Archive for the ‘Historical’ Category
How many victims after the Chernobyl disaster?
Thursday, August 8th, 2019“…….Viktor Sushko, deputy director general of the National Research Centre for Radiation Medicine (NRCRM) based in Kiev, Ukraine, describes the Chernobyl disaster as the “largest anthropogenic disaster in the history of humankind”. The NRCRM estimate around five million citizens of the former USSR, including three million in Ukraine, have suffered as a result of Chernobyl, while in Belarus around 800,000 people were registered as being affected by radiation following the disaster.
Even now the Ukrainian government is paying benefits to 36,525 women who are considered to be widows of men who suffered as a result of the Chernobyl accident.
As of January 2018, 1.8 million people in Ukraine, including 377,589 children, had the status of victims of the disaster, according to Sushko and his colleagues. There has been a rapid increase in the number of people with disabilities among this population, rising from 40,106 in 1995 to 107,115 in 2018……..”
8/7/1998: A massive truck bomb explodes outside the U.S. embassy in Nairobi, Kenya and minutes later, another truck bomb explodes outside the U.S. embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, both resulting in 224 killed and over 4500 wounded.
Wednesday, August 7th, 20197/31/1715: A hurricane strikes the east coast of Florida, sinking 10 Spanish treasure ships and killing nearly 1,000 people
Wednesday, July 31st, 20197/28/1945: In heavy fog, a United States military plane crashes into the Empire State Building, killing 14 people.
Sunday, July 28th, 20197/28/1976: At 3:42 a.m., an earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 magnitude on the Richter scale flattens Tangshan, China killing an estimated 242,000 people.
Sunday, July 28th, 2019the Italian ocean liner Andrea Doria and the Swedish ocean liner Stockholm collide in a heavy Atlantic fog resulting in 51 deaths.
Thursday, July 25th, 20197/25/2000: An Air France Concorde jet crashes upon takeoff in Paris on this day in 2000, killing 105 onboard as well as 4 on the ground.
Thursday, July 25th, 20197/24/1915: The steamer Eastland overturns in the Chicago River, drowning between 800 and 850 passengers
Wednesday, July 24th, 20197/23/1967: The Detroit Riots begin (after five days, 43 people were dead, 342 people were seriously injured and nearly 1,400 buildings had been burned or ransacked).
Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019London Bridge attacks (2017): Unseen footage from the scene shown at the end of the 8-week inquest.
Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019The London Bridge attack claimed eight innocent lives in 2017.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-49009486/london-bridge-attacks-unseen-footage-from-the-scene
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-48619714
“For the first time, the BBC can show footage of the moment unarmed officers and members of the public came face to face with the three London Bridge attackers.
The footage was filmed by Paul Clarke, a member of the public who was at the scene of the attack.
Khuram Butt, Rachid Redouane, and Youssef Zaghba ploughed into pedestrians on the bridge before stabbing people at Borough Market. They killed eight people before they were shot dead by firearms officers.
This video was shown at both the inquest into the victims’ deaths, and the inquest into the attackers’ deaths which concluded that the three attackers were lawfully killed by the police.
The BBC’s Home Affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford reports.”
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16 Jul 2019
BBC: Chaos and killings: 10 minutes at London Bridge