Archive for the ‘Historical’ Category
4/27/1865: The steamboat Sultana explodes on the Mississippi River near Memphis, killing 1,700 passengers and Union soldiers.
Saturday, April 27th, 2019April 25, 2015: A magnitude 7.8 earthquake tore through Nepal, killing nearly 9,000 and injuring 16,800.
Thursday, April 25th, 2019Hurricane Michael, which barreled into the Florida Panhandle in October, was actually a Category 5 storm when it hit the coast
Sunday, April 21st, 2019
4/19/1995: A massive truck bomb explodes outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma killing more than 160 people, injuring more than 500 and trapping dozens more in the rubble.
Friday, April 19th, 2019
4/18/1983: The U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, is almost completely destroyed by a car-bomb explosion that kills 63 people, including the suicide bomber and 17 Americans.
Thursday, April 18th, 20194/18/1906: At 5:13 a.m., an earthquake estimated at close to 8.0 on the Richter scale strikes San Francisco, California, and killed an estimated 3,000 people, destroyed some 30 000 buildings and created 20 000 refugees
Thursday, April 18th, 2019Texas City, Texas, 4/16/1947: Nearly 600 people lost their lives and thousands were injured when the fertilizer-laden Grandcamp exploded
Tuesday, April 16th, 2019HxC
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