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The 2011 Norway attacks, referred to in Norway as 22 July or as 22/7, were two domestic terrorist attacks by Anders Behring Breivik against the government, the civilian population, and a Workers' Youth League (AUF) summer camp on the island of Utøya, in which 77 people were killed.

The first attack was a car bomb explosion in Oslo within Regjeringskvartalet, the executive government quarter of Norway, at 15:25:22 (CEST). The bomb was placed inside a van next to the tower block housing the office of the then Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg. The explosion killed eight people and injured at least 209 people, twelve severely.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Norway_attacks#Oslo_bombing

 

Index of “voyages apocalyptiques” 1994 -2019

(the date on the left is the day when the photograph was taken) 

 

1. World Trade Center, New York City, USA, Jun 24 1994 /  Terrorist bomb Feb 26 1993, 5† 

2. Charleston, South Carolina, USA, Jun 29 1994 / Hurricane Hugo Sep 22 1989, 20†  

3. Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, Jul 1 1994 / Space shuttle Challenger disaster Jan 28 1987, 7†  

4. Homestead, Florida, USA, Jul 7 1994/ Hurricane Andrew Aug  24 1992,  22† 

5. Alamogordo, New Mexico, USA, Jul 24 1994 / “ Trinity”, first atomic bomb testing Jul 16 1945, 0† 

6. Los Angeles, California, USA, Aug 8 1994 / Rodney King riots 4. 29. 1992, 58† 

    Northridge earthquake Jan 19 1994, 48† 

7. Malibu, California, USA, Aug 12 1994  / Brushfires Oct 26 1992, 3 † 

8. San Francisco, California, USA, Aug 17 1994 / Earthquake Apr 18 1908, 700† 

     -Loma Prieta earthquake, Oct 17 1989, 63†

9. Mount St. Helens, Washington, USA, Aug 22 1994 / Volcanic eruption May 18 1980, 57†  

10. Little Bighorn, Montana, USA, Aug 25 1994 / Indian battle against General Custer, June 25 1876, 221 † (US soldiers )

11. Three Mile Island, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA, Aug 30 1994 / nuclear meltdown Mar 28 1979, 0† 

