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| x Boston molasses disaster |
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Industrial disaster | North End | 21 |
The Boston Molasses Disaster, also known as the Great Molasses Flood and the Great Boston Molasses Tragedy, occurred on January 15, 1919, in the North End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts in the United States. A large molasses storage tank...
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| x Cyclone Tracy |
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Cyclone Tracy (pronounced /ˈsaɪkloʊn ˈtreɪsi/) was a tropical cyclone that devastated the city of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, from Christmas Eve to Christmas Day, 1974. It is the most compact hurricane or equivalent-strength tropical...
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| x Kalamazoo Tornado of 1980 |
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Tornado | Kalamazoo | 5 |
The Kalamazoo Tornado of 1980 struck downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan, on May 13, 1980. The tornado, which touched down at 4:09 pm, was rated F3 on the Fujita scale. The tornado killed 5 people and injured 79. Damage was estimated at $50,000,000.
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| x RAF Fauld Explosion |
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The RAF Fauld explosion was a military accident which occurred at 11:11am on Monday, 27 November 1944 at the RAF Fauld underground munitions storage depot. The RAF Fauld explosion was one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history and the...
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| x Great Fire of 1911 |
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Fire | Bangor | 2 |
The Great Fire of 1911 took place in Bangor, Maine.
It started in the afternoon of April 30, 1911 on Broad Street. High winds had spread it to a shed on Exchange Street and the Universalist Church on Center Street by 4:10 PM, from where it spread...
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| x 1904 Toronto fire |
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Fire | Toronto | 0 |
The Great Toronto Fire of 1904 was a fire that destroyed a large section of downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada on April 19, 1904.
The fire was first spotted at 8:04 p.m. by a constable on his regular street patrol. The flames were rising from the...
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| x Matheson Fire |
The great Matheson Fire was a deadly forest fire that passed through region surrounding the communities of Black River-Matheson and Iroquois Falls, Ontario, Canada on July 29, 1916.
As was common practice at the time, settlers cleared land using the...
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| x Great Fire of 1922 |
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The Great Fire of 1922 was a wildfire burning through the Lesser Clay Belt in the Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada, from October 4 to 5, 1922. It has been called one of the ten worst natural disasters in Canadian history.
The preceding summer...
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| x Great Fire of 1892 |
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Fire | St. John's |
The Great Fire in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador on July 8, 1892, is remembered as the worst disaster ever to befall that city.
At approximately five o'clock in the afternoon on July 8, 1892, a dropped pipe in Timothy O'Brien's stable at...
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| x 1900 Hull-Ottawa fire |
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The Hull-Ottawa fire of 1900 was a devastating fire in 1900 that destroyed much of Hull, Quebec and large portions of Ottawa, Ontario. On April 26 a defective chimney on a house in Hull caught fire, which quickly spread between the wooden houses due...
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| x Great Vancouver Fire | Fire |
The Great Vancouver Fire was a conflagration that destroyed most of the newly-incorporated city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on 13 June 1886. The fire began as a brush fire to clear land between present-day Main and Cambie Streets that was...
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| x Great Chicago Fire |
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The Great Chicago Fire was a conflagration that burned from Sunday, October 8, to early Tuesday, October 10, 1871, killing hundreds and destroying about four square miles in Chicago, Illinois. Though the fire was one of the largest U.S. disasters of...
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| x 2006 Meerut fire | Fire | 60 |
On April 10, 2006 at about 17:30 local time, a fire swept through a consumer electronics fair in Victoria Park, Meerut, killing at least 60 people and injuring 150 others. The fire was said to have been caused by a short circuit.
The fire engulfed a...
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| x Ladhowal train fire | Fire | 39 |
The Ladhowal rail disaster on 15 May 2003, was an flash fire which began at 4am on the Frontier Mail train service in India, and engulfed three carriages before it could be extinguished. 39 people lost their lives and another 15 were hospitalised...
