| Year | Month | Day | Event |
|---|
| 62 |
Feb |
05 |
Earthquake In Pompeii, Italy |
| 683 |
Oct |
31 |
Kaaba Burnt Down During Mecca Siege |
| 1287 |
Dec |
14 |
Zuiderzee Sea Wall Collapses, Kills 50,000 People |
| 1530 |
Nov |
05 |
Flood Destroys Reimerswaal, Netherlands |
| 1608 |
Jan |
07 |
Fire Destroys Jamestown, Virginia |
| 1667 |
Apr |
06 |
Dubrovnik Devastated By Earthquake |
| 1752 |
Jun |
06 |
Fire Destroys 1/3 Of Moscow |
| 1755 |
Dec |
02 |
Eddystone Was Destroyed By A Fire |
| 1759 |
Nov |
25 |
Earthquake Hits Mediterranean Killing 30,000-40,000 |
| 1760 |
Mar |
20 |
Great Boston Fire Destroys 349 Buildings |
| 1771 |
Oct |
09 |
The Vrouw Maria Sinks Near Finland |
| 1797 |
Feb |
04 |
Riobamba Earthquake Strikes Ecuador |
| 1805 |
Jun |
11 |
Fire Consumes Part Of Detroit |
| 1806 |
Sep |
02 |
Landslide Destroys Goldau, Switzerland, 457 Dead |
| 1812 |
Mar |
26 |
An Earthquake Destroys Caracas, Venezuela |
| 1814 |
Oct |
17 |
Eight Die In London Beer Flood |
| 1830 |
Jan |
13 |
The Great Fire Of New Orleans Begins |
| 1831 |
Apr |
12 |
England's Broughton Bridge Collapses |
| 1835 |
Dec |
17 |
The Great Fire Levels Lower Manhattan |
| 1840 |
May |
20 |
York Minster Is Badly Damaged By Fire |
| 1841 |
Jan |
30 |
Fire Destroys Much Of Mayaguez |
| 1842 |
May |
08 |
May 8th 2014 This Date In History |
| 1851 |
Dec |
24 |
Library Of Congress Burns |
| 1861 |
Mar |
20 |
Earthquake Levels Mendoza, Argentina |
| 1864 |
Mar |
11 |
The Great Sheffield Flood Kills 238 People |
| 1864 |
Dec |
01 |
Great Fire Of Brisbane |
| 1865 |
May |
25 |
Depot Explosion Kills 300 In AL |
| 1867 |
Dec |
18 |
The Angola Horror Train Wreck Occurred |
| 1871 |
Jul |
30 |
Staten Island Ferry Boiler Explosion Kills 85 |
| 1872 |
Nov |
09 |
The Great Boston Fire Of 1872 |
| 1873 |
Jun |
09 |
London: Alxandra Palace Burns Down |
| 1874 |
May |
16 |
Mill River Flood Kills 139 In Massachusetts |
| 1877 |
Oct |
22 |
A Scottish Mining Disaster Kills 207 |
| 1880 |
Jan |
09 |
Oregon And Washington Devastated By Great Gale |
| 1882 |
Nov |
02 |
1882: Oulu, Finland Devastated By Fire |
| 1883 |
May |
20 |
Krakatoa Volcano Kills More Than 36,000 |
| 1886 |
Jun |
13 |
Vancouver Destroyed By Fire |
| 1889 |
Jun |
06 |
Fire Destroys Downtown Seattle |
| 1889 |
Aug |
04 |
Spokane Fire Destroys 32 Blocks |
| 1891 |
Mar |
17 |
Gibraltar Ship Collision Kills 562 Passengers |
| 1896 |
Jun |
15 |
Historic Tsunami Kills 22,00 People In Japan |
| 1901 |
May |
03 |
Conflagration In Jacksonville, Florida |
| 1901 |
May |
24 |
78 Miners Die In South Wales |
| 1901 |
Nov |
13 |
The 1901 Caister Lifeboat Disaster |
| 1906 |
Jan |
08 |
20 Killed In Landslide In Haverstraw |
| 1906 |
Jan |
22 |
SS Valenica Shipwrecks On Vancouver Island |
| 1906 |
Apr |
07 |
Mount Vesuvius Erupts And Devastates Naples |
| 1906 |
Apr |
18 |
San Francisco Wrecked By Earthquake And Fire |
| 1907 |
May |
27 |
Plague Breaks Out In San Francisco, California |
| 1907 |
Aug |
29 |
Quebec Bridge Collapse: 75 Workers Killed |
| 1907 |
Dec |
06 |
362 Killed, Coal Mine Explosion, West Virgina |
| 1907 |
