2014 Event China's slowing growth and plans for tapering by the Fed cause investors to withdraw money from emerging markets; as a result, the Dow Jones loses over 300 points, ending its worst week since 2011 2013 Event The St. Jude storm, predicted to be the worst since 1987, is expected to make landfall in the U.K. 2013 Event The worst monsoon season in 50 years rages on as Northern India prepares for more rain 2013 Event The Canterbury Region of New Zealand experiences the worst flooding in 20 years; Leeston and Lyttelton are the towns hardest hit 2011 Event According to the U.S. Department of Energy, 2010 greenhouse gas levels are higher than a worst case scenario set by climate experts in 2007 2011 Event The oil spill from MV Rena, the ship stranded off the coast of Tauranga, New Zealand, becomes the country's worst environmental disaster 2011 Event New England's state of Vermont experiences the worst flooding in 100 years 2011 Event The U.N. reports 10 million people are effected by the worst drought in 60 years, forcing Somalians to flee to Kenya and Ethiopia to avoid starvation 2011 Event The Mid-April 2011 Southern United States tornado outbreak results in over 30 deaths; North Carolina is the state worst affected 2011 Event Save the Children launches a campaign to help 400,000 children in Sri Lanka deal with the crisis following the worst floods in their history 2010 Event Russia's worst drought in history prompts Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to temporarily ban the export of flour and wheat 2010 Event In volume, BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill has overtaken Ixtoc I to become the worst oceanic oil spill in U.S. recorded history 2010 Event Roza Otunbayeva, interim leader of Kyrgyzstan, estimates the death toll from the country's worst ethnic battle in decades could be as many as 2,000 people 2010 Event BP CEO Tony Hayward testifies before the U.S. about the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster at the Deepwater Horizon rig that has caused the worst oil spill in U.S. history 2010 Event According to Michael Oren, Israel's ambassador to the United States, relations between the U.S. and Israel are the worst in 35 years 1997 Event Cubs beat New York Mets ending NL worst opening, lost 14 straight games 1995 Event Worst snowstorm in Buffalo history, 37.9" in 24 hours, Starting December 9th at 7 PM, breaks previous record of 25.3" in 1982 1995 Event Worst fire in New York in 80 years ends after 4 days 1993 Event 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 Event Cleveland Browns suffer their worst preseason loss, 56-3, to Vikings 1991 Event Mount Unzen erupts in Japan, worst eruption in Japanese history 1990 Event Boston Celtics worst ever (6 pts in 2nd vs New Jersey Nets) and lose 87-78 1989 Event Worst Canadian mass murder: Marc Lepine kills 14 women at U Montreal 1989 Event Worst U.S. oil spill, Exxon's Valdez spills 11.3 mil gallons off Alaska 1988 Event Cornell confirms grad student source of worst computer sabotage 1988 Event Boston's worst traffic jam in 30 years 1988 Event Baltimore Orioles set worst record to start a season 0-14 (will go 0-21) 1986 Event Chernobyl, U.S.S.R. site of world's worst nuclear power plant disaster 1986 Event Worst nuclear disaster, 4th reactor at Chernobyl U.S.S.R. explodes, 31 die 1985 Event Japanese Boeing 747SR crashes, 520 die (worst in-flight toll) 1983 Event 20 killed in Britain's worst helicopter accident 1979 Event Tanker Burmah Agate off Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 10.7 m gallons of oil, in US's worst oil spill disaster 1979 Event Ixtoc I rig in Gulf of Mexico blows; 3 million bbl of oil spilled, world's worst oil spillage 1977 Event 583 die in aviation's worst disaster KLM-Pan Am 747 crash on Tenerife 1975 Event Worst motor vehicle disaster in U.K.; bus full of elderly women plunges Dibble's Bridge Yorkshire, killing 38 1974 Event World's worst air disaster, Turkish DC-10 crashes in Paris (346 die) 1974 Event Worst fire in Argentine history destroys 1.2 million acres 1972 Event In 1 of their worst trades Yankees get Rich McKinney for Stan Bahnsen 1972 Event Worst U.S. rail accident in 14 years; 45 die in Chicago 1971 Event Worst hotel fire in history kills 163 at Taeyokale Hotel in Seoul 1963 Event Worst Canadian air disaster kills 118 in Montreal 1955 Event NY Stock Exchange worst price decline since 1929 1954 Event Austria's worst avalanche-kills 200; 9hrs later 2nd one-kills 115 1952 Event Worst smog in London ever, 4-8,000 die 1928 Event 16 die in a New York City subway's 2nd worst accident 1918 Event 101 killed and 171 injured in worst U.S. train wreck, Nashville, Tennessee 1916 Event Worst train disaster ever (Modane France-543 killed) 1910 Event 3 passenger trains buried at Steven's Pass in Cascade Range. 118 die. Worst snow slide in U.S. history 1893 Event 3rd worst hurricane in U.S. history kills 1,800 (Mississippi) 1836 Event Worst English avalanche kills 8 of 15 buried (Lewes Sussex) 1783 Event Worst quake in 8 years kills some 50,000 (Calabria, Italy) 1755 Event Worst quake in Mass Bay area strikes Boston; no deaths report
