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Significant Human Tragedies
grouped by selected themesExamples of human tragedy worldwide -- with links to their principal memorials.
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= Terrorism
= War & War Crimes (including torture & Geneva Convention violations)
= Inhumanity & Genocide (including the Holocaust)
= Safety or Public Health Violation (including improper maintenance)
= Design Error (including substandard constructon)
= Natural Disaster (pandemics, earthquakes, hurricanes, etc.)
= Attrocity or Unwarrented Violence (including murder & serial killing)
= Mass Suicide
= Blank (not yet categorized)
= Gun violence in USA (not including shootings by police)
= Violence involving Native Americans
= Violence involving Muslims
= Excessive force by police
= Aviation vulnerability
Human Tragedy Deaths Place Date Cause Principal Memorial
(Some are unintentional.)Aviation vulnerability Metrojet Flight 9268
224 Sinai Peninsula, Egypt
2015 Oct 31 Islamic State
Germanwings Flight 9525
150 French Alps
2015 Mar 24 Andreas Lubitz's suicide
TransAsia Airways Flight 235
43 Taipei, Taiwan
2015 Feb 4 Human error?
Start of 2015 AirAsia Flight 8501
162 Java Sea near Borneo
2014 Dec 28 Computer malfunction
Malaysia Airways Flight 17
298 Hrabove, Donetsk, Ukraine
2014 Jul 17 Pro-Russian militants?
Malaysia Airways Flight 370
239 Indian Ocean
2014 Mar 8 Pilot or co-pilot?
Start of 2014 "2nd Katyn Massacre"
96 Smolensk, Russia
2010 Apr 10 Fog. Also pilot error?
Burials in Poland Underwear Bomber
None NW flt 253 (Amsterdam-Detroit)
2009 Dec 25 Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
Air France flight 447
228 Atlantic Ocean
2009 Jun 1 Aerodynamic stall
"Air France 447: Vanished" (2013 TV documentary) Shoe Bomber
None AA flight 63 (Paris-Miami/NYC)
2001 Dec 22 Richard Reid
9/11 Flight 93 Crash
44 Shanksville, Pennsylvania, USA
2001 Sep 11 Al-Qaeda
Flight 93 National Memorial, Shanksville, PA 9/11 Pentagon
184 Arlington, Virginia, USA
2001 Sep 11 Al-Qaeda
Pentagon Memorial, Arlington, VA 9/11 World Trade Center
2,823 New York City, New York, USA
2001 Sep 11 Al-Qaeda
9/11 Memorial & Museum, New York City, NY, USA td> Start of 2001 EgyptAir flight 990
217 Atlantic off Nantucket, USA
1999 Oct 31 First Officer's suicide
Granite memorial, Newport, Rhode Island, USA Crash of USAF Boeing CT-43
35 Dubrovnik, Croatia
1996 Apr 3 Pilot error
Graves of Ron Brown & Charles Meissner UTA flight 772
170 Niger (Brazzaville-Paris)
1989 Sep 19 Islamic Jihad
Memorial of victims' families, Ténéré Desert, Niger (2007) Pan Am flight 103
270 Lockerbie, Scotland, UK
1988 Dec 22 Libya with A. al-Megrahi
Memorial Cairn, Arlington National Cemetery, VA, USA Pan Am flight 73
20 Karachi, Pakistan
1986 Sep 5 Abu Nidal Organization
Arrow Air flight 1285
256 Gander, Newfoundland, Canada
1985 Dec 12 Ice on wings?
"Silent Witness," Gander Lake (also in Kentucky) JAL flight 123
520 Mount Takamagahara, Japan
1985 Aug 12 Mechanical failure
JAL Safety Promotion Center, Tokyo Air India flight 182 bombing
329 Atlantic in Irish air space
1985 Jun 23 Sikh Inderjit Singh Reyat
Sundial, Humber Bay East Park, Toronto, Canada Start of 1985 Korean Airlines flight 007
269 Sea of Japan
1983 Sep 1 Russian Air Force
Tower of Prayer, Cape Soya, Japan Air Florida Flight 90
78 Potomac River, Wash, DC, USA
1982 Aug 13 Improper deicing
Arland D Williams Jr Memorial Bridge KLM/PanAm Collision
583 Tenerife, Canary Islands
1977 Mar 27 Runway confusion
Intl Memorial, Mount Mesa Mota Crash of United Nations DC-6
16 Ndola, Zambia
1961 Sep 18 Congolese factions Dag Hammarskjöld Memorial Amelia Earhart's Disapearance
2 Pacific Ocean near Howland Island
1937 Jul 2 Unknown "Earhart Light" on Howland Island Burning of the "Hindenburg"
36 Lakehurst NAS, New Jersey, USA
1937 May 6 Various theories
Marker at disaster site Excessive Force by Police Shooting of Q.LeGrier & Bettie Jones 2 Chicago, Illinois, USA
