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  2. Texas City disaster - Wikipedia

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    The 1947 Texas City disaster was an industrial accident that occurred on April 16, 1947, in the port of Texas City, Texas, United States, located in Galveston Bay. It was the deadliest industrial accident in U.S. history and one of history's largest non-nuclear explosions .

  3. List of pipeline accidents in the United States (1900–1949)

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    October 18 – Vapors from a leaking butane pipeline at a refinery in Texas City, Texas spread out along a nearby highway, causing a number of cars to stall. The gas then exploded, killing 4 people, and seriously burning 17 others. [68] [69] November 9 – A pressure valve exploded during work on it, near Bald Knob, Arkansas. One worker was ...

  4. List of ammonium nitrate incidents and disasters - Wikipedia

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    Texas City: April 16, 1947: 581 2,086 + 870 Texas City disaster: The cargo ship Grandcamp was being loaded on April 16, 1947, when a fire was detected in the hold: at this point, 2,300 tons of ammonium nitrate in sacks were already aboard. [8] The captain responded by closing the hold and pumping in pressurised steam.

  5. Texas City refinery explosion - Wikipedia

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    Not long after the explosion and the other accidents at Texas City in 2005, however, BP's image in the U.S. was further tarnished by the near-sinking of the semi-submersible oil platform Thunder Horse PDQ in July of the same year [167] and, more crucially, in March 2006 when an oil pipeline spill was discovered in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, while ...

  6. Category:1947 in Texas - Wikipedia

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    1947 Texas elections (2 P) S. 1947 in sports in Texas (27 P) Pages in category "1947 in Texas" ... Texas City disaster This page was last ...

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  8. Texas City explosion - Wikipedia

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    Texas City explosion may refer to: Texas City disaster (1947), an industrial accident; Texas City refinery explosion (2005), an oil refinery fire

  9. Lost city found by accident and a fly's brain mapped: 2024's ...

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    When he processed the data with methods used by archaeologists, he saw what others had missed - a huge ancient city which may have been home to 30-50,000 people at its peak from 750 to 850 AD.