12. Fiumicicoli, Corsica (F), Nov 7 1994 / flood Nov 7 1993, 4† 

13. Brig, Switzerland, Nov 11 1994 /flood, May 1994, 2† 

14. Heysel-Brussels, Belgium, Jan 13 1995  / Riot, followed by stampede, May 29 1985, 41†

15. Zeebrugge, Belgium, Feb 6 1995 / Ferry capsized 3. 6. 1987, 138 † 

16. Bijlmermeer - Amsterdam, Nederlands, Feb 9 1995 / El-Al plane crash into building 10. 4. 1992, more than 250†

17. Schweizerhalle - Basel, Switzerland, March 9 1995 / fire in chemical plant 11. 1. 1986, 0†

18. US Airbase Ramstein, Gemany, March 28 1995 61† / USsoldiers midair collision during airshow 8. 22. 1988 

19. Kobe, Japan, July 31 1995 / Hanshin-earthquake 1. 17. 1995, more than 5000†  

20. Hiroshima, Japan, Aug 4 1995 / first atomic bomb dropped on a city 8. 6. 1945, more than 80’000†  

21. Nagasaki, Japan, Aug 7 1995 / last atomic bomb dropped on a city 8. 9. 1945, more than 40’000†  

22. Fugendake, Mt. Unzen, Japan, Aug 10 1995 / volcanic eruption 6. 3. 1991, 45† 

23. Minamata, Japan, Aug 12 1995 / mercury pollution of the seashore from the1950’s, more than 1000†  

24. Tokyo, Japan, Sep 9 1995/ japan’s worst earthquake 9. 1. 1923,  more than 180’000† 

      - Terrorist sarin gas assault of subway system 20.3. 1995, 11† 

25. Furiani-Bastia, Corsica (F), May 5 1996 / tribune crash during soccer match 5. 5. 1992, 17† 

26. Vaison la Romaine, France, July 8 1997 / flashflood in campground 9. 22. 1992, 34† 

27. Los Alfaques, Spain, July 10 1997 / gas truck explosion in campground 6. 11. 1978, 180† 

28. Kwangju, Korea, Aug 31 1997 / military massacre during student riots 5. 9. 1980, hundreds † 

29. Seoul, Korea, Sep 5 1997 / department store collapse 6. 29. 1995, 501† 

30. Pont de l’Alma - Paris, France, May 9 1998 / Diana and Dodi crash and die with their driver 8. 31. 1997, 3† 

31. Eschede, Germany, Aug 18 1998  / ICE 884 deraillement 6. 6. 1998, 102†

32. Dusseldorf-Airport, Germany, Aug 21 1998 / fire in elevator 4. 11. 1996,  17† 

33. Omagh, Northern Ireland, Feb 17 1999 / terrorist car bomb Aug 1998, 29† 

34. Derry, Northern Ireland, June 20 1999 / Bloody Sunday: British paratroopers shot catholics on 1. 30. 1972, 14† 

35. Belfast, Northern Ireland, June 26 1999 / The Troubles: civil-war since 1968, Thousands † 

36. Galtür, Austria, July 7 1999 / Avalanche 2. 24. 1999, 43 † 

37. Lakehurst, New Jersey, Aug 13 1999 / Zeppelin Hindenburg crashes on landing: May 6 1937, 36 † 

38. Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Sep 1 1999 / TNT explosion in harbour: 2.12. 1917, more than 1900 † 

