your birth date disasters

[Chris]

December 21 1987

1967 - Louis Washkansky, the first man to undergo a heart transplant, dies in Cape Town, South Africa, after living for 18 days.
1988 - A bomb explodes on board Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, killing 270.
1992 - A Dutch DC-10, flight Martinair MP 495, crashes at Faro Airport (Portugal), killing 56 people.

[Xiphias]

11th September 1989

2001 The September 11 attacks (often referred to as nine-eleven, written 9/11) were a series of coordinated suicide attacks by al-Qaeda upon the United States on September 11, 2001. On that morning, 19 Islamist terrorists affiliated with al-Qaeda hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners. [...] Excluding the 19 hijackers, 2,974 people died in the attacks. Another 24 are missing and presumed dead.[...]

[Mawane]

may 4th 1990, quite much for a single day ^^

* 1471 - Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Tewkesbury: Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward, Prince of Wales.
* 1799 - Fourth Anglo-Mysore War: The Battle of Seringapatam: The siege of Seringapatam ends when the city is assaulted and the Tipu Sultan killed by the besieging British army, under the command of General George Harris.
* 1814 - Emperor Napoleon I of France arrives at Portoferraio on the island of Elba to begin his exile.
* 1869 - The Naval Battle of Hakodate takes place in Japan.
* 1886 - Haymarket Square Riot: A bomb is thrown at policemen trying to break up a labor rally in Chicago, Illinois, United States, killing eight and wounding 60. The police fire into the crowd.
* 1930 - British police arrest Mahatma Gandhi and place him in Yeravda Central Prison.
* 1942 - World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea begins with an attack by aircraft from the United States aircraft carrier Yorktown on Japanese naval forces at Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands. The Japanese forces had invaded Tulagi the day before.
* 1945 - World War II: The liberation of the Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg by the British Army.
* 1945 - World War II: The surrender of the North Germany Army to Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery.
* 1946 - In San Francisco Bay, U.S. Marines from the nearby Treasure Island Navy Base stop a two-day riot at Alcatraz federal prison. Five people are killed in the riot.
* 1949 - The entire Torino football (soccer) team (except for one player who did not take the trip due to an injury) is killed in a plane crash at the Superga hill at the edge of Turin, Italy.
* 1970 - Vietnam War: Kent State shootings: the Ohio National Guard, sent to Kent State University after disturbances in the city of Kent the weekend before, open fire killing four students and wounding nine others. The students were protesting the United States' invasion of Cambodia.
* 1982 - Twenty sailors are killed when the British Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield (D80) is hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War.
* 1988 - The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of space shuttle fuel detonates during a fire.
* 1989 - Iran-Contra Affair: Former White House aide Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and acquitted of nine other charges. The convictions, however, are later overturned on appeal.
* 2002 - An EAS Airlines BAC 1-11-500 crashes in a suburb of Kano, Nigeria shortly after takeoff killing more than 148 people.
* 2007 - Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by a 1.7mi wide EF-5 tornado.

[Orcc]

* 1990 - Mawane was born.

[Grace]

27th December:

537 - The Hagia Sophia is completed.
1512 - The Spanish Crown issues the Laws of Burgos, governing the conduct of settlers with regards to native Indians in the New World.
1657 - The Flushing Remonstrance is signed.
1703 - Portugal and England sign the Methuen Treaty which gives preference to Portuguese imported wines into England.
1814 - Destruction of schooner Carolina, the last of Commodore Daniel Patterson's make-shift fleet that fought a series of delaying actions that contributed to Andrew Jackson's victory at the Battle of New Orleans.
1831 - Charles Darwin embarks on his journey aboard the HMS Beagle, during which he will begin to formulate the theory of evolution.
1836 - The worst ever avalanche in England occurs at Lewes, Sussex, killing 8 people.
1845 - Ether anesthetic is used for childbirth for the first time by Dr. Crawford Williamson Long in Jefferson, Georgia.
1918 - The Great Poland Uprising against the Germans begins.
1922 - Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō becomes the first purpose built aircraft carrier to be commissioned in the world.
1923 - Namba Daisuke, a Japanese student, tries to assassinate the Prince Regent Hirohito.
1932 - Radio City Music Hall opened in New York City.
1939 - Erzincan, Turkey was hit by an earthquake.
1942 - The Union of Pioneers of Yugoslavia is founded.
1945 - The World Bank was created with the signing of an agreement by 28 nations.
1949 - Indonesian National Revolution: The Netherlands officially recognizes Indonesian independence.
1968 - Apollo Program: Apollo 8 splashes down in the Pacific Ocean, ending the first orbital manned mission to the Moon.
1978 - Spain becomes a democracy after 40 years of dictatorship.
1985 - Palestinian guerrillas kill eighteen people inside Rome and Vienna airports.
1996 - Taliban forces retake the strategic Bagram air base which solidifies their buffer zone around Kabul.
1997 - Protestant paramilitary leader Billy Wright is assassinated in Northern Ireland.
2001 - The People's Republic of China is granted permanent normal trade relations with the United States.
2002 - Two truck bombs kill 72 and wound 200 at the pro-Moscow headquarters of the Chechen government in Grozny, Chechnya.
2004 - Radiation from an explosion on the magnetar SGR 1806-20 reaches Earth. It is the brightest extrasolar event known to have been witnessed on the planet.
2007 - Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated by a suicide bomber.

