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1885 – The Congo Free State is established by King Leopold II of Belgium.

1916 – World War I: First day on the Somme: On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 19,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded. 

1942 –The Montevideo Maru was sunk by the American submarine USS Sturgeon, drowning 1,054 people, mostly Australian prisoners of war and civilians who were being transported from Rabaul, the former Australian territory of New Guinea, to Hainan. The sinking is considered the worst maritime disaster in Australia's history. The wreck of the Montevideo Maru was discovered on 18 April 2023.

1983 – A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea crashes into the Fouta Djallon mountains in Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board.

2002 – Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937, a Tupolev Tu-154, and DHL Flight 611, a Boeing 757, collide in mid-air over Überlingen, southern Germany, killing all 71 on board both planes.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 857 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 266 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1816 – The French frigate Méduse strikes the Bank of Arguin and 151 people on board have to be evacuated on an improvised raft, a case immortalised by Géricault's painting The Raft of the Medusa.

1822 – Thirty-five slaves, including Denmark Vesey, are hanged in South Carolina after being accused of organizing a slave rebellion.

1881 – Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James A. Garfield (who will die of complications from his wounds on September 19).

1940 – The  SS Arandora Star  is sunk by U-47 in the North Atlantic with the loss of over 800 lives, mostly civilians.

1966 – France conducts its first nuclear weapon test in the Pacific, on Moruroa Atoll.

1986 – Rodrigo Rojas and Carmen Gloria Quintana are burnt alive during a street demonstration against the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile.

1986 – Aeroflot Flight 2306 crashes while attempting an emergency landing at Syktyvkar Airport in Syktyvkar, in present-day Komi Republic, Russia, killing 54 people.

1990 – In the 1990 Mecca tunnel tragedy, 1,400 Muslim pilgrims are suffocated to death and trampled upon in a pedestrian tunnel leading to the holy city of Mecca.

1993 – The Sivas massacre refers to an act of mob arson taking place in 1993 at the Hotel Madımak in Sivas, Turkey, which resulted in the killing of 37 people, mostly Alevi intellectuals.

1994 – USAir Flight 1016 crashes near Charlotte Douglas International Airport, killing 37 of the 57 people on board.

2010 – The South Kivu tank truck explosion in the Democratic Republic of the Congo kills at least 230 people.

2013 – A magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes Aceh, Indonesia, killing at least 42 people and injuring 420 others

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 858 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 267 days.

2024 –  A stampede during a religious event in Uttar Pradesh, India, leaves at least 120 people dead.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1778 – American Revolutionary War: Iroquois allied to Britain kill 360 people in the Wyoming Valley massacre.

1970 – Dan-Air Flight 1903 crashes into the Les Agudes mountain in the Montseny Massif near the village of Arbúcies in Catalonia, Spain, killing all 112 people aboard.

1988 – United States Navy warship USS Vincennes shoots down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.

2022 – The Marmolada glacier tragedy is a new example of global warming's impact: Temperatures reached 10°C at this Italian Alpine peak, hours before the tons of ice and rock collapsed on Sunday. Seven people were killed, eight were wounded and five others are missing. The large-scale demolition of a glacier led to one of the most serious accidents in the Alps in recent decades.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 859 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 268 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1898 – En route from New York to Le Havre, the SS La Bourgogne collides with another ship and sinks off the coast of Sable Island, with the loss of 549 lives.

1910 – The Johnson–Jeffries riots occur after African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer Jim Jeffries in the 15th round. Between 11 and 26 people are killed and hundreds more injured.

1911 – A massive heat wave strikes the northeastern United States, killing 380 people in eleven days and breaking temperature records in several cities.

1941 – World War II: Burning of the Riga synagogues: The Great Choral Synagogue in German-occupied Riga is burnt with 300 Jews locked in the basement.

1943 – World War II: In Gibraltar, a Royal Air Force B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into the sea in an apparent accident moments after takeoff, killing sixteen passengers on board, including general Władysław Sikorski, the commander-in-chief of the Polish Army and the Prime Minister of the Polish government-in-exile; only the pilot survives.

1946 – The Kielce pogrom against Jewish Holocaust survivors in Poland.

1961 – On its maiden voyage, the Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-19 suffers a complete loss of coolant to its reactor. The crew are able to effect repairs, but 22 of them die of radiation poisoning over the following two years.

1976 – Israeli commandos raid Entebbe airport in Uganda, rescuing all but four of the passengers and crew of an Air France jetliner seized by Palestinian terrorists.

1982 – Three Iranian diplomats and a journalist are kidnapped in Lebanon by Phalange forces, and their fate remains unknown.

2001 – Vladivostock Air Flight 352 crashes on approach to Irkutsk Airport killing all 145 people on board.

2002 – A Boeing 707 crashes near Bangui M'Poko International Airport in Bangui, Central African Republic, killing 28.

2009 – The first of four days of bombings begins on the southern Philippine island group of Mindanao.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 860 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 269 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1934 – "Bloody Thursday": the police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco.

1970 – Air Canada Flight 621 crashes in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, killing all 109 people on board.

1973 – A boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion (BLEVE) in Kingman, Arizona, following a fire that broke out as propane was being transferred from a railroad car to a storage tank, kills eleven firefighters.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 861 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 270 days.

2024 –  Hurricane Beryl, the earliest-recorded Category 5 Atlantic hurricane, leaves at least 12 people dead in the Caribbean and Venezuela.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1892 – Three thousand eight hundred striking steelworkers engage in a day-long battle with Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Strike, leaving ten dead and dozens wounded.

1944 – The Hartford circus fire, one of America's worst fire disasters, kills approximately 168 people and injures over 700 in Hartford, Connecticut.

1988 – The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires. One hundred sixty-seven oil workers are killed, making it the world's worst offshore oil disaster in terms of direct loss of life.

1989 – The Tel Aviv–Jerusalem bus 405 suicide attack: Sixteen bus passengers are killed when a member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad took control of the bus and drove it over a cliff.

1996 – A McDonnell Douglas MD-88 operating as Delta Air Lines Flight 1288 experiences a turbine engine failure during takeoff from Pensacola International Airport, killing two and injuring five of the 147 people on board.

2013 – At least 42 people are killed in a shooting at a school in Yobe State, Nigeria.

2013 – A Boeing 777 operating as Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crashes at San Francisco International Airport, killing three and injuring 181 of the 307 people on board.

2013 – A 73-car oil train derails in the town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec and explodes into flames, killing at least 47 people and destroying more than 30 buildings in the town's central area.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 862 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 271 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1962 –  Alitalia Flight 771 crashes in Junnar, Maharashtra, India, killing 94 people.

1980 – During the Lebanese Civil War, 83 Tiger militants are killed during what will be known as the Safra massacre.

2005 – A series of four explosions occurs on London's transport system, killing 56 people, including four suicide bombers, and injuring over 700 others.

2012 – At least 172 people are killed in a flash flood in the Krasnodar Krai region of Russia.

2013 – A De Havilland Otter air taxi crashes in Soldotna, Alaska, killing ten people.

2016 – Ex-US Army soldier Micah Xavier Johnson shoots fourteen policemen during an anti-police protest in downtown Dallas, Texas, killing five of them. He is subsequently killed by a robot-delivered bomb.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 863 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 272 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1962 –  Alitalia Flight 771 crashes in Junnar, Maharashtra, India, killing 94 people.

1980 – During the Lebanese Civil War, 83 Tiger militants are killed during what will be known as the Safra massacre.

2005 – A series of four explosions occurs on London's transport system, killing 56 people, including four suicide bombers, and injuring over 700 others.

2012 – At least 172 people are killed in a flash flood in the Krasnodar Krai region of Russia.

2013 – A De Havilland Otter air taxi crashes in Soldotna, Alaska, killing ten people.

2016 – Ex-US Army soldier Micah Xavier Johnson shoots fourteen policemen during an anti-police protest in downtown Dallas, Texas, killing five of them. He is subsequently killed by a robot-delivered bomb.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 864 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 273 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

551 – A major earthquake strikes Beirut, triggering a devastating tsunami that affected the coastal towns of Byzantine Phoenicia, causing thousands of deaths.

869 – The 8.4–9.0 Mw Sanriku earthquake strikes the area around Sendai in northern Honshu, Japan. Inundation from the tsunami extended several kilometers inland.

1821 – Four hundred and seventy prominent Cypriots including Archbishop Kyprianos are executed in response to Cypriot aid to the Greek War of Independence.

1918 – In Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with an outbound express,, killing 101 and injuring 171 people, making it the deadliest rail accident in United States history.

1956 – The 7.7 Mw  Amorgos earthquake shakes the Cyclades island group in the Aegean Sea with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). The shaking and the destructive tsunami that followed left fifty-three people dead. A damaging M7.2 aftershock occurred minutes after the mainshock.

1958 – A 7.8 Mw  strike-slip earthquake in Alaska causes a landslide that produces a megatsunami. The runup from the waves reached 525 m (1,722 ft) on the rim of Lituya Bay; five people were killed.

1982 – Pan Am Flight 759 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana, killing all 145 people on board and eight others on the ground.

1995 – The Navaly church bombing is carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force killing 125 Tamil civilian refugees.

2006 – One hundred and twenty-five people are killed when S7 Airlines Flight 778, an Airbus A310 passenger jet, veers off the runway while landing in wet conditions at Irkutsk Airport in Siberia.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 865 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 274 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1212 – The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.

1921 – Belfast's Bloody Sunday: Sixteen people are killed and 161 houses destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

1941 – Jedwabne pogrom: Massacre of Polish Jews living in and near the village of Jedwabne.

1985 – The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk  in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira.

1985 – An Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-154 stalls and crashes near Uchkuduk, Uzbekistan (then part of the Soviet Union), killing all 200 people on board in the USSR's worst-ever airline disaster.

1991 – A Beechcraft Model 99 crashes near Birmingham Municipal Airport (now Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport) in Birmingham, Alabama, killing 13 of the 15 people on board.

2006 – A Pakistan International Airlines Fokker F27 Friendship crashes near Multan International Airport, killing all 45 people on board.

2011 – Russian cruise ship Bulgaria sinks in Volga near Syukeyevo, Tatarstan, causing 122 deaths.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 866 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 275 days.

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[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1943 – Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army within the Reichskommissariat Ukraine (Volhynia) peak.

1973 – Varig Flight 820 crashes near Paris, France on approach to Orly Airport, killing 123 of the 134 on board. In response, the FAA bans smoking in airplane lavatories.

1978 – Los Alfaques disaster: A truck carrying liquid gas crashes and explodes at a coastal campsite in Tarragona, Spain killing 216 tourists.

1979 – A Garuda Indonesian Airways Fokker F28 airliner on a domestic flight in Indonesia from Talang Betutu Airport, Palembang, to Polonia International Airport, Medan, struck Mount Sibayak at 5,560 feet (1,690 m) on approach to landing, and crashed with no survivors from the 61 occupants.

1983 – A TAME airline Boeing 737–200 crashes near Cuenca, Ecuador, killing all 119 passengers and crew on board.

1991 – Nigeria Airways Flight 2120 crashes in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia killing all 261 passengers and crew on board.

1995 – Yugoslav Wars: Srebrenica massacre begins; lasts until 22 July.

2006 – Mumbai train bombings: Two hundred nine people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India.

2010 – The Islamist militia group Al-Shabaab carried out multiple suicide bombings in Kampala, Uganda, killing 74 people and injuring 85 others.

2011 – Ninety-eight containers of explosives self-detonate killing 13 people in Zygi, Cyprus.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 867 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 276 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1918 – The Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Kawachi blows up at Shunan, western Honshu, Japan, killing at least 621.

1961 – Indian city Pune floods due to failure of the Khadakwasla and Panshet dams, killing at least two thousand people.

1961 – ČSA Flight 511 crashes at Casablanca–Anfa Airport in Morocco, killing 72.

1963 – Pauline Reade, 16, disappears in Gorton, England, the first victim in the Moors murders..

1967 – Riots begin in Newark, New Jersey.

1995 – Chinese seismologists successfully predict the 1995 Myanmar–China earthquake, reducing the number of casualties to 11.

1998 – The Ulster Volunteer Force attacked a house in Ballymoney, County Antrim, Northern Ireland with a petrol bomb, killing the Quinn brothers.

2007 – U.S. Army Apache helicopters engage in airstrikes against armed insurgents in Baghdad, Iraq, where civilians are killed; footage from the cockpit is later leaked to the Internet.

2012 – Syrian Civil War: Government forces target the homes of rebels and activists  in Tremseh and kill anywhere between 68 and 150 people.

2012 – A tank truck explosion kills more than 100 people in Okobie, Nigeria.

2013 – Six people are killed and 200 injured in a French passenger train derailment in Brétigny-sur-Orge.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 868 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 277 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1863 – New York City draft riots: In New York City, opponents of conscription begin three days of rioting which will be later regarded as the worst in United States history.

1977 – New York City: Amidst a period of financial and social turmoil experiences an electrical blackout lasting nearly 24 hours that leads to widespread fires and looting.

1990 – Lenin Peak disaster: a 6.4-magnitude earthquake in Afghanistan triggers an avalanche on Lenin Peak, killing 43 climbers in the deadliest mountaineering disaster in history.

2011 – Mumbai is rocked by three bomb blasts during the evening rush hour, killing 26 and injuring 130.

2013 – Typhoon Soulik kills at least nine people and affects more than 160 million in East China and Taiwan.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 869 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 278 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1874 – The Chicago Fire of 1874 burns down 47 acres of the city, destroying 812 buildings, killing 20, and resulting in the fire insurance industry demanding municipal reforms from Chicago's city council.

