Archive for the ‘Mass fatalities’ Category
7/2/1990: A stampede of religious pilgrims in a pedestrian tunnel in Mecca leaves more than 1,400 people dead
Tuesday, July 2nd, 20196/12/2016: A gunman forces his way into the Pulse nightclub killing 49 and wounding dozens more.
Wednesday, June 12th, 2019FBI’s Quick Look: 250 Active Shooter Incidents in the United States From 2000 to 2017
Friday, May 31st, 2019
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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, 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, 2019Black Monday, 4/13/1360: During the Hundred Years’ War, a hail storm kills an estimated 1,000 English soldiers in Chartres, France.
Saturday, April 13th, 2019“a foul day, full of myst and hayle, so that men dyed on horseback [sic].”
It took just half an hour for the storm to kill over 1,000 Englishmen and some 6,000 horses.