[Apocalyptic Calendar]                               January-March  /  July-September  /  October-December

1837 – The great fire in Surat city of India caused more than 500 deaths and destruction of more than 9000 houses.

1915 – The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian genocide.

1967 – Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission.

1980 – Eight U.S. servicemen die in Operation Eagle Claw as they attempt to end the Iran hostage crisis.

1993 – An IRA bomb devastates the Bishopsgate area of London.

2013 – A building collapses near Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 1,129 people and injuring 2,500 others.

2013 – Violence in Bachu County, Kashgar Prefecture, of China's Xinjiang results in death of 21 people.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 790 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 199 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                               January-March  /  July-September  /  October-December

1721 – A massive earthquake devastates the Iranian city of Tabriz.

1900 – Fires destroy Canadian cities Ottawa and Hull, reducing them to ashes in 12 hours. 12,000 people are left without a home.

1937 – Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain, is bombed by German Luftwaffe.

1942 – Benxihu Colliery accident in Manchukuo leaves 1549 Chinese miners dead.

1966 – The magnitude 5.1 Tashkent earthquake affects the largest city in Soviet Central Asia with a maximum MSK intensity of VII (Very strong). Tashkent is mostly destroyed and 15–200 are killed.

1982 – Fifty-seven people are killed by former police officer Woo Bum-kon in a shooting spree in South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea.

1986 – The Chernobyl disaster occurs in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

1989 – The deadliest known tornado strikes Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many as 80,000 homeless.

1991 – Fifty-five tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado.

1994 – China Airlines Flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board.

2002 – Robert Steinhäuser kills 16 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 792 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 201 days.

2024 –  A fire at a guesthouse in Porto Alegre kills at least ten people.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                               January-March  /  July-September  /  October-December

1941 – The Ustaše massacre nearly 200 Serbs in the village of Gudovac, the first massacre of their genocidal campaign against Serbs of the Independent State of Croatia.

1945 – The Holocaust: Nazi Germany carries out its final use of gas chambers to execute 33 Upper Austrian socialist and communist leaders in Mauthausen concentration camp.

1949 – The Hukbalahap are accused of assassinating former First Lady of the Philippines Aurora Quezon, while she is en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband; her daughter and ten others are also killed.

1986 – High levels of radiation resulting from the Chernobyl disaster are detected at a nuclear power plant in Sweden, leading Soviet authorities to publicly announce the accident.

1988 – Near Maui, Hawaii, flight attendant Clarabelle "C.B." Lansing is blown out of Aloha Airlines Flight 243, a Boeing 737, and falls to her death when part of the plane's fuselage rips open in mid-flight.

1996 – Port Arthur massacre, Tasmania: A gunman, Martin Bryant, opens fire at the Broad Arrow Cafe in Port Arthur, Tasmania, killing 35 people and wounding 23 others.

2004 – CBS News released evidence of the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse. The photographs show rape and abuse from the American troops over Iraqi detainees.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 794 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 203 days.

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[Apocalyptic Calendar]                               January-March  /  July-September  /  October-December

1863 – A 65-man French Foreign Legion infantry patrol fights a force of nearly 2,000 Mexican soldiers to nearly the last man in Hacienda Camarón, Mexico.

1871 – The Camp Grant massacre takes place in Arizona Territory.

1999 – Neo-Nazi David Copeland carries out the last of his three nail bombings in London at the Admiral Duncan gay pub, killing three people and injuring 79 others.

2009 – Seven civilians and the perpetrator are killed and another ten injured at a Queen's Day parade in Apeldoorn, Netherlands in an attempted assassination on Queen Beatrix.

2012 – An overloaded ferry capsizes on the Brahmaputra River in India killing at least 103 people.

2014 – A bomb blast in Ürümqi, China kills three people and injures 79 others.

2021 – Forty-five men and boys are killed in the Meron stampede in Israel.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 796 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 205 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                               January-March  /  July-September  /  October-December

1945 – World War II: The US 82nd Airborne Division liberates Wöbbelin concentration camp  finding 1000 dead prisoners, most of whom starved to death.

1970 – ALM Flight 980 ditches in the Caribbean Sea near Saint Croix, killing 23.

1972 – In the early morning hours a fire breaks out at the Sunshine Mine located between Kellogg and Wallace, Idaho, killing 91 workers.

1986 –  Chernobyl disaster: The City of Chernobyl is evacuated six days after the disaster.

1995 – During the Croatian War of Independence, the Army of the Republic of Serb Krajina fires cluster bombs at Zagreb, killing seven and wounding over 175 civilians.

2004 – The Yelwa massacre concludes. It began on 4 February 2004 when armed Muslims killed 78 Christians at Yelwa. In response, about 630 Muslims were killed by Christians on May 2nd.

2008 – Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Burma killing over 138,000 people and leaving millions of people homeless.

2008 – Chaitén Volcano begins erupting in Chile, forcing the evacuation of more than 4,500 people.

2011 – An E. coli outbreak strikes Europe, mostly in Germany, leaving more than 30 people dead and many others are taken ill.

2014 – Two mudslides in Badakhshan, Afghanistan, leave up to 2,500 people missing.

2014 – In Odessa, it was a day of violent protests and confrontations between those who supported closer ties with Russia and those fighting what they saw as Moscow’s attack on Ukraine’s sovereignty. In a horrific fire at Odessa's Trade Unions House 42 members of the pro-Russian faction were killed. Six Euromaidan activists were killed on Odessa streets that day.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 798 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 207 days.

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[Apocalyptic Calendar]                               January-March  /  July-September  /  October-December

1886 – Haymarket affair: A bomb is thrown at policemen trying to break up a labor rally in Chicago, United States, killing eight and wounding 60. The police fire into the crowd.

1946 – In San Francisco Bay, U.S. Marines from the nearby Treasure Island Naval Base stop a two-day riot at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. Five people are killed in the riot.

1949 – The entire Torino football team (except for two players who did not take the trip: Sauro Tomà, due to an injury and Renato Gandolfi, because of coach request) is killed in a plane crash.

1970 – Vietnam War: Kent State shootings: The Ohio National Guard, sent to Kent State University after disturbances in the city of Kent the weekend before, opens fire killing four unarmed students and wounding nine others. The students were protesting the Cambodian Campaign of the United States and South Vietnam.

1978 – The South African Defence Force attacks a SWAPO base at Cassinga in southern Angola, killing about 600 people.

1982 – Twenty sailors are killed when the British Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield is hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War.

1988 – The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of Space Shuttle fuel detonate during a fire. The disaster caused two fatalities, 372 injuries, and an estimated $100 million of damage.

2002 – One hundred three people are killed and 51 are injured in a plane crash near Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport in Kano, Nigeria.

