern Syria kills thousands
1836 Worst English avalanche kills 8 of 15 buried (Lewes Sussex)
1834 Rioters in Safed Palestine kills many Jews
1833 "Lady-of-the-Lake" strikes iceberg and sinks in N Atlantic; kills 215
1829 Danzig (Gdansk) dike break flood kills 1,200
1824 Series of fires kills 10 (Edinburgh Scotland)
1824 Fire at Cairo ammunitions dump kills 4,000 horses
1816 French frigate "Medusa" runs aground off Cap Blanc. Gross incompetence kills 150 in calm seas
1806 A side of Rossberg Peak collapses into Goldau Valley Switz, kills 500
1797 Earthquake in Quito, Ecuador kills 41,000
1792 English warship Royal George capsizes in Spithead; kills 900
1783 Worst quake in 8 years kills some 50,000 (Calabria, Italy)
1782 Gnadenhutten Massacre - Ohio militia kills 90 indians
1780 Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000 to 30,000 in Caribbean
1772 Explosive eruption blows 4,000' off Papandayan Java, kills 3,000
1759 Earthquake in Safed Palestine kills hundred
1755 Lisbon earthquake kills more than 50,000
1737 Earthquake kills 300,000 and destroys of Calcutta India
1720 "Le Grand St. Antoine" reaches Marseille, plague kills 80,000
1718 Avalanche destroys every building in Leukerbad, Switz; kills 53
1709 Sudden extreme cold kills 1000s of Europeans
1692 Earthquake in Porte Royale, Jamaica, kills 3,000
1666 Great Fire in London ends, kills 8
1666 Great Fire in London ends, kills 8
1666 Fire in London destroys 13,000 houses and kills 8
1649 Massacre of Drogheda-Cromwell kills 3,000 royalists
1643 Heavy earthquake strikes Santiago, Chile; kills 1/3 of population
1637 1st battle of Pequot at New Haven, Connecticut kills 500 indians
1634 Irish captain Walter Devereaux kills duke Wallenstein
1631 Mount Vesuvious, Italy erupts, destroys 6 villages and kills 4,000
1616 Treaty of Loudun kills French civil war
1570 Tsar Ivan the terrible kills 1000-2000 residents of Novgorod
1556 Heavy earthquake strikes Shaaxi China, kills 830,000
1556 Most deadly earthquake kills 830,000 in Shensi Province, China
1531 Earthquake in Lisbon Spain, kills 20,000-30,000
1492 Cheese and Bread rebellion: German mercenaries kills 232 Alkmaarse
1290 Earthquake in Gulf of Chili China, reportedly kills 100,000
1191 Crusader King Richard I kills 3,000 muslim prisoners in Akko
526 Earthquake kills 250,000 in Antioch, Syria
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