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Western Cardiff was the worst hit area, particularly Canton and Riverside, where 116 people were killed, an estimated 50 of which were killed in one street in Riverside, De Burgh Street. The 10-hour air raid had started at 18:37 and Grangetown was the first area to be hit by 100 German aircraft.
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Britain and Germany were the worst hit, with eleven people killed as rain and gusts of up to 99 mph (159 km/h) with sustained windspeeds of up to 73 mph (117 km/h) swept the UK. Thirteen people were killed in Germany, with the weather station on top of the Brocken in the Saxony-Anhaltian Harz mountain range recording wind speeds of up to 195 km ...
Bombing of Wilhelmshaven in World War II, 8 July 1941 sees the first operational deployment of the B-17, when three B-17s of 90 Sqn took off from RAF Polebrook; the first USAAF B-17 landed at RAF Prestwick on 1 July 1942; on 27 January 1943 it saw the first USAAF attack over Germany; Bombing of Wuppertal in World War II; the raid on 29–30 May ...
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It remains the worst rail disaster in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany. Suspension railway accident of Wuppertal [99] 12 April 1999 5 47 Workers forgot to remove a metal claw from the track on completion of scheduled night work. The first train of the day hit the claw, derailed and fell about 10 metres into the river Wupper.
The fallout has left Germany projected to be the worst-performing major economy this year, shrinking by 0.5%, according to the International Monetary Fund. Prospects for next year are only a ...
It travelled for 18.8 km. The second tornado hit the village of San Martino Spino, near Mirandola (the same region hit by the Emilia earthquakes of 2012), causing F2 damage and injuring 1. The last tornado hit Argelato, San Giorgio in Piano and Bentivoglio near Bologna, causing F3 damage on a 25 km path and injuring 12 people. [citation needed]