2007 – Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by a 1.7-mile wide EF5 tornado. Ninety-five percent of the city was confirmed to be destroyed, with the other five percent being severely damaged. 12 people die. It was the first-ever tornado to be rated as such with the new Enhanced Fujita scale.

2014 – Three people are killed and 62 injured in a pair of bombings on buses in Nairobi, Kenya.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 800 days.

2023 – A 21-year-old Serbian man carried out a shooting spree in Dubona, Mladenovac, Belgrade, Serbia, and Malo Orašje, Smederevo, resulting in the deaths of eight individuals, including a police officer, and leaving fourteen others injured.This incident occurred one day after a school shooting in Belgrade.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 209 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                               January-March  /  July-September  /  October-December

1527 – Spanish and German troops sack Rome; many scholars consider this the end of the Renaissance.

1882 – Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish are stabbed to death by Fenian assassins in Phoenix Park, Dublin.

1916 – Twenty-one Lebanese nationalists are executed in Martyrs' Square, Beirut by Djemal Pasha.

1937 – Hindenburg disaster: The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirty-six people are killed.

1972 – Deniz Gezmiş, Yusuf Aslan and Hüseyin İnan are executed in Ankara after being convicted of attempting to overthrow the Constitutional order.

1976 – The 6.5 Mw  Friuli earthquake affected Northern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), leaving 900–978 dead and 1,700–2,400 injured.

1988 – All thirty-six passengers and crew were killed when Widerøe Flight 710 crashed into Mt. Torghatten in Brønnøy.

2022 – Hotel Saratoga, a five-story luxury hotel in the Old Havana municipality of La Habana, Cuba, suffered a suspected gas leak explosion that damaged large portions of the building as well as surrounding infrastructure. Ninety-nine people were injured, of whom forty-five died. The hotel was undergoing renovations and there were no guests; however, there were fifty-one workers inside.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 802 days.

2023 –  At least 27 workers were killed in a fire at a remote gold mine in southern Peru. 

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 211 days.

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[Apocalyptic Calendar]                               January-March  /  July-September  /  October-December

1842 – A train derails and catches fire in Paris, killing between 52 and 200 people.

1902 – In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast.

1927 – Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and François Coli disappear after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane.

1941 – World War II: The German Luftwaffe launches a bombing raid on Nottingham and Derby.

1945 – Hundreds of Algerian civilians are killed by French Army soldiers in the Sétif massacre.

1945 – The Halifax riot starts when thousands of civilians and servicemen rampage through Halifax, Nova Scotia.

1963 – South Vietnamese soldiers under the Roman Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem open fire on Buddhists defying a ban on the flying of the Buddhist flag on Vesak, killing nine and sparking the Buddhist crisis.

1984 – Corporal Denis Lortie enters the Quebec National Assembly and opens fire, killing three people and wounding 13.

1987 – The SAS kills eight Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and a civilian during an ambush in Loughgall, Northern Ireland.

1988 – A fire at Illinois Bell's Hinsdale Central Office triggers an extended 1AESS network outage once considered to be the "worst telecommunications disaster in US telephone industry history".

1997 – China Southern Airlines Flight 3456 crashes on approach into Bao'an International Airport, killing 35 people.

2021 – A car bomb explodes in front of a school in Kabul, capital city of Afghanistan killing at least 55 people and wounding over 150.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 804 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 213 days.

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[Apocalyptic Calendar]                               January-March  /  July-September  /  October-December

1849 – Astor Place Riot: A riot breaks out at the Astor Opera House in Manhattan, New York City over a dispute between actors Edwin Forrest and William Charles Macready, killing at least 22 and injuring over 120.

1899 – Finnish farmworker Karl Emil Malmelin kills seven people with an axe at the Simola croft in the village of Klaukkala.

1961 – Air France Flight 406 is destroyed by a bomb over the Sahara, killing 78.

1993 – In Thailand, a fire at the Kader Toy Factory kills over 200 workers.

1996 – A blizzard strikes Mount Everest, killing eight climbers  by the next day.

1997 – The 7.3 Mw Qayen earthquake strikes Iran's Khorasan Province killing 1,567 people.

2012 – The Damascus bombings are carried out using a pair of car bombs detonated by suicide bombers outside a military intelligence complex in Damascus, Syria, killing 55 people.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 806 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 215 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                               January-March  /  July-September  /  October-December

1989 – The San Bernardino train disaster kills four people, only to be followed a week later by an underground gasoline pipeline explosion, which kills two more people.

1998 – Four students are shot at Trisakti University, leading to widespread riots and the fall of Suharto.

2003 – The Riyadh compound bombings in Saudi Arabia, carried out by al-Qaeda, kill 39 people.

2006 –  Mass unrest by the Primeiro Comando da Capital begins in São Paulo (Brazil), leaving at least 150 dead.

2008 – An earthquake (measuring around 8.0 magnitude) occurs in Sichuan, China, killing over 69,000 people.

2010 – Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 crashes on final approach to Tripoli International Airport in Tripoli, Libya, killing 103 out of the 104 people on board.

2015 – A train derailment in Philadelphia kills eight people and injures more than 200.

2015 – Massive Nepal earthquake kills 218 people and injures more than 3500.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 808 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 217 days.

2024 – More than 300 people were killed in flash floods that ripped through multiple provinces in Afghanistan

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[Apocalyptic Calendar]                               January-March  /  July-September  /  October-December

1931 – Five unarmed civilians are killed in the Ådalen shootings, as the Swedish military is called in to deal with protesting workers.

1940 – World War II: Rotterdam, Netherlands is bombed by the Luftwaffe of Nazi Germany despite a ceasefire, killing about 900 people and destroying the historic city center.

1943 – World War II: A Japanese submarine sinks AHS Centaur off the coast of Queensland. Of the 332 medical personnel and civilian crew aboard, 268 died, including 63 of the 65 army personnel.

1961 – Civil rights movement: A white mob twice attacks a Freedom Riders bus near Anniston, Alabama, before fire-bombing the bus and attacking the civil rights protesters who flee the burning vehicle.

1977 – A Dan-Air Boeing 707 leased to IAS Cargo Airlines crashes on approach to Lusaka International Airport in Lusaka, Zambia, killing six people.

1980 – Salvadoran Civil War: the Sumpul River massacre occurs in Chalatenango, El Salvador.

1988 – Carrollton bus collision: A drunk driver traveling the wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group. Twenty-seven die in the crash and ensuing fire.

2004 – Rico Linhas Aéreas Flight 4815 crashes into the Amazon rainforest during approach to Eduardo Gomes International Airport in Manaus, Brazil, killing 33 people.

2012 – Agni Air Flight CHT crashes in Nepal after a failed go-around, killing 15 people.

