The explosion wiped out services for thousands of residents, while the stench from the open sewers was unbearable.
21st November 1974: The Birmingham pub bombings kill 21 people and injure 182
21st November 2020
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 Oregon State Highway Division blew up a dead whale that had washed up on a beach.
The Tsar Bomba, the most powerful explosive weapon ever created, was detonated by the USSR.
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.
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.
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.
10th April 1858: The ‘Big Ben’ bell cast in Whitechapel
10th April 2021
8th April 1904: France and Britain sign the Entente Cordiale
8th April 2021
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
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9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
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