Archive for the ‘Historical Event’ Category
5/22/1967: A fire at the L’Innovation department store in Brussels, Belgium, killing 323.
Wednesday, May 22nd, 20195/22/2017: An ISIS suicide bomber detonates an explosion at Manchester Arena in England, killing 22 concertgoers and injuring 116 more.
Wednesday, May 22nd, 20195/18/1980: Mount St. Helens in Washington erupts, causing a massive avalanche and killing 57 people
Saturday, May 18th, 20195/17/1994: A fire in an overcrowded Honduras prison kills 103 people
Friday, May 17th, 2019“……The fire started in one of two small refrigerators located in the cell block at about 1:30 a.m…….. Guards reported that they had to fire their guns in the air in order to keep the prisoners from attacking the firefighters and escaping. Inmates claimed that the guards were preventing the prisoners from fleeing the fire. ….”
5/16/1849: The NYC Board of Health establishes a hospital to deal with a cholera epidemic that, before it ends, kills more than 5,000.
Thursday, May 16th, 2019
5/13/1972: A fire breaks out at the Playtown Cabaret in Osaka, Japan, killing 118.
Monday, May 13th, 20195/4/2002: An EAS Airline plane crashes into the town of Kano, Nigeria, killing 148 people.
Saturday, May 4th, 2019“……The Executive Airline Services twin-engine plane took off from Kano at about 1:30 p.m. with 76 people on board headed for Lagos…..[T]he plane immediately showed signs of distress before plunging toward the ground. It then ripped through a working-class neighborhood……About three full blocks of structures were destroyed.
Many of the victims on the ground were burned to death……”
5/3/1962: Two commuter trains and a freight train collide near Tokyo, Japan, killing more than 160 people and injuring over 300
Friday, May 3rd, 20194/29/1991: A devastating cyclone hits Bangladesh, killing more than 135,000 people.
Monday, April 29th, 2019https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdWB8YCgNEU