39. Peggy’s Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada, Sep 2 1999 / SR 111 Crash, Sep 2 1998, 229 † 

40. Remscheid, Germany, Nov 3 1999 / Starfighter Plane crashes into building, 17.4.1990, 7 †

41. Bologna, Italy, Dec 27 1999  / Terrorist Bomb in Central Station, 2. 8. 1980, 85 †

42. Biesca, Spain, June 13 2000 / Flashflood on campground, 22. 8. 1998, Over 60 † 

43. San Petru, Corsica(F), Sep 16 2000  / Plane crash, Inex Adria Aviopromet, 1. 12. 1981, 180†

44. Gonesse-Paris, France, Oct 2 2000 / Concorde Crash, 25. 7. 2000, 113 † 

45. Uster, Switzerland, Oct 4 2000 / Public pool building collapse, 9. 5. 1985, 14 † 

46. Brühl, Germany, Nov 11 2000 / Trainwreck, 6. 2. 2000, 9 † 

47. Bay of Pigs, Giron, Cuba, Nov 19 2000 / Secret US-Invasion, 17. 4. 1961, more than 100 soldiers † 

48. Pompeij, Italy, March 4 2001  / Volcanic eruption, / 24. 8. 79 a.c., more than 5000 †

49. World Trade Center, New York City, USA, Sept 11 2001 / Terrorist attack, 11.9. 2001, more than 3000 †

50. City Hall, Zug, Switzerland, Oct 10 2001 / Lunatic attack in parliament, 29.9. 2001, 14 † 

51. Far Rockaway, Queens, New York, USA, Jan 3 2002 / AA 587 crashes after takeoff, 12.11. 2001, 265 † 

52. Mexico City, Mexico, Feb 20 2002 / Earthquake, 19.9. 1985, more than 10’000 † 

53. Mont Blanc Tunnel, Chamonix, France, April 22 2002  / tunnel fire 26. 3.1999, 39 †

54. Carandiru Prison, São Paolo, Brazil, May 30 2002 / police massacre after prison revolte 2. 10 .1992, 111 † 

55. Lockerbie, Scotland (UK), Sep 11 2002 / Terrorist bombing of Jumbo Jet Pan Am 103, Dec 21 1988, 270 † 

56. Evolène, Switzerland, Sep 16 2003 / Avalanche, 21. 2.1999, 12 † 

57. Candelaria, Rio de Janeiro, Nov 24 2003 / Massacre on homeless children by police, 23. 7. 1993, 8† 

58. Charles de Gaulle Airport, Paris, France, July 11 2004  / Roof collapse of new airport terminal, 23. 5 2004, 4† 

59. Toulouse, France, Sep 23 2004 / chemical explosion, 21.11.2001, 29† 

60. Texas City, Texas, USA, Apr 3 2005 / chemical plant explosion/ 23. 3. 2005, 14† 

       - Explosion of 176-ton ship carrying fertilizer, 16. 4. 1947, more than 600† 

61. Galveston, Texas, USA, Apr 3 2005 / Hurricane, greatest natural disaster in US history, 8. 9.1900, more than 6000 † 

62. Guadalajara, Mexico, May 13, 2005 / Sewer explosion, 22. 4. 1992,  215† 

63. Tlatelolco, Mexico D.F., Mexico, June 6, 2005 / police massacre on protesting students/ 2. 10.1968, more than 300 † 

64. Ocosingo, Chiapas, Mexico, Aug 9 2005 / Army massacre on protesting Zapatistas, 2.1. 1993, more than 50† 

65. Acteal, Chiapas, Mexico, Aug 12 2005  / Paramilitary massacre on Zapatista women and children, 22.12. 1997, 45†

66. Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA, Sep 25 2005 / National guards’ massacre on protesting students, 4. 5.1970, 4† 

67. Atocha Station, Madrid, Spain, Apr 25 2006 / Series of simultaneous terrorist attacks against the commuter train system/ March 11 2004, 191 †  

68. International Trade Hall, Chorzów-Katowice, Poland, May 21 2006/  Roof collapse due to heavy snowfall/ 28. 1.2006, 65†

69. Tavisstock Square, London, England Jun 5 2006 / Four simultaneous terrorist attacks on the subway system / 6. 6. 2005, 56†

70.  Birmingham,  England, Sep 16 2006/  two simultaneous pub bombings by IRA > Birmingham Six / 21. 11. 1974, 21†

71. Dubrovka theatre, Moscow, Russia, Mar 1st 2007/  Terrorists attack and hostage crisis, Oct 25 2002, 162 †

72. Loran, Alexandria, Egypt,  Feb 15 2008 / building collapse, 25.12.2007, 35 †

73. Ras al-Shaitan, Sinai, Egypt,  Mar 22 2008/ terror bombing,  7.10. 2004, 3 †

74. Taba, Sinai, Egypt,  Mar 22 2008/  Terror bombing,  7.10.2004, 31 † 

75. Ueberlingen, Germany, Feb 2 2009 / Mid-Air Collision, July 2 2002, 71 †

76. Altamont, California, USA, Sep 12 2009/ Violence at a Rolling Stones free concert, 4† 

77. Plurs, Lombardy, Italy Jul 4 2010 / Rockslide, Sep 4 1618, 900 †

78. Fidaz, Graubünden, Switzerland, Jul 27 2010/ Rockslide, April 10 1939, 18†

79. Kaprun, Salzburg, Austria Aug 3 2010/  Fire in the train, Nov 11 2000, 155 †

80. Ban Namkhem, Thailand, Dec 13 2010 / Boxing Day Tsunami, Dec 26 2004, more than 250,000†

81. Kho Phi Phi Don, Thailand, Dec 18 2010/ Boxing Day Tsunami, Dec 26 2004, more than 250,000†

82. Khao Lak, Thailand, Dec 27 2011/  Boxing Day Tsunami, Dec 26 2004, more than 250,000†

83. Phuket Airport,  Thailand, Jan 2 2011/ Crash upon landing, Sep 16 2007, 90†

84. Banda Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia, Jan 5 2011/ Boxing Day Tsunami, Dec 26 2004, more than 250,000†

85. Lampuuk, Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia, Jan 9 2011/Boxing Day Tsunami, Dec 26 2004, more than 250,000†

86. Telwatta, Sri Lanka, Jan 19 2011/Boxing Day Tsunami, Dec 26 2004, more than 250,000†

87. Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu, India, Feb 12 2011, /Boxing Day Tsunami, Dec 26 2004, more than 250,000†

88. Taj Mahal Hotel, Mumbai, India, Feb 20 2011/ Terrorist attacks, Nov 16 2008, 31†

89. Victoria Railway Terminal (CST), Mumbai, India, Feb 20 2011/ Terrorist attacks, Nov 16 2008, 58†

90. Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, Asch Building, New York City, USA, Apr 2 2011/ Factory fire, Mar 25 1911, 146†

