Friday, November 9, 2007

Not such a good day

On Novembre 9 in:



1872 1,000 buildings were destroyed by a fire in Boston



1913 Eight ore carriers were sunk in the Great Lakes during the Freshwater Fury storm



1915 Italian liner Ancona was sunk by German torpedoes killing 272



1932 Hurricane storm wave sweeps over Santa Cruz del Sur in Cuba, killing 2,500 people

1963 Coal-dust explosion kills 450 in Japan

2 comments:

Ian said...

Good grief - we were lucky, I guess!

Jen said...

OUCH!