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7/14/2016: In Nice, France, on Bastille Day, a white truck barrels through a pedestrian-filled closed street killing 86, including 10 children, and injuring 304 more.

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7/11/1978: A truck carrying liquid gas crashes into a campsite, crowded with vacationers, in San Carlos de la Rapita, Spain killing more than 200 bathers.

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7/7/2005: Suicide bombs are detonated in three crowded London subways and one bus during the peak of the city’s rush hour killing 56 and wounding approximately 700.

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7/2/1990: A stampede of religious pilgrims in a pedestrian tunnel in Mecca leaves more than 1,400 people dead

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6/26/1807: Lightning hits a gunpowder factory in the small European country of Luxembourg, killing more than 300 people

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CDC: The pandemic mass grave in Brevig Mission, Alaska (1918)

Site of the mass grave in Brevig Mission, Alaska, where 72 of the small village’s 80 adult inhabitants were buried after succumbing to the deadly 1918 pandemic virus. Photo credit: Angie Busch Alston.


6/21/1990: A 7.7M earthquake near the Caspian Sea in Iran kills an estimated 50,000 and injures another 135,000 people

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6/16/1896: A tsunami originating from an earthquake in the Japan Trench claims up to 27,000 lives

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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.

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6/12/2016: A gunman forces his way into the Pulse nightclub killing 49 and wounding dozens more.

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