2022 – A mass shooting occurred at a Tops Friendly Markets supermarket in Buffalo, New York, United States. Ten people were killed, and three others were injured; eleven of the victims were African-American.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 810 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 219 days.

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[Apocalyptic Calendar]                               January-March  /  July-September  /  October-December

1943 – The Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.

2003 – In Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in the Casablanca terrorist attacks.

2014 – Twelve people are killed in two explosions in the Gikomba market area of Nairobi, Kenya.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 812 days.

2023 –  Flooding in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy causes 11 deaths and widespread disruption, including the cancellation of the Formula One Grand Prix.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 221 days.

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[Apocalyptic Calendar]                               January-March  /  July-September  /  October-December

1096 – First Crusade: Around 800 Jews are massacred in Worms, Germany.

1302 – Bruges Matins, the nocturnal massacre of the French garrison in Bruges by members of the local Flemish militia.

1695 – The 1695 Linfen earthquake in Shannxi, Ming dynasty causes extreme damage and kills at least 52,000 people.

1896 – Khodynka Tragedy: A mass panic on Khodynka Field in Moscow during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1,389 people.

1927 – The Bath School disaster:: Forty-five people, including many children, are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in Bath Township, Michigan.

1973 – Aeroflot Flight 109 is hijacked mid-flight and the aircraft is subsequently destroyed when the hijacker's bomb explodes, killing all 82 people on board.

1974 – Nuclear weapons testing: Under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so.

1980 – Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington, United States, killing 57 people and causing $3 billion in damage.

2015 – At least 78 people die in a landslide caused by heavy rains in the Colombian town of Salgar.

2018 – A school shooting at Santa Fe High School in Texas kills ten people.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 814 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 223 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                               January-March  /  July-September  /  October-December

1645 – Yangzhou massacre: The ten day massacre of 800,000 residents of the city of Yangzhou, part of the Transition from Ming to Qing.

1883 – Krakatoa begins to erupt; the volcano explodes three months later, killing more than 36,000 people.

1965 – One hundred twenty-one people are killed when Pakistan International Airlines Flight 705 crashes at Cairo International Airport.

1971 – In the Chuknagar massacre, Pakistani forces massacre thousands, mostly Bengali Hindus.

1983 – Church Street bombing: A car bomb planted by Umkhonto we Sizwe explodes on Church Street in South Africa's capital, Pretoria, killing 19 people and injuring 217 others.

2012 – At least 27 people are killed and 50 others injured when a 6.0-magnitude earthquake strikes northern Italy.

2013 – An EF5 tornado strikes the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, killing 24 people and injuring 377 others.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 816 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 225 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                               January-March  /  July-September  /  October-December

853 – A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt.

1370 – Brussels massacre: Between six and twenty Jews are murdered and the rest of the Jewish community is banished from Brussels, Belgium, for allegedly desecrating consecrated Host.

1520 – The massacre at the festival of Tóxcatl takes place during the Fall of Tenochtitlan, resulting in turning the Aztecs against the Spanish.

1766 – A  large earthquake causes heavy damage and loss of life in Istanbul and the Marmara region.

1915 – Three trains collide in the Quintinshill rail disaster  near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246.

1927 – Near Xining, China, an 8.3 magnitude earthquake causes 200,000 deaths in one of the world's most destructive earthquakes.

1958 – The 1958 riots in Ceylon become a watershed in the race relations of various ethnic communities of Sri Lanka. The total deaths is estimated at 300, mostly Tamils.

1960 – The Great Chilean earthquake, measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, hits southern Chile, becoming the most powerful earthquake ever recorded.

1962 – Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes in Unionville, Missouri after bombs explode on board, killing 45.

1967 – L'Innovation department store in Brussels, Belgium, burns down, resulting in 323 dead or missing and 150 injured, the most devastating fire in Belgian history.

1968 – The nuclear-powered submarine USS Scorpion  sinks with 99 men aboard, 400 miles southwest of the Azores.

1987 – The Hashimpura massacre occurs in Meerut, India.

2000 – In Sri Lanka, over 150 Tamil rebels are killed over two days of fighting for control in Jaffna.

2010 – Air India Express Flight 812, a Boeing 737 crashes over a cliff upon landing at Mangalore, India, killing 158 of 166 people on board, becoming the deadliest crash involving a Boeing 737 until the crash of Lion Air Flight 610.

2011 – An EF5 tornado strikes Joplin, Missouri, killing 158 people and wreaking $2.8 billion in damages, the costliest and seventh-deadliest single tornado in U.S. history.

2014 – An explosion occurs in Ürümqi, capital of China's far-western Xinjiang region, resulting in at least 43 deaths and 91 injuries.

2017 – Twenty-two people are killed at an Ariana Grande concert in the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing.

2020 – Pakistan International Airlines Flight 8303 crashes in Model Colony near Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 98 people.

2021 – Gansu ultramarathon disaster: Severe weather kills 21 runners in the 100 km (60-mile) ultramarathon in the Yellow River Stone Forest, Gansu province of China.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 818 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 227 days. 

2024 –  A stage collapses at a Mexico campaign rally, leaving nine dead.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                               January-March  /  July-September  /  October-December

1567 – Mentally ill Erik XIV, King of Sweden and his guards murder five incarcerated Swedish nobles.

1941 – World War II: In the Battle of the Atlantic, the German Battleship Bismarck sinks then-pride of the Royal Navy, HMS Hood, killing all but three crewmen.

1981 – Ecuadorian president Jaime Roldós Aguilera, his wife, and his presidential committee die in an aircraft accident while travelling from Quito to Zapotillo minutes after the president gave a famous speech regarding the 24 de mayo anniversary of the Battle of Pichincha.

1992 – The ethnic cleansing in Kozarac, Bosnia and Herzegovina begins when Serbian militia and police forces enter the town.

1993 – Roman Catholic Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo and five other people are assassinated in a shootout at Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla Guadalajara International Airport in Mexico.

1995 – While attempting to return to Leeds Bradford Airport in the United Kingdom, Knight Air Flight 816 crashes in Harewood, North Yorkshire, killing all 12 people on board.

2014 – A 6.4 magnitude earthquake occurs in the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey, injuring 324 people.

2014 – At least three people are killed in a shooting at Brussels' Jewish Museum of Belgium.

2019 – Twenty-two students die in a fire in Surat (India).

2022 – In the United States, 21 people are killed in a mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 820 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 229 days. 

2024 – A landslide occurred in Maip Muritaka Rural LLG, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea. Between 690 and 1,000 people were thought to have been killed; however, only six bodies were recovered. Many others are missing, including about 5,500 in the villages of Kaokalam, Tulipana and Yambali alone.

