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| x Kent State shootings |
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The Kent State shootings, also known as the May 4 massacre or Kent-State massacre, occurred at Kent State University in the city of Kent, Ohio, and involved the shooting of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard on Monday,...
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| x Jackson State killings |
The Jackson State killings occurred on Thursday/Friday May 14-15, 1970, at Jackson State College (now Jackson State University) in Jackson, Mississippi. A group of student protesters were confronted by city and state police. The police opened fire,...
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| x Anwar el-Sadat assassination | Anwar El-Sadat | ||
| x Patricia Wyman wolf attack | Patricia Wyman |
Patricia Wyman (1972-April 18, 1996) was a Canadian biologist who worked as a caretaker in the Wolf Centre section of the Haliburton Forest & Wildlife Preserve. She was killed by four captive wolves on the third day of her employment.
Patricia Wyman...
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| x Death of Sandra L. Piovesan |
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The Death of Sandra L. Piovesan was a fatal domestic animal attack involving nine wolf-dog hybrids which turned on their owner, 50-year-old Sandra Piovesan on July 17, 2006, in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.
Piovesan apparently began keeping...
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| x Granville railway disaster |
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The Granville rail disaster occurred on 18 January 1977 at Granville, a suburb west of Sydney, the state capital of New South Wales, Australia, when a crowded commuter train travelling to Sydney derailed, running into the supports of a road bridge...
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| x Kaprun disaster |
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The Kaprun disaster was a fire that occurred in an ascending railway car in the tunnel of the Gletscherbahn 2 railway in Kaprun, Austria, on 11 November 2000. The disaster claimed the lives of 155 people, leaving 12 survivors (10 Germans, 2...
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| x Eschede train disaster |
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The Eschede train disaster was the world's deadliest high-speed train accident. It occurred on 3 June 1998, near the village of Eschede in the Celle district of Lower Saxony, Germany. The toll of 101 dead and 88 injured surpassed the 1971 Dahlerau...
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| x Armagh rail disaster |
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The Armagh rail disaster happened on 12 June 1889 near Armagh, Ireland when a crowded Sunday school excursion train had to negotiate a steep incline, the steam locomotive was unable to complete the climb and the train stalled. The train crew decided...
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| x Tangiwai disaster |
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The Tangiwai disaster on 24 December 1953 was the worst rail accident in New Zealand. An 11-carriage overnight express from Wellington to Auckland fell into the Whangaehu River at Tangiwai, ten kilometres (six miles) west of Waiouru. The bridge...
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| x Rizal Day bombings |
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The Rizal Day bombings, also referred to as the December 30 bombings, were a series of bombings that occurred around Metro Manila in the Philippines on December 30, 2000. The explosions occurred in close succession within a span of a few hours....
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| x Malbone Street Wreck |
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The Malbone Street Wreck, also known as the Brighton Beach Line Accident of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT), was a rapid transit railroad accident that occurred November 1, 1918, beneath the intersection of Flatbush Avenue, Ocean Avenue,...
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| x Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway |
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The Sarin attack on the Tokyo subway, usually referred to in the Japanese media as the Subway Sarin Incident (地下鉄サリン事件, Chikatetsu Sarin Jiken), was an act of domestic terrorism perpetrated by members of Aum Shinrikyo on March 20, 1995.
In five...
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| x 11 March 2004 Madrid train bombings |
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The 11 March 2004 Madrid train bombings (also known as 3/11 and in Spanish as 11-M) consisted of a series of coordinated bombings against the Cercanías (commuter train) system of Madrid, Spain on the morning of 11 March 2004 (three days before Spain...
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| x 1995 bombings in France |
The 1995 bombings in France were carried out by the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), who were broadening the Algerian Civil War to France. In total, these attacks killed eight and injured more than 100. The first stage of the extension of the Islamists'...
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| x Ryongchon disaster |
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The Ryongchŏn disaster was a train disaster that occurred in the town of Ryongchŏn, North Korea near the border with China on April 22, 2004.
