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1947 New York City smallpox outbreak: disease 2 [172] 1929 1929 Yankee Stadium stampede: mass unrest 2 [173] 1835 Great Fire of New York: fire 2 [174] 2020 2020 New York City Subway fire: rail 1 [175] 2019 2019 New York City helicopter crash aircraft 1 [176] 2007 2007 New York City steam explosion: explosion 1 [163] 1995 Williamsburg Bridge ...
A major storm on the East Coast of the United States brought tornadoes to North and South Carolina, killing approximately 60 people in that area, and delivering high winds to Boston before flooding the New York metropolitan area from March 29 to March 30 of 1984. New York City, Atlantic City and New Jersey all declared emergencies.
1776 – First Great Fire of New York City of 1776; 1776 – Around two-thirds of Varaždin, the capital of Croatia at the time, destroyed in a fire of unknown origin. 1787 – Great Boston Fire of 1787. 100 buildings destroyed in the southern part of Boston. [8] 1788 – First Great New Orleans Fire of 1788, 856 out of 1,100 structures burned.
Brooklyn, New York: Some accounts give death toll as 101. Deadliest accident on New York City subway, deadliest rail disaster in city's history and deadliest mass-transit accident in U.S. history. 93 1939 1939 California tropical storm: Tropical cyclone Southern California: Including 48 offshore deaths 93 2021 Hurricane Ida: Tropical cyclone
August 2 – Waldbaum's supermarket fire, Brooklyn, New York. Six New York City firefighters died when the roof collapsed, plunging 12 firefighters into the flames. [108] November 5 – A fire at the Younkers Department store at the Merle Hay Mall in Des Moines, Iowa, killed 10 store employees. The store was closed and rebuilt a year after the ...
The New York Central train crashed into the already wrecked Michigan Central train at 60 mph (97 km/h). [14] April 1 – United States – In Georgetown, Kentucky an unknown man was killed by a train. In June 2017 the John Doe was identified as Frank Haynes of Bronston, Kentucky [15]
Climate change in California has lengthened the fire season and made it more extreme from the middle of the 20th century. [4] [5]Since the early 2010s, wildfires in California have grown more dangerous because of the accumulation of wood fuel in forests, higher population, and aging and often poorly maintained electricity transmission and distribution lines, particularly in areas serviced by ...
The death toll from the earthquake and resulting fire is the greatest loss of life from a natural disaster in California's history. The most widely accepted estimate for the magnitude of the earthquake is a moment magnitude (M w ) or Richter magnitude (M L ) of 7.8; [ 7 ] however, other values have been proposed, from 7.7 to as high as 8.25. [ 8 ]