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[Apocalyptic Calendar]                               January-March  /  July-September  /  October-December

1293 – An earthquake strikes Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan, killing about 23,000.

1637 – Pequot War: A combined English and Mohegan force under John Mason attacks a village in Connecticut,  massacring approximately 500 Pequots.

1822 – At least 113 people die in the Grue Church fire, the biggest fire disaster in Norway's history.

1981 – An EA-6B Prowler crashes on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz, killing 14 crewmen and injuring 45 others.

1983 – The 7.8 Mw  Sea of Japan earthquake shakes northern Honshu with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A destructive tsunami is generated that leaves about 100 people dead.

1991 – Lauda Air Flight 004 breaks apart in mid-air and crashes in the Phu Toei National Park in the Suphan Buri Province of Thailand, killing all 223 people on board.

1998 – A MIAT Mongolian Airlines Harbin Y-12 crashes near Erdenet, Orkhon Province, Mongolia, resulting in 28 deaths.

2008 – Severe flooding begins in eastern and southern China that will ultimately cause 148 deaths and force the evacuation of 1.3 million.

2021 – Ten people are killed in a shooting at a VTA rail yard in San Jose, California, United States. 

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 822 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 231 days.

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[Apocalyptic Calendar]                               January-March  /  July-September  /  October-December

1644 – English Civil War: Bolton Massacre by Royalist troops under the command of James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby.

1802 – In Guadeloupe, 400 rebellious slaves, led by Louis Delgrès, blow themselves up rather than submit to Napoleon's troops.

1968 – Garuda Indonesia Flight 892 crashes near Nala Sopara in India, killing 30.

1977 – In Southgate, Kentucky, the Beverly Hills Supper Club is engulfed in fire, killing 165 people inside.

1993 –The Solingen arson attack (Solinger Brandanschlag) was one of the most severe instances of xenophobic violence in modern Germany. In the night from 28 to 29 May, four young German men belonging to the far right skinhead scene with neo-Nazi ties, set fire to the house of a large Turkish family in Solingen in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Three girls and two women died; fourteen other family members, including several children, were injured, some of them severely.

1995 – The 7.0 Mw  Neftegorsk earthquake shakes the former Russian settlement of Neftegorsk with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Total damage was $64.1–300 million, with 1,989 deaths and 750 injured. The settlement was not rebuilt.

1998 – Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of nuclear tests by India with five of its own codenamed Chagai-I, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions. By testing nuclear devices, Pakistan became the seventh country to publicly test nuclear weapons..

2010 – In West Bengal, India, the Jnaneswari Express train derailment and subsequent collision kills 148 passengers.

2022 –  At least thirtyone die in a stampede in a church in Port Harcourt in Nigera. A large crowd had gathered before the start of a church relief effort to accept food donations, when panic broke out.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 824 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 233 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                               January-March  /  July-September  /  October-December

1431 – Hundred Years' War: In Rouen, France, the 19-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal.

1815 – The East Indiaman Arniston is wrecked during a storm at Waenhuiskrans, near Cape Agulhas, in present-day South Africa, with the loss of 372 lives.

1883 – In New York City, a stampede on the recently opened Brooklyn Bridge killed twelve people.

1937 – Memorial Day massacre: Chicago police shoot and kill ten labor demonstrators.

1942 – World War II: One thousand British bombers launch a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany.

1948 – A dike along the flooding Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon within minutes. Fifteen people die and tens of thousands are left homeless.

1961 – Viasa Flight 897 crashes after takeoff from Lisbon Airport, killing 61.

1972 – In Ben Gurion Airport (at the time: Lod Airport), Israel, members of the Japanese Red Army carry out the Lod Airport massacre, killing 24 people and injuring 78 others.

1979 – Downeast Flight 46 crashes on approach to Knox County Regional Airport in Rockland, Maine, killing 17.

1998 – The 6.5 Mw  Afghanistan earthquake shook the Takhar Province of northern Afghanistan with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong), killing around 4,000–4,500.

1998 – Nuclear Testing: Pakistan conducts an underground test in the Kharan Desert. It is reported to be a plutonium device with yield of 20kt TNT equivalent. 

2003 – Depayin massacre: At least 70 people associated with the National League for Democracy are killed by government-sponsored mob in Burma. Aung San Suu Kyi flees the scene, but is arrested soon afterwards.

2008 – TACA Flight 390 overshoots the runway at Toncontín International Airport in Tegucigalpa, Honduras and crashes, killing five people.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 826 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 235 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                               January-March  /  July-September  /  October-December

1941 – The Farhud, a massive pogrom in Iraq, starts and as a result, many Iraqi Jews are forced to leave their homes.

1943 – BOAC Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing British actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation that it was actually an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

1950 – The Chinchaga fire ignites. By September, it would become the largest single fire on record in North America.

1993 – Dobrinja mortar attack: Thirteen are killed and 133 wounded when Serb mortar shells are fired at a soccer game in Dobrinja, west of Sarajevo.

1999 – American Airlines Flight 1420 slides and crashes while landing at Little Rock National Airport, killing 11 people on a flight from Dallas to Little Rock.

2001 – Nepalese royal massacre: Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal shoots and kills several members of his family including his father and mother.

2001 – Dolphinarium discotheque massacre: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in Tel Aviv.

2009 – Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. All 228 passengers and crew are killed.

2011 – A rare tornado outbreak occurs in New England; a strong EF3 tornado strikes Springfield, Massachusetts, during the event, killing four people.

2015 – A ship carrying 458 people capsizes in the Yangtze river in China's Hubei province, killing 400 people.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 828 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 237 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                               January-March  /  July-September  /  October-December

1844 – The last pair of great auks is killed.

1941 – World War II: The Wehrmacht razes the Greek village of Kandanos to the ground and murders 180 of its inhabitants.

1962 – At Paris Orly Airport, Air France Flight 007 overruns the runway and explodes when the crew attempts to abort takeoff, killing 130.

1969 – Melbourne–Evans collision: off the coast of South Vietnam, the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne cuts the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in half; resulting in 74 deaths.

1973 – A Soviet supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 crashes near Goussainville, France, killing 14, the first crash of a supersonic passenger aircraft.

1979 – A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 3,000,000 barrels (480,000 m3) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the second-worst accidental oil spill ever recorded.

1980 – The 1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak hits Nebraska, causing five deaths and $300 million (equivalent to $987 million in 2021) worth of damage.

1984 – Operation Blue Star, a military offensive, is launched by the Indian government at Harmandir Sahib, also known as the Golden Temple, the holiest shrine for Sikhs, in Amritsar. The operation continues until June 6, with casualties, most of them civilians, in excess of 5,000.

1991 – Mount Unzen erupts in Kyūshū, Japan, killing 43 people, all of them either researchers or journalists.