The disaster occurred when a flammable cargo exploded at the railway station at about 1300 local time (0400...
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| x Daegu subway fire |
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The Daegu subway fire of February 18, 2003 killed at least 198 people and injured at least 147. An arsonist set fire to a train stopped at the Jungangno Station of the Daegu Metropolitan Subway in Daegu, South Korea. The fire then spread to a second...
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| x Waterfall rail accident |
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The Waterfall rail accident was a train accident that occurred on 31 January 2003 near Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia. The train derailed killing seven people on board, including the train driver.
On the day of the disaster, a Tangara...
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| x Violet Town rail accident |
The Violet Town rail accident, also known as the Southern Aurora disaster, was a railway accident that occurred on 7 February 1969 near the McDiarmids Rd crossing, approximately 1km south of Violet Town, Victoria, Australia.
The accident involved...
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| x Howard Street Fire |
The Howard Street Tunnel fire (also known as the Baltimore Freight Rail Crash) was a 60-car CSX Transportation freight train derailment that occurred in a freight through-route tunnel under Howard Street in Baltimore, Maryland, on July 18, 2001. The...
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| x Ashtabula River Railroad Disaster |
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The Ashtabula River Railroad Disaster (also called the Ashtabula Horror or the Ashtabula Bridge Disaster) was a train disaster caused by bridge failure. It was the worst rail accident in American history when it occurred in far northeastern Ohio on...
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| x Harmelen train disaster |
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The Harmelen train disaster was the worst railway accident in the history of The Netherlands. Harmelen, near Woerden, is the location of a railway junction where a branch to Amsterdam leaves the Rotterdam to Utrecht line. It is common at high-speed...
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| x Beresfield rail accident |
In the Beresfield rail accident of 23 October 1997, a coal train passed a red signal and ploughed into the rear of another coal train, causing a collision and derailment that blocked all four tracks. The accident occurred early morning at 06.32am...
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| x Glenbrook rail accident |
The Glenbrook rail accident occurred on 2 December 1999 at 8:22 am in New South Wales, Australia, in which seven passengers were killed and 51 passengers were transported to hospital with injuries. The accident occurred when an interurban train...
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| x Cowan rail accident |
The Cowan rail accident occurred on 6 May 1990 when a special passenger train hauled by steam locomotive #3801 was rammed by a following CityRail V set InterCity service while attempting to climb the steep gradient from the Hawkesbury River to Cowan...
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| x Wellington, Washington avalanche |
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The Wellington avalanche was the worst avalanche, measured in terms of lives lost, in the history of the United States.
For nine days at the end of February 1910, the little town of Wellington, Washington was assailed by a terrible blizzard....
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| x Queen of the Sea train disaster |
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The world's greatest rail disaster occurred when an overcrowded passenger train was destroyed on a coastal railway in Sri Lanka by the tsunami which followed the 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake. Up to 2,000 people were killed, making it the world's...
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| x Graniteville, South Carolina train disaster |
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The Graniteville train disaster is an American rail disaster that occurred on January 6, 2005, in Graniteville, South Carolina.
At roughly 2:40 am Eastern Standard Time, two Norfolk Southern trains collided near an Avondale Mills plant in...
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| x Weyauwega, Wisconsin derailment |
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The Weyauwega derailment was a railroad accident that occurred in Weyauwega, Wisconsin, USA, in the early morning hours of March 4, 1996. The derailed train was carrying a large quantity of hazardous material, which immediately caught fire. The fire...
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| x Great train wreck of 1918 |
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The Great Train Wreck of 1918 occurred on July 9, 1918, in Nashville, Tennessee. Two passenger trains, operated by the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad ("NC&StL;"), collided head-on, killing 101 people and injuring an additional 171. It...
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| x 2005 Glendale train crash |
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The 2005 Glendale train crash is the second deadliest incident in the history of Metrolink, the commuter railroad in the Los Angeles, California, area. It was overtaken as the deadliest by the 2008 Chatsworth train collision.