2015 Dec 26 ![]()
Chicago police
Shooting of Mario Woods 1 San Francisco, California, USA
2015 Dec 2 ![]()
5 San Francisco policemen?
Shooting of Jamar ONeal Clark 1 Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
2015 Nov 15 ![]()
Minneapolis Police
"Suicide" of Sandra Bland 1 Waller County, Texas, USA
2015 July 13 ![]()
State &/or county police
Death of Freddy Gray 1 Baltimore, Maryland, USA
2015 Apr 19 ![]()
Baltimore Police
Start of 2015 Shooting of Tamir Rice (age 12) 1 Cleveland, Ohio, USA
2014 Nov 22 ![]()
Cleveland Police
Memorial on picnic table, Cudell Recreation Center Shooting of Laquan McDonald 1 Chicago, Illinois, USA
2014 Oct 20 ![]()
Police Ofcr Jason VanDyke
Shooting of Michael Brown (age 18) 1 Ferguson, Missouri, USA
2014 Aug 9 ![]()
Police Ofcr Darren Wilson
Choaking of Eric Garner 1 Staten Island, NY City, NY
2014 Jul 17 ![]()
Police Ofcr Daniel Pantaleo
Start of 2014 Gun Violence in USA Holiday party shootings
14 +2 San Bernadino, California, USA
2015 Dec 2 Syed Farook+Tashfeen Malik
Inland Regional Center (unintentional monument) Planned Parenthood shootings
3 Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
2015 Nov 27 Robert Lewis Dear
Planned Parenthood Clinic (unintentional monument) Umpqua ComCollege shooting
10 Roseburg, Oregon, USA
2015 Oct 1 Christopher Harper-Mercer
Lafayette theater shooting
2 +1 Lafayette, Louisiana, USA
2015 Jul 23 John Russell Houser
Grand 16 Movie Theater (unintentional monument) Marine Corps shootings
6 Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
2015 July 16 Muhammad Y. Abdulazeez
AME Church shooting
9 Charleston, South Carolina, USA
2015 June 17 Dylann Roof
Confederate flag removal at SC State House Waco Restaurant Shootout
9 Twin Peaks Rest., Waco, Texas
2015 May 17 Motorcycle gangs
Twin Peaks Restaurant (unintentional monument) Start of 2015 Shooting of 2 Police Officers
2 Brooklyn, NY City, NY, USA
2014 Dec 20 Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley
Isla Vista shootings
6 +1 Isla Vista, California, USA
2014 May 23 Elliot Rodger
Start of 2014 Navy Yard Shooting
13 Washington, DC, USA
2013 Sep 16 Aaron Alexis
Start of 2013 Sandy Hook School Shooting
28 Newtown, Connecticut, USA
2012 Dec 14 Adam Lanza
Makeshift memorial, Berkshire Road in Sandy Hook Shooting of Jordan Davis
1 Jacksonville, Florida, USA
2012 Nov 23 Michael Dunn
"3-1/2 minutes, 10 bullets" (2015 documentary) Sihk Temple Shooting
6 +1 Oak Creek, Wisconsin, USA
2012 Aug 5 Michael Page
Aurora movie Shooting
12 Aurora, Colorado, USA
2012 July 20 James Holmes
Century 16 Theater, Aurora, CO (unintentional) Shooting of Trayvon Martin
