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This is a list of accidents and disasters by death toll.It shows the number of fatalities associated with various explosions, structural fires, flood disasters, coal mine disasters, and other notable accidents caused by negligence connected to improper architecture, planning, construction, design, and more.
A major event that precipitated the Spanish–American War. Exact cause remains unknown. 273 1875 Pacific: Accident – shipwreck Off Cape Flattery, Washington: Fatalities estimated 273 1979 American Airlines Flight 191: Accident – aircraft Chicago, Illinois: Deadliest aircraft accident in U.S. history 272 1943 Henry R. Mallory [21]
On 18 April 2014, seracs on the western spur of Mount Everest failed, resulting in an ice avalanche that killed sixteen climbing Sherpas in the Khumbu Icefall. This was the same icefall where the 1970 Mount Everest disaster had taken place. Thirteen bodies were recovered within two days, while the remaining three were never recovered due to the ...
The following list of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland is a list of major disasters (excluding acts of war [a]) which relate to the United Kingdom, Ireland or the Isle of Man, or to the states that preceded them, or that involved their citizens, in a definable incident or accident such as a shipwreck, where the loss of life was forty or more.
The Qana massacre [1] took place on April 18, 1996, near Qana, a village in then Israeli-occupied Southern Lebanon, when the Israeli military fired artillery shells at a United Nations compound, which was sheltering around 800 Lebanese civilians, [2] [3] killing 106 and injuring around 116.
April 9 Tragedy (also known as The massacre of Tbilisi or Tbilisi tragedy) refers to the events in Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, on April 9, 1989, when an anti-Soviet, pro-independence demonstration was crushed by the Soviet Army, resulting in 21 deaths and hundreds of injuries.
There are multiple examples of terrible or tragic events happening on these Fridays in history. ... an asteroid, 99942 Apophis., will come within 20,000 miles of the Earth on April 13, 2029.
Politics and elections Philippine presidential election, 2016 The manual recount of the votes begin for the 2016 vice presidential candidates, former Senator Bongbong Marcos and incumbent Vice President Leni Robredo. (CNN) Caste politics in India Nine people have died amid violent protests involving tens of thousands of protesters from the SC/ST caste groups across India. (News18) Terrorism in ...