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The T. A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant explosion, sometimes called the Morgan Munitions Depot explosion or similar titles, began at 7:36 pm EDT on Friday, October 4, 1918, at a World War I ammunition plant in the Morgan area of Sayreville in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. The initial explosion, generally believed to be ...
1918 flu pandemic. July 9 – Great Train Wreck of 1918: In Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with an outbound express, killing 101 and injuring 171. It is considered the worst rail accident in U.S. history. August – A deadly second wave of the Spanish flu starts in France, Sierra Leone and the United States. [1]
It was the largest artificial explosion at the time. [18] Apr 16, 1947 Texas City disaster: 2,100 metric tons of ammonium nitrate aboard a docked ship explode, ultimately killing at least 581 people, the deadliest industrial accident in U.S. history. [19] 1952
Watch again as the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) held a press conference on Thursday (30 January) after 67 people were killed in a collision between an American Airlines passenger ...
About 7 a.m. ET Thursday, Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and other officials including the Federal Aviation Administration also held a news conference at Reagan Airport in Arlington, Virginia.
WASHINGTON – Investigators on Friday worked to piece together what exactly led to the collision of a passenger plane and a U.S. Army helicopter that killed 67 people as families, officials and ...
April 2, 2021: 2021 United States Capitol car attack: A man who was an alleged supporter of Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam rammed into a protective barrier outside of the U.S Capitol, pinning a Capitol Police officer between his vehicle and the gate, and striking a second officer, who survived and was released from the hospital. The ...
The FBI has released new information and video of the individual who planted pipe bombs outside the headquarters of both the Republican National Committee and the Democratic National Committee on ...