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10 events2015
An explosion involving illegally stored mining detonators in Petlawad, India, killed 104 people and injured more than 150 others.
2008
A Metrolink train collided head-on with a freight train in Los Angeles, California, resulting in 25 deaths and 135 injuries; the Metrolink driver had passed through a red signal, having likely been distracted by text messaging.
2003
Typhoon Maemi, the strongest recorded typhoon to strike South Korea, made landfall near Busan.
2003
The first public release of Steam, a distribution service for computer games, was made available for download.
1995
Hurricane Ismael formed off the southwest coast of Mexico; it went on to kill over a hundred people in the country.
1992
Aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour, American Mae Jemison became the first Black woman to travel to space.
1983
The clandestine Boricua Popular Army staged a bank robbery in West Hartford, Connecticut, making off with $7 million in the largest cash theft in U.S. history at the time.
1977
South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko died after being beaten in police custody in Port Elizabeth.
1962
In a speech at Rice Stadium in Houston, U.S. president John F. Kennedy reiterated an aspiration to land a man on the Moon before 1970 (video featured).
1952
Three boys in Flatwoods, West Virginia, U.S., reported seeing a ten-foot-tall (3 m) monster in the woods while investigating a UFO.