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Eleven people are injured during a mass shooting outside a nightclub in Queens, New York, United States. (The Nightly) FBI agents announce the seizure of more than 150 homemade pipe bombs and other explosive devices from a home in Isle of Wight County, Virginia, United States, "the largest seizure by number of finished explosive devices in FBI ...
July was officially named the world's hottest month on record, with temperatures in the U.S. averaging 75.7 degrees Fahrenheit, which is 2.1 degrees above average. Arizona, Florida, Maine, and New ...
Emergency in Water Transportation of the United States: Declared a national emergency arising from insufficient tonage to carry the products of the farms, forests, mines and manufacturing industries of the United States, and admonishes all citizens to abide by the regulations in the Shipping Act. Ended Franklin Roosevelt: March 6, 1933 [9]
The U.S. has had a record 25 weather disasters so far in 2023, each of which caused at least $1 billion in damage — and a new NASA analysis suggests the year’s extreme weather events may be ...
United States $500 [372] $3762 65 1971 San Fernando earthquake: Earthquake 1971 United States: $500 [373] $1466 17 1984 Romeoville petroleum refinery disaster: Explosion 1984 United States $491.3 [227] $899 636 October 1999 Mexico floods: Flood 1999 Central America (, , , others) $484 [374] $2032 99 Typhoon Tip: Tropical cyclone 1979 East Asia ...
The deadly firestorm in Hawaii and Hurricane Idalia's watery storm surge helped push the United States to a record for the number of weather disasters that cost $1 billion or more. The National ...
Deadliest sports tragedy in U.S. history; killed virtually all of the Marshall University Thundering Herd Football team, coaches and boosters when it crashed on approach for landing in a thunderstorm. 74 1949 St. Anthony's Hospital fire: Fire (building) Effingham, Illinois: 74 [38] 1868 United States and America steamboat disaster: Boat collision
Twenty climate disasters - from deadly hurricanes to blistering heat waves - cost more than a billion dollars each in the US last year. Twenty climate disasters - from deadly hurricanes to ...