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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.

1973 – The UpStairs Lounge arson attack takes place at a gay bar located on the second floor of the three-story building at 141 Chartres Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Thirty-two people die as a result of fire or smoke inhalation.

1975 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 66 encounters severe wind shear and crashes on final approach to New York's JFK Airport killing 113 of the 124 passengers on board, making it the deadliest U.S. plane crash at the time. This accident led to decades of research into downburst and microburst phenomena and their effects on aircraft.

2002 – The Igandu train disaster in Tanzania kills 281, the worst train accident in African history.

2012 – Death of Lonesome George, the last known individual of Chelonoidis nigra abingdonii, a subspecies of the Galápagos tortoise.

2021 – The Champlain Towers South condominium in Surfside, Florida suffers a sudden partial collapse, killing 98 people inside.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 1224 days

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 623 days.

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1944 – World War II: San Marino, a neutral state, is mistakenly bombed by the RAF based on faulty information, leading to 35 civilian deaths.

1944 – World War II: The Battle of Osuchy in Osuchy, Poland, one of the largest battles between Nazi Germany and Polish resistance forces, ends with the defeat of the latter.

1975 – Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.

1978 – Air Canada Flight 189, flying to Toronto, overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of the 107 passengers on board perish.

1981 – Dan-Air Flight 240, flying to East Midlands Airport, crashes in Nailstone, Leicestershire. All three crew members perish.

1988 – The first crash of an Airbus A320 occurs when Air France Flight 296Q crashes at Mulhouse–Habsheim Airfield in Habsheim, France, during an air show, killing three of the 136 people on board.

2008 – A suicide bomber dressed as an Iraqi policeman detonates an explosive vest, killing 25 people.

2012 – The Waldo Canyon fire descends into the Mountain Shadows neighborhood in Colorado Springs burning 347 homes in a matter of hours and killing two people.

2013 – Riots in China's Xinjiang region kill at least 36 people and injure 21 others.

2015 – Five different terrorist attacks in France, Tunisia, Somalia, Kuwait, and Syria occurred on what was dubbed Bloody Friday by international media. Upwards of 750 people were either killed or injured in these uncoordinated attacks. 

2022 –  21 teenagers die during celebrations at the Enyobeni Tavern, a shebeen in East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Four more people were injured. No official causes of death have been publicly released as of seven days after the incident.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 1226 days

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 625 days.

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

1896 – An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners.

1904 – The SS Norge runs aground on Hasselwood Rock in the North Atlantic 430 kilometres (270 mi) northwest of Ireland. More than 635 people die during the sinking.

1914 – Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated  in Sarajevo; this is the casus belli of World War I.

1950 – Korean War: Suspected communist sympathizers (between 60,000 and 200,000) are executed in the Bodo League massacre..

1981 – A powerful bomb explodes in Tehran, killing 73 officials of the Islamic Republican Party

1982 – Aeroflot Flight 8641 crashes in Mazyr, Belarus, killing 132 people.

2016 – A terrorist attack in Turkey's Istanbul Atatürk Airport kills 42 people and injures more than 230 others.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 1228 days

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 627 days.

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

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1900 – A savage fire wrecked three steamships docked at a pier in Hoboken, New Jersey. Over 200 crew members and passengers are killed, and hundreds injured.

1912 – The Regina Cyclone, Canada's deadliest tornado event, kills 28 people in Regina, Saskatchewan.

1956 – A TWA Super Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7 collide above the Grand Canyon in Arizona and crash, killing all 128 on board both airliners.

1959 – A United States Air Force F-100 Super Sabre from Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, crashes  into a nearby elementary school, killing 11 students plus six residents from the local neighborhood.

1963 – Ciaculli bombing:  a car bomb, intended for Mafia boss Salvatore Greco, kills seven police officers and military personnel near Palermo.

1971 – The crew of the Soviet Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply escapes through a faulty valve.

1994 – During a test flight of an Airbus A330-300 at Toulouse–Blagnac Airport, the aircraft crashes killing all seven people on board.

2009 – Yemenia Flight 626, an Airbus A310-300, crashes into the Indian Ocean near Comoros, killing 152 of the 153 people on board. A 14-year-old girl named Bahia Bakari survives the crash.

2013 – Nineteen firefighters die controlling a wildfire near Yarnell, Arizona.