On January 26, 2005 at...
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| x 1999 Bourbonnais, Illinois train accident |
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The 1999 Bourbonnais, Illinois train accident was a train-truck collision between Amtrak's southbound City of New Orleans passenger train and a semi truck in the village of Bourbonnais, Illinois, near the city of Kankakee. Almost the entire train...
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| x Great East Thompson Train Wreck |
The Great East Thompson Train Wreck was a large rail disaster which occurred in East Thompson, Connecticut, on December 4, 1891. It happened on the New York and New England Railroad, which provided a shortcut from New York City to Boston by making a...
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| x Sunshine rail disaster |
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The Sunshine rail disaster occurred at the Sunshine railway station, which is the junction for the Ballarat and Bendigo railway lines, 13.5 km (8 mi) from Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia.
On the night of Easter Monday, 20 April...
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| x Moorgate tube crash |
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The Moorgate tube crash was a railway disaster on the London Underground, which occurred at 8:46am on 28 February 1975.
A southbound train on the Northern Line (Highbury Branch) crashed into the tunnel end beyond the platform at Moorgate station....
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| x Al Ayyat train disaster |
The Al Ayyat train disaster happened at 02:00 on the morning of 20 February 2002 on a passenger train of eleven carriages, running from Cairo to Luxor. In its fifth carriage a cooking gas cylinder exploded and created a fire which spread as the...
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| x Hinton train collision |
The Hinton train collision was a railway accident that occurred on February 8, 1986. Twenty-three people were killed in a collision between a Canadian National Railway freight train and a VIA Rail passenger train. It was the most lethal Canadian...
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| x Hines Hill train collision |
The Hines Hill train collision occurred on the Eastern Goldfields Railway on 14 January 1996 at Hines Hill, Western Australia. Two trains entered a crossing loop simultaneously in opposing directions, although signals at the exit from the crossing...
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| x Zanthus train collision |
The Zanthus train collision occurred at a crossing loop on the Trans-Australian Railway between Perth to Sydney on 18 August 1999. It is located 739 km (459 mi) east northeast of Perth and 202 km (126 mi) east of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia, on...
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| x Amagasaki rail crash |
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The Amagasaki rail crash occurred on 25 April, 2005 at around 09:18 local time (00:18 UTC), just after the local rush hour. The Rapid Service came off the tracks on the West Japan Railway Company (JR West) Fukuchiyama Line (JR Takarazuka Line) in...
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| x Yokohama rail crash |
The Yokohama rail crash (鶴見事故, Tsurumi jiko, or "Tsurumi accident") occurred on November 9, 1963 between Tsurumi Station and Shin-Koyasu Station on the Tōkaidō Main Line in Yokohama, Japan, about 30 kilometres (20 mi) west of Tokyo, when two...
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| x Vadodara train crash |
The Vadodara rail crash occurred on 21 April 2005 at the village of Samlaya near Vadodara in Gujarat when the Sabarmati Express passenger train crashed at high speed into a stationary goods train carrying cement.
The passenger train was carrying...
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| x Shigaraki train disaster |
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The Shigaraki train disaster (信楽高原鐵道衝突事故, Shigaraki Kōgen Tetsudō shōtotsu jiko) was a railway accident that occurred in Shigaraki (now Koka), Shiga Prefecture, Japan on May 14, 1991. A Shigaraki Kōgen Railway (SKR) train and a West Japan Railway...
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| x Tokyo train disaster |
The Naka-Meguro train disaster occurred in Japan on 8 March 2000. Five people were killed and 63 were injured when a derailed Eidan Hibiya Line train was sideswiped by a second train near Naka-Meguro Station.
At around 9 a.m. on 8 March 2000, the...
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| x Polgahawela level crossing accident |
On April 27, 2005, at Polgahawela in Sri Lanka a serious bus accident occurred on a level crossing.