2016 – A man ploughs a truck into a Bastille Day celebration in Nice, France, killing 86 people and injuring another 434 before being shot by police.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 870 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 279 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1888 – The stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts killing approximately 500 people, in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.

1927 – Massacre of July 15, 1927: Eighty-nine protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.

1941 – The Holocaust: Nazi Germany begins the deportation of 100,000 Jews from the occupied Netherlands to extermination camps.

1983 – An attack at Orly Airport in Paris is launched by Armenian militant organisation ASALA, leaving eight people dead and 55 injured.

1996 – A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport.

2009 – Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashes near Jannatabad, Qazvin, Iran, killing 168.

2014 – A train derails on the Moscow Metro, killing at least 24 and injuring more than 160 others.

2016 – Factions of the Turkish Armed Forces attempt a coup. During the coup attempt, over 300 people were killed and more than 2,100 were injured. Many government buildings, including the Turkish Parliament and the Presidential Palace, were bombed from the air.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 871 days.

2023 –  Flooding and landslides in South Korea leave at least 40 people dead and 6 others missing.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 280 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1819 – A major earthquake strikes the Kutch district of western India, killing over 1,543 people and raising a 6-metre-high (20 ft), 6-kilometre-wide (3.7 mi), ridge, extending for at least 80 kilometres (50 mi), that was known as the Allah Bund ("Dam of God").

1883 – The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, England, kills 183 children. 

1950 – Korean War: A Korean People's Army unit massacred 31 prisoners of war of the U.S. Army on a mountain near the village of Tuman.

1955 – In a futile effort to topple Argentine President Juan Perón, rogue aircraft pilots of the Argentine Navy drop several bombs upon an unarmed crowd demonstrating in favor of Perón in Buenos Aires, killing 364 and injuring at least 800. At the same time on the ground, some soldiers attempt to stage a coup but are suppressed by loyal forces.

1958 – Imre Nagy, Pál Maléter and other leaders of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising are executed.

1997 – Fifty people are killed in the Daïat Labguer (M'sila) massacre in Algeria.

2013 – A multi-day cloudburst, centered on the North Indian state of Uttarakhand, causes devastating floods and landslides, becoming the country's worst natural disaster since the 2004 tsunami. According to figures provided by the Government of Uttarakhand, more than 5,700 people were presumed dead.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 872 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 281 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

180 – Twelve inhabitants of Scillium (near Kasserine, modern-day Tunisia) in North Africa are executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world.

1771 – Bloody Falls massacre: Chipewyan chief Matonabbee, traveling as the guide to Samuel Hearne on his Arctic overland journey, massacres a group of unsuspecting Inuit.

1794 – The 16 Carmelite Martyrs of Compiègne are executed ten days prior to the end of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror.

1918 – The RMS Carpathia, the ship that rescued the 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic, is sunk off Ireland by the German SM U-55; five lives are lost.

1932 – Altona Bloody Sunday:  A riot between the Nazi Party paramilitary forces, the SS and SA, and the German Communist Party ensues.

1944 – Port Chicago disaster: Near the San Francisco Bay, two ships laden with ammunition for the war explode in Port Chicago, California, killing 320.

1953 – The largest number of United States midshipman casualties in a single event results from an aircraft crash in Florida, killing 44.

1962 – Nuclear weapons testing: The "Small Boy" test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada National Security Site.

1981 – A structural failure leads to the collapse of a walkway at the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City, Missouri, killing 114 people and injuring more than 200.

1996 – TWA Flight 800: Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound TWA Boeing 747 explodes, killing all 230 on board.

1998 – The 7.0 Mw  Papua New Guinea earthquake triggers a tsunami that destroys ten villages in Papua New Guinea, killing up to 2,700 people, and leaving several thousand injured.

2000 – During approach to Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Airport, Alliance Air Flight 7412 suddenly crashes into a residential neighborhood in Patna, killing 60 people.

2006 – The 7.7 Mw  Pangandaran tsunami earthquake severely affects the Indonesian island of Java, killing 668 people, and leaving more than 9,000 injured.

2007 – TAM Airlines Flight 3054, an Airbus A320, crashes into a warehouse after landing too fast and missing the end of the São Paulo–Congonhas Airport runway, killing 199 people.

2014 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, a Boeing 777, crashes near the border of Ukraine and Russia after being shot down. All 298 people on board are killed.

2014 – A French regional train on the Pau-Bayonne line crashes into a high-speed train near the town of Denguin, resulting in at least 25 injuries.

2015 – At least 120 people are killed and 130 injured by a suicide bombing in Diyala Governorate, Iraq.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 873 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 282 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1806 – A gunpowder magazine explosion in Birgu, Malta, kills around 200 people.

1942 – World War II: During the Beisfjord massacre in Norway, 15 Norwegian paramilitary guards help members of the SS to kill 288 political prisoners from Yugoslavia.

1982 – Two hundred sixty-eight Guatemalan campesinos ("peasants" or "country people") are slain in the Plan de Sánchez massacre.

1981 – A Canadair CL-44 and Sukhoi Su-15 collide in mid-air near Yerevan, Armenia, killing four.

1984 – McDonald's massacre in San Ysidro, California: In a fast-food restaurant, James Oliver Huberty opens fire, killing 21 people and injuring 19 others before being shot dead by police.

1994 – The bombing of the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (Argentine Jewish Community Center) in Buenos Aires kills 85 people (mostly Jewish) and injures 300.

1995 – On the Caribbean island of Montserrat, the Soufrière Hills volcano erupts. Over the course of several years, it devastates the island, destroying the capital, forcing most of the population to flee.

1996 – Storms provoke severe flooding on the Saguenay River, beginning one of Quebec's costliest natural disasters ever.

1996 – Battle of Mullaitivu: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam capture the Sri Lanka Army's base, killing over 1,200 soldiers.

2012 – At least seven people are killed and 32 others are injured after a bomb explodes on an Israeli tour bus at Burgas Airport, Bulgaria.

2019 – A man sets fire to an anime studio in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Japan, killing at least 35 people and injuring dozens of others.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 874 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 283 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

AD 64 – The Great Fire of Rome causes widespread devastation and rages on for six days, destroying half of the city.

1845 – Great New York City Fire of 1845: The last great fire to affect Manhattan begins early in the morning and is subdued that afternoon. The fire kills four firefighters and 26 civilians and destroys 345 buildings.

1943 – World War II: Rome is heavily bombed by more than 500 Allied aircraft, inflicting thousands of casualties.

1947 – Prime Minister of the shadow Burmese government, Bogyoke Aung San and eight others are assassinated.

1967 – Piedmont Airlines Flight 22, a Piedmont Airlines Boeing 727-22 and a twin-engine Cessna 310 collided on July 19, 1967, over Hendersonville, North Carolina, USA. Both aircraft were destroyed and all passengers and crew were killed, including John T. McNaughton, an advisor to Robert McNamara.

1979 – The oil tanker SS Atlantic Empress collides with another oil tanker, causing the largest ever ship-borne oil spill.

1985 – The Val di Stava dam collapses killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy.

1989 – United Airlines Flight 232 crashes in Sioux City, Iowa killing 111.

1992 – A car bomb kills Judge Paolo Borsellino and five members of his escort.

2014 – Gunmen in Egypt's western desert province of New Valley Governorate attack a military checkpoint, killing at least 21 soldiers. Egypt reportedly declares a state of emergency on its border with Sudan.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 875 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 284 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1705 – A fire in Oulu, Finland almost completely destroyed the fourth district, which covered the southern part of the city and was by far the largest of the city districts.

1934 – Labor unrest in the U.S.: Police in Minneapolis fire upon striking truck drivers, during the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934, killing two and wounding sixty-seven.

1935 – Switzerland: A Royal Dutch Airlines plane en route from Milan to Frankfurt crashes into a Swiss mountain, killing thirteen.

1964 – Vietnam War: Viet Cong forces attack the capital of Định Tường Province, Cái Bè, killing 11 South Vietnamese military personnel and 40 civilians (30 of whom are children).

1977 – The Johnstown flood of 1977 kills 84 people and causes millions of dollars in damages.

1981 – Somali Airlines Flight 40 crashes in the Balad District of Somalia, killing 40 people.

1982 – Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings: The Provisional IRA detonates two bombs in Hyde Park and Regent's Park in central London, killing eight soldiers, wounding forty-seven people, and leading to the deaths of seven horses.

2012 – James Holmes opened fire at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, killing 12 and injuring 70 others.

2013 – Seventeen government soldiers are killed in an attack by FARC revolutionaries in the Colombian department of Arauca.

2015 – A huge explosion in the mostly Kurdish border town of Suruç, Turkey, targeting the Socialist Youth Associations Federation, kills at least 31 people and injures over 100.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 876 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 285 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

365 – The 365 Crete earthquake affected the Greek island of Crete with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), causing a destructive tsunami that affects the coasts of Libya and Egypt, especially Alexandria. Many thousands were killed.

1877 – After rioting by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers and the deaths of nine rail workers at the hands of the Maryland militia, workers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, stage a sympathy strike that is met with an assault by the state militia.

1907 – The passenger steamer SS Columbia sinks after colliding with the steam schooner San Pedro off Shelter Cove, California, killing 88 people.

1919 – The dirigible Wingfoot Air Express crashes into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, killing 12 people.

1920 – The Belfast Pogrom begins with the one day removal of thousands of Belfast shipyard, factory and mill workers from their jobs.

1952 – The 7.3 Mw  Kern County earthquake  strikes Southern California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing 12 and injuring hundreds.

1961 – Alaska Airlines Flight 779 crashes near Shemya Air Force Base in Shemya, Alaska killing 6.

1964 – A series of racial riots break out in Singapore. In the next six weeks, 23 die with 454 others injured.

1972 – The Troubles: Bloody Friday: The Provisional IRA detonate 22 bombs in central Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom in the space of 80 minutes, killing nine and injuring 130.

1973 – In Lillehammer, Norway, Mossad agents kill a waiter whom they mistakenly thought was involved in the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre.

1990 – Taiwan's military police forces mainland Chinese illegal immigrants into sealed holds of a fishing boat Min Ping Yu No. 5540 for repatriation to Fujian, causing 25 people to die from suffocation.

2001 – At the conclusion of a fireworks display on Okura Beach in Akashi, Hyōgo, Japan, 11 people are killed and more than 120 are injured when a pedestrian footbridge connecting the beach to JR Asagiri Station becomes overcrowded and people leaving the event fall down in a domino effect.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 877 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 286 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1209 – Massacre at Béziers: The first major military action of the Albigensian Crusade.

1916 – Preparedness Day Bombing: In San Francisco, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a parade, killing ten and injuring 40.

1943 – World War II: Axis occupation forces violently disperse a massive protest in Athens, killing 22.

1946 – King David Hotel bombing: A Zionist underground organisation, the Irgun, bombs the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, site of the civil administration and military headquarters for Mandatory Palestine, resulting in 91 deaths.

1973 – Pan Am Flight 816 crashes after takeoff from Faa'a International Airport in Papeete, French Polynesia, killing 78.

1993 – Great Flood of 1993: Levees near Kaskaskia, Illinois rupture, forcing the entire town to evacuate by barges operated by the Army Corps of Engineers.

2011 – Norway attacks: First a bomb blast which targeted government buildings in central Oslo, followed by a massacre at a youth camp on the island of Utøya.

2013 – Dingxi earthquakes: A series of earthquakes in Dingxi, China, kills at least 89 people and injures more than 500 others.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 878 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 289 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1967 – Detroit Riots: In Detroit, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city. It ultimately kills 43 people, injures 342 and burns about 1,400 buildings.

1982 – Outside Santa Clarita, California, actor Vic Morrow and two children are killed when a helicopter crashes onto them while shooting a scene from Twilight Zone: The Movie.

1983 – Thirteen Sri Lanka Army soldiers are killed after a deadly ambush by the militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

1993 – China Northwest Airlines Flight 2119 crashes during takeoff from Yinchuan Xihuayuan Airport in Yinchuan, Ningxia, China, killing 55 people.

2005 – Three bombs explode in the Naama Bay area of Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, killing 88 people.

2011 – A high-speed train rear-ends another on a viaduct on the Yongtaiwen railway line in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, China, resulting in 40 deaths.

2014 – TransAsia Airways Flight 222 crashes in Xixi village near Huxi, Penghu, during approach to Phengu Airport. Forty-eight of the 58 people on board are killed and five more people on the ground are injured.

2016 – Kabul twin bombing occurred in the vicinity of Deh Mazang when protesters, mostly from the Shiite Hazara minority, were marching against route changing of the TUTAP power project. At least 80 people were killed and 260 were injured.

2018 – A wildfire in East Attica, Greece caused the death of 102 people. It was the deadliest wildfire in history of Greece and the second-deadliest in the world, in the 21st century, after the 2009 bushfires in Australia that killed 180.

2022 –  The Chinese paddlefish, one of the world's largest freshwater fish species, is officially declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

2022 –  Heat waves across Europe leave more than 4,500 people dead.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 879 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 290 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1915 – The passenger ship SS Eastland  capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.

1935 – The Dust Bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109 °F (43 °C) in Chicago and 104 °F (40 °C) in Milwaukee.

1943 – World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, and American planes bomb the city by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings.

1982 – Heavy rain causes a mudslide that destroys a bridge at Nagasaki, Japan, killing 299.

1983 – The Black July anti-Tamil riots begin in Sri Lanka, killing between 400 and 3,000. Black July is generally regarded as the beginning of the Sri Lankan Civil War.

1998 – Russell Eugene Weston Jr. bursts into the United States Capitol and opens fire killing two police officers. He is later ruled to be incompetent to stand trial.

1999 – Air Fiji flight 121 crashes while en route to Nadi, Fiji, killing all 17 people on board.