2015 – A Hercules C-130 military aircraft with 113 people on board crashes in a residential area in Medan, Indonesia, resulting in at least 116 deaths.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 1230 days

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 629 days.

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

1979 – A Soviet bio-warfare laboratory at Sverdlovsk  accidentally releases airborne anthrax spores, killing 66 plus an unknown amount of livestock.

1982 – Falklands War: Argentina invades the Falkland Islands.

1992 – Forty-two civilians are massacred in the town of Bijeljina in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

2006 – Over 60 tornadoes break out in the United States; Tennessee is hardest hit with 29 people killed.

2012 – A mass shooting at Oikos University  in California leaves seven people dead and three injured.

2014 – A spree shooting occurs at the Fort Hood army base in Texas, with four dead, including the gunman, and 16 others injured.

2015 – Gunmen attack Garissa University College in Kenya, killing at least 148 people and wounding 79 others.

2020 – COVID-19 pandemic: The total number of confirmed cases reach 1 million.

2021 – At least 49 people are killed in a train derailment in Taiwan after a truck accidentally rolls onto the track.

2021 – A Capitol Police officer is killed and another injured  when an attacker rams his car into a barricade outside the United States Capitol.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 1499 days.

 2024 –  An Israeli strike kills seven World Central Kitchen workers, Citizens from Australia, Britain and Poland were among those killed in an Israeli air raid in central Gaza.

2026 – Israel and the United States launch strikes on Iran. The war in the Middle East is ongoing for 33 days.

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

1905 – An earthquake hit the Kangra Valley in India, killing more than 20,000 people and destroying most buildings in Kangra, McLeod Ganj, and Dharamshala.

1933 – U.S. Navy airship USS Akron is wrecked off the New Jersey coast due to severe weather, killing 73 of the 76 crewmen and passengers.

1944 – World War II: First bombardment of oil refineries in Bucharest by Anglo-American forces kills 3000 civilians.

1968 – Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

1977 – Southern Airways Flight 242 crashes in New Hope, Paulding County, Georgia, killing 72.

1991 – Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with their airplane over an elementary school in Merion, Pennsylvania.

1991 – Forty-one people are taken hostage inside a Good Guys! Electronics store in Sacramento, California. 3 of the hostage takers and 3 hostages are killed

1994 – Three people are killed when KLM Cityhopper Flight 433 crashes at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.

2010 – A magnitude 7.2 earthquake hits south of the Mexico-USA border, killing two and damaging buildings across the two countries.

2013 – More than 70 people are killed in a building collapse in Thane, India.

2017 – Syria conducts an air strike on Khan Shaykhun using chemical weapons, killing 89 civilians.

2020 – China holds a national day of mourning for martyrs who died in the fight against the novel coronavirus disease outbreak.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 1501 days.

2026 – Israel and the United States launch strikes on Iran. The war in the Middle East is ongoing for 35 days.

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

1936 – Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hits Gainesville, Georgia, killing 203.

1958 – Capital Airlines Flight 67 crashes into Saginaw Bay near Freeland, Michigan, killing 47.

1968 – In the downtown district of Richmond, Indiana, a double explosion kills 41 and injures 150.

1970 – Newhall massacre: Four California Highway Patrol officers are killed in a shootout.

1994 – The Rwandan genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down.

1997 – In Greene County, Tennessee, the Lillelid murders occur.

1998 – Nuclear weapons testing: Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of reaching India.

2009 – A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes near L'Aquila, Italy, killing 307.

2010 – Maoist rebels kill 76 CRPF officers in Dantewada district, India.

2011 – In San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, over 193 victims of Los Zetas were exhumed from several mass graves.

2018 – A bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos junior ice hockey team collides with a semi-truck in Saskatchewan, Canada, killing 16 people and injuring 13 others.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 1503 days.

2026 – Israel and the United States launch strikes on Iran. The war in the Middle East is ongoing for 37 days.

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

1943 – Otto and Elise Hampel are executed in Berlin for their anti-Nazi activities.

1945 – World War II: After an air raid accidentally destroys a train carrying about 4,000 Nazi concentration camp internees in Prussian Hanover, the survivors are massacred by Nazis.

1954 – A Royal Canadian Air Force Canadair Harvard collides with a Trans-Canada Airlines Canadair North Star over Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, killing 37 people.

1954 – South African Airways Flight 201, a de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1 crashes into the sea during night killing 21 people.