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| x 2006 Kolkata leather factory fire |
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The 2006 Kolkata leather factory fire was a deadly industrial fire that occurred in West Bengal, India, on 22 November, 2006. The fire broke out in a leather bag factory located in the Tannix International, Topsia, in the South 24 Parganas district...
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| x Uphaar cinema fire | Fire | 59 |
The Uphaar Cinema fire, one of the worst fire tragedies in recent Indian history, occurred on Friday, June 13, 1997 at Uphaar Cinema, Green Park, Delhi, during the premiere screening of Border, a patriotic Hindi movie. 59 people died and 103 were...
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| x 1981 Bangalore circus fire | Fire |
The 1981 Bangalore circus fire is the fire that occurred on 8 February 1981 in a circus in Bangalore, India. 66 persons, mostly children, died and many were injured in the fire.
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| x 1995 Dabwali tent fire | Fire | Mandi Dabwali | 360 |
1995 Dabwali tent fire was a fire that occurred on 23 December 1995 at Dabwali town in Haryana state in India. 360 people died.Hundreds more were injured in a stampede that followed as terrified crowds tried to escape the flames through the single,...
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| x Kuwaiti oil fires |
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The Kuwaiti oil fires were a result of the scorched earth policy of Iraqi military forces retreating from Kuwait in 1991 after conquering the country but being driven out by Coalition military forces (see Gulf War).
The resulting fires burned out of...
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| x Tunguska event |
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The Tunguska Event, or Tunguska explosion, was a powerful explosion that occurred near the Podkamennaya (Lower Stony) Tunguska River in what is now Krasnoyarsk Krai of Russia, at 0 hours 13 minutes 35 seconds Greenwich Mean Time (around 7:14 a.m....
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| x Kaprun disaster |
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Rail disaster | 155 |
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 Halifax Explosion |
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The Halifax Explosion occurred on Thursday, December 6, 1917, when the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, was devastated by the huge detonation of the SS Mont-Blanc, a French cargo ship, fully loaded with wartime explosives, which accidentally...
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| x Peshtigo Fire |
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The October 8, 1871 Peshtigo Fire in Peshtigo, Wisconsin, is the conflagration that caused the most deaths by fire in United States history. Having occurred on the same day as the more infamous Great Chicago Fire, the Peshtigo Fire is mostly...
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| x Great Fire of Rome |
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The Great Fire of Rome (Latin: Magnum Incendium Romae) was a large fire that struck ancient Rome in 64 AD. According to the historian Tacitus, the fire started on the night of 18 July, among the shops clustered around the Circus Maximus. As many...
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| x Summerland disaster | Fire |
The Summerland Disaster occurred when a fire spread through the Summerland leisure centre in Douglas on the Isle of Man on the night of August 2, 1973. 50 people were killed and 80 seriously injured.
Summerland was opened on May 25, 1971. A climate...
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| x Burning of Parliament |
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The Palace of Westminster has suffered two major fires since it became home to Parliament in the 16th century. The first fire in 1834 destroyed virtually everything but Westminster Hall; the second, caused by German bombing during the London Blitz...
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| x Great Baltimore Fire |
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The Great Baltimore Fire of 1904 raged in Baltimore, Maryland, on Sunday, February 7, and Monday, February 8, 1904. 1,231 firefighters were required to bring the blaze under control. It destroyed a major part of central Baltimore, including over 1...
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| x Hartford Circus Fire |
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The Hartford Circus Fire, which occurred on July 6, 1944 in Hartford, Connecticut, was one of the worst fire disasters in the history of the United States. The fire occurred during an afternoon performance of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum &...
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| x Great Boston Fire of 1872 |
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Fire | 20 |
The Great Boston Fire of 1872 was Boston's largest urban fire and still one of the most costly fire-related property losses in American history. The conflagration began at 7:20 p.m. on November 9, 1872, in the basement of a commercial warehouse at...
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| x Ålesund Fire |
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The Ålesund Fire happened in the Norwegian city of Ålesund on 23 January 1904. It destroyed almost the whole city centre, built mostly of wood like the majority of Norwegian towns in that era.
