Nature and Disaster Stories
Earthquakes, storms, eruptions, floods and the natural world, with dates, places and figures from official records.
1980
1980 · Nature & Disasters
The Irpinia Earthquake Strikes Southern Italy
November 23, 19801980
1980 · Nature & Disasters
The MGM Grand Hotel Fire
November 21, 19801975
1975 · Nature & Disasters
The Edmund Fitzgerald Sinks in Lake Superior
November 10, 19751973
1973 · Nature & Disasters
The Endangered Species Act Is Signed
December 28, 19731972
1972 · Nature & Disasters
The Andes Flight Survivors' Rescue Is Completed
December 23, 19721966
1966 · Nature & Disasters
Aberfan: A Mining Waste Tip Collapses Onto a Village
October 21, 19661960
1960 · Nature & Disasters
Two Airliners Collide Over New York
December 16, 19601952
1952 · Nature & Disasters
London's Great Smog Begins
December 5, 19521942
1942 · Nature & Disasters
The Cocoanut Grove Nightclub Fire
November 28, 19421940
1940 · Nature & Disasters
The Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapses
November 7, 19401938
1938 · Nature & Disasters
A Living Coelacanth Is Caught off South Africa
December 22, 19381936
1936 · Nature & Disasters