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10th December 1901: The first Nobel Prizes awarded

  • 10th December 2020
  • Tagged as: Discovery, Explosion, Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel Prize, Norway, Science, Sweden, Technology, War

On the 10th December 1901, the first Nobel Prizes were awarded in Chemistry, Literature, Peace, Physics, and Physiology or Medicine.

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21st November 1974: The Birmingham pub bombings kill 21 people and injure 182

  • 21st November 2020
  • Tagged as: Birmingham, Bomb, Britain, England, Explosion, IRA, Irish Republicanism, Provisional IRA, Terror, Terrorism, United Kingdom

21 people were killed and 182 were injured in the Birmingham pub bombings.

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12th November 1970: A dead whale is blown up with dynamite by the Oregon State Highway Division

  • 12th November 2020
  • Tagged as: Dynamite, Explosion, nature, Oregon, Whale

The Oregon State Highway Division blew up a dead whale that had washed up on a beach.

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30th October 1961: The Tsar Bomba detonated by the USSR

  • 30th October 2020
  • Tagged as: Atomic Bomb, Cold War, Explosion, Khrushchev, Nuclear, Tsar Bomba, USSR

The Tsar Bomba, the most powerful explosive weapon ever created, was detonated by the USSR.

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16th September 1920: 38 people died in the Wall Street bombing in New York

  • 16th September 2020
  • Tagged as: America, Bomb, Economy, Explosion, New York, Terrorism, United States, Wall Street

38 people died and hundreds more were wounded in the Wall Street bombing in New York.

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23rd July 1943: Archibald Brown blown up by an anti-tank grenade placed under his seat

  • 23rd July 2020
  • Tagged as: Britain, England, Essex, Explosion, Murder, Patricide, Second World War, Tanks

Archibald Brown was murdered by his son, who placed an anti-tank grenade under the seat of his bath chair.

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28th January 1986: The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster

  • 28th January 2020
  • Tagged as: Explosion, Science, Space, Technology

On the 28th January 1986, the NASA Space Shuttle orbiter Challenger broke apart 73 seconds after it lifted off from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.

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19th January 1917: 73 people killed in the Silvertown munitions factory explosion in London

  • 19th January 2020
  • Tagged as: Britain, Civilians, disaster, Explosion, Factory, First World War, Industry, London, TNT

The Brunner Mond chemical factory had been built in 1893 to manufacture caustic soda and soda crystals.

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6th May 1937: The Hindenburg airship disaster in New Jersey

  • 6th May 2019
  • Tagged as: Aircraft, Explosion, Germany, Tourism, Transport, USA

On the 6th May 1937, the German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg experienced a mid-air explosion at Lakehurst, New Jersey and was engulfed in flames in just 32 seconds.

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