91. Elm, Glarus, Switzerland, May 10 2011/ Rockslide, Aug 11 1881, 111 †

92. Barajas, Madrid, Spain, May 20, 2011/  Avianca Flight 011 crashed, Nov 27  1983, 181†

       -Runway collision of two planes, 7 Dec 1983 135†

       -Spanair Flight 5022 crashed upon take-off,  Aug 20 2008, 154†

93. Livorno, Italy, Jun 6 2012/ Moby Prince disaster, ferry fire, April 10 1991, 140†

94. Sierre, Valais, Switzerland, Oct 3 2012/ bus accident, Mar 13 2012, 22†

95. St. Francis Dam, San Francisquito Canyon, California, USA, Mar 9 2014 / dam failure March 12, 1928, 600†

96. Le Mans, France, Aug 24 2014/ racing car disaster, Jun 11 1955, 84†

97. Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, Jan. 26 2015/ World's worst chemical disaster, Dec. 2–3, 1984, 3’787 †, unofficial more than 16’000 †

98. Charlie Hebdo, Paris, France, May 26 2015/ Terrorist attack on press office, 7 Jan 2015, 12 †

99. Parndorf, Burgenland, Austria, Nov 8 2015 / Discovery of truck with 71 dead fugitives, 27 Aug 2015, 71 †

100. Olympic Village, Munich, Bavaria, Germany, Mar 31 2016 / terrorist attack and hostage crisis, 4 Sep 1972, 11 †

101. Brussels Airport, Brussels, Belgium, Oct 12 2016/ Coordinated suicide bombings, 22 Mar 2016, 32 1 †

102. Bataclan, Paris, France, June 9, 2018 / co-ordinated terrorist attacks, 13 Nov 2015, 130†

103. Nice, France, July 10, 2018/ Terrorist attack with truck, 14 July 2016, 86 †

104. Fukushima, Japan, Sep 29, 2018/ 11 March, 2011, Tsunami and nuclear meltdown, 15,899 †, and 2,529 people missing

105. Mati, Athens, Greece, Nov 28, 2018 / Brushfires, 23 July 2018, 107†

106. Breitscheidplatz, Berlin, Germany, Dec 19, 2018/  Terrorist attack with truck, Dec 19, 2016,12 †

107. Wall Memorial, Berlin, Germany, Jun 22, 2021/ 1961-1989,  GDR state terrorism, 140-345†

108. Høyblokka, Oslo, Norway, Feb 19, 2022 / 22 July 2011, terrorist attack, 8†

 

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The 2008 Mumbai attacks (sometimes referred to as 26/11) were 11 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks across Mumbai, India's largest city, by terrorists who came from Pakistan.

167 people were killed, including 22 foreigners and over 700 injured. According to the Mumbai Police, the bombings were carried out by Lashkar-e-Taiba and Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). Two hotels, the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower and the Oberoi Trident, were amongst the five locations targeted. Six explosions were reported at the Taj hotel and one at the Oberoi Trident. At the Taj Mahal, 49 people were dead when the siege ended after more than 60 hours. [...]

The Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) was the first location to be attacked by two gunmen, one of whom, Ajmal Kasab, was later caught alive by the police and identified by eyewitnesses. The attacks began around 21:30 when the two men entered the passenger hall and opened fire, using AK-47 rifles.The attackers killed 58 people and injured 104 others, their assault ending at about 22:45.(CD)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Mumbai_attacks

 

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The 2004 Sri Lanka tsunami-rail disaster was the rail disaster with the highest count of deaths in history. It occurred when a crowded passenger train was destroyed on a coastal railway in Sri Lanka by the tsunami which followed the 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake, and resulted in the greatest loss of life in railroad history. According to the Sri Lankan authorities, only a few dozen people on the train survived. The estimated death toll was at least 1,700 people, including many locals who tried to take shelter behind or on the roof of the train. But it was probably over 2,000, although only approximately 900 bodies were recovered by the authorities, as many were swept out to sea or taken away unofficially by relatives. In the whole of Sri Lanka more than 44,000 people died. (CD)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake_and_tsunami

 