2001 – The Bandaranaike Airport attack is carried out by 14 Tamil Tiger commandos. Eleven civilian and military aircraft are destroyed and 15 are damaged. All 14 commandos are shot dead, while seven soldiers from the Sri Lanka Air Force are killed. In addition, three civilians and an engineer die. This incident slowed the Sri Lankan economy.

2009 – Aria Air Flight 1525 crashes at Mashhad International Airport, killing 16.

2013 – A high-speed train derails in Spain rounding a curve with an 80 km/h (50 mph) speed limit at 190 km/h (120 mph), killing 78 passengers.

2014 – Air Algérie Flight 5017 loses contact with air traffic controllers 50 minutes after takeoff. It was travelling between Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso and Algiers. The wreckage is later found in Mali. All 116 people onboard are killed.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 880 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 291 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1668 – A magnitude 8.5 earthquake strikes eastern China, killing over 42,000 people.

1956 – Forty-five miles south of Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria collides with the MS Stockholm in heavy fog and sinks the next day, killing 51.

1971 – The Sohagpur massacre is perpetrated by the Pakistan Army.

1983 – Black July: Thirty-seven Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the fellow Sinhalese prisoners.

1993 – The Saint James Church massacre  occurs in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa.

2000 – Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, killing 113 people.

2019 – National extreme heat records set this day in the UK, Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany during the July 2019 European heat wave.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 881 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 292 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1944 – World War II: The Red Army enters Lviv, a major city in western Ukraine, capturing it from the Nazis. Only 300 Jews survive out of 160,000 living in Lviv prior to occupation.

1963 – An earthquake in Skopje, Yugoslavia (present-day North Macedonia) leaves 1,100 dead.

1993 – Asiana Airlines Flight 733 crashes into a ridge on Mt. Ungeo on its third attempt to land at Mokpo Airport, South Korea. Sixty-eight of the 116 people onboard are killed.

2005 – Mumbai, India receives 99.5cm of rain (39.17 inches) within 24 hours, resulting in floods killing over 5,000 people.

2008 – Fifty-six people are killed and over 200 people are injured, in the Ahmedabad bombings in India.

2009 – The militant Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram attacks a police station in Bauchi, leading to reprisals by the Nigeria Police Force and four days of violence across multiple cities.

2011 – A Royal Moroccan Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules crashes near Guelmim Airport in Guelmim, Morocco. All 80 people on board are killed.

2016 – The Sagamihara stabbings occur in Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan. Nineteen people are killed.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 882 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 293 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1816 – Seminole Wars: The Battle of Negro Fort ends when a hot shot cannonball fired by US Navy Gunboat No. 154 explodes the fort's Powder Magazine, killing approximately 275. It is considered the deadliest single cannon shot in US history.

1890 – Vincent van Gogh shoots himself and dies two days later.

1955 – El Al Flight 402 is shot down by two fighter jets after straying into Bulgarian air space. All 58 people onboard are killed.

1975 – Mayor of Jaffna and former MP Alfred Duraiappah is shot dead.

1981 – While landing at Chihuahua International Airport, Aeromexico Flight 230 overshoots the runway. Thirty-two of the 66 passengers and crew on board the DC-9 are killed.

1983 – Black July: Eighteen Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by Sinhalese prisoners, the second such massacre in two days.

1989 – While attempting to land at Tripoli International Airport in Libya, Korean Air Flight 803 crashes just short of the runway. Seventy-five of the 199 passengers and crew and four people on the ground are killed, in the second accident involving a DC-10 in less than two weeks, the first being United Airlines Flight 232.

1996 – In Atlanta, United States, a pipe bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics.

1997 – About 50 people are killed in the Si Zerrouk massacre in Algeria.

2002 – Ukraine airshow disaster: A Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes during an air show at Lviv, Ukraine killing 77 and injuring more than 500 others, making it the deadliest air show disaster in history.

2015 – At least seven people are killed and many injured after gunmen attack an Indian police station in Punjab.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 883 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 294 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1883 – A moderate earthquake measuring magnitude 4.3–5.2 strikes the Italian island of Ischia, killing over 2,300 people.

1938 – Hawaii Clipper disappears between Guam and Manila as the first loss of an airliner in trans-Pacific China Clipper service.

1943 – World War II: Operation Gomorrah: The Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg, Germany causing a firestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians.

1945 – A U.S. Army B-25 bomber crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 and injuring 26.

1957 – Heavy rain and a mudslide in Isahaya, western Kyushu, Japan, kills 992.

1976 – The Tangshan earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 moment magnitude flattens Tangshan in the People's Republic of China, killing 242,769 and injuring 164,851.

2002 – Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 9560 crashes after takeoff from Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow, Russia, killing 14 of the 16 people on board.

2011 – While flying from Seoul, South Korea to Shanghai, China, Asiana Airlines Flight 991 develops an in-flight fire in the cargo hold. The Boeing 747-400F freighter attempts to divert to Jeju International Airport, but crashes into the sea South-West of Jeju island, killing both crew members on board.

2022 –  Flooding in the U.S. state of Kentucky kills at least 37 people and leaves at least 30 others missing.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 884 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 295 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

587 BC – The Neo-Babylonian Empire sacks Jerusalem and destroys the First Temple.

1848 – Great Famine of Ireland: Tipperary Revolt: In County Tipperary, Ireland, then in the United Kingdom, an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule is put down by police.

1967 – Vietnam War: Off the coast of North Vietnam the USS Forrestal catches on fire in the worst U.S. naval disaster since World War II, killing 134.

1967 – During the fourth day of celebrating its 400th anniversary, the city of Caracas, Venezuela is shaken by an earthquake,, leaving approximately 500 dead.

1976 – In New York City, David Berkowitz (a.k.a. the "Son of Sam") kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks.

2010 – An overloaded passenger ferry capsizes on the Kasai River in Bandundu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, resulting in at least 80 deaths.

2013 – Two passenger trains collide in the Swiss municipality of Granges-près-Marnand near Lausanne injuring 25 people.

2019 – The 2019 Altamira prison riot between rival Brazilian drug gangs leaves 62 dead.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 885 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 296 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1627 – An earthquake kills about 5,000 people in Gargano, Italy.

1865 – The steamboat Brother Jonathan sinks off the coast of Crescent City, California, killing 225 passengers, the deadliest shipwreck on the Pacific Coast of the U.S. at the time.

1866 – Armed Confederate veterans in New Orleans riot against a meeting of Radical Republicans, killing 48 people and injuring another 100.

1871 – The Staten Island Ferry Westfield's boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.

1945 – World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis, killing 883 seamen. Most die during the following four days, until an aircraft notices the survivors.

1971 – An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Iwate, Japan killing 162.

2012 – A train fire kills 32 passengers and injures 27 on the Tamil Nadu Express in Andhra Pradesh, India.

2014 – Twenty killed and 150 are trapped after a landslide in Maharashtra, India.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 886 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 297 days. 

2024 –  The Wayanad landslides were a series of landslides that occurred in Kerala, India in the early hours of 30 July 2024, caused by the torrential rainfall, resulting the hillsides to collapse, sending torrents of mud, water, and boulders crashing down onto the affected areas. The disaster stands as one of the deadliest in Kerala's history, with reports of over 420 fatalities,397 injuries, and more than 129 people missing.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1715 – Seven days after a Spanish treasure fleet of 12 ships left Havana, Cuba for Spain, 11 of them sink in a storm off the coast of Florida. A few centuries later, treasure is salvaged from these wrecks.

1966 – The pleasure cruiser MV Darlwyne disappeared off the Cornwall coast with the loss of all 31 aboard.

1972 – The Troubles: In Operation Motorman, the British Army re-takes the urban no-go areas of Northern Ireland. Later that day, nine civilians are killed by car bombs  in the village of Claudy.

1973 – A Delta Air Lines jetliner, flight DL 723 crashes while landing in fog at Logan International Airport, Boston, Massachusetts killing 89.

1987 – A tornado occurs in Edmonton, Alberta, killing 27 people.

1988 – Thirty-two people are killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal collapses in Butterworth, Penang, Malaysia.

1992 – Thai Airways International Flight 311 crashes into a mountain north of Kathmandu, Nepal killing all 113 people on board.

‘1992 – China General Aviation Flight 7552 crashes during takeoff from Nanjing Dajiaochang Airport, killing 108.

2008 – East Coast Jets Flight 81 crashes near Owatonna Degner Regional Airport in Owatonna, Minnesota, killing all eight people on board.

2014 – Gas explosions in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung kill at least 20 people and injure more than 270.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 887 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 298 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1933 – Anti-Fascist activists Bruno Tesch, Walter Möller, Karl Wolff and August Lütgens are executed by the Nazi regime in Altona.

1966 – Charles Whitman kills 16 people at the University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police.

1980 – A train crash kills 18 people in County Cork, Ireland.

2004 – A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 others in Asunción, Paraguay.

2007 – The I-35W Mississippi River bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour, killing 13 people and injuring 145.

2008 – Eleven mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth in  the worst single accident in the history of K2 mountaineering.1

2017 – A suicide attack on a mosque in Herat, Afghanistan kills 20 people.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 888 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 299 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1922 – A typhoon hits Shantou, Republic of China, killing more than 50,000 people.

1943 – The Holocaust: Jewish prisoners stage a revolt at Treblinka,, one of the deadliest of Nazi death camps where approximately 900,000 persons were murdered in less than 18 months.

1947 – A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile. The wreckage would not be found until 1998.

1968 – An earthquake hits Casiguran, Aurora, Philippines killing more than 270 people and wounding 261.

1973 – A flash fire kills 51 people at the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man.

1980 – A bomb explodes at the railway station in Bologna, Italy, killing 85 people and wounding more than 200.

1985 – Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport killing 137.

1989 – A massacre is carried out by an Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 64 ethnic Tamil civilians.

1999 – The Gaisal train disaster claims 285 lives in Assam, India.

2014 – At least 146 people were killed and more than 114 injured in a factory explosion in Kunshan, Jiangsu, China.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 889 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 300 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1936 – A fire wipes out Kursha-2 in the Meshchera Lowlands, Ryazan Oblast, Russia, killing 1,200 and leaving only 20 survivors.

1959 – Portugal's state police force PIDE fires upon striking workers in Bissau, Portuguese Guinea, killing over 50 people.

1975 – A privately chartered Boeing 707 strikes a mountain peak and crashes near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188.

1997 – Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria: A total of 116 villagers killed, 40 in Oued El-Had and 76 in Mezouara.

2010 – Widespread rioting in Karachi, Pakistan, after the assassination of a local politician, leaving at least 85 dead and at least 17 billion Pakistani rupees (US$200 million) in damage.

2014 – A 6.1 magnitude earthquake kills at least 617 people and injures more than 2,400 in Yunnan, China.

2014 – The genocide of Yazidis by ISIL begins.

2018 – Two burka-clad men kill 29 people and injure more than 80 in a suicide attack on a Shia mosque in eastern Afghanistan.

2019 – Twenty-three people are killed and 23 injured in a shooting in El Paso, Texas.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 890 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 301 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1783 – Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing about 1,400 people (Tenmei eruption). The eruption causes a famine, which results in an additional 20,000 deaths.

1944 – The Holocaust: A tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse, where they find and arrest Jewish diarist Anne Frank,, her family, and four others.

1946 – An earthquake of magnitude 8.0 hits northern Dominican Republic. One hundred are killed and 20,000 are left homeless.

1964 – Civil rights movement: Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found dead in Mississippi after disappearing on June 21.

1974 – A bomb explodes in the Italicus Express train at San Benedetto Val di Sambro, Italy, killing 12 people and wounding 22.

2006 – A massacre is carried out by Sri Lankan government forces, killing 17 employees of the French INGO Action Against Hunger (known internationally as Action Contre la Faim, or ACF).

2018 – A Junkers Ju-52 passenger aircraft operated by Ju-Air crashed near Piz Segnas, Switzerland, while en route from Locarno to Dübendorf. All 20 people on board were killed.

2019 – Nine people are killed and 26 injured in a shooting in Dayton, Ohio. This comes only 12 hours after another mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, where 23 people were killed.

2020 – At least 220 people are killed and over 5,000 are wounded when 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate explodes in Beirut, Lebanon.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 891 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 302 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1944 – World War II: At least 1,104 Japanese POWs in Australia attempt to escape from a camp at Cowra, New South Wales; 545 temporarily succeed but are later either killed, commit suicide, or are recaptured.

1944 – World War II: The Nazis begin a week-long massacre of between 40,000 and 50,000 civilians and prisoners of war in Wola, Poland.

1949 – In Ecuador, an earthquake destroys 50 towns and kills more than 6,000.

1984 – A Biman Bangladesh Airlines Fokker F27 Friendship crashes on approach to Zia International Airport, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing all 49 people on board.

2003 – A car bomb explodes in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta outside the Marriott Hotel killing 12 and injuring 150.

2010 – Ten members of International Assistance Mission Nuristan Eye Camp team are killed by persons unknown in Kuran wa Munjan District of Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan.

2012 – The Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting took place in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, killing six victims; the perpetrator committed suicide after being wounded by police.

2015 – The Environmental Protection Agency at Gold King Mine waste water spill releases three million gallons of heavy metal toxin tailings and waste water into the Animas River in Colorado.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 892 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 303 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1944 – The Warsaw Uprising occurs on August 1. It is brutally suppressed and all able-bodied men in Kraków are detained afterwards to prevent a similar uprising, the Kraków Uprising, that was planned but never carried out.

1945 – World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb "Little Boy" is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning.

1997 – Korean Air Flight 801 crashed at Nimitz Hill, Guam killing 228 of 254 people on board.