1968 – BOAC Flight 712 catches fire shortly after takeoff. After an emergency landing, five of the 127 on board die due to the fire.

1970 – Bahr El-Baqar primary school bombing: Israeli bombers accidentally strike an Egyptian school. Forty-six children are killed.

2006 – Shedden massacre: The bodies of eight men, all shot to death, are found in a field in Shedden, Elgin County, Ontario. The murders are soon linked to the Bandidos Motorcycle Club.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 1505 days.

2025 –  A nightclub roof collapse in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, kills 226 people.

2026 – Israel and the United States launch strikes on Iran. While the US and Iran agree on a 14-day ceasefire, Israel continues to bomb Hisbollah in Libanon. The war in the Middle East is ongoing. for 39 days. 

2026 – The heaviest Israeli attacks on Lebanon so far kill at least 357 people, hours after a ceasefire is announced in the region.

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

1815 – Mount Tambora in Indonesia began the most powerful volcanic eruption in recorded history, killing at least 71,000 people and affecting temperatures worldwide.

1826 – The 10,500 inhabitants of the Greek town of Missolonghi begin leaving the town after a year's siege by Turkish forces. Very few of them survive.

1900 – British suffer a sharp defeat by the Boers south of Brandfort. 600 British troops are killed and wounded and 800 taken prisoner.[3]

1919 – Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata was shot to death near Ciudad Ayala, Morelos.

1963 – The U.S. Navy nuclear submarine USS Thresher (SSN-593) sank with all hands lost during deep-diving tests in the North Atlantic Ocean. One hundred twenty-nine American sailors die.

1968 – The TEV Wahine, a New Zealand ferry sinks in Wellington harbour due to a fierce storm – the strongest winds ever in Wellington. Out of the 734 people on board, fifty-three died.

1992 – First Nagorno-Karabakh War: Dozens of Armenian civilians were massacred in the village of Maraga by Azerbaijani forces.

1973 – Invicta International Airlines Flight 435 crashes in a snowstorm on approach to Basel, Switzerland, killing 108 people.

1979 – Red River Valley tornado outbreak: A tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people.

1991 – Italian ferry MS Moby Prince collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy, killing 140.

2010 – Polish Air Force Tu-154M crashes near Smolensk, Russia, killing 96 people, including Polish President Lech Kaczyński, his wife, and dozens of other senior officials and dignitaries.

2016 – The Paravur temple accident in which a devastating fire caused by the explosion of firecrackers stored for Vishu, kills more than one hundred people out of the thousands gathered for seventh day of Bhadrakali worship.

2016 – An earthquake of 6.6 magnitude strikes 39 km west-southwest of Ashkasham, shakes up India, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Srinagar and Pakistan.

2022 – A bandit gang killed over 150 people in a series of attacks in Plateau State, Nigeria, linked to the Nigerian bandit conflict. About 70 people were kidnapped in the attacks.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 1507 days.

2026 – Israel and the United States launch strikes on Iran. While the US and Iran agree on a 14-day ceasefire, Israel continues to bomb Libanon. The war in the Middle East is ongoing for 41 days.

2026 – At least 10 people are killed and several others are injured after gunmen open fire in Injil District, Herat Province, Afghanistan.

2026 – At least 10 people are killed, 13 others are injured and several are reported missing when a boat carrying a group of devotees capsizes in the Yamuna river in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India.

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1822 – Greek War of Independence: Ottoman troops began  a massacre of tens of thousands of Greeks on the island of Chios.

1927 – Rocksprings, Texas is hit by an F5 tornado that destroys 235 of the 247 buildings in the town, kills 72 townspeople and injures 205; third deadliest tornado in Texas history.

1970 – Soviet submarine K-8, carrying four nuclear torpedoes, sinks in the Bay of Biscay four days after a fire on board. Fifty-two crewmen were killed attempting the salvage of the boat when it sank

1980 – Transbrasil Flight 303, a Boeing 727, crashes on approach to Hercílio Luz International Airport, in Florianópolis, Brazil. Fifty-five out of the 58 people on board are killed.

2002 – A suicide bomber blows herself up at the entrance to Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda Market, killing seven people and wounding 104.

2007 – A suicide bomber penetrates the Green Zone and detonates in a cafeteria within a parliament building, killing Iraqi MP Mohammed Awad and wounding more than twenty other people.

