Disasters & Accidents
Natural disasters, industrial accidents, and catastrophes and the human stories behind them.
How to explore Disasters & Accidents
This editorial collection follows Disasters & Accidents across distinct historical events instead of treating the category as a single undifferentiated timeline.
A useful reading path starts with “How Did the August 2013 Beirut Bombing Unfold?”, continues with “How Did Chains Contribute to Erwadi Fire Tragedy?”, and then compares “How Did the 2019 El Paso Walmart Shooting Unfold?”.
- How Did the August 2013 Beirut Bombing Unfold? — At least 27 people killed and 226 injured in a car bomb explosion near a Hezbollah complex in southern Beirut, Lebanon…
- How Did Chains Contribute to Erwadi Fire Tragedy? — On August 6, 2001, a fire incident occurred at the Moideen Badusha Mental Home in Erwadi, Tamil Nadu, India, resulting…
- How Did the 2019 El Paso Walmart Shooting Unfold? — Prior to the attack, Crusius left his grandparents' house in Allen, Texas, around midnight and drove approximately 650…
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Articles (26)
How Did the August 2013 Beirut Bombing Unfold?
Disasters & Accidents
August 15, 2026
How Did Chains Contribute to Erwadi Fire Tragedy?
Disasters & Accidents
August 6, 2026
How Did the 2019 El Paso Walmart Shooting Unfold?
Disasters & Accidents
August 3, 2026
Why Was Airblue Flight 202 Outside Its Approach Radius?
Disasters & Accidents
July 28, 2026
How Did the Kyoto Animation Arson Attack Unfold?
Disasters & Accidents
July 18, 2026
How Did Spatial Disorientation Cause JFK Jr.'s Crash?
Died on This Day
July 16, 2026
B52 Crashes at Fairchild — June 24, 1994
Sports
June 24, 2026
Pan Am Flight 121 crashes in the Syrian Desert near Mayadin, Syria — June 19, 1947
Disasters & Accidents
June 19, 2026
The Grenfell Tower fire, a catastrophic fire in a high-rise apartment building in North — June 14, 2017
Disasters & Accidents
June 14, 2026
Hold Exxon Accountable — June 13, 1994
Disasters & Accidents
June 13, 2026
7 people are killed and 11 more are injured in a massacre in Akihabara — June 8, 2008
Disasters & Accidents
June 8, 2026
Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River — June 7, 1938
War & Conflict
June 7, 2026
BOAC Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s — June 1, 1943
War & Conflict
June 1, 2026
Garuda Indonesian Airways Flight 892 crashes near Nala Sopara in India, killing 30 — May 28, 1968
Disasters & Accidents
May 28, 2026
Ten people are killed in a shooting at a VTA rail yard in San Jose — May 26, 2021
Disasters & Accidents
May 26, 2026
Iran Helicopter Crash Kills President Raisi — May 19, 2024
Politics & Government
May 19, 2026
2011 Germany E. coli O104:H4 outbreak — May 2, 2011
Health & Medicine
May 2, 2026
Port Arthur massacre — April 28, 1996
Disasters & Accidents
April 28, 2026
SS Central America Sinking — April 27, 1857
Disasters & Accidents
April 27, 2026
Chernobyl Disaster — April 26, 1986
Disasters & Accidents
April 26, 2026
MS Estonia Sinking — April 25, 1994
Disasters & Accidents
April 25, 2026
Bhopal Gas Tragedy — April 16, 1984
Disasters & Accidents
April 16, 2026
Apollo 13 Accident — April 12, 1970
Science & Technology
April 12, 2026
Titanic Sinking — April 8, 1912
Disasters & Accidents
April 8, 2026
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire — March 25, 1911
Disasters & Accidents
March 25, 2026
The Great Fire of London: A Devastating Conflagration
Disasters & Accidents
February 27, 2026
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