2001 – Erwadi fire incident: Twenty-eight mentally ill persons tied to a chain are burnt to death at a faith based institution at Erwadi, Tamil Nadu.

2010 – Flash floods across a large part of Jammu and Kashmir, India, damages 71 towns and kills at least 255 people.

2011 – War in Afghanistan: A United States military helicopter is shot down, killing 30 American special forces members and a working dog, seven Afghan soldiers, and one Afghan civilian. It was the deadliest single event for the United States in the War in Afghanistan.

2015 – A suicide bomb attack kills at least 15 people at a mosque in the Saudi city of Abha.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 893 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 304 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1930 – The last confirmed lynching of black people in the Northern United States occurs in Marion, Indiana; two men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, are killed.

1933 – The Kingdom of Iraq slaughters over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Simele. This date is recognized as Martyrs Day or National Day of Mourning by the Assyrian community in memory of the Simele massacre.

1989 – U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia.

1995 – The Chilean government declares state of emergency in the southern half of the country in response to an event of intense, cold, wind, rain and snowfall known as the White Earthquake.

1997 – Fine Air Flight 101 crashes after takeoff from Miami International Airport, killing five people.

1998 – Bombings at United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya kill approximately 212 people.

2020 – Air India Express Flight 1344 overshoots the runway at Calicut International Airport in the Malappuram district of Kerala, India, and crashes, killing 21 of the 190 people on board.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 894 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 305 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1903 – Black Saturday occurs, killing 12 in a stadium collapse in Philadelphia. 

1956 – The Bois du Cazier was a coal mine best known as the location of a major mining disaster that took place in 1956, and in which 262 men, including a large number of Italian labourers, were killed.

1988 – The 8888 Uprising begins in Rangoon (Yangon), Burma (Myanmar). Led by students, hundreds of thousands join in nationwide protests against the one-party regime. On September 18, the demonstrations end in a military crackdown, killing thousands.

1993 – The 7.8 Mw  Guam earthquake shakes the island with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), causing around $250 million in damage and injuring up to 71 people.

1998 – Iranian consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan is raided by Taliban leading to the deaths of ten Iranian diplomats and a journalist.

2001 – Albanian rebels ambush a convoy of the Army of the Republic of Macedonia near Tetovo, killing 10 soldiers.

2007 – An EF2 tornado touches down in Kings County and Richmond County, New York, the most powerful tornado in New York to date and the first in Brooklyn since 1889.

2008 – A EuroCity express train en route from Kraków, Poland to Prague, Czech Republic strikes a part of a motorway bridge that had fallen onto the railroad track near Studénka railway station in the Czech Republic and derails, killing eight people and injuring 64 others.

2010 – China Floods: A mudslide in Zhugqu County, Gansu, China, kills more than 1,400 people.

2013 – A suicide bombing at a funeral in the Pakistani city of Quetta kills at least 31 people.

2015 – Eight people are killed in a shooting in Harris County, Texas.

2016 – Terrorists attack a government hospital in Quetta, Pakistan with a suicide blast and shooting, killing between 70 and 94 people, and injuring around 130 others.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 895 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 306 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1945 – World War II: Nagasaki is devastated when an atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar. Thirty-five thousand people are killed outright, including 23,200–28,200 Japanese war workers, 2,000 Korean forced workers, and 150 Japanese soldiers.

1969 – Tate–LaBianca murders: Followers of Charles Manson murder pregnant actress Sharon Tate (wife of Roman Polanski), coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Polish actor Wojciech Frykowski, men's hairstylist Jay Sebring and recent high-school graduate Steven Parent.

1970 – LANSA Flight 502 crashes after takeoff from Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport in Cusco, Peru, killing 99 of the 100 people on board, as well as two people on the ground.

1971 – The Troubles: In Northern Ireland, the British authorities launch Operation Demetrius. The operation involves the mass arrest and internment without trial of individuals suspected of being affiliated with the Irish Republican Army (PIRA). Mass riots follow, and thousands of people flee or are forced out of their homes.

1991 – The Italian prosecuting magistrate Antonino Scopelliti is murdered by the 'Ndrangheta on behalf of the Sicilian Mafia while preparing the government's case in the final appeal of the Maxi Trial.

2007 – Air Moorea Flight 1121 crashes after takeoff from Moorea Airport in French Polynesia, killing all 20 people on board.

2013 – Gunmen open fire at a Sunni mosque in the city of Quetta killing at least ten people and injuring 30.

2014 – Michael Brown, an 18-year-old African American male in Ferguson, Missouri, is shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer after reportedly assaulting the officer and attempting to steal his weapon, sparking protests and unrest in the city.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 896 days.

2023 –  ​Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio is assassinated in Quito, eleven days before the general election.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 307 days. 

2024 –  Voepass Linhas Aéreas Flight 2283 crashes in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, killing all 62 people on board.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1628 – The Swedish warship Vasa  sinks in the Stockholm harbour after only about 20 minutes of her maiden voyage.

1856 – The Last Island hurricane strikes Louisiana, resulting in over 200 deaths.

1961 – Vietnam War: The U.S. Army begins Operation Ranch Hand, spraying an estimated 20 million US gallons (76,000 m3) of defoliants and herbicides over rural areas of South Vietnam in an attempt to deprive the Viet Cong of food and vegetation cover.

1966 – The Heron Road Bridge collapses while being built, killing nine workers in the deadliest construction accident in both Ottawa and Ontario.

1969 – A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of Charles Manson's cult kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.

1978 – Three members of the Ulrich family are killed in an accident. This leads to the Ford Pinto litigation.

1993 – Two earthquakes affect New Zealand. A 7.0 Mw  shock (intensity VI (Strong)) in the South Island was followed nine hours later by a 6.4 Mw  event (intensity VII (Very strong)) in the North Island.

1997 – Sixteen people are killed when Formosa Airlines Flight 760 crashes near Beigan Airport in the Matsu Islands of Taiwan.

2001 – The 2001 Angola train attack occurred, causing 252 deaths.

2009 – Twenty people are killed in Handlová, Trenčín Region, in the deadliest mining disaster in Slovakia's history.

2012 – The Marikana massacre begins near Rustenburg, South Africa, resulting in the deaths of 47 people.

2014 – Forty people are killed when Sepahan Airlines Flight 5915 crashes at Tehran's Mehrabad International Airport.

2019 – Thirty-two are killed and one million are evacuated as Typhoon Lekima makes landfall in Zhejiang, China. Earlier it had caused flooding in the Philippines.

2020 – Derecho in Iowa becomes the most costly thunderstorm disaster in U.S. history.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 897 days.

2023 –  Wildfires in Hawaii killed at least 99 people in the town of Lahaina on the island of Maui, at least 1000 people remain missing and most of Lahaina is destroyed.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 308 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1315 – The Great Famine of Europe becomes so dire that even the king of England has difficulties buying bread for himself and his entourage.

1871 – An Explosion of guncotton occurs in Stowmarket, England, killing 28.

1965 – Race riots (the Watts Riots) begin in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California.

1979 – Two Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134s collide over the Ukrainian city of Dniprodzerzhynsk and crash, killing all 178 aboard both airliners.

1982 – A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, en route from Tokyo, Japan to Honolulu, Hawaii, killing one passenger and injuring 15 others.

2006 – The oil tanker MT Solar 1 sinks off the coast of Guimaras and Negros Islands in the Philippines, causing the country's worst oil spill.

2012 – At least 306 people are killed and 3,000 others injured in a pair of earthquakes near Tabriz, Iran.

2017 – At least 41 people are killed and another 179 injured after two passenger trains collide in Alexandria, Egypt.

2022 –  A mass die-off of fish, beavers and other wildlife occurs in the Oder river in Poland, causing a health and environmental crisis.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 898 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 309 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1944 – Waffen-SS troops massacre 560 people in Sant'Anna di Stazzema.

1944 – Nazi German troops end the week-long Wola massacre, during which time at least 40,000 people are killed indiscriminately or in mass executions.

1948 – Babrra massacre: About 600 unarmed members of the Khudai Khidmatgar movement are shot dead on the orders of the Chief Minister of the North-West Frontier Province, Abdul Qayyum Khan Kashmiri, on Babrra ground in the Hashtnagar region of Charsadda District, North-West Frontier Province (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), Pakistan.

1950 – Korean War: Bloody Gulch massacre: 75 American POWs are massacred by the North Korean Army.

1952 – The Night of the Murdered Poets: Thirteen prominent Jewish intellectuals are murdered in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union.

1953 – First thermonuclear bomb test: The Soviet atomic bomb project continues with the detonation of "RDS-6s" (Joe 4) using a "layered" scheme.

1953 – The 7.2 Ms  Ionian earthquake shakes the southern Ionian Islands with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Between 445 and 800 people are killed.

1976 – Between 1,000 and 3,500 Palestinians are killed in the Tel al-Zaatar massacre, one of the bloodiest events of the Lebanese Civil War.

1977 – The Sri Lanka Riots: Targeting the minority Sri Lankan Tamils, begin, less than a month after the United National Party came to power. Over 300 Tamils are killed.

1985 – Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashes into Osutaka ridge in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, killing 520, to become the worst single-plane air disaster.

2000 – The Russian Navy submarine Kursk explodes and sinks in the Barents Sea during a military exercise, killing her entire 118-man crew.

2015 – At least two massive explosions kill 173 people and injure nearly 800 more in Tianjin, China.

2018 – Thirty-nine civilians, including a dozen children, are killed in an explosion at a weapons depot in a rebel-held town in northwest Syria.

2021 – Six people (including the perpetrator) are killed in the worst mass shooting in the UK since 2010 in Keyham, Plymouth.

2022 –  A mass shooting after a family conflict in Cetinje, Montenegro, leaves 11 people dead and 6 others injured.

2022 –  Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses, is critically injured after a knife attack at a speech in the United States.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 899 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 310 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1868 – The 8.5–9.0 Mw  Arica earthquake struck southern Peru with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), causing 25,000+ deaths and a destructive basin wide tsunami that affected Hawaii and New Zealand.

1944 – World War II: German troops begin the  pillage and razing of Anogeia in Crete that would continue until September 5.

1967 – Two young women became the first fatal victims of grizzly bear attacks in the 57-year history of Montana's Glacier National Park in separate incidents.

1973 – Aviaco Flight 118 crashes on approach to A Coruña Airport in A Coruña, Spain, killing 85.

1978 – One hundred fifty Palestinians in Beirut are killed in a terrorist attack during the second phase of the Lebanese Civil War.

1990 – A mainland Chinese fishing boat Min Ping Yu No. 5202 is hit by a Taiwanese naval vessel and sinks in a repatriation operation of mainland Chinese immigrants, resulting in 21 deaths. This is the second tragedy less than a month after Min Ping Yu No. 5540 incident.

2004 – One hundred fifty-six Congolese Tutsi refugees are massacred at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi.

2015 – At least 76 people are killed and 212 others are wounded in a truck bombing in Baghdad, Iraq.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 890 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 311 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1784 – Russian colonization of North America: Awa’uq Massacre: The Russian fur trader Grigory Shelikhov storms a Kodiak Island Alutiit refuge rock on Sitkalidak Island, killing 500+ Alutiit. The consequent subjugation of the Alutiiq on Kodiak Island allows Shelikhov to establish the first permanent Russian settlement in Alaska at Three Saints Bay.

1933 – Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the Tillamook Burn; destroying 240,000 acres (970 km2) of land.

1972 – An Ilyushin Il-62 airliner  crashes near Königs Wusterhausen, East Germany killing 156 people.

2005 – Helios Airways Flight 522, en route from Larnaca, Cyprus to Prague, Czech Republic via Athens, crashes in the hills near Grammatiko, Greece, killing 121 passengers and crew.

2006 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Sixty-one schoolgirls killed in Chencholai bombing by Sri Lankan Air Force air strike.

2007 – The Kahtaniya bombings in northern Iraq kills at least 500 people.

2013 – Egypt declares a state of emergency as security forces kill hundreds of demonstrators supporting former president Mohamed Morsi.

2013 – UPS Airlines Flight 1354 crashes short of the runway at Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport, killing both crew members on board.

2021 – A magnitude 7.2 earthquake strikes southwestern Haiti, killing at least 2,248 people and causing a humanitarian crisis.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 891 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 312 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1950 – Measuring Mw 8.6, the largest earthquake on land occurs in the Assam-Tibet-Myanmar border, killing 4,800.[5]

1952 – A flash flood drenches the town of Lynmouth, England, killing 34 people.

1959 – American Airlines Flight 514, a Boeing 707, crashes near the Calverton Executive Airpark in Calverton, New York, killing all five people on board.[6]

1975 – Bangladeshi leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is killed along with most members of his family during a military coup.

1976 – SAETA Flight 232 crashes into the Chimborazo volcano in Ecuador, killing all 59 people on board; the wreckage is not discovered until 2002.

1998 – Northern Ireland: Omagh bombing takes place; 29 people (including a woman pregnant with twins) killed and some 220 others injured.

1999 – Beni Ounif massacre in Algeria: Some 29 people are killed at a false roadblock near the Moroccan border, leading to temporary tensions with Morocco.

2007 – An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast devastates Ica and various regions of Peru killing 514 and injuring 1,090.

2013 – At least 27 people are killed and 226 injured in an explosion in southern Beirut near a complex used by Lebanon's militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon. A previously unknown Syrian Sunni group claims responsibility in an online video.

2022 –  A church fire in Giza, Egypt, kills 41 people, including several children.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 892 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 313 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1819 – Peterloo Massacre: Seventeen people die and over 600 are injured in cavalry charges at a public meeting at St. Peter's Field, Manchester, England         

1906 – The 8.2 Mw Valparaíso earthquake hits central Chile, killing 3,882 people.

