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.
After the war was over, and Ofuna prisoners were rescued by Allied forces, outsiders were able to view where the POWs had lived.
Between October 22 and November 29, 1951, the United States government conducted nuclear-weapon tests at the Nevada Proving Ground (later called the N...
During the evening of June 16 (1775), General Clinton (one of the British commanders) was hearing strange sounds coming from the Charlestown peninsula...
This captured Japanese photo, taken by an attack pilot, depicts a huge burst of sea spray after a successful torpedo strike at Battleship Row.
Because the clouds have cleared on Sunday morning - December 7, 1941 - every pilot has an unobstructed view as hundreds of Japanese airplanes approach...
Image of a captured Japanese photograph taken on December 7, 1941.
In its 10 October 1846 issue, the London Pictorial Times publishes an article about an ongoing famine in Ireland.
On the 8th of October, 1871, Peshtigo was a mill town in Wisconsin.
After President Lincoln was shot in the head, people at Ford's Theater tried to assist him.
A deadly train derailment, in 1943, occurred at nearly the same place as the May 2015 Philadelphia train disaster.
It's July 3, 1863 and "Pickett's Charge" is about to begin. It ends in disaster for the Confederacy on the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg.
"Sully," starring Tom Hanks, depicts a miracle instead of a disaster when all people aboard Flight 1549 survive a water-landing in the Hudson.
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