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.
Image of a newspaper notice, by the German Imperial Embassy, warning of potential attacks on ships near the British Isles. This warning was date...
This timeline, from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, identifies the dates for key events leading up to Hitler's "Final Solution" of the "J...
After the loss of her husband, William Logan Gwinn - an American postal worker who died when Titanic sank - Florence Gwinn received a death-be...
On the 1st of April, 1912, Oscar Scott Woody - an American Postal clerk - received travel orders to work in the "sea post office" aboard a Ger...
In the NOVA documentary, The Deadliest Plane Crash, First Officer Robert Bragg (who, along with the pilot and flight engineer survived the disaster) t...
A deadly train wreck near Nashville occurred on July 9, 1918 when two trains collided, head on, traveling between 50-60 mph. Contemporary news reports...
This is the transcript from the Pan Am cockpit's voice recorder. It ends with a scream from Captain van Zanten. 1701:57.0PanAm Radio(c/p) Ten...
As President Truman toured Berlin, before the Potsdam Conference began, he was stunned by the damage. This memo, detailing the events of the Pre...
President Truman responded to Henry Stimson's message of July 30, 1945 by writing on the reverse side of that cable. This is the only written, p...
The United States Geological Survey has issued a statement, cautioning that Haiti - and the surrounding area - will likely sustain continuing ...
An American Marine found a briefcase on Saipan containing nothing but information regarding Amelia Earhart. Was it her briefcase? If so, how did it ge...
Willis Moore was chief of the U.S. Weather Bureau for a number of years. He was "in charge" when the "Great Storm of 1900" devastated Galveston ...
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