Dec |
19 |
Pennsylvania Explosion Kills 239 Coal Miners |
| 1908 |
Mar |
04 |
Collinwood School Fire Kills 174 In Ohio |
| 1913 |
Oct |
09 |
Steamship SS Volturno Catches Fire |
| 1914 |
May |
29 |
The RMS Empress Of Ireland Sinks |
| 1916 |
Feb |
03 |
Canadian Parliament Buildings Burn Down |
| 1916 |
Jul |
30 |
Black Tom Island Explosion |
| 1918 |
Jun |
22 |
Train Wreck Kills 86, Injures 127 |
| 1918 |
Oct |
12 |
Forest Fire Kills 453 In Minesota |
| 1923 |
Sep |
01 |
Great Kantō Earthquake Killing 105,000 People |
| 1925 |
Feb |
28 |
Charlevoix-Kamouraska Earthquake Strikes North America |
| 1927 |
Jan |
09 |
Quebec Theatre Fire Kills 78 Children |
| 1931 |
Mar |
15 |
SS Viking Explodes, Killing 27 |
| 1932 |
Dec |
25 |
7.6 Gansu China Quake Kills 275 |
| 1933 |
Mar |
10 |
Earthquake In Long Beach Kills 115 People |
| 1934 |
Feb |
13 |
Arctic Ocean: Soviet Steamship Chelyuskin Sinks |
| 1934 |
Sep |
08 |
Fire Killed 135 Aboard SS Morro Castle |
| 1935 |
Apr |
14 |
Worst U.S. Dust Bowl Storm Occurs |
| 1935 |
Sep |
13 |
International Railway Ends By Rockslide |
| 1936 |
Nov |
30 |
London's Crystal Palace Burns |
| 1939 |
Dec |
27 |
Erzincan, Turkey Quake Kills 30,000 |
| 1942 |
Apr |
26 |
Accident In Manchukuo Leaves 1549 Chinese Dead |
| 1942 |
Dec |
12 |
Newfoundland Hostel Fire Kills 100 |
| 1943 |
Feb |
27 |
Bear Creek, Montana Mine Explosion Kills 74 |
| 1945 |
Sep |
30 |
Fatal Rail Crash In Hertfordshire, England |
| 1945 |
Dec |
05 |
Flight 19 Is Lost In The Bermuda Triangle |
| 1946 |
Apr |
26 |
Naperville Train Disaster Kills 47 |
| 1946 |
Jun |
05 |
61 Killed In La Salle Hotel Fire |
| 1946 |
Dec |
07 |
119 Killed In Fire At Winecoff Hotel, Atlanta |
| 1947 |
Mar |
25 |
Centralia, Illinois Mine Explosion Kills 111 |
| 1947 |
Sep |
15 |
Typhoon His Kanto Japan, Killing 1,077 |
| 1948 |
Oct |
05 |
110,000 Died In Ashgabat Earthquake |
| 1949 |
Aug |
05 |
Mann Gulch Fire Kills 13 Firefighters, Montana |
| 1950 |
May |
25 |
Chicago Surface Lines Streetcar Crashes |
| 1954 |
Sep |
11 |
Hurricane Edna Kills 29 |
| 1955 |
Aug |
19 |
Hurricane Diane Flooding Kills 200 |
| 1956 |
Nov |
01 |
39 Died, 88 Rescued In Springhill Mine Disaster |
| 1958 |
Mar |
19 |
Monarch Underwear Fire Kills 24 |
| 1958 |
Jul |
09 |
Largest Megatsunami Hits Lituya Bay |
| 1959 |
Jun |
20 |
June Hurricane Strike's Canada, Killing 35 |
| 1959 |
Jun |
23 |
Hotel Fire In Stalheim Kills 34 |
| 1960 |
Jan |
06 |
Flight 2511 Is Destroyed In Mid-air |
| 1960 |
Mar |
04 |
Frieghter Exploded In Havana, Killed 100 |
| 1961 |
Apr |
08 |
MV Dara Explosion Kills 238 |
| 1961 |
May |
22 |
An Earthquake Rocks New South Wales |
| 1961 |
May |
25 |
Bukit Ho Swee Biggest Fire In Singapore |
| 1962 |
Jan |
08 |
Netherlands Harmelen Train Disaster Kills 93 People |
| 1962 |
May |
22 |
Bomb Explodes On Continental Airlines Flight 11 |
| 1962 |
May |
27 |
Centralia Mine Fire Ignites Town Landfill |
| 1963 |
Nov |
07 |
In Germany 14 Miners Are Rescued |
| 1966 |
Feb |
04 |
All Nippon Flight 60 Crashes Into Tokyo Bay |
| 1966 |
Apr |
25 |
Tashkent Destroyed By Massive Quake |
