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Kansas City, Missouri November 29, 1988: 6 23 On November 29, 1988, at 4:07 AM two trailers containing approximately 23,000 kg (50,000 lb) of the explosive ANFO (ammonium nitrate with fuel oil) exploded at a construction site located near the 87th street exit of Highway 71 in Kansas City, Missouri. The explosives were to be used in the blasting ...
Kansas City, Missouri: 113 1975 Eastern Air Lines Flight 66: Accident – aircraft: New York City, New York: 112 1863 New York City draft riots: Riot: New York City, New York: $1–5 million (1863) Worst civil unrest in U.S. history required diverting Union Army troops from the front to put down 112 1902 Rolling Mill Mine: Accident – coal mine
Frank Richardson (44), an American merchant who was shot and killed inside his Savannah, Missouri home on Christmas Eve in 1900. Stuart Fife, an employee at his store, and Frank's wife, Addie Richardson, were tried separately for the murder, but neither was convicted. The murder remains unsolved.
According to a 2010 survey of energy accidents, there have been at least 56 accidents at nuclear reactors in the United States (defined as incidents that either resulted in the loss of human life or more than US$50,000 of property damage). The most serious of these was the Three Mile Island accident in 1979.
November 25; a natural gas explosion and fire in Kansas City, Missouri, involved a break in a customer owned service line, at a threaded joint that was affected by corrosion. One person was killed and five persons injured in the explosion that severely damaged the residence.
Cam Lyman (54–55) was a multimillionaire dog breeder from Westwood, Massachusetts who disappeared in the summer of 1987. In December 1997 his body was found in a septic tank on his estate in Hopkinton, Rhode Island by the new owners of the house. [203] Lyman's death remains a mystery.
Wanggongchang Explosion in Beijing, China in the Wanggongchang Gunpowder Factory destroys part of the city and kills 20,000 people [1] 3,000. 18 August 1769. A lightning bolt caused the Brescia Explosion of a gunpowder depot in Brescia (Italy), destroying one-sixth of the city [2] [3]
Joseph Lawrence Bowman (c. 1752 – 15 August 1779) was an American frontiersmen and military officer who fought during the American Revolutionary War.He was second-in-command during Colonel George Rogers Clark's 1778 military campaign to capture the Illinois Country, in which Clark and his men seized the key British-controlled towns of Kaskaskia, Cahokia, and Vincennes.