Terrors of Today

Month Day

Today in history, the following disasters occured:

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.