Estimates are that as many 250,000 sea birds, 2,800 sea otters, 300 harbor seals, 247 bald eagles and billions of salmon eggs were killed.
All in Disasters
Over 200 schools were destroyed in the disaster and it was clear that had the quake struck during school hours the death toll would have been significantly higher.
100 people died on this night in one of the worst nightclub fires in U.S. history.
A bomber carrying four hydrogen bombs crashes, scattering radioactive debris across miles of sea ice.
The accident dropped 4 hydrogen bombs on a small fishing village.
The only known fatal accident involving a nuclear reactor in America happened on this day.
92 of 159 passengers would die when a wrought-iron bridge collapsed and the Pacific Express fell 70 feet into the frozen Ashtabula River.
It was on this day in Los Angeles that the Baldwin Hills Reservoir crumbled apart and released 250,000,000 gallons of water into the surrounding neighborhoods.
The federal government would spend $32 million to relocate the citizens, plus another $110 million on the subsequent cleanup.
In 1907 two massive sections of the bridge snapped off and plunged over 300 feet into the Saint Lawrence River.
A B-25 bomber on a routine transport mission slammed into the Empire State Building.