I'm gonna be putting this in my blog a bit later...Just wanted to see what everyone thought about it.
10. Virginia Tech Massacre - On April 16th, 2007, on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people and wounded 25 before committing suicide, making the incident the deadliest shooting in modern U.S. history.
9. The Titanic - On April 14th, 1912, the British Olympic class passenger liner collided with an iceberg. The Titanic was the largest passenger steamship at the time. It sank on it's maiden voyage.
8. Halifax Explosion - On Thursday, December 6th, 1917, the city of Halifax. Nova Scotia was devastated by the huge detonation of a French cargo ship fully loaded with wartime explosives, that had accidentaly collided with a Norwegian ship in 'The Narrows' section of the Halifax Harbour. Approximetaly 1,500 people were killed instanly, and another 500 people died shortly after. It is estimated that over 9,000 people were injured.
7. Tsunami's in Asia - On December 26th, 2004, an underwater earthquake took place in the Indian Ocean, causing a series of devastating tsunamis. The death toll is 229,886.
6. Pearl Harbor/Atomic Bombings - On the morning of December 7th, 1941, Japanese planes and submarines began a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The death toll reached 2,350, along with 68 civilians and 1,178 injured.
On August 6th, 1945, the nuclear weapon Little Boy was dropped in the city of Hiroshima. On August 9th, Fat Man was dropped on Nagasaki. These are the only instances of nuclear weapons in warfare. On August 15th, 1945, Japan announced it's surrender. The death toll from both bombs is around 144,000.
5. 9/11 terrorist attacks - On the morning of September 11th 2001, al-Queda terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger jets. Two planes were intentionally crashed into the WOrld Trade Centers in New York. Another plane was crashed into The Pentagon near Washington D.C. The passengers and members of the flight crew retook control of the fourth plane, which crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. The total number of deaths is 2,993.
4. Our Lady Of The Angels school fire - On December 1st, 1958, a fire was started on the first floor. The fire grew to the second floor. Students and teachers were trapped in their rooms. The only option to escape was to jump from the second story windows. The cause of the fire remains unknown, but all indications point to arson. A 10 year old fifth grade boy admitted to starting a fire, but subsequently recanted his confession. A total of 92 students and 3 nuns lost their lives. Another 100 were seriously injured.
3. Japanese Biological Warfare - Unit 731 was a covert biological warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that undertook lethal human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. It was responsible for some of the most notorious war crimes carried out by Japanese personnel. The use of biological weapons researched in Unit 731's bioweapons program resulted in possibly as many as 200,000 deaths.
2. Spanish Flu - The Spanish Flu was a category 5 influenza pandemic. The Spanish Flu pandemic lasted from 1918 to 1919. Current estimates say 50 to 100 million people were killed worldwide
1. The Holocaust - The Holocaust is used to describe the killing of approximetaly six million jewish people during WWII, as part of a program of deliberate extermination planned and executed by the National Socialist regime led by Adolph Hitler Other groups, Roma, Soviet POWs, disabled people, gay men, Jehova's Witnesses, Roman Catholic Poles, and political prisoners were killed. Including the deaths of all of the groups, the death toll rises to nine to eleven million.
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