The bus was a local one to Alawwa, reportedly carrying over 90 people through the town of Polgahawela, which is 80 km north-east of Colombo. At 8...
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| x Wreck of the Old 97 |
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The "Old 97", a Southern Railway train officially known as the Fast Mail, was en route from Monroe, Virginia to Spencer, North Carolina when it left the track at Stillhouse Trestle near Danville, Virginia on September 27, 1903. The wreck inspired a...
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| x Bihar train disaster |
In the Bihar train disaster on June 6, 1981, a passenger train travelling between Mansi and Saharsa, India, derailed while it was crossing a bridge spanning the Bagmati river and plunged into the river. The government places the official death toll...
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| x Hammond Circus Train Wreck |
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The Hammond circus train wreck occurred on June 22, 1918, and was one of the worst circus train wrecks in US history. Eighty-six people died and another 127 were injured when a locomotive engineer fell asleep and ran his train into the rear of...
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| x Sydenham Rail Disaster |
The Sydenham rail disaster occurred on 19 December 1953 when an electric passenger train of the New South Wales Government Railways ran into the rear of another electric train.
Five people were killed and 748 injured. A wrong-side failure was...
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| x Johannesburg level crossing accident |
In the Johannesburg level crossing collision of April 2005, a bus and a freight train collided north of the city of Johannesburg, South Africa killing at least nine people and injuring 60 others.
The cause of the collision near Johannesburg was...
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| x Geurie crossing loop collision |
The Geurie crossing loop collision occurred on the night of 23 August, 1963. Geurie is located between Orange, New South Wales and Dubbo.
The Sydney-bound Bourke Mail train, with 110 passengers, was steaming towards Geurie station. The locomotive...
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| x 1995 Palo Verde derailment |
The 1995 Palo Verde derailment took place on October 9, 1995, when an Amtrak Sunset Limited train derailed near Palo Verde, Arizona on Southern Pacific Railroad tracks. The two locomotives and eight of the twelve cars derailed, four of them falling...
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| x Exeter crossing loop collision |
The Exeter crossing loop collision was a railway accident that occurred between the Temora Mail Train and a goods train at Exeter railway station, New South Wales, on 13 March 1914. At that time the main line was a single track, with a crossing loop...
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| x Camp Mountain rail accident |
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The Camp Mountain rail accident occurred at approximately 9:48am on 5 May 1947 when a crowded picnic train derailed on a sharp left-hand curve between Ferny Grove and Camp Mountain stations on the now-closed Dayboro line, approximately 15 km (9 mi)...
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| x Balvano train disaster |
In the Balvano train disaster of March 3, 1944, 426 people illegally riding on a steam-hauled freight train died of carbon monoxide poisoning when the train stalled on a steep gradient in the Armi tunnel. The accident occurred in southern Italy,...
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| x Ghotki rail crash |
The Ghotki rail crash occurred on July 13, 2005, at around 3:40am local time (2240 July 12 UTC) in Ghotki, Pakistan. A train stopping at the Sarhad (a town near Ghotki) rail station was hit from behind by a train that missed a signal. The collision...
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| x Bologna massacre |
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The Bologna massacre (Italian: Strage di Bologna) was a terrorist bombing at the Central Station of Bologna, Italy on the morning of 2 August 1980, which killed 85 people and wounded more than 200. The attack has been attributed to the neo-fascist...
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| x Ufa train disaster |
The Ufa train disaster happened on June 4, 1989 at 1:15 (local time) near the town of Asha in the Soviet Union on the Trans-Siberian Railway. (Ufa is a much larger and commonly known city, which is situated not far from Asha). A liquefied petroleum...
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| x Dugald rail disaster |
The Dugald rail accident was a railway accident that took place on September 1, 1947 in Dugald, Manitoba, Canada, claiming the lives of 31 people.
A westbound train, Passenger Extra 6001 West, a seasonal excursion service carrying vacationers from...
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