The fire started around 2 AM at Aspøya, in the Aalesund...
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| x Bradford City stadium fire |
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The Bradford City Fire Disaster occurred on Saturday May 11, 1985 when a flash fire consumed one side of the Valley Parade football stadium in Bradford, England.
The fire broke out during a football match between the home team (Bradford City), and...
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| x Great Seattle fire |
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The Great Seattle Fire was a fire that destroyed the entire central business district of Seattle, Washington, USA, on June 6, 1889.
In the fall of 1851, the Denny Party arrived at Alki Point in what is now the state of Washington. After spending a...
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| x Summit tunnel fire |
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The Summit Tunnel fire occurred on 20 December 1984 on a dangerous goods train passing through the Summit Tunnel on the Greater Manchester/West Yorkshire border, on the rail line between Littleborough and Todmorden, England.
The tunnel was built in...
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| x 1996 Channel Tunnel fire | Fire |
The Channel Tunnel fire of 18 November 1996 occurred on a train carrying heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) and their drivers through the Channel Tunnel from France to Great Britain.
The fire began after the train had loaded and was travelling through the...
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| x Daegu subway fire |
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Fire | 198 |
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 Salang tunnel fire | Fire |
The Salang tunnel fire occurred on 3 November 1982 in Afghanistan's only road tunnel - the Salang tunnel - during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Details are unclear, but the incident may have been one of the deadliest fires of modern times....
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| x Taunton train fire |
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The Taunton sleeping car fire occurred in a sleeping car train at Taunton, England in the early hours of 6 July 1978. It killed 12 people and had far-reaching effects for British Rail.
The vehicle involved was no. W2437, a British Railways Mark 1...
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| x Burning of Washington |
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The Burning of Washington took place on August 24, 1814, during the War of 1812 between the British Empire and the United States of America. British forces occupied Washington, D.C. and set fire to many public buildings following the American defeat...
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| x República Cromagnon nightclub fire |
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República Cromañón (Spanish for "Cro-Magnon Republic") was a nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
On 30 December 2004, a fire broke out in the club, killing 194 people and injuring 714 others. The venue was playing host to rock group Callejeros and...
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| x Caldecott Tunnel fire | Fire |
The Caldecott Tunnel fire killed seven people in the north tube of the Caldecott Tunnel, on State Route 24 between Oakland and Orinda in the US state of California just after midnight on 7 April 1982. It is one of the few major tunnel fires...
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| x Windscale fire |
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On 10 October, 1957, the graphite core of a British nuclear reactor at Windscale, Cumberland (now Sellafield, Cumbria), caught fire, releasing substantial amounts of radioactive contamination into the surrounding area. The event, known as the...
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| x 1996 Garley building fire |
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The 1996 Garley building fire was a fire incident that took place on 20 November 1996 in the 16-story Garley commercial building (traditional Chinese: 嘉利大廈) located at 233-239 Nathan Road, in Jordan, Hong Kong. It was a catastrophe that caused the...
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| x Paris Metro train fire |
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The disastrous Paris Métro train fire occurred on the evening of August 10, 1903, on what was then Line 2 Nord (2 North) of the system and is now Line 2. There were 84 deaths, most at Couronnes station, so it is also known as the Couronnes disaster....
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| x Holland Tunnel fire | Fire |
The Holland Tunnel fire occurred on the morning of Friday, May 13, 1949, in a hazardous materials truck passing through the Holland Tunnel under the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey.
At 8:30 a.m. a truck carrying eighty 55-gallon drums...
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| x Joelma Fire | Fire |
The Joelma fire occurred on Friday February 1, 1974, in the Joelma building, a 25 story building situated in downtown São Paulo, at 225 Avenue Nine of July. It is one of the most notable tragedies to have occurred in Brazil.
A short-circuit in a...
