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.
A young girl is on a doomed ship but survives the Lusitania's sinking, along with her mother. She clutches a souvenir spoon throughout the awful ordea...
The SS City of Benares was torpedoed by a German U-boat on in 1940 despite the September cold and a stormy sea Bess Walder Cummings and her brother su...
"Out of the blue," as survivors recall, the Battle of Britain begins on September 7, 1940. Hundreds of German bombers fly to England from their bases ...
French and British troops battled over Egypt.
So many people died in plague, in 1349, that there were not enough coffins to care for all the bodies.
On October 3, 1993 Chief Warrant Officer Michael J. Durant is piloting his MH-60L Black Hawk helicopter, known as Super 64, in the skies above Mogadis...
This image is from the 10 October 1846 issue of the Pictorial Times. Its accompanying article, written by a Brit, blames Ireland for the famine which ...
A blind curve along the railway near Nashville is known as Dutchman's Curve. America's deadliest train wreck occurred near this area in 1918 when two ...
By the fall of 1944, American military leaders realized that Japan would be unwilling to surrender and convinced military planners to take drastic mea...
Borodino, a small village about 70 miles west of Moscow, was the site of a bloody battle during the Napoleonic Wars. It took place on September 7, 181...
Patrick Magee, a member of the IRA, visits the Grand Hotel in Brighton about a month before the Conservative Party holds its annual conference there i...
In 1667, a French pirate known as Franois L'Olonnais plans an attack on Maracaibo (a city in todays northwestern Venezuela). Disastrous consequences ...
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