[Zweq]

september 23rd
* 1821 - Tripolitsa, Greece, falls and 30,000 Turks are massacred.
* 1941 - World War II: The first gas murder experiments are conducted at Auschwitz.
* 1999 - Qantas Flight 1 overruns the runway in Bangkok during a storm. While some passengers only receive minor injuries, it is still the worst crash in Qantas's history since 1960.
* 2004 - At least 1,070 in Haiti are reported killed by floods due to Hurricane Jeanne

[Chris]

1932 - Radio City Music Hall opened in New York City.

Do you really think that was a disaster?

[chux]

April 15th, 1987.

* 1450 - Battle of Formigny: Toward the end of the Hundred Years' War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English forces, ending English domination in Northern France.
* 1632 - Battle of Rain; Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.
* 1715 - Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.
* 1783 - Preliminary articles of peace ending Revolutionary War ratified.
* 1865 - Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by John Wilkes Booth. Andrew Johnson is then sworn in as the 17th President of the United States.
* 1912 - The British passenger liner, the RMS Titanic, sinks in the North Atlantic, after hitting an iceberg two and a half hours earlier, the previous day.
* 1920 - Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti allegedly murder two security guards while robbing a shoe store.
* 1941 - In the Belfast Blitz, two-hundred bombers of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) attack Belfast, Northern Ireland killing one thousand people.
* 1943 - An Allied bomber attack misses the Minerva automobile factory and hits the Belgian town of Mortsel instead, killing 936 civilians.
* 1955 - Ray Kroc opens his first franchise of McDonald's restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois.
* 1979 - A disastrous earthquake (of M 7.1) on Montenegro coast.
* 1986 - The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon against Libya.
* 1989 - Hillsborough disaster: A human crush occurs at Hillsborough Stadium, home of football club Sheffield Wednesday, resulting in the deaths of 96 Liverpool FC fans.
* 2002 - An Air China Boeing 767-200, flight CA129 crashes into a hillside during heavy rain and fog near Busan, South Korea, killing 128.

Loads of wars.

[Lee]

December 3, 1989

1979 - In Cincinnati, 11 American teenagers are trampled to death at a concert given by ‘The Who’.
1984 - Approximately 3,000 people die in India after a chemical spillage from a factory in the city of Bhopal.
1992 - In England, two IRA bombs explode in the centre of Manchester injuring 64 people.
2004 - Basque separatist group Eta detonate a series of bombs in the centre of the Spanish capital, Madrid.

[Igge]

* 1990 - Mawane was born.

Haha, you really had me laugh there. 8)

By the way, since you were to lazy to check elmasite again: Happy birthday in arrears.

[Grace]

1932 - Radio City Music Hall opened in New York City.

Do you really think that was a disaster?

Do you really go through ALL of these?

and yes, it was a disaster. otherwise i wouldn't have posted it.

[Boomer]

March, 28.

1920 - Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 affects the Great Lakes region and Deep South states.
1945 - The last V2 German rocket of World War II falls on London
1946 - Cold War: The United States State Department releases the Acheson-Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.
1979 - In Pennsylvania, a pump in the reactor cooling system fails in the Three Mile Island accident, resulting in the evaporation of some contaminated water causing a nuclear meltdown.
1994 - In South Africa, Zulus and African National Congress supporters battle in central Johannesburg, resulting in 18 deaths.
2000 - A Murray County, Georgia, school bus is hit by a CSX freight train (3 children die in this accident).
2005 - The 2005 Sumatran earthquake rocks Indonesia, and at magnitude 8.7 is the second strongest earthquake since 1960.

[Bjenn]

April 23 1989

* 1635 - First public school in the United States, Boston Latin School, is founded in Boston, Massachusetts.
* 1935 - Polish Constitution of 1935 is adopted.
* 1940 - The Rhythm Night Club fire at a dance hall in Natchez, Mississippi, kills 198 people.
* 1982 - Conch Republic is established.
* 1985 - Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. (The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than 3 months.)
* 1987 - 28 construction workers die when the L'Ambiance Plaza apartment building collapses while under construction in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
* 1997 - Omaria massacre in Algeria: 42 villagers are killed.
* 2003 - Beijing closes all schools for two weeks because of the SARS virus.

[Antz]

some people here have really weird conceptions regarding the word 'disaster.'

7.12

• 1946 - A fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia kills 119 people, the deadliest hotel fire in U.S. history.
• 1966 - A fire at an army barracks in Erzurum, Turkey kills 68 people.
• 1983 - An Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 collides with an Aviaco DC-9 in dense fog while the two airliners are taxiing down the runway at Madrid Barajas International Airport, killing 93 people.
• 1987 - Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 crashes near Paso Robles, California, killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger shoots his ex-boss traveling on the flight, then shoots both pilots and himself.
• 1988 - Spitak Earthquake: In Armenia an earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale kills nearly 25,000, injures 15,000 and leaves 400,000 homeless.
• 1999 - The RIAA files a lawsuit against the Napster file-sharing client, on charges of copyright infringement.

[Kopaka]

July 18th:

390 BC - Roman-Gaulish Wars: Battle of the Allia - a Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls, leading to the subsequent sacking of Rome.

64 - Great fire of Rome: a fire begins to burn in the merchant area of Rome and soon burns completely out of control. The Emperor Nero reportedly plays his lyre and sings while watching the blaze from a safe distance.


bad day for rome