Archive for the ‘Historical’ Category
5/22/2017: 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
4/28/1996: A killing spree ending in the deaths of 35 men, women and children in Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia.
Sunday, April 28th, 20194/28/1995: A gas explosion beneath a busy city street in Taegu, South Korea, kills more than 100 people on this day in 1995.
Sunday, April 28th, 2019“……an underground railroad was being constructed beneath the city streets. Metal sheets were put down in place of asphalt to cover holes in certain sections of downtown roads during the construction.
At about 7:30 a.m., during a busy rush hour, a large explosion rumbled beneath the streets, blasting the metal sheets high into the air. Flames shot out from underground, some 150 feet high, throughout a 300-yard area. Cars were transformed into fireballs and one was reported to have been thrown 30 feet into the air. Some pedestrians in the area were enveloped by fire; others further away were blown to the ground. Flaming debris hit people up to half of a mile away. The final death toll was 110, with hundreds injured……”