In 1871, 125 lives were lost when one of the Staten Island ferries exploded.
All in Accidents
A B-25 bomber on a routine transport mission slammed into the Empire State Building.
114 people were killed and over 200 were injured when an elevated walkway collapsed at the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City, Missouri.
Howard Hughes took one of the fastest planes ever built on a maiden flight that almost killed him.
It would flow out of control for 18 months. Over 9 million barrels of crude oil were spilled before the well could finally be contained. At its peak, the spill formed a 60-acre lake of oil.
It was on this day that an Austrian tailor/inventor fell to his death from the Eiffel Tower.