2013 Event In Belize, a construction company requiring road fill gravel destroys a 2,300 year-old Mayan pyramid 2010 Event In San Bruno, California, a fire begins with a massive explosion in a natural gas line, kills 4 people, destroys many homes, and continues burning 2010 Event A 5.2 magnitude earthquake in Sichuan province, China, destroys at least 100 homes, injures 11 and kills one person 2010 Event A suicide bomber kills 95 people, injures over 100, and destroys 20 houses at a volleyball game in Lakki Marwat, Pakistan 2008 Event U.S. Navy destroys a U.S. spy satellite with a missile 1998 Event U.S. hockey team destroys their rooms at Olympic village in Japan 1995 Event 7.2 earthquake destroys Kobe Japan killing 5,372 die 1994 Event 6.0 earthquake/avalanche destroys Toez Colombia, about 1000 killed 1990 Event Fire destroys some of Universal Studio's stages 1988 Event Heavy fire destroys historic center of Lisbon 1985 Event Bomb destroys Air India Boeing 747 in air near Ireland, 329 die 1985 Event Explosions destroys 2 tankers off of Gibraltar, 30 die 1984 Event Fire destroys a set in "A View to the Kill" 1981 Event Israeli F-15's and F-16's destroys Iraqi plutonium production facility 1978 Event High Council destroys judgment against war criminal Pieter Menten 1974 Event Cyclone Tracy virtually destroys Darwin, Australia 1974 Event Worst fire in Argentine history destroys 1.2 million acres 1972 Event 6.25 Earthquake destroys central Managua Nicaragua, 10,000 die 1970 Event 1,086 die when 7.4 quake destroys 254 villages (Gediz Turkey) 1968 Event Earthquake destroys Ferdows Persia, 2,000 killed 1968 Event 12,000 die in 7.8 quake destroys 60,000 buildings in NE Iran 1966 Event Flooding of Arno River (Italy) destroys countless art works, kills 113 1965 Event Bomb destroys USAF base Bien Hoa South Vietnam 1953 Event Typhoon destroys 1/3 of Nagoya Japan 1949 Event Fire in Chiang-king, China, destroys 7,000 lives 1947 Event Chemical mixing error causes explosion that destroys 42 blocks in Los Angeles 1945 Event U.S. drops 2nd atomic bomb "Fat Man" on Japan destroys part of Nagasaki 1945 Event U.S. Task Force 38 destroys 41 Japanese ships in Battle of South China Sea 1942 Event 1 salvo Katjoesja-rocket destroys nazi battalion in Stalingrad 1942 Event Tornado destroys Pryor, Oklahoma killing 100, injuring 300 1940 Event British air attack destroys half of Italian fleet 1940 Event British destroys French battle fleet at Oran, Algeria, 1267 die 1939 Event Oil refinery fire kills 500 and destroys Lagunillas, Venezuela 1937 Event German Luftwaffe destroys Basque town of Guernica in Spain 1934 Event Fire destroys Hakodate Japan (kills 1,500, injures 1,000) 1934 Event Fire destroys Hakodate Japan, killing about 1,500 1920 Event 8.6 earthquake destroys 15,000 miles (Kansu China); Over 180,000 die 1919 Event Romanian forces destroys Bela Kun Republic in Budapest 1911 Event Great fire destroys downtown Constantinople/Istanbul Turkey 1910 Event Great Idaho Fire destroys 3 million acres of timber 1906 Event 8.6 earthquake destroys Valparaiso Chile, fire kills 20,000 1906 Event San Francisco earthquake and fire kills nearly 4,000 and destroys 75% of city 1905 Event Japanese fleet destroys Russian East Sea fleet in Straits of Tushima 1902 Event Earthquake destroys Turkish city of Tochangri 1901 Event Battle at Elands River Port: Boer General Smuts destroys unit 17th Lancers 1900 Event Fire in Cincinnati nearly destroys Reds' grandstand 1898 Event Lord Kitchener destroys Mahdi's tomb in Omdurman 1894 Event Fire in Boston