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1997
Cubs beat New York Mets ending NL worst opening, lost 14 straight games
1995
Worst snowstorm in Buffalo history, 37.9" in 24 hours (Starting Dec 9 at 7 PM, breaks previous record of 25.3" in 1982
1995
Worst fire in New York in 80 years ends after 4 days
1993
New York Islanders beat Washington Caps 4 to 1 in playoffs, Caps Dale Hunter attacks Pierre Turgeon after scoring, in hockey's worst cheap shot
1992
Cleveland Browns suffer their worst preseason loss, 56-3, to Vikings
1991
Mount Unzen erupts in Japan, worst eruption in Japanese history
1990
Boston Celtics worst ever (6 pts in 2nd vs New Jersey Nets) and lose 87-78
1989
Worst Canadian mass murder: Marc Lepine kills 14 women at U Montreal
1989
Worst U.S. oil spill, Exxon's Valdez spills 11.3 mil gallons off Alaska
1988
Cornell confirms grad student source of worst computer sabotage
1988
Boston's worst traffic jam in 30 years
1988
Baltimore Orioles set worst record to start a season 0-14 (will go 0-21)
1986
Chernobyl, U.S.S.R. site of world's worst nuclear power plant disaster
1986
Worst nuclear disaster, 4th reactor at Chernobyl U.S.S.R. explodes, 31 die
1985
Japanese Boeing 747SR crashes, 520 die (worst in-flight toll)
1983
20 killed in Britain's worst helicopter accident
1979
Tanker Burmah Agate off Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 10.7 m gallons of oil, in US's worst oil spill disaster
1979
Ixtoc I rig in Gulf of Mexico blows; 3 million bbl of oil spilled, world's worst oil spillage
1977
583 die in aviation's worst disaster KLM-Pan Am 747 crash on Tenerife
1975
Worst motor vehicle disaster in U.K.; bus full of elderly women plunges Dibble's Bridge Yorkshire, killing 38
1974
World's worst air disaster, Turkish DC-10 crashes in Paris (346 die)
1974
Worst fire in Argentine history destroys 1.2 million acres
1972
In 1 of their worst trades Yanks get Rich McKinney for Stan Bahnsen
1972
Worst U.S. rail accident in 14 years; 45 die in Chicago
1971
Worst hotel fire in history kills 163 at Taeyokale Hotel in Seoul
1963
Worst Canadian air disaster kills 118 in Montreal
1955
NY Stock Exchange worst price decline since 1929
1954
Austria's worst avalanche-kills 200; 9hrs later 2nd one-kills 115
1952
Worst smog in London ever, 4-8,000 die
1928
16 die in a New York City subway's 2nd worst accident
1918
101 killed and 171 injured in worst U.S. train wreck, Nashville, Tennessee
1916
Worst train disaster ever (Modane France-543 killed)
1910
3 passenger trains buried at Steven's Pass in Cascade Range. 118 die. Worst snow slide in U.S. history
1893
3rd worst hurricane in U.S. history kills 1,800 (Mississippi)
1836
Worst English avalanche kills 8 of 15 buried (Lewes Sussex)
1783
Worst quake in 8 years kills some 50,000 (Calabria, Italy)
1755
Worst quake in Mass Bay area strikes Boston; no deaths report
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