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Titanic
British passenger liner that sank in 1912
RMS Titanic was a British ocean liner that sank in the early hours of 15 April 1912 as a result of striking an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City. Of the 2,208 pa…
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Ancient city near modern Naples, Italy
Pompeii
Pompeii was a city in what is now the municipality of Pompei, near Naples, in the Campania region of Italy. Along with H…
1346–1353 pandemic in Eurasia and North Africa
Black Death
The Black Death was a plague pandemic that occurred in Europe from 1346 to 1353. It was one of the most fatal pandemics …
1666 conflagration in England
Great Fire of London
The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that occurred in central London from Sunday 2 September to Wednesday …
1986 nuclear accident in the Soviet Union
Chernobyl disaster
On 26 April 1986, reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located near Pripyat, Ukraine, exploded. With dozens o…
Earthquake in California
1906 San Francisco earthquake
A magnitude 7.9 earthquake struck the coast of Northern California at 05:12 am Pacific Standard Time on Wednesday, April…
1945 attacks in Japan during WWII
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,…
1918–1920 global influenza pandemic
Spanish flu
The 1918–1920 flu pandemic, also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or by the misleading name Spanish flu, was an exc…