1998 – After suffering a mechanical failure, a high speed train derails at Eschede, Germany, killing 101 people.

2012 – A plane carrying 153 people on board crashes in a residential neighborhood in Lagos, Nigeria, killing everyone on board and six people on the ground.

2013 – At least 119 people are killed in a fire at a poultry farm in Jilin Province in northeastern China.

2015 – An explosion at a gasoline station in Accra, Ghana, kills more than 200 people.

2017 – London Bridge attack: Eight people are murdered and dozens of civilians are wounded by Islamist terrorists. Three of the attackers are shot dead by the police.

2019 –  Khartoum massacre: In Sudan, over 100 people are killed when security forces accompanied by Janjaweed militiamen storm and open fire on a sit-in protest.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 830 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 239 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                               January-March  /  July-September  /  October-December

1941 – World War II: Four thousand Chongqing residents are asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the Bombing of Chongqing.

1946 – A fire in the La Salle Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, kills 61 people.

1960 – The Lake Bodom murders occur in Finland.

1968 – Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan.

1976 – The Teton Dam  in Idaho, United States, collapses. Eleven people are killed as a result of flooding.

1981 – The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that five people in Los Angeles, California, have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems, in what turns out to be the first recognized cases of AIDS.

1983 – More than 100 people are killed when the Russian river cruise ship Aleksandr Suvorov collides with a girder of the Ulyanovsk Railway Bridge. 

1989 – The Tank Man halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.

2001 – Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston. The storm causes $5.5 billion in damages, making Allison the second costliest tropical storm in U.S. history.

2003 – A severe heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50 °C (122 °F) in the region.

2009 – After 65 straight days of civil disobedience, at least 31 people are killed in clashes between security forces and indigenous people near Bagua, Peru.

2015 – An earthquake with a moment magnitude of 6.0 strikes Ranau, Sabah, Malaysia, killing 18 people, including hikers and mountain guides on Mount Kinabalu, after mass landslides that occurred during the earthquake. This is the strongest earthquake to strike Malaysia since 1975.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 832 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 241 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                               January-March  /  July-September  /  October-December

1692 – Port Royal, Jamaica, is hit by a catastrophic earthquake; in just three minutes, 1,600 people are killed and 3,000 are seriously injured.

1832 – Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.

1917 – World War I: Battle of Messines: Allied soldiers detonate a series of mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, killing 10,000 German troops.

1919 – Sette Giugno: Nationalist riots break out in Valletta, the capital of Malta. British soldiers fire into the crowd, killing four people.

1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. Five hundred to nine hundred thousand civilians are killed.

1944 – World War II: The steamer Danae, carrying 350 Cretan Jews and 250 Cretan partisans, is sunk without survivors off the shore of Santorini.

1944 – World War II: Battle of Normandy: At Ardenne Abbey, members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canadian prisoners of war.

1962 – The Organisation Armée Secrète (OAS) sets fire to the University of Algiers library building, destroying about 500,000 books.

1989 – Surinam Airways Flight 764 crashes on approach to Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport in Suriname because of pilot error, killing 176 of 187 aboard.

1991 – Mount Pinatubo erupts, generating an ash column 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) high.

2017 – A Myanmar Air Force Shaanxi Y-8 crashes into the Andaman Sea near Dawei, Myanmar, killing all 122 aboard.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 834 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 243 days.

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[Apocalyptic Calendar]                               January-March  /  July-September  /  October-December

1944 – World War II: Ninety-nine civilians are hanged from lampposts and balconies by German troops in Tulle, France, in reprisal for maquisards attacks.

1953 – The Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence kills 94 people in Massachusetts.

1972 – Severe rainfall causes a dam in the Black Hills of South Dakota to burst, creating  a flood that kills 238 people and causes $160 million in damage.

1979 – The Ghost Train fire at Luna Park Sydney, Australia, kills seven.

1995 – Ansett New Zealand Flight 703 crashes into the Tararua Range during approach to Palmerston North Airport on the North Island of New Zealand, killing four.

2008 – Two bombs explode at a train station near Algiers, Algeria, killing at least 13 people.

2009 – An explosion kills 17 people and injures at least 46 at a hotel in Peshawar, Pakistan.

2010 – At least 40 people are killed and more than 70 wounded in a suicide bombing at a wedding party in Arghandab, Kandahar.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 836 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 245 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                               January-March  /  July-September  /  October-December

1937 – Great Purge: The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin executes eight army leaders.

1955 – Eighty-three spectators are killed and at least 100 are injured after an Austin-Healey and a Mercedes-Benz collide at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the deadliest ever accident in motorsports.

1956 – Start of Gal Oya riots, the first reported ethnic riots that target minority Sri Lankan Tamils in the Eastern Province. The total number of deaths is reportedly 150.

1963 – Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức burns himself with gasoline in a busy Saigon intersection to protest the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam.

1964 – World War II veteran Walter Seifert attacks an elementary school in Cologne, Germany, killing at least eight children and two teachers and seriously injuring several more with a home-made flamethrower and a lance.

1981 – A magnitude 6.9 earthquake at Golbaf, Iran, kills at least 2,000.

2007 – Mudslides in Chittagong, Bangladesh, kill 130 people.

2012 – More than 80 people die in a landslide triggered by two earthquakes in Afghanistan; an entire village is buried.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 838 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 247 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                               January-March  /  July-September  /  October-December

1881 – The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.

1886 – A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.

1917 – World War I: The deadliest German air raid on London of the war is carried out by Gotha G.IV bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children, and 432 injuries.

1952 – Catalina affair: A Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.

1990 – First day of the June 1990 Mineriad in Romania. At least 240 strikers and students are arrested or killed in the chaos ensuing from the first post-Ceaușescu elections.

1994 – A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.

1996 – Garuda Indonesia flight 865 crashes during takeoff from Fukuoka Airport, killing three people and injuring 170.

2012 – A series of bombings across Iraq, including Baghdad, Hillah and Kirkuk, kills at least 93 people and wounds over 300 others.

2021 – A gas explosion in Zhangwan district of Shiyan city, in Hubei province of China kills at least 12 people and wounds over 138 others.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 840 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 249 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                               January-March  /  July-September  /  October-December                                   

1896 – The deadliest tsunami in Japan's history kills more than 22,000 people.

1904 – A fire aboard the steamboat SS General Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1,000.

1937 – A German expedition led by Karl Wien loses sixteen members in an avalanche on Nanga Parbat. It is the worst single disaster to occur on an 8000m peak.

1972 – Cathay Pacific Flight 700Z is destroyed by a bomb over Pleiku, Vietnam (then South Vietnam) kills 81 people.

1991 – In the Philippines, Mount Pinatubo erupts in the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century, killing over 800 people.