| 1967 |
Dec |
15 |
Ohio River's Silver Bridge Collapses, Killing 46 |
| 1968 |
Aug |
02 |
Phillipines Earthquake Kills 270, Wounds 261 |
| 1970 |
May |
31 |
Ancash Earthquake: Landslide: Yungary Peru: Thousands Dead |
| 1971 |
Jan |
02 |
66 Killed In Disaster At Football Match |
| 1971 |
Oct |
21 |
An Explosion Kills 22 In Scotland |
| 1972 |
Oct |
13 |
174 Killed In Aeroflot Ilyushin-62 Crash |
| 1972 |
Dec |
23 |
6.5 Managua Earthquake Kills Over 10,000 |
| 1973 |
Jan |
22 |
Boeing 707 Explosion Causes 176 Deaths |
| 1974 |
Mar |
03 |
Airliner Crash Near Paris Kills 346 |
| 1974 |
Jun |
01 |
Flixborough Chemical Plant Explostion Kills 28 People |
| 1975 |
Feb |
04 |
7.3 Earthquake In Hicheng, Liaoning, China |
| 1976 |
Feb |
05 |
Swine Flu Outbreak Starts At Fort Dix |
| 1976 |
Jul |
10 |
The Seveso Disaster Occurs In Italy |
| 1976 |
Nov |
24 |
4,000-5,000 Are Killed By Earthquake In Turkey |
| 1977 |
Apr |
27 |
28 Killed In Guatemala City Air Disaster |
| 1979 |
Mar |
14 |
Trident Crashes In Beijing, Kills 200 |
| 1979 |
Jun |
09 |
Sydney Luna Park Fire Kills Seven |
| 1980 |
May |
13 |
An F3 Tornado Lands In Michigan |
| 1980 |
Aug |
01 |
Several Killed By Train In County Cork |
| 1981 |
Apr |
25 |
Japan: Nuclear Plant Repairs Expose 100 To Radiation |
| 1982 |
Feb |
15 |
The Ocean Ranger Sinks Off Newfoundland |
| 1982 |
Nov |
03 |
Salang Tunnel Fire Kills 2,000 People |
| 1983 |
Jul |
16 |
Isles Of Scilly: Sikorsky Helicopter Crashes |
| 1983 |
Sep |
23 |
Gulf Air Flight 771 Bombed, All Killed |
| 1985 |
Oct |
07 |
300 Dead In Worst North American Landslide |
| 1986 |
Apr |
27 |
Prypiat Is Evacuated Due To Chernobyl Disaster |
| 1987 |
Dec |
08 |
The Alianza Lima Air Disaster Occurs |
| 1988 |
May |
04 |
Disaster Hits Henderson, Nevada-tons Of Fuel Detonates |
| 1988 |
Jun |
27 |
Rail Accident In Paris Kills 56 |
| 1988 |
Aug |
25 |
Chiado, Lisbon Partially Destroyed By Fire |
| 1989 |
Dec |
28 |
5.6 Earthquake Kills 13 In New South Wales, Newcastle |
| 1991 |
Aug |
04 |
MTS Oceanos Sinks Off South Africa Coast |
| 1991 |
Oct |
20 |
Earthquake In India Kills Over 1,000 People |
| 1992 |
Mar |
13 |
6.8 Earthquake Kills 500 In Erzincan, Turkey |
| 1992 |
Oct |
12 |
510 Dead In Cairo Earthquake |
| 1993 |
Jan |
05 |
Crude Oil Spill At Shetland Island Coast |
| 1994 |
Oct |
21 |
32 Killed In Seoul Following Seongsu Bridge Collapse |
| 1994 |
Dec |
21 |
Mexican Volcana Erupts |
| 1995 |
Oct |
25 |
Seven Students Died After Fox River Train Crash |
| 1997 |
Sep |
03 |
Vietnamese Plane Crashes At Phnom Penh |
| 1997 |
Dec |
26 |
Monserrat Volcano Explodes Resulting In Tsunami |
| 1998 |
Oct |
29 |
The Gothenburg Discothèque Fire |
| 1999 |
Feb |
23 |
An Austrian Avalanche Destroys Village, Kills 31 |
| 1999 |
Mar |
24 |
Mont Blanc Tunnel Fire Kills 39 People |
| 1999 |
Aug |
17 |
Earthquake Killed More Than 17,000 In Turkey |
| 1999 |
Oct |
05 |
London Rail Crash Kills 31 |
| 1999 |
Oct |
29 |
A Large Cyclone Devastates Odisha, India |
| 2000 |
Jan |
30 |
Flight Crashes Off Ivory Coast, Killing 169 |
| 2000 |
Oct |
17 |
