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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 .
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 ...
Texas City explosion may refer to: Texas City disaster (1947), an industrial accident; Texas City refinery explosion (2005), an oil refinery fire
Texas City disaster: Texas City, Texas, United States 16 April 1947: Ammonium nitrate: 0.73–0.86 kt (3.1–3.6 TJ); some sources suggest 3.2 kt [110] 0.79 kt (3.3 TJ) N1 launch explosion: Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 110, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union: 3 July 1969: Rocket propellant (kerosene and liquid oxygen)
The explosion was heard 5 miles away from the Valero refinery and rocked buildings within a mile of the plant, according to local media reports. Valero's Texas City refinery hit by explosion, fire ...
Texas City, Texas: 581 5,000+ Texas City disaster: 18 August 1947 Spain: Cádiz: 147+ 5,000+ Cádiz Explosion: 25 May 1950 United States: Chicago: 34 50 1950 Chicago streetcar crash: 11 June 1955 France: Le Mans: 84 180 1955 Le Mans disaster: 7 August 1956 Colombia: Cali: 1,300–4,000 4,000–12,000 Cali explosion: 1 July 1959 Mexico ...
A memorial service for Kris will be held at 11 a.m. local time on Friday, Nov. 8, at Renew Church in Waco, Texas, according to the anchor's obituary. Show comments. Advertisement.
CENTRAL TEXAS (FOX 44) – We at FOX 44 News are mourning the loss of a journalist who suddenly passed away on Wednesday. Kris Radcliffe was the 5, 6 and 10 p.m. anchor at KCEN TV in Temple, Texas.