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6/15/1904: More than 1,000 people taking a pleasure trip on New York City’s East River are drowned or burned to death when a fire sweeps through the General Slocum riverboat.

Saturday, June 15th, 2019

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Budapest: Cruise ship collidedes with and sinks a sightseeing boat packed with South Korean tourists killing 7; 21 still missing

Friday, May 31st, 2019

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5/29/1914: The Empress of Ireland, carrying 1,477 passengers and crew, collides with the Norwegian freighter Storstad in the gulf of Canada’s St. Lawrence River resulting in the drowning of over 1000 passengers and crew

Wednesday, May 29th, 2019

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At least 30 people are dead and a couple of hundred are missing after a boat sank over the weekend in Lake Mai-Ndombe in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Monday, May 27th, 2019

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4/27/1865: The steamboat Sultana explodes on the Mississippi River near Memphis, killing 1,700 passengers and Union soldiers.

Saturday, April 27th, 2019

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4/15/1912: The RMS Titanic sinks into the icy waters of the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg, killing 1,517 people.

Monday, April 15th, 2019

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April 14, 1912: RMS Titanic hits iceberg

Sunday, April 14th, 2019

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3/24/1989: Exxon Valdez crashes

Sunday, March 24th, 2019
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A cruise ship, Viking Sky, with 1,300 passengers on board suffered engine failure off the west coast of Norway on Saturday, sparking an arduous evacuation in treacherous conditions.

Sunday, March 24th, 2019

Express

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At least 71 people have died, including 12 children, as an overcrowded ferry capsized in Iraq’s Tigris river in Mosul.

Thursday, March 21st, 2019

CNN

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