1927 – The Dole Air Race begins from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, during which six out of the eight participating planes crash or disappear.

1929 – The 1929 Palestine riots break out in Mandatory Palestine between Palestinian Arabs and Jews and continue until the end of the month. In total, 133 Jews and 116 Arabs are killed.

1946 – Mass riots in Kolkata begin; more than 4,000 people would be killed in 72 hours.

1987 – Northwest Airlines Flight 255, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, crashes after takeoff in Detroit, Michigan, killing 154 of the 155 on board, plus two people on the ground.

1991 – Indian Airlines Flight 257,a Boeing 737-200, crashes during approach to Imphal Airport, killing all 69 people on board.

2005 – West Caribbean Airways Flight 708, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, crashes in Machiques, Venezuela, killing all 160 people on board.

2010 – AIRES Flight 8250 crashes at Gustavo Rojas Pinilla International Airport in San Andrés, San Andrés y Providencia, Colombia, killing two people.

2012 – South African police fatally shoot 34 miners and wound 78 more during an industrial dispute at Marikana near Rustenburg.

2013 – The ferry St. Thomas Aquinas collides with a cargo ship and sinks at Cebu, Philippines, killing 61 people with 59 others missing.

2015 – More than 96 people are killed and hundreds injured following a series of air-raids by the Syrian Arab Air Force on the rebel-held market town of Douma.

2015 – Trigana Air Flight 267, an ATR 42, crashes in Oksibl, Pegunungan Bintang, killing all 54 people on board.

2020 – The August Complex fire in California burns more than one million acres of land.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 893 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 314 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1668 – An earthquake struck the North Anatolia region, killing over 8,000 people.

1863 – Beginning of the American Civil War: In Charleston, South Carolina, Union batteries and ships bombard Confederate-held Fort Sumter.

1896 – Bridget Driscoll became the first recorded case of a pedestrian killed in a collision with a motor car in the United Kingdom.

1915 – Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched in Marietta, Georgia after a 13-year-old girl is murdered.

1915 – A Category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas with winds at 135 miles per hour (217 km/h).

1949 – The 6.7 Ms  Karlıova earthquake shakes eastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), leaving 320–450 dead.

1950 – In the Hill 303 massacre during the Korean War forty-one US Army soldiers held as prisoners of war were murdered by troops of the North Korean People's Army (KPA). 

1959 – Quake Lake is formed by the magnitude 7.2 1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake near Hebgen Lake in Montana.

1962 – Peter Fechter is shot and bleeds to death while trying to cross the new Berlin Wall.

1969 – Category 5 Hurricane Camille hits the U.S. Gulf Coast, killing 256 and causing $1.42 billion in damage.

1976 – A magnitude 7.9 earthquake hits off the coast of Mindanao, Philippines, triggering a destructive tsunami, killing between 5,000-8,000 people and leaving more than 90,000 homeless.

1988 – President of Pakistan Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel are killed in a plane crash.

1991 – Strathfield massacre: In Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, taxi driver Wade Frankum shoots seven people and injures six others before turning the gun on himself.

1999 – The 7.6 Mw  İzmit earthquake shakes northwestern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving 17,118–17,127 dead and 43,953–50,000 injured.

2005 – Over 500 bombs are set off by terrorists at 300 locations in 63 out of the 64 districts of Bangladesh.

2009 – An accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya Dam in Khakassia, Russia, kills 75 and shuts down the hydroelectric power station, leading to widespread power failure in the local area.

2015 – A bomb explodes near the Erawan Shrine in Bangkok, Thailand, killing at least 19 people and injuring 123 others.

2017 – Barcelona attacks: A van is driven into pedestrians in La Rambla, killing 14 and injuring at least 100.

2019 – A bomb explodes at a wedding in Kabul killing 63 people and leaving 182 injured.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 894 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 315 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1891 – A major hurricane strikes Martinique, leaving 700 dead.

1917 – A Great Fire in Thessaloniki, Greece, destroys 32% of the city leaving 70,000 individuals homeless.

1937 – A lightning strike starts the Blackwater Fire of 1937 in Shoshone National Forest, killing 15 firefighters within 3 days and prompting the United States Forest Service to develop their smokejumper program.

1940 – World War II: The Hardest Day air battle, part of the Battle of Britain, takes place. At that point, it is the largest aerial engagement in history with heavy losses sustained on both sides.

1976 – The Korean axe murder incident in Panmunjom results in the deaths of two US Army officers.

1983 – Hurricane Alicia hits the Texas coast, killing 21 people and causing over US$1 billion in damage (1983 dollars).

2003 – One-year-old Zachary Turner is murdered in Newfoundland by his mother, who was awarded custody despite facing trial for the murder of Zachary's father. The case was documented in the film Dear Zachary and led to reform of Canada's bail laws.

2005 – A massive power blackout hits the Indonesian island of Java; affecting almost 100 million people, it is one of the largest and most widespread power outages in history.

2017 – The first terrorist attack ever sentenced as a crime in Finland kills two and injures eight.

2019 – One hundred activists, officials, and other concerned citizens in Iceland hold a funeral for Okjökull glacier, which has completely melted after having once covered six square miles (15.5 km2).

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 895 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 316 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1692 – Salem witch trials: In Salem, Province of Massachusetts Bay, five people, one woman and four men, including a clergyman, are executed after being convicted of witchcraft.

1854 – The First Sioux War begins when United States Army soldiers kill Lakota chief Conquering Bear and in return are massacred.

1936 – The Great Purge of the Soviet Union begins when the first of the Moscow Trials is convened.

1942 – World War II: Operation Jubilee: The 2nd Canadian Infantry Division leads an amphibious assault by allied forces on Dieppe, France and fails, many Canadians are killed or captured. The operation was intended to develop and try new amphibious landing tactics for the coming full invasion in Normandy.

1955 – In the Northeast United States, severe flooding caused by Hurricane Diane, claims 200 lives.

1978 – In Iran, the Cinema Rex fire causes more than 400 deaths.

1980 – Saudia Flight 163, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar burns after making an emergency landing at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killing 301 people.

1980 – Otłoczyn railway accident: In Poland's worst post-war railway accident, 67 people lose their lives and a further 62 are injured.

1987 – Hungerford massacre: In the United Kingdom, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with a semi-automatic rifle and then commits suicide.

2002 – Khankala Mi-26 crash: A Russian Mil Mi-26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by a Chechen missile outside Grozny, killing 118 soldiers.

2003 – A truck-bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in Iraq kills the agency's top envoy Sérgio Vieira de Mello and 21 other employees.

2003 – Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing: A suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem, planned by Hamas, kills 23 Israelis, seven of them children.

2009 – A series of bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 101 and injures 565 others.

2013 – The Dhamara Ghat train accident kills at least 37 people in the Indian state of Bihar.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 896 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 317 days.

2024 –  The superyacht "Bayesian" sank in the early morning, off the coast of Porticello, Sicily after capsizing whilst at anchor during a storm and sank to a depth of 50 metres. The ship was carrying 10 crew and 12 passengers, of whom 15 were rescued. The body of a crew member has been recovered. The remaining six, including billionaire owner Mike Lynch and his 18-year old daughter, are missing and presumed dead. The freak tornado was attributed by an article in the Guardian to the effects of climate change.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1191 – Richard I of England initiates the Massacre at Ayyadieh, leaving 2,600–3,000 Muslim hostages dead.

1852 – Steamboat Atlantic sank on Lake Erie after a collision, with the loss of at least 150 lives.

1910 – Extreme fire weather in the Inland Northwest of the United States causes many small wildfires to coalesce into the Great Fire of 1910, burning approximately 3 million acres (12,000 km2) and killing 87 people.

1940 – In Mexico City, exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded with an ice axe by Ramón Mercader. He dies the next day.

1975 – ČSA Flight 540 crashes on approach to Damascus International Airport in Damascus, Syria, killing 126 people.

1986 – In Edmond, Oklahoma, U.S. Postal employee Patrick Sherrill guns down 14 of his co-workers and then commits suicide.

1988 – "Black Saturday" of the Yellowstone fire in Yellowstone National Park.

1988 – The Troubles: Eight British soldiers are killed and 28 wounded when their bus is hit by an IRA roadside bomb in Ballygawley, County Tyrone.

1989 – The pleasure boat Marchioness sinks on the River Thames following a collision. Fifty-one people are killed.

1995 – The Firozabad rail disaster kills 358 people in Firozabad, India.

1997 – Souhane massacre in Algeria; over 60 people are killed and 15 kidnapped.

2008 – Spanair Flight 5022, from Madrid, Spain to Gran Canaria, skids off the runway and crashes at Barajas Airport. Of the 172 people on board, 146 die immediately, and eight more later die of injuries sustained in the crash.

2012 – A prison riot in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, kills at least 20 people.

2014 – Seventy-two people are killed in Japan's Hiroshima Prefecture by a series of landslides caused by a month's worth of rain that fell in one day.

2016 – Fifty-four people are killed when a suicide bomber detonates himself at a Kurdish wedding party in Gaziantep, Turkey.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 897 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 318 days.

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[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1983 – Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino Jr. is assassinated at Manila International Airport (now renamed Ninoy Aquino International Airport in his honor).

1986 – Carbon dioxide gas erupts from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing up to 1,800 people within a 20-kilometer range.

1988 – The 6.9 Mw  Nepal earthquake shakes the Nepal–India border with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), leaving 709–1,450 people killed and thousands injured.

1994 – Royal Air Maroc Flight 630 crashes in Douar Izounine, Morocco, killing all 44 people on board.

1995 – Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 529, an Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia, attempts to divert to West Georgia Regional Airport after the left engine fails, but the aircraft crashes in Carroll County near Carrollton, Georgia, killing nine of the 29 people on board.

2013 – Hundreds of people are reported killed by chemical attacks in the Ghouta region of Syria.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 898 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 319 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1902 – At least 6,000 people are killed by the magnitude 7.7 Kashgar earthquake in the Tien Shan mountains.

1944 – World War II: Holocaust of Kedros in Crete by German forces.

1949 – The Queen Charlotte earthquake is Canada's strongest since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake.

1981 – Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 103 disintegrates in mid-air and crashes in Sanyi Township, Miaoli County, Taiwan. All 110 people on board are killed.

1985 – British Airtours Flight 28M suffers an engine fire during takeoff at Manchester Airport. The pilots abort but due to inefficient evacuation procedures 55 people are killed, mostly from smoke inhalation.

1999 – China Airlines Flight 642 crashes at Hong Kong International Airport, killing three people and injuring 208 more.

2006 – Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border over eastern Ukraine, killing all 170 people on board.

2012 – Ethnic clashes over grazing rights for cattle in Kenya's Tana River District result in more than 52 deaths.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 899 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 320 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1921 – British airship R-38 experiences structural failure over Hull in England and crashes in the Humber Estuary. Of her 49 British and American training crew, only four survive.

1929 – Hebron Massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attack on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, continuing until the next day, resulted in the death of 65–68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city.

1944 – Freckleton Air Disaster: A United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton, England, killing 61 people.

2000 – Gulf Air Flight 072 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143.

2012 – A hot-air balloon crashes near the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana, killing six people and injuring 28 others.

2013 – A riot at the Palmasola prison complex in Santa Cruz, Bolivia kills 31 people.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 900 days.

2023 – A business jet crashes in Tver Oblast Russia, reportedly killing Wagner Group Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin and nine others.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 321 days. 

2024 –  An Islamic jihadist terrorist attack occurred in the form of mass stabbing during a festival celebrating the 650th anniversary of Solingen, Germany. A man armed with a knife launched a mass stabbing, killing three people and injuring eight others. The Islamic State (ISIS) claimed responsibility for the attack.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1349 – Six thousand Jews are killed in Mainz after being blamed for the bubonic plague.

1857 – The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in United States history.

1929 – Second day of two-day Hebron massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attacks on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, result in the death of 65–68 Jews; the remaining Jews are forced to flee the city.

1933 – The Crescent Limited train derails in Washington, D.C., after the bridge it is crossing is washed out by the 1933 Chesapeake–Potomac hurricane.

1938 – Kweilin incident: A Japanese warplane shoots down the Kweilin, a Chinese civilian airliner, killing 14. It is the first recorded instance of a civilian airliner being shot down.

1951 – United Air Lines Flight 615 crashes near Decoto, California, killing 50 people.

1992 – Hurricane Andrew makes landfall in Homestead, Florida as a Category 5 hurricane, causing up to $25 billion (1992 USD) in damages.

2004 – Ninety passengers die after two airliners explode after flying out of Domodedovo International Airport, near Moscow. The explosions are caused by suicide bombers from Chechnya.

2008 – Sixty-five passengers are killed when Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 6895 crashes during an emergency landing at Manas International Airport in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

2008 – A Cessna 208 Caravan crashes in Cabañas, Zacapa, Guatemala, killing 11 people.

2010 – In San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, 72 illegal immigrants are killed by Los Zetas and eventually found dead by Mexican authorities.

2010 – Henan Airlines Flight 8387 crashes at Yichun Lindu Airport in Yichun, Heilongjiang, China, killing 44 out of the 96 people on board.

2010 – Agni Air Flight 101 crashes near Shikharpur, Makwanpur, Nepal, killing all 14 people on board.

2016 – An earthquake strikes Central Italy with a magnitude of 6.2, with aftershocks felt as far as Rome and Florence. Around 300 people are killed.

2022 – The Man of the Hole, the last surviving member of a people eradicated in the genocide of indigenous peoples in Brazil, is found dead.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 901 days.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 901 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 322 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1898 – 500-800 Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the Vice British Consul of Crete and his family are killed by a Turkish mob in Candia, modern-day Heraklion, Greece.