2010 – Merano derailment: A rail accident in South Tyrol kills nine people and injures a further 28.

2013 – Two suicide bombers kill three Chadian soldiers and injure dozens of civilians at a market in Kidal, Mali.

2014 – The Great Fire of Valparaíso ravages the Chilean city of Valparaíso, killing 16 people, displacing nearly 10,000, and destroying over 2,000 homes.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 1509 days.

2026 – Israel and the United States launch strikes on Iran. While the US and Iran agree on a 14-day ceasefire, Israel continues to bomb Libanon. The war in the Middle East is ongoing for 43 days.

2026 – The Afghan disaster authority says that the death toll from recent floods in Afghanistan rises to 178 with 236 people injured, including 22 more deaths recorded in 24 hours.

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

1909 – A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.

1912 – The British passenger liner MS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th).

1935 – The Black Sunday dust storm, considered one of the worst storms of the Dust Bowl, swept across the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles and neighboring areas.

1944 – Bombay explosion: A massive explosion in Bombay harbor kills 300 and causes economic damage valued then at 20 million pounds.

1986 – The heaviest hailstones ever recorded (1 kilogram (2.2 lb) fall on the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing 92.

1994 – In a U.S. friendly fire incident during Operation Provide Comfort in northern Iraq, two United States Air Force aircraft mistakenly shoot-down two United States Army helicopters, killing 26 people.

1999 – NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees. Yugoslav officials say 75 people were killed.

1999 – A severe hailstorm strikes Sydney, Australia causing A$2.3 billion in insured damages, the most costly natural disaster in Australian history.

2006 – Twin blasts triggered by crude bombs during Asr prayer in Jama Masjid, Delhi injure 13 people.

2010 – Nearly 2,700 are killed in a magnitude 6.9 earthquake in the Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.

2014 – Twin bomb blasts in Abuja, Nigeria, kill at least 75 people and injures 141 others.

2014 – Two hundred seventy-six schoolgirls are abducted by Boko Haram in Chibok, Nigeria.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 1511 days.

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

2026 – Israel and the United States launch strikes on Iran. While the US and Iran agree on a ceasefire until April 21, Israel continues to bomb Libanon. The war in the Middle East is ongoing for 45 days.

2024 –  Flooding in the Persian Gulf and Arabian Peninsula leaves more than thirty people dead

2026 – Israel and the United States launch strikes on Iran. While the US and Iran agree on a 14-day ceasefire, Israel continues to bomb Libanon. The war in the Middle East is ongoing for 45 days.

2026 – At least 14 people are killed and 20 others are injured in an explosion at a privately-owned power station in Chhattisgarh, India. 

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

1925 – During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, Bulgaria, 150 are killed and 500 are wounded.

1944 – World War II: Allied forces start bombing Belgrade, killing about 1,100 people. This bombing fell on the Orthodox Christian Easter.

1945 – More than 7,000 die when the German transport ship Goya is sunk by a Soviet submarine.

1947 – An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600.

1996 – Israel strikes a civilian house in Nabatieh Fawka, Lebanon, killing nine people, including seven children.

2007 – Virginia Tech shooting: Seung-Hui Cho guns down 32 people and injures 17 before committing suicide.

2013 – A 7.8-magnitude earthquake strikes Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran, killing at least 35 people and injuring 117 others.

2013 – The 2013 Baga massacre is started when Boko Haram militants engage government soldiers in Baga.

2014 – The South Korean ferry MV Sewol capsizes and sinks near Jindo Island, killing 304 passengers and crew and leading to widespread criticism of the South Korean government, media, and shipping authorities.

2016 – Ecuador's worst earthquake in nearly 40 years kills 676 and injures 6,274.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 1513 days.

2026 – Israel and the United States launch strikes on Iran. While the US and Iran agree on a 14-day ceasefire, Israel continues to bomb Libanon. The war in the Middle East is ongoing for 47 days.

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

1902 – The 7.5 Mw  Guatemala earthquake shakes Guatemala with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing between 800 and 2,000.

1906 – An earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 1515 days.

2026 – Israel and the United States launch strikes on Iran. While the US and Iran agree on a 14-day ceasefire, Israel followed with an agreement for a 10-day ceasefire with Libanon. The conflict in the Middle East is ongoing for 49 days.

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

1914 – Nineteen men, women, and children participating in a strike are killed in the Ludlow Massacre during the Colorado Coalfield War.