1 Sanford, Florida, USA
2012 Feb 26 George Zimmerman
Start of 2012 Gabrielle Giffords shooting
6 Tucson, Arizona, USA
2011 Jan 8 Jared Lee Loughner
Safeway Supermarket, Casas Adobes, Arizona Fort Hood Shooting
13 Fort Hood, Texas, USA
2009 Nov 5 Major Nidal Malik Hasan
Memorial by Troy Kelley (donations being sought) Unitarian Church shooting
2 TVUUC, Knoxville, Tennessee
2008 Jul 27 Jim David Adkisson
McKendry Fellowship Hall, TVUUC, Knoxville, TN Virginia Tech Massacre
33 Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
2007 Apr 16 Seung-Hui Cho
Hokie Stone Semicircle, Blacksburg, Virginia INCOMPLETE INCOMPLETE BEFORE 2007 Imperial Japan Nagasaki Atom Bomb 80,000 Nagasaki, Japan
1945 Aug 9 USA
Nagasaki Peace Memorial Hall, Nagasaki Hiroshima Atom Bomb 140,000 Hiroshima, Japan
1945 Aug 6 USA
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Hall, Hiroshima Sinking of "USS Indianapolis" 879 Philippine Sea (Guam to Leyte)
1945 Jul 30 Japan & US incompetence
USS Indianapolis Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA Yokahama Air Raid 7-8,000 Yokohama, Japan
1945 May 29 USA
Kawasaki Air Raid 1,000 Kawasaki, Japan
1945 Apr 15 USA
Kawasaki Peace Museum, Kawasaki Battle of Okinawa 240,734 Okinawa, Japan
1945 Mar-Jun Opposing Armies
Cornerstone of Peace, Mabuni, Okinawa Tokyo Air Raids 100,000 Tokyo, Japan
1945 Feb-Aug USA
Center of Tokyo Raid+War Damages, Tokyo Osaka Air Raids >10,000 Osaka, Japan
1945 Feb-Aug USA
Osaka International Peace Center, Osaka Battle of Iwo Jima 24,666-25,196 Iwo Jima Island, Japan
1945 2/19-3/26 USA
US Marine Corps Memorial, Arlington, Virginia, USA Battle of Attu 3,399+ Attu, Aleutian Islands, AK, USA
1943 May 11-30 USA
Japanese Peace Monument (titanium) Bataan Death March 6-11,000 Bataan Peninsula, Philippines
1942 Imperial Japan
Friendship Tower of Bagac Doolittle Raid Retaliation 250,000 Zhejiang & Jiangxi, China
1942 May-Sep Imperial Japan
? Doolittle Air Raid 61 Tokyo & 5 other cities, Japan
1942 Apr 18 US Army Air Corps
National Museum of the US Air Force, Dayton, Ohio Sinking of "Prince of Wales" 327 South China Sea, off Kuantan
1941 Dec 10 Japanese bombers
? Pearl Harbor Air Raid 2,452 Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
1941 Dec 7 Imperial Japan
USS Arizona Memorial, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA Sinking of "HMS Repulse" 508 South China Sea, off Kuantan
1941 Dec 10 Japanese bombers
"Protected Place" Rape of Nanking 300,000 Nanjing, China
1937 Dec Imperial Japan
Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall Japanese Comfort Women 15-300,000 Japan & SE Asia
