At just before 5am on the 19th August 1942 the Allied forces launched a sea bound attack on the German occupied port of Dieppe on the north coast of France. ‘Operation Rutter’ as it was known ...
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These are previously unpublished images taken from the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The Chernobyl disaster was a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine. ...
We all make mistakes. Some are small blunders that are soon forgotten, while others are pretty awful – like the time you backed your car through the garage door before opening it. Then there are the ...
On 12th August 1985, Japan Airlines flight 123 took off from Tokyo International Airport, heading for Osaka, some 250 miles to the west of Tokyo. But the plane was to never reach its destination, crashing less ...
It’s the 28th November 1960 and a mysterious SOS signal is apparently heard by two former amateur radio operators sitting in a makeshift experimental listening station set in a disused German bunker in Torre Bert. Their ...
The Chernobyl nuclear disaster on 26 April 1986 meant that large areas around the site, including the city of Prypiat were evacuated and remain largely uninhabited to this day. In order to expedite the evacuation, the residents ...
The Hindenburg disaster took place on Thursday, May 6, 1937, as the German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast at the Lakehurst Naval ...
The only existing video footage of the RMS Titanic shows her a year before she sank while under construction at the Harland and Wolff shipyards in Belfast. Construction, funded by J.P. Morgan’s International Mercantile Marine Co., began in ...
On April 14th, 1912, four days into her maiden voyage, the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg and sank in the north Atlantic en route from Southampton to New York City. Then the largest passenger ship ever ...
The Vajont Dam in Italy has had a pretty poor reputation since 1963, which hit a peak in 2008 when it was listed as the number one example of engineering failure at the start of the ...
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