1933 – The Diexi earthquake strikes Mao County, Sichuan, China and kills 9,000 people.

1985 – Bar Harbor Airlines Flight 1808 crashes near Auburn, Maine, killing all eight people on board including peace activist and child actress Samantha Smith.

1989 – Pakistan International Airlines Flight 404, carrying 54 people, disappears over the Himalayas after take off from Gilgit Airport in Pakistan. The aircraft was never found.

2001 – American singer Aaliyah and several members of her record company are killed as their overloaded aircraft crashes shortly after takeoff from Marsh Harbour Airport, Bahamas.

2011 – Fifty-two people are killed during an arson attack caused by members of the drug cartel Los Zetas.

2017 – Hurricane Harvey makes landfall in Texas as a powerful Category 4 hurricane, the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the United States since 2004. Over the next few days, the storm causes catastrophic flooding throughout much of eastern Texas, killing 106 people and causing $125 billion in damage.

2022 – Floods in Pakistan kill more than 1,000 people and over 700,000 livestock.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 902 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 323 days.

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[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

683 – Yazid I's army kills 11,000 people of Medina including notable Sahabas in Battle of al-Harrah.

1833 – The great 1833 Kathmandu–Bihar earthquake causes major damage in Nepal, northern India and Tibet, a total of 500 people perish.

1942 – The Holocaust in Ukraine: At Chortkiv, the Ukrainian police and German Schutzpolizei deport two thousand Jews to Bełżec extermination camp. Five hundred of the sick and children are murdered on the spot. This continued until the next day.

1997 – Beni Ali massacre occurs in Algeria, leaving 60 to 100 people dead.

1999 – Russia begins the Second Chechen War in response to the Invasion of Dagestan by the Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade.

2003 – A Beechcraft 1900 operating as Colgan Air Flight 9446 crashes after taking off from Barnstable Municipal Airport in Yarmouth, Massachusetts, killing both pilots on board.

2015 – Two U.S. journalists are shot and killed by a disgruntled former coworker while conducting a live report in Moneta, Virginia.

2018 – Three people are killed and eleven wounded during a mass shooting at a Madden NFL '19 video game tournament in Jacksonville, Florida.

2021 – During the 2021 Kabul airport attack 13 US military personnel and at least 169 Afghan civilians are killed.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 903 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 324 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1881 – The Georgia hurricane makes landfall near Savannah, Georgia, resulting in an estimated 700 deaths.

1883 – Eruption of Krakatoa: Four enormous explosions almost completely destroy the island of Krakatoa and cause years of climate change. The eruption was one of the deadliest and most destructive volcanic events in recorded history. At least 36,417 deaths are attributed to the eruption and the tsunamis it created.

1893 – The Sea Islands hurricane strikes the United States near Savannah, Georgia, killing between 1,000 and 2,000 people.

1942 – First day of the Sarny Massacre, perpetrated by Germans and Ukrainians.

1963 – An explosion at the Cane Creek potash mine near Moab, Utah kills 18 miners.

1979 – The Troubles: Eighteen British soldiers are killed in an ambush by the Provisional Irish Republican Army near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland, in the deadliest attack on British forces during Operation Banner. An IRA bomb also kills British royal family member Lord Mountbatten and three others on his boat at Mullaghmore, Republic of Ireland.

2006 – Comair Flight 5191 crashes on takeoff from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky, bound for Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta. Of the passengers and crew, 49 of 50 are confirmed dead in the hours following the crash.

2011 – Hurricane Irene strikes the United States east coast, killing 47 and causing an estimated $15.6 billion in damage.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 904 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 325 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1936 – Nazi Germany begins its mass arrests of Jehovah's Witnesses, who are interned in concentration camps.

1955 – Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent civil rights movement.

1988 – Ramstein air show disaster: Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and the wreckage falls into the crowd. Seventy-five are killed and 346 seriously injured.

1990 – An F5 tornado strikes the Illinois cities of Plainfield and Joliet, killing 29 people.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 905 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 326 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1741 – The eruption of Oshima–Ōshima and the Kampo tsunami: At least 2,000 people along the Japanese coast drown in a tsunami caused by the eruption of Oshima.

1907 – The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.

1912 – A typhoon strikes China, killing at least 50,000 people.

1948 – Northwest Airlines Flight 421 crashes in Fountain City, Wisconsin, killing all 37 aboard.

1949 – Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.

1966 – Leading Egyptian thinker Sayyid Qutb is executed for plotting the assassination of President Gamal Abdel Nasser.

1970 – Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War, East Los Angeles, California. Police riot kills three people, including journalist Rubén Salazar.

1996 – Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Tupolev Tu-154, crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard.

1997 – At least 98 villagers are killed by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria.

1998 – Eighty people are killed when Cubana de Aviación Flight 389 crashes during a rejected takeoff from the Old Mariscal Sucre International Airport in Quito, Ecuador.

2001 – Four people are killed when Binter Mediterráneo Flight 8261 crashes into the N-340 highway near Málaga Airport.

2003 – Sayed Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, is assassinated in a terrorist bombing, along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a mosque in Najaf.

2005 – Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing up to 1,836 people and causing $125 billion in damage.

2012 – At least 26 Chinese miners are killed and 21 missing after a blast in the Xiaojiawan coal mine, located at Panzhihua, Sichuan Province.

2022 – Political chaos grips Iraq, with at least 12 killed in street clashes.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 906 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 327 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1791HMS Pandora sinks after having run aground on the outer Great Barrier Reef the previous day.

1813 – Creek War: Fort Mims massacre: Creek "Red Sticks" kill over 500 settlers (including over 250 armed militia) in Fort Mims, north of Mobile, Alabama.

1974 – A BelgradeDortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers.

1974 – A powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo. Eight are killed, 378 are injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May 19, 1975, by Japanese authorities.

1981 – President Mohammad-Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar of Iran are assassinated in a bombing committed by the People's Mujahedin of Iran.

1983Aeroflot Flight 5463 crashes into Dolan Mountain while approaching Almaty International Airport in present-day Kazakhstan, killing all 90 people on board.

2002Rico Linhas Aéreas Flight 4823 crashes on approach to Rio Branco International Airport, killing 23 of the 31 people on board.

2008 – A Conviasa Boeing 737 crashes into Illiniza Volcano in Ecuador, killing all three people on board.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 907 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 328 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1886 – The 7.0 Mw  Charleston earthquake affects southeastern South Carolina with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Sixty people killed with damage estimated at $5–6 million.

1896 – The Rikuu earthquake (Japanese: 陸羽地震) is an inland earthquake that near the border between Akita and Iwate prefectures, Japan. Magnitude was 7.2. The earthquake left 209 people dead (205 people dead in Akita Prefecture) and 779 people injured. 

1950 – TWA Flight 903 crashes near Itay El Barud, Egypt, killing all 55 aboard.

1972 – Aeroflot Flight 558 crashes in the Abzelilovsky District in Bashkortostan, Russia (then the Soviet Union), killing all 102 people aboard.

1986 – Aeroméxico Flight 498 collides with a Piper PA-28 Cherokee over Cerritos, California, killing 67 in the air and 15 on the ground.

1986 – The Soviet passenger liner Admiral Nakhimov sinks in the Black Sea after colliding with the bulk carrier Pyotr Vasev, killing 423.

1987 – Thai Airways Flight 365 crashes into the ocean near Ko Phuket, Thailand, killing all 83 aboard.

1988 – Delta Air Lines Flight 1141 crashes during takeoff from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, killing 14.

1988 – CAAC Flight 301 overshoots the runway at Kai Tak Airport and crashes into Kowloon Bay, killing seven people.

1997 – Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris.

1999 – The first of a series of bombings in Moscow kills one person and wounds 40 others.

1999 – A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 65, including two on the ground.

2002 – Typhoon Rusa, the most powerful typhoon to hit South Korea in 43 years, made landfall, killing at least 236 people.

2005 – The 2005 Al-Aaimmah bridge stampede in Baghdad kills 953 people. 

2017 –  A series of debris flows after a huge rockslide from the adjacent mountain Piz Cengalo destroyed dozens of buildings and a bridge in Bondo, and resulted in the disappearance of eight hikers in Val Bondesca, up the valley from Bondo. The missing and presumed dead people were Swiss, Austrian and German.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 908 days.

2023 –  A fire that ripped through an illegally occupied building in Johannesburg killed 74, and injured many more.

2023 –  A train hits and kills five track maintenance workers in northern Italy. 

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 329 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1420 – A 9.4 MS-strong earthquake shakes Chile's Atacama Region causing tsunamis in Chile as well as Hawaii and Japan.

1894 – Over 400 people die in the Great Hinckley Fire, a forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota.

1923 – The Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing about 105,000 people.

1961 – TWA Flight 529 crashed shortly after takeoff from Midway Airport in Chicago, killing all 78 people on board. At the time, it was the deadliest single plane disaster in U.S. history.

1983 – Cold War: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace, killing all 269 on board, including Congressman Lawrence McDonald.

2004 – The Beslan school siege begins when armed terrorists take schoolchildren and school staff hostage in North Ossetia, Russia; by the end of the siege, three days later, more than 385 people are dead (including hostages, other civilians, security personnel and terrorists).

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 909 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 330 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1666 – The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days, destroying 10,000 buildings, including Old St Paul's Cathedral.

1792 – During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.

1806 – A massive landslide destroys the town of Goldau, Switzerland, killing 457.

1856 – The Tianjing incident takes place in Nanjing, China.

1885 – Rock Springs massacre: In Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners, who are struggling to unionize so they could strike for better wages and work conditions, attack their Chinese fellow workers killing 28, wounding 15 and forcing several hundred more out of town.

1935 – The Labor Day Hurricane, the most intense hurricane to strike the United States, makes landfall at Long Key, Florida, killing at least 400.

1958 – A USAF RC-130 is shot down by fighters over Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission. All crew members are killed.

1984 – Seven people are shot and killed and 12 wounded in the Milperra massacre,, a shootout between the rival motorcycle gangs Bandidos and Comancheros in Sydney, Australia.

1985 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil politicians and former MPs M. Alalasundaram and V. Dharmalingam are shot dead.

1992 – The 7.7 Mw  Nicaragua earthquake affected the west coast of Nicaragua. With a Ms–Mw disparity of half a unit, this tsunami earthquake triggered a tsunami that caused most of the damage and casualties, with at least 116 killed. Typical runup heights were 3–8 meters (9.8–26.2 ft).

1998 – Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia; all 229 people onboard are killed.

2009 – The Andhra Pradesh, India helicopter crash occurred near Rudrakonda Hill, 40 nautical miles (74 km) from Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh, India. Fatalities included Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, the Chief Minister of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

2019 – Hurricane Dorian, a category 5 hurricane, devastates the Bahamas, killing at least five.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 910 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 331 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1812 – Twenty-four settlers are killed in the Pigeon Roost Massacre in Indiana.

1855 – American Indian Wars: In Nebraska, 700 soldiers under United States General William S. Harney avenge the Grattan massacre by attacking a Sioux village and killing 100 men, women and children.

1878 – Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice  collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.

1879 – Siege of the British Residency in Kabul: British envoy Sir Louis Cavagnari and 72 men of the Guides are massacred by Afghan troops while defending the British Residency in Kabul. Their heroism and loyalty became famous and revered throughout the British Empire.

1925 – USS Shenandoah, the United States' first American-built rigid airship, was destroyed in a squall line over Noble County, Ohio. Fourteen of her 42-man crew perished, including her commander, Zachary Lansdowne.

1941 – The Holocaust: Karl Fritzsch, deputy camp commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, experiments with the use of Zyklon B in the gassing of Soviet POWs.

1944 – Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from the Westerbork transit camp to the Auschwitz concentration camp, arriving three days later.

1978 – During the Rhodesian Bush War a group of ZIPRA guerrillas shot down civilian Vickers Viscount aircraft (Air Rhodesia Flight 825) with a Soviet-made SAM Strela-2; of 56 passengers and crew 38 people died in crash, 10 were massacred by the guerrillas at the site.

1989 – Varig Flight 254 crashes in the Amazon rainforest near São José do Xingu in Brazil, killing 12.

1997 – Vietnam Airlines Flight 815 (Tupolev Tu-134) crashes on approach into Phnom Penh airport, killing 64.

2004 – Beslan school siege results in over 330 fatalities, including 186 children.

2010 – After taking off from Dubai International Airport, UPS Airlines Flight 6 develops an in-flight fire in the cargo hold and crashes near Nad Al Sheba, killing both crew members on board.

2017 – North Korea conducts its sixth and most powerful nuclear test.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 911 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 332 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1827 – The Great Fire of Turku almost completely destroys Finland's former capital city.

1886 – American Indian Wars: After almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo, with his remaining warriors, surrenders to General Nelson Miles in Arizona.

1963 – Swissair Flight 306 crashes near Dürrenäsch, Switzerland, killing all 80 people on board.

1971 – Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 crashes near Juneau, Alaska, killing all 111 people on board.

1977 – The Golden Dragon massacre takes place in San Francisco.

2022 – A stabbing spree in Saskatchewan, Canada, leaves 11 people dead and 19 others injured.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 912 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 333 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1887 – A fire at the Theatre Royal, Exeter, kills 186.

1954 – KLM Flight 633 crashes into the River Shannon in Shannon, County Clare, Ireland, killing 28.

1969 – Mỹ Lai Massacre: U.S. Army Lieutenant William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.

1972 – Munich massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attacks and takes hostage 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. Two die in the attack and nine are murdered the following day.

1986 – Pan Am Flight 73 from Mumbai, India with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.

1990 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Army soldiers slaughter 158 civilians.

