The Oregon State Highway Division blew up a dead whale that had washed up on a beach.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
21st June 2019
More than 1,100 people worked at the Arsenal, 78 of whom died while many more were injured.More than 1,100 people worked at the Arsenal, 78 of whom died while many more were injured.
38 people died and hundreds more were wounded in the Wall Street bombing in New York.
Archibald Brown was murdered by his son, who placed an anti-tank grenade under the seat of his bath chair.
The landing ropes were dropped at 7.21pm, and shortly afterwards the Hindenburg was engulfed by flames.
At 11.39am Challenger lifted off, and seventy-three seconds later the Shuttle began to disintegrate following a huge fireball. All seven members of crew were killed, and the disaster led to NASA suspending all Space Shuttle missions for over two and a half years.
The Brunner Mond chemical factory had been built in 1893 to manufacture caustic soda and soda crystals.
21 people were killed and 182 were injured in the Birmingham pub bombings.
Although nobody was injured during Italy’s attack, the Ottoman Empire complained that aerial bombing contravened the Hague Convention.
The Tsar Bomba, the most powerful explosive weapon ever created, was detonated by the USSR.
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
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