destroys baseball stadium and 170 other buildings 1893 Event Tornado destroys coast of Savannah and Charleston, about 1000 die 1889 Event Great Fire in Seattle destroys 25 downtown blocks 1886 Event Eruption of Tarawera volcano destroys famous pink and white calcium carbonate hot-spring terraces (North Island, New Zealand) 1886 Event Fire destroys nearly 1,000 buildings in Vancouver 1883 Event Battle at El Obeid Sudan: Mahdi's army destroys Egyptian army 1882 Event British HMS Flirt destroys village of Asaba Niger 1872 Event Fire destroys nearly 1,000 buildings in Boston 1872 Event "3 Fingers" Mackenzie destroys Kwahadi-Commanche village 1871 Event Gas explosion destroys Peshtigo, Wisconsin 1871 Event Great Fire kills 200, destroys over 4miles (10 km) of Chicago buildings, and original Emancipation Proclamation 1866 Event Great fire in Quebec destroys 2,500 houses 1852 Event Fire destroys 1,100 construction sites in Montreal Canada and no one die 1851 Event Fire devastates Library of Congress in Wash, destroys 35,000 volumes 1851 Event Fire destroys part of San Francisco 1850 Event Fire destroys part of San Francisco 1849 Event Pack destroys Astor Place opera house in New York City (22 killed) 1845 Event Fire in New York City destroys 1,000 homes and kills many 1844 Event Fire destroys U.S. mint at Charlotte, North Carolina 1839 Event Earthquake at Martinique destroys half of Port Royal-700 die 1838 Event Fire destroys half of Charleston 1832 Event U.S. ship destroys Sumatran village in retaliation for piracy 1822 Event 2nd eruption of Galunggung (Java) destroys summit of mountain 1812 Event Fire in Moscow destroys 90% of houses and 1,000 churchs 1812 Event Earthquake destroys Caracas, Venezuela 1812 Event Earthquake destroys 90% of Caracas; about 20,000 die 1797 Event Battle at Kamperduin: English fleet destroys Bataafse 1788 Event Russian fleet destroys Swedish 1760 Event Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings 1751 Event Fire in Stockholm destroys 1,000 houses 1737 Event Earthquake kills 300,000 and destroys of Calcutta India 1718 Event Battle at Cape Passaro: English fleet destroys Spanish 1718 Event Battle at Cape Passaro: English fleet destroys Spanish 1718 Event Avalanche destroys every building in Leukerbad, Switzerland; kills 53 1667 Event Michiel de Ruyter destroys English fleet 1666 Event Fire in London destroys 13,000 houses and kills 8 1654 Event Fire after heavy storm destroys 2/3 of De Rijp, Netherlands, 1 dies 1651 Event Battle at Worcester-Oliver Cromwell destroys English royalists 1649 Event Treaty of Rueil destroys 1st Fronde-uprising 1643 Event Battle at Rocroi/Allersheim: French army destroys Spanish army 1631 Event Mount Vesuvious, Italy erupts, destroys 6 villages and kills 4,000 1623 Event Fire at Plymouth, Massachusetts destroys several buildings 1618 Event "Rodi" avalanche destroys Plurs Switzerland, 1,500 killed 1608 Event Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia 1572 Event Spanish army occupies/plunders/destroys Mechelen 1571 Event Battle at Lepanto: Saint League (Spain and Italy) destroys Turkish fleet 1549 Event Battle at Dussindale: John Dudley destroys English boer army 1401 Event Mongol monarch Timur Lenk destroys Baghdad 1360 Event Danish King Waldemar IV destroys Visby Gotland 1348 Event Earthquake destroys Villach, killing 5,000 1340 Event In the Hundred Years War, British fleet destroys French at Sluys 1014 Event Battle of Strumitsa-valley: Byzantine destroys Bulgarian armies 902 Event Aghlabidisch emir Ibrahim II destroys Taormina, Sicily
