Whether natural or man-made, disasters simultaneously cause massive destruction and unity of people trying to help those in need. Discover some of the world's worst disasters in this collection.
Mt. Vesuvius's first "pine tree" eruption is now termed a "Plinian" event.
Schwieger, captain of the U-boat, doesn't send a second torpedo, he sees the victims and knows the Lusitania will sink.
Read a poem about the life of Waleed Shaalan, a 32 year-old first year PhD student in Civil Engineering.
Kathe Kollwitz, a German mother and artist, creates drawings and sculptures that show her grief at losing her son during WWI.
While there are early warnings of a potential attack, the Office of Navy Intelligence does not believe them.
Boisjoly and colleagues continue to warn Morton Thiokol and NASA that an O-ring may fail if the temperature is too cold at launch time.
Pliny the Younger witnesses the eruption as townspeople take refuge in their homes.
The Warsaw Ghetto is the first step in the Nazi plan for extermination of the Jews.
Despite the Jewish resistance to the German assault, Jewish men and women are captured and killed.
Modern scholars wonder if other diseases and bacteria accompanied the medieval-era plague, and that's why it was so infectious and deadly.
In a 2003 outbreak, SARS appears similar to the Spanish flu, but is not the same. The Spanish flu first appears to be swine virus from China.
Huge fires break out in several other Midwest cities on the same day, in 1871, that Chicago burns.
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