Flight 191 Crash – 1979

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The worst airline disaster on American soil took place in May 1979 at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. American Airlines Flight…

The Armero Tragedy – 1985

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The remote town of Armero lay on the banks of the Langunilla River below Nevado del Ruiz, a volcanic peak…

Mount St. Helens Eruption – 1980

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The Cascades Range, a remote region of the northern Rockies, is a place of mountains, rivers, forests and wildlife. Volcanic…

Vrancea Earthquake – 1977

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The Vrancea area lies in the southeastern ‘corner’ of the U-shaped Carpathian range which, with its beautiful Alpine pastures and…

The Tangshan Earthquake – 1976

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For China, 1976 was a year of political upheaval and power struggles. For Tangshan, an industrial city of over a…

Typhoon Nina and the Banqiao Dam Disaster – 1975

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Tropical storm Nina reached typhoon intensity on August 2 1975. It battered the central mountains of Taiwan, made landfall over…

Cyclone Tracy – 1974

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For the people of Darwin, Christmas 1974 brought neither peace nor merrymaking. Just after midnight on Christmas Eve Cyclone Tracy…

Hurricane Fifi – 1974

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Fifi was designated a hurricane after it passed through Jamaica as a tropical storm and then reached maximum intensity when…

Iran Blizzard – 1972

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There had been a four-year drought in Iran, which came to a spectacular end in February 1972 not with long-awaited…

Bhola Cyclone – 1970

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The most devastating tropical cyclone, ever, struck in November 1970 - the sixth cyclonic storm in that year’s North Indian…