1900 - Galveston Hurricane - 8000 dead (Jones, 1999)
1905 - San Francisco Earthquake - 700 dead, 250,000 homeless (Hansen, Condon
& Fowler, 1989)
1908 - June 30 - Tunguska Meteor - A "fireball explosion" appeared to rip the
sky apart over Siberia and devastated a massive area of remote wilderness where the Tungus people made their home. (Gallant & Marshall, 1995)
1912 - Titanic sinks 11:40 PM April 14 (Merideth, 1999)
1900-1927 - Russian Revolution (Pipes & Dimock, 1996)
1917-18 - World War I (Gilbert, 1996)
1918 - Influenza Epidemic in United States - 600,000 dead (Crosby, 1990)
1929 - Economic Disaster hits Wall Street (Galbraith, 1955/1997)
1937 - Hindenburg Airship disaster - Lakehurst, NJ (Toland, 1972)
1930's & 1940's - Holocaust (Epstein, 1988)
1939-1945 - World War II (Keegan, 1990)
1941 - December 7 - Pearl Harbor (Prange, Goldstein, & Dillon, 1991)
1947 - Texas City Explosion and Disaster (Stephens, 1997)
1950-1954 - Korean War (Walker, 1997)
1954-1975 - Viet Nam War (Wiesner, 1988)
1963 - November 22 - Assassination of President Kennedy (Duffy & Ricci, 1992)
1960's - Riots, Terrorist Acts (Kerner, 1968)
1986 - Challenger Accident (Presidential Commission Report, 1995)
1986 - April 26 - Chernobyl (Medvedev, 1992)
1988 - Locherbie Pan Am 103 bombing (Horton,1991)
1990 - Persian Gulf War (Grossman, Ali & Mainuddin, 1995)
1993 - World Trade Center Bombing (Kerson, 1998)
1995 - April 19 - 9:02 AM - Bombing of Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City (Hamilton & Hamilton, 1996)
1999 - April 20 - Shooting at Columbine High School, Littleton, CO 12 Students and 1 Faculty killed.
1999 - May 3 - Devastating Tornado near Oklahoma City kills 44 people.