1996 – Hurricane Fran makes landfall near Cape Fear, North Carolina as a Category 3 storm with 115 mph sustained winds. Fran caused over $3 billion in damage and killed 27 people.

2005 – Mandala Airlines Flight 091, a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Medan to Jakarta, stalled and crashed into a heavily populated residential area seconds after taking off from Polonia International Airport. Of the 117 passengers and crews on board, only 17 survived. An additional 49 civilians on the ground were killed.

2012 – An accidental explosion at a Turkish Army ammunition store in Afyon, western Turkey kills 25 soldiers and wounds four others.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 913 days.

2022 –  A magnitude 6.6 earthquake strikes China's Sichuan province, leaving at least 65 people dead. 

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 334 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1943 – Pennsylvania Railroad's premier train derails at Frankford Junction in Philadelphia, killing 79 people and injuring 117 others.

1952 – A prototype aircraft crashes at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England, killing 29 spectators and the two on board.

1955 – Istanbul's Greek, Jewish, and Armenian minorities are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom;  dozens are killed in ensuing riots.

1971 – Paninternational Flight 112 crashes on the Bundesautobahn 7 highway near Hamburg Airport, in Hamburg, Germany, killing 22.

1985 – Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105 crashes near Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing all 31 people on board.

2009 – The ro-ro ferry SuperFerry 9 sinks off the Zamboanga Peninsula in the Philippines with 971 persons aboard; all but ten are rescued.

2012 – Sixty-one people die after a fishing boat capsizes off the İzmir Province coast of Turkey, near the Greek Aegean islands.

2013 – Forty one elephants are poisoned with cyanide in salt pans, by poachers in Hwange National Park.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 914 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 335 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1857Mountain Meadows massacre: Mormon settlers slaughter most members of peaceful, emigrant wagon train.

1909Eugène Lefebvre crashes a new French-built Wright biplane during a test flight at Juvisy, south of Paris, becoming the first aviator in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft.

1920 – Two newly purchased Savoia flying boats crash in the Swiss Alps en route to Finland where they were to serve with the Finnish Air Force, killing both crews.

1929 – Steamer Kuru capsizes and sinks on Lake Näsijärvi near Tampere in Finland. One hundred thirty-six lives are lost.

1943 – A fire at the Gulf Hotel in Houston kills 55 people.

1977 – The 300-metre-tall CKVR-DT transmission tower in Barrie, Ontario, Canada, is hit by a light aircraft in a fog, causing it to collapse. All aboard the aircraft are killed.

1984 – An explosion on board a Maltese patrol boat disposing of illegal fireworks at sea off Gozo kills seven soldiers and policemen.

1999 – The 6.0 Mw  Athens earthquake affected the area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing 143, injuring 800–1,600, and leaving 50,000 homeless.

2011 – The Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash in Russia kills 43 people, including nearly the entire roster of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Kontinental Hockey League team.

2017 – The 8.2 Mw  2017 Chiapas earthquake strikes southern Mexico, killing at least 60 people.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 915 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 336 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1727 – A barn fire during a puppet show in the village of Burwell in Cambridgeshire, England kills 78 people, many of whom are children.

1860 – The steamship PS Lady Elgin sinks on Lake Michigan, with the loss of around 300 lives.

1900 – Galveston hurricane: A powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.

1905 – The 7.2 Mw  Calabria earthquake shakes southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 557 and 2,500 people.

1923 – Honda Point disaster: Nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed.

1934 – Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SS Morro Castle kills 137 people.

1970 – Trans International Airlines Flight 863 crashes during takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, killing all 11 aboard.

1973 – World Airways Flight 802 crashes into Mount Dutton in King Cove, Alaska, killing six people.

1978 – Black Friday, a massacre by soldiers against protesters in Tehran, results in 88 deaths, it marks the beginning of the end of the monarchy in Iran.

1989 – Partnair Flight 394 dives into the North Sea, killing 55 people. The investigation showed that the tail of the plane vibrated loose in flight due to sub-standard connecting bolts that had been fraudulently sold as aircraft-grade.

1994 – USAir Flight 427, on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport, suddenly crashes in clear weather killing all 132 aboard, resulting in the most extensive aviation investigation in world history and altering manufacturing practices in the industry.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 916 days.

2023 –  A magnitude 6.8 earthquake strikes Morocco, killing over 2800 people.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 337 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1845 – Possible start of the Great Famine of Ireland.

1924 – Hanapepe massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.

1940 – Treznea Massacre in Transylvania.

1954 – The 6.7 Mw  Chlef earthquake shakes northern Algeria with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme). At least 1,243 people were killed and 5,000 were injured.

1965 – Hurricane Betsy makes its second landfall near New Orleans, leaving 76 dead and $1.42 billion ($10–12 billion in 2005 dollars) in damages, becoming the first hurricane to cause over $1 billion in unadjusted damage.

1969 – Allegheny Airlines Flight 863 collides in mid-air with a Piper PA-28 Cherokee over Moral Township, Shelby County, Indiana, killing all 83 people on board both aircraft.

1971 – The four-day Attica Prison riot begins, eventually resulting in 39 dead, most killed by state troopers retaking the prison.

1990 – Batticaloa massacre: Massacre of 184 Tamil civilians by the Sri Lankan Army in Batticaloa District.

2001 – Ahmad Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan by two al-Qaeda assassins who claimed to be Arab journalists wanting an interview.

2012 – A wave of attacks kills more than 100 people and injure 350 others across Iraq.

2016 – The government of North Korea conducts its fifth and reportedly biggest nuclear test. World leaders condemn the act, with South Korea calling it "maniacal recklessness".

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 917 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 338 days.

2024 – Typhoon Yagi leaves more than 200 people dead across six Asian countries.

 

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1509 – An earthquake known as "The Lesser Judgment Day" hits Constantinople.

1897 – Lattimer massacre: A sheriff's posse kills 19 unarmed striking immigrant miners in Lattimer, Pennsylvania, United States.

1939 – World War II: The submarine HMS Oxley is mistakenly sunk by the submarine HMS Triton near Norway and becomes the Royal Navy's first loss of a submarine in the war.

1961 – In the Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang von Trips and 15 spectators who are hit by his Ferrari, the deadliest accident in F1 history.

1976 – A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.

2017 – Hurricane Irma makes landfall on Cudjoe Key, Florida as a Category 4, after causing catastrophic damage throughout the Caribbean. Irma resulted in 134 deaths and $64.76 billion (2017 USD) in damage.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 918 days.

2023 –  Storm Daniel causes flooding across Libya and the collapse of two dams, leaving more than 10,000 people dead, with more than 10´000 are still missing.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 339 days.

 

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1649 – Siege of Drogheda ends: Oliver Cromwell's Parliamentarian troops take the town and execute its garrison.

1857 – The Mountain Meadows massacre: Mormon settlers and Paiutes massacre 120 pioneers at Mountain Meadows, Utah.

1881 – In the Swiss state of Glarus, a rockslide buries parts of the village of Elm, destroying 83 buildings and killing 115 people.

1905 – The Ninth Avenue derailment occurs in New York City, killing 13.

1916 – The Quebec Bridge's central span collapses, killing 11 men. The bridge previously collapsed completely on August 29, 1907.

1944 – World War II: RAF bombing raid on Darmstadt and the following firestorm kill 11,500.

1954 – Hurricane Edna hits New England (United States) as a Category 2 hurricane, causing significant damage and 29 deaths.

1961 – Hurricane Carla strikes the Texas coast as a Category 4 hurricane, the second strongest storm ever to hit the state.

1968 – Air France Flight 1611 crashes off Nice, France, killing 89 passengers and six crew.

1973 – A coup in Chile, headed by General Augusto Pinochet, topples the democratically elected president Salvador Allende. Thousand including Allende are killed. Pinochet exercises dictatorial power until ousted in a referendum in 1988, staying in power until 1990.

1973 – JAT Airways Flight 769 crashes into the Maganik mountain range while on approach to Titograd Airport, killing 35 passengers and six crew.

1974 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 crashes in Charlotte, North Carolina, killing 69 passengers and two crew.

1982 – The international forces that were guaranteeing the safety of Palestinian refugees following Israel's 1982 Invasion of Lebanon leave Beirut. Five days later, several thousand refugees are massacred in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps by Phalange forces.

1990 – A Faucett Boeing 727 disappears in the Atlantic Ocean while being flown from Malta to Peru.

1991 – Continental Express Flight 2574 crashes in Colorado County, Texas, near Eagle Lake, killing 11 passengers and three crew.

1992 – Hurricane Iniki, one of the most damaging hurricanes in United States history, devastates the Hawaiian Islands of Kauai and Oahu.

1997 – Kurkse tragedy: Fourteen Estonian soldiers of the Baltic Battalion are drowned or die of hypothermia during a training exercise in the Kurkse Strait.

2001 – The September 11 attacks, a series of coordinated terrorist attacks killing 2,996 people using four aircraft hijacked by 19 members of al-Qaeda. Two aircraft crash into the World Trade Center in New York City, a third crashes into The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and a fourth into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

2007 – Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of All Bombs.

2012 – A total of 315 people are killed in two garment factory fires in Pakistan.

2012 – The U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya is attacked, resulting in four deaths.

2015 – A crane collapses onto the Masjid al-Haram mosque in Saudi Arabia, killing 111 people and injuring 394 others.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 919 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 340 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1634 – A gunpowder factory explodes in Valletta, Malta, killing 22 people and damaging several buildings.

1857 – The SS Central America sinks about 160 miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, drowning a total of 426 passengers and crew, including Captain William Lewis Herndon. The ship was carrying 13–15 tons of gold from the California Gold Rush.

1940 – The Hercules Powder Plant Disaster in the United States kills 51 people and injures over 200.

1942 – World War II: RMS Laconia,, carrying civilians, Allied soldiers and Italian POWs is torpedoed off the coast of West Africa and sinks with a heavy loss of life.

1961 – Air France Flight 2005 crashes near Rabat–Salé Airport, in Rabat, Morocco, killing 77 people.

1969 – Philippine Airlines Flight 158 crashes in Antipolo, near Manila International Airport in the Philippines, killing 45 people.

1970 – Dawson's Field hijackings: Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorists blow up three hijacked airliners in Zarqa, Jordan, continuing to hold the passengers hostage in various undisclosed locations in Amman.

1988 – Hurricane Gilbert devastates Jamaica; it turns towards Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula two days later, causing an estimated $5 billion in damage.

2007 – Two earthquakes measuring 8.4 and 7.9 on the Richter Scale hits the Indonesian island of Sumatra, killing 25 people and injuring 161.

2008 – The 2008 Chatsworth train collision in Los Angeles between a Metrolink commuter train and a Union Pacific freight train kills 25 people.

2015 – A series of explosions involving propane triggering nearby illegally stored mining detonators in the Indian town of Petlawad in the state of Madhya Pradesh kills at least 105 people with over 150 injured.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 920 days.

2023 –  In Hanoi, Vietnam, a fire at an apartment building kills at least 56 people.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 341 days.

 

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1971 – State police and National Guardsmen storm New York's Attica Prison to quell a prison revolt, which claimed 43 lives.

1971 – Chairman Mao Zedong's second in command and successor Marshal Lin Biao flees China after the failure of an alleged coup. His plane crashes in Mongolia, killing all aboard.

1982 – Spantax Flight 995 crashes at Málaga Airport during a rejected takeoff, killing 50 of the 394 people on board.

1986 – A magnitude 6.0 earthquake strikes Kalamata, Greece with a maximum Modified Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing at least 20 and causing heavy damage in the city.

1987 – Goiânia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and causing some to die from radiation poisoning.

1988 – Hurricane Gilbert  is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere, later replaced by Hurricane Wilma in 2005 (based on barometric pressure).

1997 – A German Air Force Tupolev Tu-154 and a United States Air Force Lockheed C-141 Starlifter collide in mid-air near Namibia, killing 33.

2008 – Delhi, India, is hit by a series of bomb blasts, resulting in 30 deaths and 130 injuries.

2008 – Hurricane Ike makes landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast of the United States, causing heavy damage to Galveston Island, Houston, and surrounding areas.

2018 – The Merrimack Valley gas explosions: One person is killed, 25 are injured, and 40 homes are destroyed when excessive natural gas pressure caused fires and explosions.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 921 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 342 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1901 – U.S. President William McKinley dies after being mortally wounded on September 6 by anarchist Leon Czolgosz and is succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt.

1914 – HMAS AE1, the Royal Australian Navy's first submarine, is lost at sea with all hands near East New Britain, Papua New Guinea.

1940 – Ip massacre: The Hungarian Army, supported by local Hungarians, kill 158 Romanian civilians in Ip, Sălaj, a village in Northern Transylvania, an act of ethnic cleansing.

1943 – Viannos massacres: The Wehrmacht starts a three-day retaliatory operation targeting several Greek villages in the region of Viannos, whose death toll would eventually exceed 500 persons.

1954 – In a top secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village.

1989 – The Standard Gravure shooting where Joseph T. Wesbecker, a 47-year-old pressman, killed eight people and injured 12 people at his former workplace, Standard Gravure, before committing suicide.

1997 – Eighty-one killed as five bogies of the Ahmedabad–Howrah Express plunge into a river in Bilaspur district of Madhya Pradesh, India.

2008 – Aeroflot Flight 821, a Boeing 737-500, crashes into a section of the Trans-Siberian Railway while on approach to Perm International Airport, in Perm, Russia, killing all 88 people on board.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 922 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 343 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1947 – Typhoon Kathleen hit the Kantō region in Japan killing 1,077.

1963 – Baptist Church bombing: Four children killed in the bombing of an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.