1996 – The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonates a powerful truck bomb in the middle of Manchester, England, devastating the city centre and injuring 200 people.

2013 – A bomb explodes on a bus in the Pakistani city of Quetta, killing at least 25 people and wounding 22 others.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 841 days.

2023 –  In Canada, 15 people die after a bus collides with a semi-truck along the Trans-Canada Highway near Carberry, Manitoba.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 250 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                               January-March  /  July-September  /  October-December

1862 – During the the Battle of St. Charles a Confederate fired what has been referred to as the deadliest shot of the war, striking the ironclad USS Mound City,, puncturing one of its steam drums, and filling the ship with scalding steam (depicted), killing 105 and wounding 25.

1929 – The town of Murchison, New Zealand Is rocked by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake killing 17. At the time it was New Zealand's worst natural disaster.

1933 – Union Station massacre: In Kansas City, Missouri, four FBI agents and captured fugitive Frank Nash are gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash.

1940 – World War II: RMS Lancastria is attacked and sunk by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France. At least 3,000 are killed in Britain's worst maritime disaster.

1948 – United Airlines Flight 624, a Douglas DC-6, crashes near Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, killing all 43 people on board.

1958 – The Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing, in the process of being built to connect Vancouver and North Vancouver (Canada), collapses into the Burrard Inlet killing 18 ironworkers and injuring others.

1967 – Nuclear weapons testing: China announces a successful test of its first thermonuclear weapon.

1987 – With the death of the last individual of the species, the dusky seaside sparrow becomes extinct.

1989 – Interflug Flight 102 crashes during a rejected takeoff from Berlin Schönefeld Airport, killing 21 people.

2015 – Nine people are killed in a mass shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.

2017 – A series of wildfires in central Portugal kill at least 64 people and injure 204 others.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 843 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 252 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                               January-March  /  July-September  /  October-December

1718 – At least 73,000 people died in the 1718 Tongwei–Gansu earthquake due to landslides in the Qing dynasty.

1921 – The village of Knockcroghery, Ireland, was burned by British forces.

1987 – Basque separatist group ETA commits one of its most violent attacks, in which a bomb is set off in a supermarket, Hipercor, killing 21 and injuring 45.

2007 – The al-Khilani Mosque bombing in Baghdad leaves 78 people dead and another 218 injured.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 845 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 254 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                               January-March  /  July-September  /  October-December

1964 – Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.

2012 – A boat carrying more than 200 migrants capsizes in the Indian Ocean between the Indonesian island of Java and Christmas Island, killing 17 people and leaving 70 others missing.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 847 days.

2023 –  China barbecue restaurant explosion kills 31 after gas leak.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 256 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                               January-March  /  July-September  /  October-December

1280 – The Spanish Reconquista: In the Battle of Moclín the Emirate of Granada ambush a superior pursuing force, killing most of them in a military disaster for the Kingdom of Castile.

1594 – The Action of Faial, Azores. The Portuguese carrack Cinco Chagas, loaded with slaves and treasure, is attacked and sunk by English ships with only 13 survivors out of over 700 on board.

1611 – The mutinous crew of Henry Hudson's fourth voyage sets Henry, his son and seven loyal crew members adrift in an open boat in what is now Hudson Bay; they are never heard from again.

1973 – A fire at a house in Hull, England, which kills a six-year-old boy is passed off as an accident; it later emerges as the first of 26 deaths by fire caused over the next seven years by serial arsonist Peter Dinsdale.

1985 – A terrorist bomb explodes at Narita International Airport near Tokyo. An hour later, the same group detonates a second bomb aboard Air India Flight 182, bringing the Boeing 747 down off the coast of Ireland killing all 329 aboard.

2001 – The 8.4 Mw  southern Peru earthquake shakes coastal Peru with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A destructive tsunami followed, leaving at least 74 people dead, and 2,687 injured.

2013 – Militants storm a high-altitude mountaineering base camp near Nanga Parbat in Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan, killing ten climbers and a local guide.

2017 – A series of terrorist attacks  take place in Pakistan, resulting in 96 deaths and wounding 200 others.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 849 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 258 days.

2024 –  More than 1,300 people died during Hajj, many of them after walking in the scorching heat.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                               January-March  /  July-September  /  October-December

1996 – The Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia kills 19 U.S. servicemen.

2007 – PMTair Flight 241 crashes in the Dâmrei Mountains in Kampot Province, Cambodia, killing all 22 people on board.

2022 – 2 people are killed and 21 more injured after a gunman opens fire at three sites in Oslo in a suspected Islamist anti-LGBTQ+ attack.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 851 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 260 days.

2024 –  Protesters attack the Parliament Buildings in Nairobi, Kenya, leaving up to 40 people dead and at least 160 others injured.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                               January-March  /  July-September  /  October-December

1941 – Romanian authorities launch one of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history in the city of Iași, resulting in the murder of at least 13,266 Jews.

1957 – Hurricane Audrey makes landfall near the Texas–Louisiana border, killing over 400 people, mainly in and around Cameron, Louisiana.

1980 – The 'Ustica massacre': Itavia Flight 870 crashes in the sea while en route from Bologna to Palermo, Italy, killing all 81 on board.

1988 – The Gare de Lyon rail accident in Paris, France, kills 56 people.

1988 – Villa Tunari massacre: Bolivian anti-narcotics police kill nine to 12 and injure over a hundred protesting coca-growing peasants.

1994 – Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in Matsumoto, Japan. Seven people are killed, 660 injured.

2007 – The Brazilian Military Police invades the favelas of Complexo do Alemão in an episode which is remembered as the Complexo do Alemão massacre.

2014 – At least fourteen people are killed when a Gas Authority of India Limited pipeline explodes in the East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, India.

2015 – Formosa Fun Coast fire: A dust fire occurs at a recreational water park in Taiwan, killing 15 people and injuring 497 others, 199 critically.

2022 – 53 migrants were found dead in and around a tractor-trailer near Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, United States.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 853 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 262 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                               January-March  /  July-September  /  October-December

1864 – At least 99 people, mostly German and Polish immigrants, are killed in Canada's worst railway disaster after a train fails to stop for an open drawbridge and plunges into the Rivière Richelieu near St-Hilaire, Quebec.

1971 – Prior to re-entry (following a record-setting stay aboard the Soviet Union’s Salyut 1 space station), the crew capsule of the Soyuz 11 spacecraft depressurizes, killing the three cosmonauts on board. Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov and Viktor Patsayev are the first humans to die in space.

1972 – A Convair CV-580 and De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter collide above Lake Winnebago near Appleton, Wisconsin, killing 13.

1995 – The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho District of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937.

2002 – Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of six South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel.

2012 – A derecho sweeps across the eastern United States, leaving at least 22 people dead and millions without power.