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Banda Aceh was the closest major city to the earthquake's epicenter, and suffered further devasting damage when a tsunami struck shortly afterward. It was the worst hit area out of all the locations hit by the Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami. 67,000 people died and many more were injured. The tsunami resulted from an earthquake of magnitude 9.1 and struck at about 6:58am. In the whole province of Aceh an estimated 250,000 people lost their lives. Eight months later, a peace agreement between Aceh rebels and the Indonesian government ended a civil war that lasted more than 30 years. (CD)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake_and_tsunami

 

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Khao Lak was one of the coastal areas of Thailand hardest hit by the tsunami resulting from the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami. Many people died including many foreign tourists. The final death toll was over 4000, with local unofficial estimates topping 10,000 due to the lack of accurate government censuses and the mere fact that the Burmese population were not documented or recognized as legal residents. (CD)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake_and_tsunami

 

 

 

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Ban Namkhen was among the villages hardest hit in Thailand. Other than in Khao Lak, 20 km to the south, only indiginous people perished. The estimated death toll is more than 2000, half of the entire popoulation. sind. It is here that the Thai government constructed the official Tsunami memorial.(CD)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake_and_tsunami

 

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The Altamont Speedway Free Festival was a counterculture-era rock concert held on Saturday, December 6, 1969, at the Altamont Speedway in northern California, between Tracy and Livermore. The event is best known for considerable violence, including the death of Meredith Hunter and three accidental deaths: two caused by a hit-and-run car accident and one by drowning in an irrigation canal. Four births were reported during the event. Scores were injured, numerous cars were stolen and then abandoned, and there was extensive property damage.[...]

Approximately 300,000 people attended the concert, and some anticipated that it would be a "Woodstock West."Filmmakers Albert and David Maysles shot footage of the event and incorporated it into a documentary film titled Gimme Shelter (1970). [...]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altamont_Free_Concert

Altamont generally is considered the violent ending of the 1960's - and the end of the hippie dream of Peace, Love and Happiness. (CD)

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The Moscow theater hostage crisis, also known as the 2002 Nord-Ost siege, was the seizure of the crowded Dubrovka Theater on 23 October 2002 by 40 to 50 armed Chechens who claimed allegiance to the Islamist militant separatist movement in Chechnya. They took 850 hostages and demanded the withdrawal of Russian forces from Chechnya and an end to the Second Chechen War. The siege was officially led by Movsar Barayev.

Due to the disposition of the theater, special forces would have had to fight through 100 feet of corridor and attack up a well defended staircase, before they could reach the hall in where the hostages held up. The terrorist also had numerous explosives, with the most powerful in the center of the auditorium, that if detonated, could have brought down the ceiling and caused an excess of 80 percent casualties. After a two-and-a-half day siege and the execution of two female hostages, Spetznas operators from Federal Security Service (FSB) Alpha and Vega Groups, supported by Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) SOBR unit, pumped an undisclosed chemical agent into the building's ventilation system and raided it.

During the raid, all 40 of the attackers were killed, with no casualties among spetznas, but about 130 hostages died due to adverse reactions to the gas (including nine foreigners). All but two of the hostages who died during the siege were killed by the toxic substance pumped into the theater to subdue the militants. The use of the gas was widely condemned as heavy-handed, but the American and British governments deemed Russia's actions justifiable. Physicians in Moscow condemned the refusal to disclose the identity of the gas that prevented them from saving more lives. Some reports said the drug naloxone was successfully used to save some hostages. [...]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_theater_hostage_crisis

 

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The Acteal Massacre was a massacre of 45 people attending a prayer meeting of Roman Catholic indigenous townspeople, including a number of children and pregnant women, who were members of the pacifist group Las Abejas ("The Bees"), in the small village of Acteal in the municipality of Chenalhó, in the Mexican state of Chiapas. It was carried out on December 22, 1997 by the paramilitary group Mascara Roja, or Red Mask. [...]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acteal_massacre

 

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A series of ten explosions took place on April 22, 1992, in the downtown district of Analco in Guadalajara city, Jalisco state, Mexico. Numerous gasoline explosions in the sewer system over four hours destroyed 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) of streets.[1] Gante Street was the most damaged. By the accounting of Lloyd's of London, 252 people were killed, nearly 500 injured and 15,000 were left homeless. The estimated monetary damage ranges between $300 million and $1 billion. The affected areas can be recognized by the more modern architecture in the areas that were destroyed. [...]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Guadalajara_explosions