1945 – Twenty Jewish children used in medical experiments at Neuengamme are killed in the basement of the Bullenhuser Damm school.

1961 – Cold War: Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba.

1998 – Air France Flight 422 crashes after taking off from El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá, Colombia, killing all 53 people on board.

1999 –  Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 13 people and injure 24 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado.

2010 – The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig  explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers and beginning an oil spill that would last six months.

2012 – One hundred twenty-seven people are killed when a plane crashes in a residential area near the Benazir Bhutto International Airport near Islamabad, Pakistan.

2013 – A 6.6-magnitude earthquake strikes Lushan County, Ya'an, in China's Sichuan province, killing more than 150 people and injuring thousands.

2015 – Ten people are killed in a bomb attack on a convoy carrying food supplies to a United Nations compound in Garowe in the Somali region of Puntland.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 1517 days.

2026 – Israel and the United States launch strikes on Iran. While the US and Iran agree on a 14-day ceasefire, Israel followed with an agreement for a 10-day ceasefire with Libanon. The conflict in the Middle East is ongoing for 50 days.

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

1915 – World War I: The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.

1945 – World War II: Prisoners at the Jasenovac concentration camp. Five hundred twenty are killed and around eighty escape.

1974 – Pan Am Flight 812 crashes on approach to Ngurah Rai International Airport in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, killing all 107 people on board.

1992 – A series of gas explosions rip through the streets in Guadalajara, Mexico, killing 206.

1993 – Eighteen-year-old Stephen Lawrence is murdered in a racially motivated attack while waiting for a bus in Well Hall, Eltham.

2020 – Four police officers are killed after being struck by a truck on the Eastern Freeway in Melbourne while speaking to a speeding driver, marking the largest loss of police lives in Victoria Police history.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 1519 days.

2024 – Heavy rain triggers flooding in Guangdong Province, causing around 10 deaths and 110,000 evacuations.

2025 – Militants attack a group of tourists in Indian-administered Kashmir, killing 26 people.

2026 – Israel and the United States launch strikes on Iran. The US and Iran agree on an extension of the ceasefire. The conflict in the Middle East is ongoing for 52 days.

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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 1521 days.

2026 – Israel and the United States launch strikes on Iran. While the US and Iran agree on an extension of the ceasefire, Israel followed with an agreement for a new 3-weeks ceasefire with Libanon. The conflict in the Middle East is ongoing for 55 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 1523 days.

2026 – Israel and the United States launch strikes on Iran. While the US and Iran agree on an extension of the ceasefire, Israel followed with an agreement for a new 3-weeks ceasefire with Libanon. The conflict in the Middle East is ongoing for 55 days, however for now on standby.

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

2025 –  An explosion and fire at the Port of Shahid Rajaee, Iran, kills at least 40 people and injures more than 1,200 others

.2025 –  At least 11 people are killed in a car-ramming attack at a street festival in Vancouver, Canada.

2026 – Gunmen kill at least 29 people in an attack on a community in Adamawa State, Nigeria, with authorities attributing the violence to Boko Haram. 

2026 – The death toll from a bombing that damaged multiple vehicles on the Pan-American Highway in Cauca Department, Colombia, rises to 20, with 36 others injured.

[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 1525 days. 

2026 – Seven people are killed and 13 others are injured in a fire at a private construction site in Aeroport District, Moscow, Russia. 

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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 1527 days.

2026 –  Nine people are killed, including two children, when a cruise boat capsizes in the Bargi Dam in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India.
 

[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 1529 days.

2026 –  Sixteen people are killed and 21 others are injured when a truck carrying bamboo overturns in Naypyidaw, Myanmar. 
 

2026 –  At least nine people are killed and several others are injured in a fire at a four-story residential building in Vivek Vihar, Shahdara district, Delhi, India. 
 

2026 –  Six people are killed and five others are rescued in a fire at a massage parlor in Lingbao City, Henan, China. 
 

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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.

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.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 1531 days.

2026 – Twenty-six people are killed and 61 others are injured in an explosion at a fireworks plant in Liuyang, Hunan, China. 

2026 – Nine miners are killed and six others are rescued after an explosion at a mine in Sutatausa, Cundinamarca Department, Colombia.

2026 – Eight people are killed in a road accident in Dandong, Liaoning, China. 

