Rough Day in History
On the bright side:
- 1775: The first (modern) antislavery society was founded.
- 1860: The first successful Pony Express route was achieved.
- 1939: “The Grapes of Wrath” is published.
On the dark side:
- 1846: The Donner Party started what would become a cannibalistic adventure across the U.S.
- 1986: The heaviest ever hailstones fall, killing 92.
- 1999: Hail again! Australia’s most costly natural disaster.
- 2010: The Icelandic volcanic plumes started that shut down air travel all over Europe.
Info from Wikipedia and Infoplease
On April 14th: Lincoln was shot (1865), the Titanic hit an iceberg (1912), and the Great Plains saw the worst dust storm of the Dust Bowl era (1935).
Great disasters that you can cite to show your knowledge of, well, great disasters. The Great Molasses Flood is the only vaguely comical entry on the list.
As the danger of a nuclear disaster increases in Japan, we chart several of history’s worst industrial accidents.
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