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Canecão Mineiro nightclub fire: Belo Horizonte: Brazil 2001 7: 197 pyrotechnics Myojo 56 building fire: Kabukicho, Shinjuku: Japan 2001 44: 3 suspected arson Fifth-deadliest fire in post-war Japanese history Club La Guajira fire: Caracas: Venezuela 2002 47: 28 Christmas decoration Bouncer delayed exit asking patrons not to leave without paying
Myojo 56 building fire. The Myojo 56 building fire (明星56ビル火災, Myōjō Gojū-Roku Biru Kasai) was a structural fire that began at about 01:00 local time on September 1, 2001 in the Myojo 56 building, located in the Kabukichō section of Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. The fire, the fifth-deadliest in post-war Japanese history, [1] burned for ...
Air raids on Japan. During the Pacific War, Allied forces conducted air raids on Japan from 1942 to 1945, causing extensive destruction to the country's cities and killing between 241,000 and 900,000 people. During the first years of the Pacific War these attacks were limited to the Doolittle Raid in April 1942 and small-scale raids on military ...
Imperial Japanese Army. Produced. 1944–1945. Number built. About 9,300. Fu-Go (ふ号 [兵器], fugō [heiki], lit. "Code 'Fu' [Weapon]") was an incendiary balloon weapon (風船爆弾, fūsen bakudan, lit. "balloon bomb") deployed by Japan against the United States during World War II. It consisted of a hydrogen -filled paper balloon 33 feet ...
Fire. On 17 December 2021, at 10:20 a.m. local time, a fire broke out at an eight-story building in Kita, a ward of Osaka, Japan. The fire broke out in a psychiatric clinic that is located on the fourth floor, [8] called Nishi Umeda Kokoro to Karada no Kurinikku (西梅田こころとからだのクリニック, Nishi Umeda Clinic for the Mind ...
The Gulliver's nightclub fire occurred in the early hours of June 30, 1974, on the border of Port Chester, New York and Greenwich, Connecticut. The fire killed 24 patrons and injured 19 patrons and 13 firemen. [1] The fire was caused by arson in an adjacent bowling alley that had been aimed at covering up a minor burglary there.
Citizens of Manila run for safety from suburbs burned by Japanese soldiers, 10 February 1945 Destruction of the Walled City (Intramuros), 1945. The Manila massacre (Filipino: Pagpatay sa Maynila or Masaker sa Maynila), also called the Rape of Manila (Filipino: Paggahasa ng Maynila), involved atrocities committed against Filipino civilians in the City of Manila, the capital of the Philippines ...
A fire at an Istanbul nightclub during renovations on Tuesday killed at least 29 people, officials and reports said. ... Japan's PM cancels central Asia trip after earthquake risk warning.