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.
On the 10th December 1901, the first Nobel Prizes were awarded in Chemistry, Literature, Peace, Physics, and Physiology or Medicine.
21 people were killed and 182 were injured in the Birmingham pub bombings.
The Tsar Bomba, the most powerful explosive weapon ever created, was detonated by the USSR.
Archibald Brown was murdered by his son, who placed an anti-tank grenade under the seat of his bath chair.
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.
The Brunner Mond chemical factory had been built in 1893 to manufacture caustic soda and soda crystals.
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