August 2010: A 13 year old boy struck by lightening in Lowestoft Seafront Air Festival in Great Britain at the time 13:13.
July 1951: Kansas, The Great Flood killed 24 people, 2 million acres of land. Damage is $760 million.
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March 1964: ‘The Good Friday’ earthquake in Prince William Sound, Alaska killed almost 131 people.
March 1992: earthquake in Turkey killed 2,000 people and 50,000 were left homeless
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November 1789: Benjamin Franklin wrote ‘Everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.’ on this day.
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September 1940: Five bombings part of Hitler’s ‘Blitz’ campaign hit Buckingham Palace.
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June 1952: A Swedish DC -3 military plain disappeared somewhere in the Baltic Sea which became the ‘Catalina Affair’, the rescue planes that were sent to look for it were attacked by the Soviet who then later confirm that they had shot down the original DC-3 plane.
August 1521: The end of the Aztexc Empire is marked by Conquistador Hernan Cortes and renamed it Mexico City.
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November 1970: Chittagong, Bangladesh was hit with a giant storm that killed around 300,000 people and also provoked a flood killing 1 million near Ganges delta.
June 1986: Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen twins Birthday
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January 1989: IBM computers all over Great Britain are infected by a major virus
October 1989: Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 190.58 points on this day which was a monumental crash for the time.
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August 1999: Alfred Hitchcock’s 100th birthday.
