[Apocalyptic Calendar] January-March / July-September / October-December
1481 – The largest of three earthquakes strikes the island of Rhodes and causes an estimated 30,000 casualties.
1568 – Angered by the brutal onslaught of Spanish troops at Fort Caroline, a French force burns the San Mateo fort and massacres hundreds of Spaniards.
1901 – The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
1928 – The Jinan incident begins with the deaths of twelve Japanese civilians by Chinese forces in Jinan, China, which leads to Japanese retaliation and the deaths of over 2,000 Chinese civilians in the following days.
1945 – World War II: Sinking of the prison ships Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland by the Royal Air Force in Lübeck Bay.
1968 – Eighty-five people are killed when Braniff International Airways Flight 352 crashes near Dawson, Texas.
1986 – Twenty-one people are killed and forty-one are injured after a bomb explodes on Air Lanka Flight 512 at Colombo airport in Sri Lanka.
1999 – The southwestern portion of Oklahoma City is devastated by an F5 tornado, killing forty-five people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado is one of 66 from the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak. This tornado also produces the highest wind speed ever recorded, measured at 301 +/- 20 mph (484 +/- 32 km/h).
2006 – Armavia Flight 967 crashes into the Black Sea near Sochi International Airport in Sochi, Russia, killing 113 people.
2022 – Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 799 days.
2023 – A shooting incident occurred at Vladislav Ribnikar Elementary School in the Vračar municipality of Belgrade, Serbia. A 13-year-old male student opened fire on students and staff, resulting in the deaths of nine students and a security guard.
2023 – The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 208 days.