Archive for the ‘Historical’ Category
6/11/1955: A racing car in Le Mans, France, goes out of control and crashes into stands filled with spectators, killing 82 people.
Tuesday, June 11th, 20196/6/1944: 155,000 Allied troops–Americans, British and Canadians–had successfully stormed Normandy’s beaches. Over 4,400 Allied soldiers died, as did between 4,000 and 9,000 German soldiers..
Thursday, June 6th, 2019The Third Plague Pandemic
Wednesday, June 5th, 2019The Third Plague Pandemic in Europe
“……The Third Plague Pandemic originated in the Yunnan region of southwest China, where plague caused multiple outbreaks since 1772 [15–17]. In 1894, plague reached Canton and then spread to Hong Kong, where Alexandre Yersin identified the bacterium.It was then carried by ships to Japan, Singapore, Taiwan and the Indian subcontinent [18,19]. Over the next few years, plague spread to many cities around the world: Bombay, Singapore, Alexandria, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Honolulu, San Francisco and Sidney, among others [20]. The earliest known European cases occurred in September and October 1896, when two sailors from Bombay died of plague on ships docked in London on the Thames [21]…….There were 1692 cases and 457 deaths from plague reported in Europe between 1899 and 1947 (figure 1; electronic supplementary material, table S1), with the largest number of cases in the years 1899 and 1920. Cases were geographically widespread, although they were primarily found in coastal or inland port cities (figure 2). Plague was reported in 11 countries, and many cities, including Lisbon, Marseille, Paris and Pireas, experienced multiple outbreaks…….”
6/1/1965: A coal mine explosion kills 236 workers at the Yamano mine near Fukuoka, Japan.
Saturday, June 1st, 2019“……The sudden explosion, probably brought about by the ignition of a gas pocket, led to the collapse of many of the mine shafts and caused boulders to block the escape routes. …..”
5/29/1914: The Empress of Ireland, carrying 1,477 passengers and crew, collides with the Norwegian freighter Storstad in the gulf of Canada’s St. Lawrence River resulting in the drowning of over 1000 passengers and crew
Wednesday, May 29th, 20195/28/2010: 7 terrorists wielding guns, grenades and suicide vests stormed into two crowded Ahmadi Muslim mosques and opened fire, killing 94 victims and injuring more than 120.
Tuesday, May 28th, 2019Sandy Hook Elementary School: The unintended consequences of well-intended generosity.
Sunday, May 26th, 2019“……In the six and a half years since the deadliest elementary school shooting in American history, more than $100 million in federal, state, corporate and private money flowed into this community of about 28,000 in southwestern Connecticut……so much money engulfed the vulnerable, wounded Newtown that it inevitably sowed division. The town became a case study of how Americans’ material expressions of grief can become more an obstacle than an aid to recovery……..”
- 60,000 teddy bears
“……..Lesson 1” from Sandy Hook is for the authorities — the mayor, the city council or the governor — to swiftly establish a single nonprofit benefiting victims and their families, so money intended for them is not atomized, or given to charities that lack the experience or ability to distribute it to them.
- One Fund Boston
- Pulse nightclub shooting : a single fund benefiting the victims and their families.
- The 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School : established a GoFundMe campaign dedicated solely to victims.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7uv3zqSq9o
5/24/1964: More than 300 fans were killed and another 500 people were injured in the violent melee that followed a football match at National Stadium in Lima, Peru.
Friday, May 24th, 2019https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIgcu6paHSg