1974 – Air Vietnam Flight 706 is hijacked, then crashes while attempting to land with 75 on board.

1995 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 2133 crashes at Tawau Airport in Malaysia, killing 34.

2008 – Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.

2011 – Four miners are killed in the Gleision Colliery mining accident in the Swansea Valley, Wales, UK.

2022 –  At least 100 people are killed in renewed fighting between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 923 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 344 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1920 – The Wall Street bombing: A bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City killing 38 and injuring 400.

1953 – American Airlines Flight 723 crashes in Colonie, New York, killing 28 people.

1961 – Typhoon Nancy with possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, makes landfall in Osaka, Japan, killing 173 people.

1976 – Armenian champion swimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen into a Yerevan reservoir.

1978 – The 7.4 Mw  Tabas earthquake affects the city of Tabas, Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). At least 15,000 people are killed.

1982 – Lebanon War: The Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon takes place.

2007 – One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 carrying 130 crew and passengers crashes in Thailand, killing 90 people.

2007 – Security guards working for Blackwater Worldwide shoot and kill 17 Iraqis in Nisour Square, Baghdad.

2013 – A gunman kills twelve people at the Washington Navy Yard.

2015 – A 8.3 Mw  earthquake strikes the Chilean city of Illapel, killing 15 people, injuring at least 34, leaving at least six missing, and causing extensive damage. One person also dies in Argentina.

2021 – A 6.0 Mw  earthquake strikes Lu County, Sichuan, China, killing three and injuring more than 88.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 924 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 345 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1928 – The Okeechobee hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing more than 2,500 people.

1949 – The Canadian steamship SS Noronic  burns in Toronto Harbour with the loss of over 118 lives.

1961 – Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 706 crashes during takeoff from O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, killing all 37 people on board.

1992 – An Iranian Kurdish leader and his two joiners are assassinated by political militants in Berlin.

2016 – Two bombs explode in Seaside Park, New Jersey, and Manhattan. Thirty-one people are injured in the Manhattan bombing.

2018 – A Russian reconnaissance aircraft carrying 15 people on board is brought down by a Syrian surface-to-air missile over the Mediterranean Sea.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 925 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 346 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1812The 1812 Fire of Moscow dies down after destroying more than three-quarters of the city.

1940 – World War II: The British liner SS City of Benares is sunk by German submarine U-48; those killed include 77 child refugees.

1944 – World War II: The British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes Jun'yō Maru, killing 5,600, mostly slave labourers and POWs.

1974Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, killing 5,000 people.

1992 – An explosion rocks Giant Mine at the height of a labor dispute, killing nine replacement workers in Yellowknife, Canada.

2015 – Two security personnel, 17 worshippers in a mosque, and 13 militants are killed during a Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan attack on a Pakistan Air Force base on the outskirts of Peshawar.

2016 – The 2016 Uri attack in Jammu and Kashmir, India by terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed results in the deaths of nineteen Indian Army soldiers and all four attackers.

2021 – A ferry capsizes in Guizhou province, China due to bad weather, killing ten people and five missing.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 926 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 347 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1970 – Kostas Georgakis, a Greek student of geology, sets himself ablaze in Matteotti Square in Genoa, Italy, as a protest against the dictatorial regime of Georgios Papadopoulos.

1976 – Turkish Airlines Flight 452 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Turkey, killing all 154 passengers and crew.

1985 – A strong earthquake kills thousands and destroys about 400 buildings in Mexico City.

1989 – A bomb destroys UTA Flight 772 in mid-air above the Tùnùrù Desert, Niger, killing all 170 passengers and crew.

1997 – In the Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria, 53 people are killed.

2006 – The Thai army stages a coup. The Constitution is revoked and martial law is declared.

2017 – The 2017 Puebla earthquake strikes Mexico, causing 370 deaths and over 6,000 injuries, as well as extensive damage.

2019 – A drone strike by the United States kills 30 civilian farmers in Afghanistan.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 927 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 348 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1498 – The 1498 Meiō earthquake occurred off the coast of Nankaidō, Japan and triggered a large tsunami. The death toll associated with this event is uncertain, but between 5,000 and 41,000 casualties were reported. The Nankai tsunami washed away the building housing the Great Buddha at Kōtoku-in. It has been outside since then.

1941 – The Holocaust in Lithuania: Lithuanian Nazis and local police begin a mass execution of 403 Jews in Nemenčinė.

1942 – The Holocaust in Ukraine: In the course of two days a German Einsatzgruppe murders at least 3,000 Jews in Letychiv.

1971 – Having weakened after making landfall in Nicaragua the previous day, Hurricane Irene regains enough strength to be renamed Hurricane Olivia, making it the first known hurricane to cross from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific.

1984 – A suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twenty-two people.

1989 – USAir Flight 5050 crashes into Bowery Bay during a rejected takeoff from LaGuardia Airport, killing two people.

2008 – A dump truck full of explosives detonates in front of the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing 54 people and injuring 266 others.

2017 – Hurricane Maria makes landfall in Puerto Rico as a powerful Category 4 hurricane, resulting in 2,975 deaths, US$90 billion in damage, and a major humanitarian crisis.

2018 – At least 161 people die after a ferry capsized close to the pier on Ukara Island in Lake Victoria and part of Tanzania.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 928 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 349 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1921 – A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 500–600 people.

1934 – A large typhoon hits western Honshū, Japan, killing more than 3,000 people.

1938 – The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500–700 people.

1942 – The Holocaust in Ukraine: On the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Nazis send over 1,000 Jews of Pidhaitsi to Bełżec extermination camp.

1942 – The Holocaust in Ukraine: In Dunaivtsi, Ukraine, Nazis murder 2,588 Jews.

1957 – Pamir, a four-masted barque, was shipwrecked and sank off the Azores during Hurricane Carrie.

1999 – The Chi-Chi earthquake occurs in central Taiwan, leaving about 2,400 people dead.

2001 – Ross Parker is murdered in Peterborough, England, by a gang of ten British Pakistani youths.

2013 – Al-Shabaab Islamic militants attack the Westgate shopping mall in Kenya, killing at least 67 people.

2018 – Killing of Zak Kostopoulos, LGBT rights activist beaten to death on a busy street in Athens.

2019 – A 5.6 Mw earthquake shakes the Albanian port of Durrës. Forty-nine people are injured in the capital, Tirana.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 929 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 350 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1857 – The Russian warship Lefort capsizes and sinks during a storm in the Gulf of Finland, killing all 826 aboard.

1914 – A German submarine sinks three British cruisers over a seventy-minute period, killing almost 1500 sailors.

1934 – The Gresford disaster in Wales kills 266 miners and rescuers.

1941 – The Holocaust in Ukraine: On the Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murders 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. Those are the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed.

1966 – Twenty-four people are killed when Ansett-ANA Flight 149 crashes in Winton, Queensland, Australia.

1993 – A barge strikes a railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama, causing the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak history. Forty-seven passengers are killed.

1993 – A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.

1995 – An E-3B AWACS crashes outside Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines soon after takeoff; all 24 on board are killed.

1995 – The Nagerkovil school bombing is carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force in which at least 34 die, most of them ethnic Tamil schoolchildren.

2006 – Twenty-three people were killed in a maglev train collision in Lathen, Germany.

2013 – At least 75 people are killed in a suicide bombing at a Christian church in Peshawar, Pakistan.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 930 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 351 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June /  October-December

 

1983 – Gulf Air Flight 771 is destroyed by a bomb, killing all 117 people on board.

2004 – Over 3,000 people die in Haiti after Hurricane Jeanne produces massive flooding and mudslides.

2008 – Matti Saari kills ten people at a school in Finland before committing suicide. 

2022 – Following the death of Mahsa Amini, at least 50 people are killed during protests in Iran.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 931 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 352 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1906 – Racial tensions exacerbated by rumors lead to the Atlanta Race Riot,, further increasing racial segregation.

1959 – TAI Flight 307 crashes during takeoff from Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport in Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, killing 55 people.

2005 – Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating portions of southwestern Louisiana and extreme southeastern Texas.

2013 – A 7.7-magnitude earthquake strikes southern Pakistan, killing at least 327 people.

2015 – At least 1,100 people are killed and another 934 wounded after a stampede during the Hajj in Saudi Arabia.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 932 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 353 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1911 – An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Liberté detonates the forward ammunition magazines and destroys the ship.

1978 – PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, killing 144 people.

1998 – PauknAir Flight 4101, a British Aerospace 146, crashes near Melilla Airport in Melilla, Spain, killing 38 people.

2003 – The 8.3 Mw  Hokkaidō earthquake strikes just offshore Hokkaidō, Japan.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 933 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 354 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1954 – The Japanese rail ferry Tōya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait, Japan, killing 1,172.

1959 – Typhoon Vera, the strongest typhoon to hit Japan in recorded history, makes landfall, killing 4,580 people and leaving nearly 1.6 million others homeless.

1980 – At the Oktoberfest terror attack in Munich 13 people die and 211 are injured.

1997 – A Garuda Indonesia Airbus A300 crashes near Medan airport, killing 234.

1997 – An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and the Marche, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse.

2000 – The MS Express Samina sinks off Paros in the Aegean Sea killing 80 passengers.

2002 – The overcrowded Senegalese ferry, MV Le Joola, capsizes off the coast of the Gambia killing more than 1,000.

2009 – Typhoon Ketsana hits the Philippines, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand, causing 700 fatalities.

2014 – A mass kidnapping occurs in Iguala, Mexico. 2014 – A mass kidnapping occurs in Iguala, Mexico. Forty-three male students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College were forcibly abducted and then disappeared in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 934 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 355 days.

2024 –  Flooding in Nepal leaves more than 200 people dead.

2024 –  Hurricane Helene leaves more than 150 people dead across the southeastern United States.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1854 – The paddle steamer SS Arctic, owned by the Collins Line of New York, sinks off the coast of Newfoundland, following a collision with a smaller vessel, the SS Vesta. Only 88 of over 300 people on board survive. About a dozen of the occupants of the Vesta are killed when their lifeboat is hit by the Arctic.

1875 – The merchant sailing ship Ellen Southard is wrecked in a storm at Liverpool. One of the lifeboats capsized in heavy seas after picking up the ship's crew, resulting in nine people from the ship as well as three rescuers losing their lives.

1903 – "Wreck of the Old 97": an American rail disaster, in which 11 people are killed; it later becomes the subject of a popular ballad.

1959 – Typhoon Vera kills nearly 5,000 people in Japan.

1977 – Japan Airlines Flight 715 crashes on approach to Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport in Subang, Malaysia, killing 34 of the 79 people on board.

1993 – The Sukhumi massacre takes place in Abkhazia.

1996 – Confusion on a tanker ship results in the Julie N. oil spill in Portland, Maine.

2001 – In Switzerland, a gunman shoots 18 citizens, killing 14 and then himself.

2012 – In Minneapolis, a gunman shoots seven citizens, killing five and then himself.

2014 – The eruption of Mount Ontake in Japan occurs, killing 63 people.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 935 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 356 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1919 – Race riots begin in Omaha, Nebraska.

1992 – A Pakistan International Airlines flight crashes into a hill in Nepal, killing all 167 passengers and crew.

1994 – The cruise ferry MS Estonia sinks in the Baltic Sea, killing 852 people.

2009 – The military junta leading Guinea attacks a protest rally, killing or wounding 1,400 people.

2018 – The 7.5 Mw 2018 Sulawesi earthquake, which triggered a large tsunami, leaves 4,340 dead and 10,679 injured.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 936 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 357 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

 

1714 – The Great Hatred: The Cossacks of the Russian Empire kill about 800 people overnight in Hailuoto.

1717 – An earthquake strikes Antigua Guatemala, destroying much of the city's architecture.

1941 – World War II: German forces, with the aid of local Ukrainian collaborators, begin the two-day Babi Yar massacre.

1957 – The Kyshtym disaster is the third-worst nuclear accident ever recorded.

1959 – A Lockheed L-188 Electra crashes in Buffalo, Texas, killing 34 people.

1981 – An Iranian Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft crashes into a firing range near Kahrizak, Iran, killing 80 people.

2006 – A Boeing 737 and an Embraer 600 collide in mid-air, killing 154 people and triggering a Brazilian aviation crisis.

2009 – The 8.1 Mw  Samoa earthquake results in a tsunami that kills 189 and injures hundreds.

2013 – Over 42 people are killed by members of Boko Haram at the College of Agriculture in Nigeria.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 937 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 358 days.

[Apocalyptic Calendar]                                              January-March   /   April-June  /  October-December

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1139 – A magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes the Caucasus mountains in the Seljuk Empire, causing mass destruction and killing up to 300,000 people.

1888 – Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.

1941 – World War II: The Babi Yar massacre comes to an end.

1945 – The Bourne End rail crash, in Hertfordshire, England, kills 43.

1965 – Six Indonesian Army generals were assassinated by the September 30 Movement. The PKI was blamed for the latter, resulting in mass killings of suspected leftists.

1975 – Malév Flight 240 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea while on approach to Beirut International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 60.

1993 – The 6.2 Mw  Latur earthquake shakes Maharashtra, India with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe) killing 9,748 and injuring 30,000.

1999 – The okaimura nuclear accident causes the deaths of two technicians in Japan's second-worst nuclear accident.

2000 – Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Twelve-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah is shot and killed on the second day of the Second Intifada.

2009 – The 7.6 Mw  Sumatra earthquake leaves 1,115 people dead.

2016 – Hurricane Matthew becomes a Category 5 hurricane, making it the strongest hurricane to form in the Caribbean Sea since 2007.

2022 –  Invasion of Ukraine: The war in the Ukraine is ongoing for 938 days.

2023 –  The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza is ongoing for 359 days.