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The post 50 Rarely Seen Photos from 100 Years Ago appeared first on Reader's Digest. Times have definitely changed, as these historical photos from 100 years ago show. The post 50 Rarely Seen ...
Incident. 20,000. 30 May 1626. Wanggongchang Explosion in Beijing, China, in the Wanggongchang Gunpowder Factory, destroys part of the city and kills 20,000 people [1] 3,000. 18 August 1769. A lightning bolt caused the Brescia Explosion of a gunpowder depot in Brescia, Italy, destroying one-sixth of the city [2][3]
Since the office was established in 1789, 45 men have served in 46 presidencies. The first president, George Washington, won a unanimous vote of the Electoral College. [4] Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms and is therefore counted as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, giving rise to the discrepancy between the ...
100 1978 Northeastern United States blizzard of 1978: Blizzard Northeastern United States: $1,075,000,000 (2010) Fatalities estimated 100 2003 The Station nightclub fire: Fire (building) West Warwick, Rhode Island: 4th-deadliest nightclub fire in U.S. history, killing 100 people and injuring more than 200. 100 2022 December 2022 North American ...
For the past 100 years, the closing ceremony has involved raising of the International Olympic Committee flag, the flag of the host country, and the flag of the next host country. The 1924 games ...
The events have been characterized as a genocide due to the intentions of its perpetrators to destroy the Osage nation. [254][255][256][257][258] Estimates vary widely, with 10% of 591 full-blood Osage being killed with the lowest estimate. [259] Armenian genocide. Ottoman Empire (now Turkey, Syria, and Iraq) 1915.
List of natural disasters by death toll. Global multihazard mortality risks and distribution (2005) for cyclones, drought, earthquakes, floods, landslides, and volcanoes (excluding heat waves, snowstorms, and other deadly hazards). A natural disaster is a sudden event that causes widespread destruction, major collateral damage, or loss of life ...
58-year-old Director of the Division of Pathology of the University of Washington Medical Center, Rodger C. Haggitt, was shot dead by 42-year-old Taiwanese immigrant and then-U.S. citizen Jian Chen, who had just completed his second year of forensic pathology residency training, and had been notified of his contract non-renewal (which Chen ...