| DATE | Location | Type | Description |
| 7/4/1971 | Times Beach, MO | HazMat | An entire town is evacuated years after its streets were sprayed with a mixture of oil and dioxin which was thought to contain the dust. |
| 7/4/1970 | Barcelona, Spain | Aviation | Chartered Dan-Air Comet crashes into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain killing 112 vacationing Britons. |
| 7/4/1935 | China | Floods | A flood from the Yellow River kills 30,000 and leaves 5 million homeless in and around Hankow. |
| 7/4/1925 | Boston, Mass | Structural Collapse | 44 die when the Dreyfus Hotel in Boston collapses. |
| 7/4/1898 | France | Maritime | French liner 'La Bourgogne' collides with bark 'Cromartyshire', 560 drown. |
| 7/4/1866 | Portland, Maine | Fire | Firecracker thrown in wood shavings starts fire that destroys over half of Portland, Maine. |