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.
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.
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.
The explosion wiped out services for thousands of residents, while the stench from the open sewers was unbearable.
On the 10th December 1901, the first Nobel Prizes were awarded in Chemistry, Literature, Peace, Physics, and Physiology or Medicine.
The Oregon State Highway Division blew up a dead whale that had washed up on a beach.
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