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  • 1945: B-25 Bomber Flying through Thick Fog Crashes into the Empire State Building, Killing 14 People

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    1945: B-25 Bomber Flying through Thick Fog Crashes into the Empire State Building, Killing 14 People

    1945: B-25 Bomber Flying through Thick Fog Crashes into the Empire State Building, Killing 14 People

    On this day in 1945, an American bomber B-25 Mitchell lost its way in the thick fog and crashed into the ...

    On this day in 1945, an American bomber B-25 Mitchell lost its way in the thick fog and crashed into the Empire State Building in New York. It caused the death of 14 people and damage estimated at $1, ...

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  • 1914: Over 1,000 People Killed during Ship Collision in Canada

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    1914: Over 1,000 People Killed during Ship Collision in Canada

    1914: Over 1,000 People Killed during Ship Collision in Canada

    It was the worst maritime disaster in Canadian history (during peacetime). The Norwegian collier didn't s ...

    It was the worst maritime disaster in Canadian history (during peacetime). The Norwegian collier didn't sink, unlike the “Empress of Ireland“. There were more than 1,000 victims. The “SS Storstad” (gr ...

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  • 1986: How did the Nuclear Disaster at Chernobyl Occur?

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    1986: How did the Nuclear Disaster at Chernobyl Occur?

    1986: How did the Nuclear Disaster at Chernobyl Occur?

    On this day in 1986, the greatest nuclear disaster in recorded world history occured.  Reactor number fou ...

    On this day in 1986, the greatest nuclear disaster in recorded world history occured.  Reactor number four exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, about 110 kilometers north of the Ukrainian ca ...

    April 26, 2020
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  • 2010: BP’s Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico

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    2010: BP’s Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico

    2010: BP’s Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico

    The tragic anniversary of the start of the largest marine oil spill in world history falls on this day.  ...

    The tragic anniversary of the start of the largest marine oil spill in world history falls on this day.  It was on that day in 2010 that an oil platform run by the company British Petroleum (BP), expl ...

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  • 1912: The Ice that Hit the Titanic was actually not Common in that Part of the Ocean

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    1912: The Ice that Hit the Titanic was actually not Common in that Part of the Ocean

    1912: The Ice that Hit the Titanic was actually not Common in that Part of the Ocean

    On this day, in the late night hours, the largest ship in the world at the time – the Titanic – struck an ...

    On this day, in the late night hours, the largest ship in the world at the time – the Titanic – struck an iceberg in the northern Atlantic Ocean. At that moment she was about two-thirds the way from E ...

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  • 1831: Marching Soldiers Collapse a Bridge

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    |Date: April 12, 2020
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    1831: Marching Soldiers Collapse a Bridge

    1831: Marching Soldiers Collapse a Bridge

    On this day a strange accident occurred, which can be used as an example of the effect of the laws of phy ...

    On this day a strange accident occurred, which can be used as an example of the effect of the laws of physics in real life. Namely, when a troop of soldiers was marching over a suspension bridge, it c ...

    April 12, 2020
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  • 1977: Deadliest Aviation Accident in History

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    |Date: March 27, 2020
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    1977: Deadliest Aviation Accident in History

    1977: Deadliest Aviation Accident in History

    The deadliest aviation accident in history occurred on this day. Namely, a record number of 583 people we ...

    The deadliest aviation accident in history occurred on this day. Namely, a record number of 583 people were killed when two Boeing 747 jumbo-jets collided on the runway at Tenerife in the Canary Islan ...

    March 27, 2020
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  • 1891: Horrific Passenger Ship Accident near Gibraltar

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    |Date: March 17, 2020
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    1891: Horrific Passenger Ship Accident near Gibraltar

    1891: Horrific Passenger Ship Accident near Gibraltar

    On this day in 1891 the passenger ship SS Utopia sank near Gibraltar, taking with it a total of 562 passe ...

    On this day in 1891 the passenger ship SS Utopia sank near Gibraltar, taking with it a total of 562 passengers and crew members. In addition, two sailors from another ship died while attempting to ass ...

    March 17, 2020
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