Human Made Disasters
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The Great Smog of London
The Great Smog of London, which descended upon the city in December 1952, remains one of the most severe environmental…
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The Concorde Crash of 2000
The Concorde crash of July 25, 2000, marked a tragic chapter in aviation history and signalled the beginning of the…
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The Johnstown Flood
The Johnstown Flood, also known as the Great Flood of 1889, remains one of the deadliest disasters in American history,…
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The Bhopal Gas Tragedy
The Bhopal gas tragedy, which occurred on the night of December 2-3, 1984, in Bhopal, India, is one of the…
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The 1977 Tenerife Airport Disaster
The Tenerife airport disaster on March 27, 1977, remains the deadliest aviation accident in history, claiming the lives of 583…
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The Wall Street Crash of 1929
The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as Black Tuesday, was a pivotal event in the history of global…
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The Irish Potato Famine
The Irish Potato Famine, also known as the Great Hunger, was a period of mass starvation, disease, and emigration in…
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The Halifax Explosion: When a Ship’s Cargo Turned a City to Rubble
The Halifax Explosion of December 6, 1917, stands as one of the most devastating disasters in Canadian history and one…
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The Challenger Disaster: NASA’s Darkest Day
The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, which occurred on January 28, 1986, remains one of the most tragic and widely publicised…
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The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill, also known as the BP oil spill, is one of the most catastrophic environmental disasters…
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