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On November 5, 2021, a fatal crowd crush occurred during the Astroworld Festival, an annual musical event hosted by American rapper Travis Scott at NRG Park in Houston, Texas. Eight people were pronounced dead on the day of the incident, and two more died in the hospital in the following days. The Harris County medical examiner's office ...
September 16, 2024 at 1:41 PM. A pipeline explosion in the Houston area has prompted evacuations and a large response from firefighters to fight the Monday afternoon blaze. The explosion happened ...
List of reported UFO sightings. Most commonly reported shapes in UFO sightings gathered by the National UFO Reporting Center Online Database (NUFORC) [1] This is a list of notable reported sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and related claims of close encounters or abductions. UFOs are generally considered to include any perceived ...
Samora Machel (53), a Mozambican politician, military commander, and revolutionary, was killed on 19 October 1986 [178] during a mysterious plane crash close to the Mozambican-South African border. Cam Lyman (54–55) was a multimillionaire dog breeder from Westwood, Massachusetts who disappeared in the summer of 1987.
2024 Houston derecho. From the evening of May 16, 2024, to midday May 17, 2024, a derecho struck the Gulf Coast of the United States from Southeast Texas to Florida, causing widespread damage, particularly in the city of Houston and surrounding metropolitan area. [7] At least seven people were killed by the storms, dubbed the Houston derecho by ...
Date: November 2, 2024. Location: Sam Houston Park Downtown. Time: 2 p.m. until 10 p.m. - Festival. Show comments. FOX 26 has compiled a list of some of the Hispanic Heritage Month events taking ...
Mid January, 1837 - Laura arrives, the first steamboat in Houston, sometime around January 21. [2][4] April 16, 1837 - Thomas William Ward begins construction on the capitol building. [5] April 26, 1837 - Sam Houston arrives at his namesake town. He estimates 1500 people and 100 houses were there when he arrived.
The landslide triggered a 650-foot-high mega-tsunami at its epicenter. Over 40 miles away, tsunami waves over a dozen feet high damaged a research base on the island of Ella. "When colleagues ...