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| 1864 |
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| Feb. 26, 1531 |
Earthquake at Lisbon kills 30,000 persons. Portugal
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Austrian police work to recover bodies from lorry |
| 2013 |
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| Jul.28 |
Italy coach plunge 'leaves 36 dead'. Southern Italy
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| 2014 |
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| Oct.6 |
Nurse infected with Ebola in Spain |
| 2011 |
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| Jun.2 |
Outbreak is new form of E. coli |
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| May.30 |
E. coli infections kill 6, sicken hundreds |
| 2006 |
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| Feb.11 |
Deadly bird flu spreads in Europe |
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| 2017 |
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| Aug.16 |
Spain rescues 600 migrants in busiest day
| 2016 |
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| Aug.29 |
Thousands of migrants rescued off Libya |
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| May.29 |
European migrant crisis: Shipwrecks 'kill up to 700 migrants' 
Map of Mediterranean Sea Libya  Libya: Up to 700 migrants are feared drowned in a series of shipwrecks off the coast of Libya in the last few days, the UN refugee agency says | |
| 2015 |
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| Aug.27 |
Libya boats capsize off Zuwara carrying hundreds |
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| Aug.22 |
Up to 3,000 migrants rescued near Libya coast |
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| Apr.23 |
Mediterranean migrants crisis: EU triples funding |
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| Apr.20 |
Italy arrests two over migrant boat sinking |
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| Apr.19 |
Hundreds feared dead after Mediterranean boat capsizes |
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| Apr.14 |
Hundreds of migrants feared drowned off Libya Map of Mediterranean sea Libya About 400 migrants are feared drowned after their boat capsized, survivors have told Save the Children. The Italian coast guard had rescued 144
| 2014 |
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| Dec.30 |
Italy takes over 'migrant ship' after distress scare |
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| Sep.15 |
500 feared dead after boat sunk off Malta coast
| 2013 |
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| Oct.3 |
Hundreds feared dead in Italy shipwreck. Southern Italy
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| Sep.16 |
Costa Concordia ship set upright. Italy
| 2012 |
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| Jan.17 |
Cruise captain under house arrest |
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| Jan.13 |
Cruise ship runs aground in Italy Map of Giglio island Italy At least six people are reported dead after the Costa Concordia carrying more than 4,000 people ran aground off Italy
| 1994 |
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| Sep. 28, 1994 |
MS Estonia disaster A cruise ferry built in 1979/80 at the German shipyard Meyer Werft in Papenburg
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S.S. Titanic sank Maritime Provinces: RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocea after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage
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U.S.S. Maine blown up 
Cuba: The Maine is best known for her loss in Havana Harbor. She exploded without warning, and sank quickly, killing nearly three quarters of her crew
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| May.16 |
Ash closes airports in England, Ireland |
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Volcanic ash wreaking travel chaos 
Iceland: A cloud from an Icelandic volcano continued to blanket Europe, shutting down airspace in 23 countries and causing misery for millions of travelers
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Hurricane Irma pummels Turks and Caicos islands Map of Turks and Caicos Caribbean| Caribbean: Irma has pummelled the Turks and Caicos Islands after leaving a trail of destruction across the Caribbean, killing at least 14 people | |
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Lightning strikes hurt 15 people at French music festival |
| 2014 |
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| Feb.12 |
Storm with 106-mph gusts slams flooded Britain. England
| 2013 |
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| Dec.6 |
Deadly storm and tidal surge batter northern Europe. Hamburg
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| Oct.28 |
Hurricane-force winds batter northern Europe England: A major Atlantic storm packing hurricane-force winds pummeled England, France, Belgium and the Netherlands, knocking out power to 220,000 ho...