Train Crash At Hatfield |
| 2001 |
Sep |
09 |
Estonia: Parnu Methanol Tragedy Occurs |
| 2002 |
May |
07 |
Chinese Airliner Crashes In Yellow Sea |
| 2002 |
Sep |
20 |
The Kolka-Karmadon Rock/ice Slide |
| 2002 |
Sep |
26 |
Senegalese Ferry Capsizes Killing 1,000 |
| 2003 |
Feb |
18 |
S. Korea Subway Fire Kills 200 |
| 2003 |
May |
21 |
Algerian Earthquake Kills Over 2,000 |
| 2003 |
Dec |
09 |
Causalities After Blast In Moscow |
| 2004 |
Feb |
01 |
251 People Trampled To Death |
| 2004 |
Apr |
22 |
150 Dead In Ryongchon - Trains Collide |
| 2004 |
May |
23 |
Four Killed In Paris' Airport Terminal Collapse |
| 2006 |
Feb |
04 |
Manila Arena Stampede Kills 71 |
| 2006 |
May |
23 |
Alaskan Stratovolcano Mount Cleveland Erupts |
| 2006 |
Dec |
26 |
Lagos Nigeria Pipeline Explosion Kills 260 |
| 2008 |
May |
02 |
Burma: Cyclone Nargis Kills 138,000 |
| 2009 |
Jan |
01 |
Bangkok Nightclub Fire Kills 66 |
| 2009 |
Feb |
07 |
Austrialia's Worst Natural Disaster At Victoria |
| 2009 |
Mar |
27 |
Indonesia Dam Fails Killing 99 People |
| 2009 |
Sep |
30 |
2009 Sumatran Earthquakes Kill Over 1,115 |
| 2010 |
Jan |
12 |
Port-au-Prince Earthquake Kills Approximately 316,000 |
| 2010 |
Apr |
05 |
Twenty-nine Coal Miners Killed In West Virginia |
| 2011 |
Jan |
01 |
Bomb Explodes Alexandria Killing 23 People |
| 2011 |
Jan |
09 |
Iran Air Flight 277 Crashes In Orumiyeh |
| 2011 |
Oct |
23 |
582 Dead In Van Province, Turkey Earthquake |
| 2012 |
Feb |
26 |
Train Derails In Burlington, Ontario |
| 2012 |
May |
09 |
45 Died In Sukhoi Superjet Crash |
| 2012 |
Aug |
19 |
A Plane Crash Kills 32 People In Sudan |
| 2012 |
Sep |
05 |
40 Dead/50 Injured, Factory Explosion Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu |
| 2012 |
Nov |
07 |
Earthquake Off Guatemala Kills People |
| 2012 |
Nov |
11 |
6.8 Earthquake Burma, 26 Dead |
| 2013 |
Jan |
15 |
An Egyptian Train Derailment Kills 19 |
| 2013 |
Feb |
06 |
8.0 Solomon Islands Quake: Kills 10 |
| 2013 |
Feb |
27 |
Fire In Kolkata, India Kills 19 |
| 2013 |
Mar |
27 |
97 People Injured By Earthquake |
| 2013 |
Mar |
29 |
Landslide Kills Dozens In Tibet Near Lhasa |
| 2013 |
Apr |
04 |
70 Killed In Building Collapse In India |
| 2013 |
Apr |
24 |
Bangladesh Building Collapse Kills 1129 |
| 2013 |
May |
17 |
72 Killed In Train Collision In Connecticut |
| 2013 |
Aug |
19 |
A Train Accident In India Killed People |
| 2013 |
Sep |
08 |
Train Collision Kills 11 In Romania |
| 2013 |
Oct |
16 |
Lao Airlines Flight 301 Crashes At Pakse International Airport |
| 2013 |
Nov |
21 |
Latvian Supermarket Roof Collapse Kills 54 |
| 2013 |
Nov |
29 |
LAM Flight 470 Crashes, Kills 33 |
| 2013 |
Dec |
09 |
7 Dead, 63 Injured In Train Accident In Indonesia |
| 2014 |
Mar |
22 |
Mudflow In Washington Kills 43 |
| 2014 |
Mar |
22 |
Boat Capsized, Lake Albert, 251 Dead |
| 2014 |
May |
17 |
17 People Killed In Plane Crash In Northern Laos |
| 2014 |
Sep |
03 |
Flooding Kills 200 In India, Pakistan |
| 2015 |
Jan |
22 |
A Donetsk Trolleybus Explosion Killed Approximately 13 |
| 2015 |
Feb |
03 |
A Train Struck A Vehicle Killing 6 |