2026 – Seven people are killed and 13 others critically injured in a collision between a bus and trailer on a road between Arua and Kampala, Uganda. 

[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.

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

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 1533 days.

2026 –  At least 35 people are killed in coordinated attacks in central Mali that are claimed by Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin.

2026 –  The Sudan Doctors Network says that the death toll from drone strikes launched yesterday by the Rapid Support Forces in Kosti, White Nile has risen to 235 after laboratory doctor Adel Musa al-Tijani was killed in the drone strike. 

2026 –  At least 16 people are killed and four others are injured when a passenger bus crashes into a tanker truck in Sumatra, Indonesia.

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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 1535 days.

2026 –  Three hikers are killed, two are missing and 15 more rescued after the eruption of Mount Dukono on Halmahera, Indonesia.

2026 –  Forty people are killed and homes are burned by Allied Democratic Forces militants during attacks in North Kivu and Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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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 1537 days.

2026 – Israeli attacks kill at least 39 people in Lebanon despite a ceasefire that took effect last month. The Israeli Defense Forces states that the target was an armed Hezbollah group.

2026 – At least 40 Nigerian fishermen are feared dead from Chadian airstrikes targeting suspected Boko Haram positions by Lake Chad.

[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 1539 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 1541 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 1543 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.

2025 –  A tornado outbreak leaves at least 27 people dead in the Midwestern and Southeastern United States.

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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 1545 days. 

2026 –  At least 13 people are killed and more than 20 others are injured, most seriously, when a tempo carrying wedding guests collides with a container truck on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad Highway in Palghar district, Maharashtra, India. 

2026 –  Five students drown while swimming in the Lô River in Phú Thọ province, Vietnam. 

2026 –  Six people are killed and eight others are injured in a shooting spree, including one inside a restaurant, in Mersin, Mediterranean Region, Turkey. A widespread manhunt is underway to catch the suspect.

[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 1547 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 1549 days.

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

2026 –  At least 20 people are killed in a mass shooting at a ranch in the village of Rigores, Trujillo, Colón Department, Honduras. In a separate incident, five police officers and three alleged gang members are killed in a shootout in the village of Corinto, Omoa, Cortés Department. 

[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 1551 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. 

2026 – Twenty seven people are killed after a nine-storey building, under construction as a condo-hotel, collapses in Angeles, Pampanga, Philippines. At least 26 people are rescued. 

2026 – A suicide bombing targeting a shuttle train in Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan, kills at least 47 people.

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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 1553 days. 

2026 –  Four people, including two children, are killed, and five more are injured in a collision between a train and a school bus in Buggenhout, Belgium. 

2026 –  Six people are killed after entering an under-construction septic tank in Kalahandi District, India.

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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 1555 days.

2026 –  At least 19 people, including two children, are killed from Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon, as Israel intensifies its assault and issues mass displacement orders across the region.https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/28/israel-intensifies-attacks-on-southern-lebanon-killing-at-least-16-people

2026 – An Israeli military air raid kills ten people, including four children, in northern Gaza.

2026 – Clashes between FARC dissidents kill at least 48 people in Guaviare, Colombia, amid ongoing disputes over territorial and criminal control.

2026 – The death toll from the implosion of a white liquor paper mill in Longview, Cowlitz County, Washington, U.S., rises to 11.

2026 – Sixteen students are killed and 79 others injured in a fire in a dormitory at a girls school in Gilgil, Nakuru County, Kenya.

2026 – Thirteen people are killed and three others are injured when an overloaded passenger bus crashes into a large truck in Henan, China. 

[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 1557 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 1559 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 1561 days. 

2026 –  At least 21 people are killed and 40 others are injured in a fire at a building in New Delhi, India. 

[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 1563 days.

2026 – Around 350 people have been killed in South Darfur during clashes between the Beni Halba and Salamat tribes over the past 5 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 1565 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 1567 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 1569 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 1571 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 1573 days.

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

2026 – Thirty-one people are killed after a bus plunged into a ravine in Amhara Region, Ethiopia. 

2026 – A B-52 Stratofortress crashes shortly after takeoff at Edwards Air Force Base in Kern County, California, United States, killing eight. 

[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 1575 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 –  2026  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 1577 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.

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

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 620 days.

2025  –  At least eight people are dead following an accident involving a hot air balloon in Brazil’s southern region of Santa Catarina.

2022 –  2026  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 1579 days.