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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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