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| Dec.24 |
Snow paralyses transport in W. Europe |
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Storm batters Europe, at least 51 dead |
| 2007 |
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| Jan.18 |
47 dead as storm batters Europe |
| 2003 |
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| Aug.14 |
10,000 dead in heat wave. France
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| Jul.24 |
Festival stampede kills 19 |
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Italy flooding kills six people in Livorno |
| 2016 |
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| Jun.2 |
Louvre to close as Seine rises further. Paris
| 2013 |
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Floods sweep through Central Europe |
| 2010 |
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| Feb.20 |
Madeira floods and mudslides kill 43 |
| 2007 |
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| Jul.23 |
UK fights worst floods in 60 years |
| 2005 |
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| Aug.24 |
Floods cause havoc across Europe |
| 2002 |
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| Aug.13 |
Prague floods surge to new peaks |
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Reporter for prestigious newspaper eaten by crocodile |
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| Mar.7 |
Rhinoceros shot, killed for horn at French zoo |
| 2014 |
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| Feb.9 |
Giraffe killed despite campaign. Denmark
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| 2017 |
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| Sep. 4 |
Belgian military pilot falls from helicopter |
| 2016 |
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| May.19 |
EgyptAir flight: Search intensifies for missing plane |
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| May.19 |
EgyptAir crash: Plane wreckage found near Greek island |
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| May.18 |
EgyptAir Flight MS804 from Paris to Cairo 'disappears from radar' Map of Cairo 56 passengers, 7 crew members and 3 security personnel on board Flight MS804. The Airbus A320 was flying at 11,300m when it went missing
| 2015 |
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| Aug.22 |
11 died after single-seat jet crashes at airshow. England
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| Aug.5 |
MH370: Reunion debris is from missing plane, says Najib |
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| Jun.19 |
'Plane stowaway' body found on Richmond roof |
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| Mar.24 |
Germanwings airliner 4U 9525 crashes in French Alps Map of Digne France Southern France: Airbus A320 airliner has crashed in the French Alps. The flight 4U 9525 had been en route from Barcelona to Duesseldorf with 144 passengers and 6 crew
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| Mar.9 |
French Olympic medalists filming reality show among 10 dead |
| 2014 |
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| Oct.20 |
Total oil company CEO dies in Moscow plane crash |
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| Jul.23 |
MH17 victims arrive in Netherlands
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| Mar.8 |
Two aboard missing Malaysia Airlines jet traveling with stolen passports. Italy
| 2013 |
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| Nov.29 |
Helicopter crashes into Glasgow pub. Scotland
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| Jul.2 |
'Snowden suspicion' diverts flight. Austria
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| Jan.5 |
Italian fashion boss Missoni missing off Venezuela |
| 2012 |
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| Jul.5 |
Pilots blamed for Air France disaster |
| 2010 |
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| May.12 |
Child is sole Libya jet crash survivor
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| Apr.10 |
Polish president died in plane crash 
Russia: Tupolev 154, carrying Lech Kaczynski, has crashed near a Russian airport. 87 people were killed; there were no survivors
| 2009 |
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Helicopter and plane collide, 9 died |
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Air France plane crashed Northeastern Brazil: The Airbus A330-200 with 228 people aboard reported electrical problems in stormy weather before it lost contact
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Nine killed as Turkish plane crashes |
| 2008 |
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153 dead in Madrid plane crash
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Cypriot jet crashes; 121 dead |
| 2002 |
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71 dead in midair collision |
| 2000 |
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Concorde crash kills 113. Paris
| 1977 |
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| Mar. 27, 1977 |
Tenerife airport disaster Spain: The fatal runway collision between two Boeing 747s killed 583 people. KLM flight tried to take off while the Pan Am flight was still on the ...
| 1974 |
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Turkish Airlines Flight 981 disaster. France
| 1937 |
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Explosion of the Hindenburg New Jersey: The German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock. Of the 97 people on board, 35 died
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Hungarian sludge reaches Danube |
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BP says oil has stopped leaking |
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Warming 'very likely' human-made |
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Balcony collapse in California kills 6 people |
| 2013 |
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| Dec.19 |
Apollo Theatre roof collapses in London
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| Nov.21 |
50 dead, including 3 firefighters, after supermarket roof collapse 
Latvia: A criminal investigation has begun after the roof of a supermarket in the Latvian capital Riga collapsed, Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis has...
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Hall collapse traps many. 66 died |
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Rink collapse kills 15 |
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Deadly airport roof collapse |
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| 2015 |
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Germanwings co-pilot 'wanted to destroy plane' |
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Man kills himself in front of tourists at Notre Dame Cathedral |
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Avalanche rescuers race to find Rigopiano hotel survivors Italy: An avalanche at a mountain hotel in Italy has left at least two people dead and dozens more buried under rubble and snow, including children
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58 immigrants suffocated in Dutch truck |
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25 people died in train collision. Southern Italy
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Germany train crash: Several killed near Bavarian town |
| 2015 |
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10 dead as French TGV high-speed train derails in east |
| 2013 |
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| Jul.24 |
At least 77 die as Spanish train derails in Galicia Map of Galicia Spain Spain: A train has derailed in north-western Spain, killing at least 60 people and injuring many more. It is the worst rail accident in Spain in four decades
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| Jul.12 |
At least 6 dead in train derailment near Paris |
| 2009 |
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| Dec.18 |
Eurostar trains stuck in tunnel |
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| Jun.29 |
14 die in Italian Riviera train-gas blast |
| 1917 |
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| Dec. 12, 1917 |
Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne derailment. Southern France
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| 2014 |
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| Jun.19 |
German caver Johann Westhauser surfaces |
| 2010 |
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Flood rescuers search streets and houses |
| 1881 |
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| Feb. 2, 1709 |
Rescue of Alexander of Selkirk (Robinson Crusoe). Chile
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| 2017 |
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| Aug.11 |
Eggs containing fipronil found in 15 EU countries and Hong Kong |
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| 2017 |
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| Sep. 3 |
Frankfurt WW2 bomb defused after mass evacuation |
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| Sep. 2 |
Frankfurt hospitals evacuated before WW2 bomb disposal |
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