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2 days ago · This list of United States disasters by death toll includes disasters that occurred either in the United States, at diplomatic missions of the United States, or incidents outside of the United States in which a number of U.S. citizens were killed. Domestic deaths due to war in America are included except the American Civil War.
1 day ago · c. 6,000–25,000 [d] The World Trade Center in New York City was destroyed on September 11, 2001, as a result of al-Qaeda terror attacks. Two commercial airliners hijacked by terrorists were deliberately flown into the Twin Towers of the complex, resulting in a total progressive collapse that killed almost 3,000 people.
5 days ago · The Hillsborough disaster was a fatal crowd crush at a football match at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, on 15 April 1989. It occurred during an FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest in the two standing-only central pens within the Leppings Lane stand allocated to Liverpool supporters.
1 day ago · Titanic, British luxury passenger liner that sank on April 14–15, 1912, during its maiden voyage, en route to New York City from Southampton, England, killing about 1,500 people. One of the most famous tragedies in modern history, it inspired numerous works of art and has been the subject of much scholarship.
5 hours ago · Titan sub tragedy preventable: witness. A key employee who labeled a doomed experimental submersible unsafe prior to its last, fatal voyage on Tuesday testified that the tragedy could have been prevented if a US federal safety agency had investigated his complaint. Former OceanGate operations director David Lochridge said he felt let down by ...
2 days ago · Hearings into Titan submersible tragedy reveal safety concerns. STORY: “All good here” was the chilling final message the Titan submersible sent to the surface last year before it imploded ...
3 days ago · William Shakespeare - Romeo, Juliet, Playwright: Apart from the early Titus Andronicus, the only other play that Shakespeare wrote prior to 1599 that is classified as a tragedy is Romeo and Juliet (c. 1594–96), which is quite untypical of the tragedies that are to follow.