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| x Stardust Disaster |
The Stardust fire was a fatal fire which took place at the Stardust nightclub in Artane, Dublin, Ireland in the early hours of 14 February 1981. Some 841 people had attended a disco there, of whom 48 died and 214 were injured as a result of the fire...
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| x Bukit Ho Swee Fire |
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The Bukit Ho Swee Fire (Chinese: 河水山大火) is a fire that broke out in the squatter settlement of Bukit Ho Swee, Singapore, on May 25, 1961 at 3.20 p.m. Four people died, eighty-five were injured, and 16,000 were made homeless and more than 2,200 attap...
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| x Great Salem Fire of 1914 |
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The Great Salem Fire of June 25, 1914, destroyed 1,376 buildings in Salem, Massachusetts.
Franklin H. Wentworth agitated for more fire protection. In an article in the Salem Evening News (March 29, 1910, page 7), he called "Salem in Danger of...
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| x Brescia Furniture Fire | Fire |
The Brescia Furniture Fire was a blaze that started on 11 March 2005, at the Brescia Furniture factory in Ashfield, New South Wales, an inner suburb of Sydney. It took 150 fire crews, from 30 different stations, to control the fire. Two people were...
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| x 1912 North Mount Lyell Disaster | Fire |
The 1912 North Mount Lyell Disaster (also known as the Mount Lyell Disaster and North Mount Lyell Fire) refers to a fire that broke out on 12 October 1912 at the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company operations on the West Coast of Tasmania. The...
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| x Windsor Castle fire, 1992 | Fire |
The 1992 Windsor Castle fire occurred on Friday, 20 November 1992 in Windsor Castle, to the west of London, England the largest inhabited castle in the world and one of the official residences of the British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II. The castle...
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| x Great Fire of 1901 |
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The Great Fire of 1901 in Jacksonville, Florida was one of the worst disasters in Florida history and the largest urban fire in the Southeast. It was similar in scale and destruction to the 1871 Great Chicago Fire.
Around noon of Friday, May 3, 1901...
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| x Great Fire of New York |
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The Great New York Fire was a conflagration that destroyed the New York Stock Exchange and most of the buildings on the southeast tip of Manhattan around Wall Street on December 16-17, 1835.
The fire began in the evening in a five-story warehouse at...
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| x St. Louis Fire | Fire |
The St. Louis Fire of 1849 was a devastating fire that occurred on May 17, 1849 and destroyed a significant part of St. Louis, Missouri and many of the steamboats using the Mississippi River and Missouri River. This was the first fire in United...
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| x 2005 Hertfordshire Oil Storage Terminal fire |
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| x Offset Alpine fire | Fire |
The Offset Alpine fire is an incident in Australia's recent history that is still subject to investigation and speculation, amid suspicions that the printing plant was burnt down as part of an insurance fraud. It has gained attention because of the...
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| x Copenhagen Fire of 1728 |
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The Copenhagen Fire of 1728 was the largest fire in the history of Copenhagen, Denmark. It began on the evening of October 20, 1728, and continued to burn until the morning of October 23. It destroyed approximately 28% of the city (measured by...
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| x Great Atlanta fire of 1917 |
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The Great Atlanta Fire of 1917 began just after noon on Monday, May 21 and was finally extinguished by 10 PM. Destroyed were 300 acres (much of the Fourth Ward), including nearly 2,000 homes, businesses and churches, and 10,000 people were displaced...
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| x Whiskey Au Go Go fire | Fire | 15 |
The Whiskey Au Go Go fire was a fire that occurred at 2.10 a.m. on Thursday 8 March, 1973, in the Whiskey Au Go Go nightclub in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Australia. The building is on the corner of Amelia Street and St Paul's Terrace, and still...
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| x Copenhagen Fire of 1795 | Fire |
The Copenhagen Fire of 1795 started Friday the June 5, around 3 p.m. at the Navy’s old base at Gammelholm in the fleets warehouse for coal and barrels. The fire spread, crossing over Holmens Canal to the quarter around Saint Nicholas Church and...
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