2014 – The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant self-declares its caliphate in Syria and northern Iraq , solidifying its reign of terror.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 855 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 264 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                               January-March  /  July-September  /  October-December

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1873 – The White Star steamer RMS Atlantic  sinks off Nova Scotia, killing 547 in one of the worst marine disasters of the 19th century.

1939 – Spanish Civil War: Generalísimo Francisco Franco of the Spanish State announces the end of the Spanish Civil War, when the last of the Republican forces surrender.

1941 – Fântâna Albă massacre: Between 200 and 2,000 Romanian civilians are killed by Soviet Border Troops.

1944 – World War II: Navigation errors lead to an accidental American bombing of the Swiss city of Schaffhausen.

1946 – The 8.6 Mw  Aleutian Islands earthquake shakes the Aleutian Islands with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong). A destructive tsunami reaches the Hawaiian Islands resulting in dozens of deaths, mostly in Hilo, Hawaii.

1971 – Bangladesh Liberation War: The Pakistan Army massacre over 1,000 people in Keraniganj Upazila, Bangladesh.

2011 – After protests against the burning of the Quran turn violent, a mob attacks a United Nations compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, resulting in the deaths of thirteen people, including eight foreign workers.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 1140 days

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 539 days.

2024 – In Syria, an Israeli airstrike kills 16 people at the Iranian consulate in Damascus, including eight officers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and two Syrian civilians.

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[Apocalyptic Calendar]                               January-March  /  July-September  /  October-December

1888 – The first of eleven unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs.

1956 – Hudsonville–Standale tornado: The western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck by a deadly F5 tornado.

1974 – The 1974 Super Outbreak occurs, the second biggest tornado outbreak in recorded history (after the 2011 Super Outbreak). The death toll is 315, with nearly 5,500 injured.

1996 – A United States Air Force Boeing T-43 crashes near Dubrovnik Airport in Croatia, killing 35, including Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown.

1997 – The Thalit massacre begins in Algeria; all but one of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.

2009 – Jiverly Antares Wong opens fire at the American Civic Association immigration center in Binghamton, New York, killing thirteen and wounding four before committing suicide.

2013 – More than 50 people die in floods resulting from record-breaking rainfall in La Plata and Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2017 – A bomb explodes in the St Petersburg metro system, killing 14 and injuring several more people.

2018 – YouTube headquarters shooting: A 38-year-old gunwoman opens fire at YouTube Headquarters in San Bruno, California, injuring 3 people before committing suicide.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 1142 days

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 541 days.

2024 – A "severe"-rated earthquake strikes near Hualien City, Taiwan.

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[Apocalyptic Calendar]                               January-March  /  July-September  /  October-December

1902 – A stand box collapses at Ibrox Park (now Ibrox Stadium) in Glasgow, Scotland, which led to the deaths of 25 and injuries to more than 500 supporters during an international association football match between Scotland and England.

1936 – Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak: An F5 tornado kills 233 in Tupelo, Mississippi.

1943 – World War II: United States Army Air Forces bomber aircraft accidentally cause more than 900 civilian deaths, including 209 children, and 1,300 wounded among the civilian population of the Belgian town of Mortsel.. Their target was the Erla factory one kilometer from the residential area hit.

1946 – A Fleet Air Arm Vickers Wellington crashes into a residential area in Rabat, Malta during a training exercise, killing all 4 crew members and 16 civilians on the ground.

1949 – A fire in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois, kills 77 people and leads to nationwide fire code improvements in the United States.

1991 – An ASA EMB 120 crashes in Brunswick, Georgia, killing all 23 aboard including Sen. John Tower and astronaut Sonny Carter.

1992 – Peace protesters Suada Dilberovic and Olga Sučić are killed on the Vrbanja Bridge in Sarajevo, becoming the first casualties of the Bosnian War.

2010 – Twenty-nine coal miners are killed in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia. 

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 1144 days

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 543 days.

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[Apocalyptic Calendar]                               January-March  /  July-September  /  October-December

451 – Attila the Hun sacks the town of Metz and attacks other cities in Gaul.

611 – Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul sacks rival city-state Palenque in southern Mexico.

1906 – Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.

1943 – The Holocaust in Ukraine: In Terebovlia, Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress and march through the city to the nearby village of Plebanivka, where they are shot and buried in ditches.

1989 – Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway, killing 42 sailors.

1990 – A fire breaks out on the passenger ferry Scandinavian Star, killing 159 people.

1994 – Rwandan genocide: Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda, and soldiers kill the civilian Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana.

1995 – First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.2017 – A man deliberately drives a hijacked truck into a crowd of people in Stockholm, Sweden, killing five people and injuring fifteen others.

2018 – Syria launches the Douma chemical attack during the Eastern Ghouta offensive of the Syrian Civil War.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 1146 days

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 545 days.

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[Apocalyptic Calendar]                               January-March  /  July-September  /  October-December

1947 – The Glazier–Higgins–Woodward tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.

1948 – Jorge Eliécer Gaitán's assassination provokes a violent riot in Bogotá (the Bogotazo), and a further ten years of violence in Colombia.

1948 – Fighters from the Irgun and Lehi Zionist paramilitary groups attacked Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, killing over 100.

1980 – The Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein kills philosopher Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr and his sister Bint al-Huda after three days of torture.

1981 – The U.S. Navy nuclear submarine USS George Washington  accidentally collides with the Nissho Maru, a Japanese cargo ship, sinking it and killing two Japanese sailors.

1989 – Tbilisi massacre: An anti-Soviet peaceful demonstration and hunger strike in Tbilisi, demanding restoration of Georgian independence, is dispersed by the Soviet Army, resulting in 20 deaths and hundreds of injuries.

1990 – An IRA bombing in County Down, Northern Ireland, kills three members of the UDR.

2013 – A 6.1–magnitude earthquake strikes Iran killing 32 people and injuring over 850 people.

2013 – At least 13 people are killed and another three injured after a man goes on a spree shooting in the Serbian village of Velika Ivanča.

2014 – A student stabs 20 people at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, Pennsylvania.

2017 – The Palm Sunday church bombings at Coptic churches in Tanta and Alexandria, Egypt, take place. At least 45 people were reported killed and 126 injured.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 1148 days

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 547 days.

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[Apocalyptic Calendar]                               January-March  /  July-September  /  October-December

1955 – The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.

1965 – The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people.

1986 – FBI Miami Shootout: A gun battle in broad daylight in Dade County, Florida between two bank/armored car robbers and pursuing FBI agents. During the firefight, two FBI agents  were killed, while five other agents were wounded. 

1993 – Four hundred fifty prisoners rioted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, citing grievances related to prison conditions. One corrections officer and nine inmates were killed during the riot.

