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The Quintinshill rail disaster was a multi-train rail crash which occurred on 22 May 1915 outside the Quintinshill signal box near Gretna Green in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. It resulted in the deaths of over 200 people and remains the worst rail disaster in British history .
5 May 5, 1915 (Wednesday) 6 May 6, 1915 ... gold medalist at the 1936 Summer Olympics; in Oakland, California, ... A rail collision and fire in Quintinshill, ...
Original – Cuba, 5 gold pesos (proof coin), depicting José Martí, engraved by Charles E. Barber and struck at the Philadelphia Mint. Reason High quality image, high EV. Commissioned by the Cuban government in 1915–16, the US Mint struck gold pesos. Design by Charles E. Barber and struck at the Philadelphia Mint.
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22 May – Quintinshill rail disaster near Gretna Green: collision and fire kill 226, mostly Royal Scots soldiers, the UK's largest number of fatalities in a railway accident. [4] 12 June – World War I: Oil tanker SS Desabla is torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-17 off Montrose.
On History Channel's hit show "Pawn Stars," a man came in to sell a 1907 Saint-Gaudens double eagle $20 gold coin. The coins are extremely rare, and some of them have sold for more than $1 million ...
1915 – Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, the only volcano besides Mount St. Helens to erupt in the contiguous U.S. during the 20th century. 1915 – Three trains collide in the Quintinshill rail disaster near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246. 1926 – Chiang Kai-shek replaces the communists in Kuomintang ...
Pages in category "May 1915 events" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total. ... Quintinshill rail disaster; S. 1915 Sinhalese-Muslim riots;