 

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Terminal 2E, with a daring design and wide open spaces, was CDG's newest addition. On 23 May 2004, not long after its inauguration, a portion of Terminal 2E's ceiling collapsed early in the day, near Gate E50, killing four people. Two of the dead were reported to be Chinese citizens and another a Czech. Three other people were injured in the collapse. Terminal 2E had been inaugurated in 2003 after some delays in construction and was designed by Paul Andreu. Administrative and judicial enquiries were started. Andreu also designed Terminal 3 at Dubai International Airport, which collapsed while under construction on 28 September 2004. Paul Andreu denounced the building companies for having not correctly prepared the reinforced concrete.[...] On 17 March 2005, ADP decided to tear down and rebuild the whole part of Terminal 2E (the "jetty") of which a section had collapsed, at a cost of approximately €100 million.The reconstruction replaced the innovative concrete tube style of the jetty with a more traditional steel and glass structure. During reconstruction, two temporary departure lounges were constructed in the vicinity of the terminal that replicated the capacity of 2E before the collapse. The completed terminal reopened on 30 March 2008.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_de_Gaulle_Airport#Collapse_of_Termi...

 

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Pan Am Flight 103 (involved in the Lockerbie bombing) was a regularly scheduled Pan Am transatlantic flight from Frankfurt Airport to Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport via London Heathrow Airport and New York-JFK that was destroyed by a terrorist bomb on Wednesday, 21 December 1988, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew on board. Large sections of the aircraft crashed into Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 11 more people on the ground.

Following a three-year joint investigation by Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, arrest warrants were issued for two Libyan nationals in November 1991. In 1999, Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi handed over the two men for trial at Camp Zeist, Netherlands after protracted negotiations and UN sanctions. In 2001, Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was jailed for the bombing. In August 2009, he was released by the Scottish Government on compassionate grounds after being diagnosed with prostate cancer. He died in May 2012, remaining the only person to be convicted for the attack. He had continually protested his innocence.

In 2003, Gaddafi accepted responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing and paid compensation to the families of the victims, although he maintained that he had never given the order for the attack. During the Libyan Civil War, in 2011, a former government official claimed that the Libyan leader had personally ordered the bombing. Numerous conspiracy theories have developed regarding responsibility for the destruction of Pan Am Flight 103. [...]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103

 

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The 1985 Mexico City earthquake was a magnitude 8.1 earthquake that struck some states of Mexico and Mexico City on the early morning of 19 September 1985 at around 7:19 am (CST), caused the deaths of at least 10,000 people and serious damage to the Greater Mexico City Area. The complete seismic event consisted of four quakes. A pre-event quake of magnitude 5.2 occurred on 28 May 1985. The main and most powerful shock occurred 19 September, followed by two aftershocks: one on 20 September 1985 of magnitude 7.5 and the fourth occurring seven months later on 30 April 1986 of magnitude 7.0. The quakes were located off the Mexican Pacific coast, more than 350 kilometres (220 mi) away, but due to strength of the quake and the fact that Mexico City sits on an old lakebed, Mexico City suffered major damage. The event caused between three and four billion USD in damage as 412 buildings collapsed and another 3,124 were seriously damaged in the city. While the number is in dispute, the most-often cited number of deaths is an estimated 10,000 people but experts agreed that it could be up to 40,000. [...]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_Mexico_City_earthquake

 

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The Zug massacre took place on September 27, 2001 in the city of Zug (Canton of Zug, Switzerland) in the canton's parliament. Fourteen people were shot dead by Friedrich Leibacher, who killed himself shortly after the crime.

In the years before the massacre, Leibacher drew attention to himself by an intense use of lawsuits. These were dismissed, so he assumed he was being persecuted by the state, thus he felt he had to resort to the crime. He was armed with a civilian version of a Stgw 90 (Swiss Army assault rifle), a SIG-Sauer-pistol, a pump-action shotgun, and a revolver, and he wore a home-made police vest. Leibacher was able to enter the parliament building without problem. [...]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zug_massacre

 

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A construction error helped corrode the steel enforcements in the concrete ceiling of the municipal pool. On September 5, 1985, the ceiling collapsed, killing 14 swimmers.(CD)