2002 – The Ghriba synagogue bombing by al-Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia.

2002 – Over two hundred thousand people march in Caracas towards the presidential palace to demand the resignation of President Hugo Chávez. Nineteen protesters are killed.

2007 – Algiers bombings: Two bombings in Algiers kill 33 people and wound a further 222 others.

2011 – An explosion in the Minsk Metro, Belarus kills 15 people and injures 204 others.

2012 – A pair of great earthquakes occur in the Wharton Basin west of Sumatra in Indonesia. The maximum Mercalli intensity of this strike-slip doublet earthquake is VII (Very strong). Ten are killed, twelve are injured, and a non-destructive tsunami is observed on the island of Nias.

2018 – An Ilyushin Il-76 which was owned and operated by the Algerian Air Force crashes near Boufarik, Algeria, killing 257.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 1150 days

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 549 days.

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[Apocalyptic Calendar]                               January-March  /  July-September  /  October-December

1873 – The Colfax massacre, in which more than 60 black men are murdered, takes place.

1919 – Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British Indian Army troops lead by Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer killed approx 379-1000 unarmed demonstrators including men and women in Amritsar, India; and approximately 1,500 injured.

1943 – World War II: The discovery of mass graves of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre is announced, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government-in-exile in London and the Soviet Union, which denies responsibility.

1945 – World War II: German troops kill more than 1,000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen, Germany.

1948 – In an ambush, 78 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital, and a British soldier, are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarrah. This event came to be known as the Hadassah medical convoy massacre.

1975 – An attack by the Phalangist resistance kills 26 militia members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, marking the start of the 15-year Lebanese Civil War.

1976 – Forty workers die in an explosion at the Lapua ammunition factory, the deadliest accidental disaster in modern history in Finland.

1996 – Two women and four children are killed after Israeli helicopter fired rockets at an ambulance in Mansouri, Lebanon.

2017 – The US drops the largest ever non-nuclear weapon on Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan.

2022 – Days of heavy rain across southeastern South Africa led to deadly floods. Particularly hard-hit were areas in and around Durban. At least 306 people have been reported dead, and several thousand homes were damaged or destroyed.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 1152 days

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 551 days.

2024 – Twelve people are killed after a tourist boat sinks near Qinhuangdao, Hebei.

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[Apocalyptic Calendar]                               January-March  /  July-September  /  October-December

1715 – The Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.

1865 – President Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth. Vice President Andrew Johnson becomes President upon Lincoln's death.

1912 – The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,224 passengers and crew on board survive.

1920 – Two security guards are murdered during a robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts. Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti would be convicted of and executed for the crime, amid much controversy.

1941 – In the Belfast Blitz, two hundred bombers of the German Luftwaffe attack Belfast, killing around one thousand people.

1969 – The EC-121 shootdown incident: North Korea shoots down a United States Navy aircraft over the Sea of Japan, killing all 31 on board.

1970 – During the Cambodian Civil War, massacre of the Vietnamese minority results in 800 bodies flowing down the Mekong river into South Vietnam.

1986 – The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon, its bombing raids against Libyan targets in response to a discotheque bombing in West Germany that killed two U.S. servicemen.

1989 – Hillsborough disaster: A human crush occurs at Hillsborough Stadium, home of Sheffield Wednesday, in the FA Cup Semi-final, resulting in the deaths of 97 Liverpool fans.

2002 – Air China Flight 129 crashes on approach to Gimhae International Airport in Busan, South Korea, killing 129 people.

2013 – Two bombs explode near the finish line at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, killing three people and injuring 264 others.

2013 – A wave of bombings across Iraq kills at least 75 people.

2014 – In the worst massacre of the South Sudanese Civil War, at least 200 civilians are gunned down after seeking refuge in houses of worship as well as hospitals.

2019 – The cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris in France is seriously damaged by a large fire.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 1154 days

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 553 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                               January-March  /  July-September  /  October-December

1912 – Russian troops open fire on striking goldfield workers in northeast Siberia, killing at least 150.

1961 – Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.

1992 – The Katina P  is deliberately run aground off Maputo, Mozambique, and 60,000 tons of crude oil spill into the ocean.

2006 – A Palestinian suicide bomber detonates an explosive device in a Tel Aviv restaurant, killing 11 people and injuring 70.

2013 – An explosion at a fertilizer plant in the city of West, Texas, kills 15 people and injures 160 others.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 1156 days

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 555 days.

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[Apocalyptic Calendar]                               January-March  /  July-September  /  October-December

1506 – The Lisbon Massacre begins, in which accused Jews are slaughtered by Portuguese Catholics.

1608 – In Ireland: O'Doherty's Rebellion is launched by the Burning of Derry.

1903 – The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world.

1943 – World War II: In German-occupied Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins, after German troops enter the Warsaw Ghetto to round up the remaining Jews.

1989 – A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors.

1993 – The 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian building in Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Seventy-six Davidians, including eighteen children under the age of ten, died in the fire.

1995 –  Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, USA, is bombed, killing 168 people including 19 children under the age of six.

2000 – Air Philippines Flight 541 crashes in Samal, Davao del Norte, killing all 131 people on board.

2020 – A killing spree in Nova Scotia, Canada, leaves 22 people and the perpetrator dead, making it the deadliest rampage in the country's history.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 1158 days

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 557 days.

2023 – At least 90 people are killed and 322 others are injured in a crowd crush in Sanaa, Yemen.

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[Apocalyptic Calendar]                               January-March  /  July-September  /  October-December

1506 – The three-day Lisbon Massacre comes to an end with the slaughter of over 1,900 suspected Jews by Portuguese Catholics.

1802 – Twelve thousand Wahhabis sack Karbala, killing over three thousand inhabitants.

1958 – United Airlines Flight 736 collides with a United States Air Force fighter jet near Arden, Nevada in what is now Enterprise, Nevada.

1987 – The Tamil Tigers are blamed for a car bomb that detonates in the Sri Lankan capital city of Colombo, killing 106 people.

2004 – Five suicide car bombers target police stations in and around Basra, killing 74 people and wounding 160.

2012 – Two trains are involved in a head-on collision near Sloterdijk, Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, injuring 116 people.

2014 – The American city of Flint, Michigan switches its water source to the Flint River, beginning the ongoing Flint water crisis which has caused lead poisoning in up to 12,000 people, and 15 deaths from Legionnaires disease, ultimately leading to criminal indictments against 15 people, five of whom have been charged with involuntary manslaughter.2019 – Eight bombs explode at churches, hotels, and other locations in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday; more than 250 people are killed.

2021 – Indonesian Navy submarine KRI Nanggala (402) sinks in the Bali Sea during a military drill, killing all 53 on board.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 1160 days

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 559 days.