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The NTSB announces that Comair Flight 5191 departed from a short runway not typically used by commercial jets before it crashed, killing 49. |
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Iran's state-run Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reports that a military plane with 11 passengers on board has crashed in northwestern Iran, killing a number of high-ranking officials in Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps. |
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The US Military announces that a U.S. UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashed in northern Iraq late Saturday, killing all 12 Americans believed to be aboard and that five U.S. Marines were slain in separate weekend attacks. It is the deadliest helicopter crash since a CH-53 Sea Stallion crashed in west ... |
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The US Army Corps of Engineers announces that rising water due to Hurricane Rita has wased over a levee and into New Orleans hard-hit 9th Ward. |
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Aid is rushed to millions of survivors of the devastating tsunami that swept across southern Asia and the death toll rises above 135,000. |
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The death count associated with the Indian Ocean tsunami rises over 120,000 as millions of people scramble for food and fresh water. Throngs of people besiege aid workers distributing food, with only the strongest and fastest able to acquire what they need to live. "As many as five million people ... |
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In the southern Indian state of Kerala, pyres of Tsunami victims bodies are burned on the beach at Alappad to avoid disease. Indonesian military teams reach the devastated west coast of Sumatra island and find thousands of casualties bringing the death toll across 12 Asian nations to 76,700. The I ... |
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Two days after a huge earthquake sent walls of water sweeping across the Indian Ocean from Thailand to Somalia the death toll rises to 35,000 and the United Nations is asking donor countries to dig deep, saying this will be the costliest disaster ever. |
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Following additional body tallies in Indonesia, the death toll from the recent magnitude 9 earthquake and subsequent tsunami reaches 52,000. At the northern tip of Indonesia's Sumatra island, workers find 10,000 people killed in a single town near the epicenter of the quake and that starving surviv ... |
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The death toll for the Asian Tsunami reaches 23,000+ and the United Nations begins to warn of a health epidemic crisis. |
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Massive tsunamis triggered by an earthquake measuring 8.9 on the Richter Scale under the Indian Ocean off the west coast of Sumatra wipe out coastal areas across southeastern Asia, killing more than 4,800 people in Sri Lanka and India. |
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A South Korean cargo ship, buffeted by strong winds and waves, hit a breakwater in northern Japan on Saturday, killing six crew members and leaving one missing at sea. |
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A magnitude 5.8 earthquake rumbles northern Japan around 11:16 a.m. Monday (0116 GMT), was centered close to the earth's surface in the Chuetsu area of Niigata prefecture. Six people are injured but no danger of tsunami was triggered. |
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Florida National Guard troops entered southwest Florida in response to the damage caused by Hurricane Charley. Charley pounded the retirement town of Punta Gorda, causing deaths and injuries and destroying houses and buildings. |
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Two trains collide head-on in northwestern Turkey, killing six people and injuring some 30 more. |
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A gasoline tanker collides with buses on a main international road in southeastern city of Zahedan, Iran. 90 people are killed in the resultant fires. |
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A suspicious fire consumes a warehouse owned by American Packaging Co in Gwinnett County, GA. Corrugated boxes and plastic bottles made for unhealthy plumes of smoke. |
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A magnitude 6.2 earthquake strikes the Caspian Sea area of Iran near the city of Sari. It shook the buildings in the capital city of Tehran, 75 km south, and send residents screaming into the streets. |
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American, Canadian and Chilean troops rushed to the worst-hit southern Haitian towns of Fond Verrettes and Mapou, which were still submerged in 10 feet of water. They arrived with aid workers in helicopters loaded with water, food, medical supplies and inflatable boats to try to reach far-flung vill ... |
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Flooding on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola has nearly 900 people confirmed dead, hundreds missing and entire villages swept away. As many as 2,000 may be dead. |
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A large chemical fire breaks out in the town of Conyers, GA at a warehouse owned by Biolab, a company that makes chemicals for swimming pools and cleaning products. Multiple explosions and plumes of gray, green and white smoke prompted evacuations of homes and businesses. |
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French security officials evacuate Paris' Charles De Gaulle airport after cracking noises were heard in the terminal's roof, similar to one's heard before a section collapsed the previous day. |
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A passenger terminal collapses at Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport, killing six and injuring three. There is no immediate indication of a terrorist attack. |
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A massive explosion kills four workers at the Formosa Plastics plant near Illiopolis, Illinois. The fire destroyed about a half to two-thirds of the plant. |
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The World Health Organization declares that SARS in under control, with only a handful of cases worldwide in the last week. |
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14 people are trampled to death in Muslim pilgrimage, in Mina Saudi Arabia. |
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An earthquake strikes 300 miles west of Mexico City and kills more than 20 people. |
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An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale kills 1000 people in Afghanistan. Thousands more are left homeless and injured. |
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An earthquake in Gujarat, India results in more than 20,000 deaths. |
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Two freight trains collide near Flagstaff, AZ. |
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