1932-1945 Japanese Imperial Army
Monuments in South Korea & USA Muslim Involvement Boko Haram attack
52 Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria
2015 Dec 28 Boko Haram
Holiday party shootings
14 +2 San Bernadino, California, USA
2015 Dec 2 Syed Farook+Tashfeen Malik
Inland Regional Center (unintentional monument) Boko Haram attack
22 +1 Between Kano & Zaria, Nigeria
2015 Nov 26 Boko Haram
Village attack
15 Village of Gogone, Diffa, Niger
2015 Nov 26 Boko Haram
Bamako hotel attack
22 +3? Radisson Blu Hotel, Bamako, Mali
2015 Nov 20 Al-Mourabitoun (&AQIM?)
Radisson Blu Hotel (unintentional monument) Boko Haram attack
32+ Yola, Adamawa State, Nigeria
2015 Nov 17 Boko Haram
ISIS attacks
130 +7 Bataclan Theatre etc, Paris, France
2015 Nov 13 Islamic State
Bataclan Theatre (unintentional monument) ISIS bombings
43 +2 Bourj el-Barajneh, Beirut, Lebanon
2015 Nov 12 Islamic State
Metrojet Flight 9268
224 Sinai Peninsula, Egypt
2015 Oct 31 Islamic State
Ankara bombings
102 +2 Central RR Sta, Ankara, Turkey
2015 Oct 10 Islamic State?
Mina Stampede during Hajj
c.2,420 Mina, Mecca, Saudi Arabia
2015 Sep 24 Panic & bad public safety
Suruc bombing
33 Sanliurfa Province, Turkey
2015 Jul 20 Islamic State?
Marine Corps shootings
6 Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
2015 July 16 Muhammad Y. Abdulazeez
Suicide bombings
53 +3 N'Djamena, Chad
2015 Jun-Jul Boko Haram
Migrant Shipwrecks
>1,200 Mediterranean Sea
2015 Apr 13-20 Migrant Smugglers
Garissa Univ College attack
147 Garissa, Kenya
2015 Apr 2 Al-Shabaab
Charlie Hebdo Shooting
12 Paris, France
2015 Jan 7 Muslim Terrorists
"Je suis Charlie." Baga massacre
150-2,000 Baga, Borno State, Nigeria
2015 Jan 3 Boko Haram
Start of 2015 Attack on Army School
148 Peshawar, Pakistan
2014 Dec 16 Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan
ISIS Beheadings
100+ Syria
2014 Jul-2015 Islamic State
Gaza War
c2,200 Gaza Strip, Palestine
2014 Jul-Aug Israel & Hamas
Rocket debris sculpture in Sderot, Israel Chibok schoolgirl kidnapping
None Chibok, Borno State, Nigeria
2014 Apr 14-5 Boko Haram
Govt. Secondary School (unintentional monument) Start of 2014 Westgate Shopping Mall
72+ Nairobi, Kenya
2013 Sep 21-24 Al-Shabaab
Damaged mall (unintentional monument) td> Chemical Weapons Attack
1,429 Ghouta, Damascus, Syria
2013 Aug 21 Syrian Army?
Anti-Islamist Crackdown
1,000+ Cairo, Egypt
2013 Aug 14+ Egyptian Army
Boston Marathon Bombs
5 Boston, Massachusetts, USA
2013 Apr 15 Tsarnaev Brothers
Spontaneous memorial, Copley Square, Boston, MA In Amenas hostage crisis
69 Tigantourine, In Amenas, Algeria
2013 Jan 16-19 Al-Mourabitoun
Start of 2013 US Consulate Attack 9/11
14 Benghazi, Libya
2012 Sep 11 Terrorists
Grave of Ambassador Chris Stevens in Grass Valley, CA Start of 2012 Killing of Osama bin Laden
5 Compound, Abbottabad, Pakistan
2011 May 2 US Navy Seals
Itamar Massacre
5 Itamar Settlement, West Bank
2011 Mar 11 Two Palestinians
? Domodedovo Airport bomb
35 Intl Airport, Moscow, Russia
2011 Jan 24 Suicide bomber
Start of 2011 "Mavi Marmara" Attack
9 Mediterranean Sea near Gaza
2010 May 31 Israel
"Mavi Marmara" in Turkey Times Squre bombing attempt
None Times Square, NY City, NY, USA
2010 May 1 Faisal Shahzad
Start of 2010 Underwear Bomber
None NW flt 253 (Amsterdam-Detroit)
2009 Dec 25 Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
Fort Hood Shooting
13 Fort Hood, Texas, USA
2009 Nov 5 Major Nidal Malik Hasan
Memorial by Troy Kelley (donations being sought) Start of 2009 Mumbai terrorist attack
165 Mumbai, India
2008 Nov 26 Lashkar-e-Taiba
26/11 tablet in lobby of long distance trains section Start of 2008 Mumbai train bombings
209 Western Railroad, Mumbai, India
2006 Jul 11 Lashkar-e-Taiba?
Obilisk in one of the 7 bombed stations Start of 2006 Muhammad Cartoons
100 plus Jyullands-Posten, Denmark
2005 Sep 30 Various Muslims
Office of Jylands-Posten Daily, Copenhagen 7/7 London Bombings
56 London, England
2005 Jul 7 4 British Muslims
7/7 Memorial, Hyde Park, London Start of 2005 Murder of Theo van Gogh
1 Amsterdam, Netherlands
2004 Nov 2 Mohammed Bouyeri
Beslan School seige
334 plus Beslan, Russia
2004 Sep 1-4 Ingust+Chechen militants
Tree of Grief, N.Ossetia, & monument nr Moscow Madrid train bombings
199 Madrid, Spain
2004 Mar 11 Al-Qaeda inspired
Atocha Train Station Memorial, Madrid Start of 2004 Darfur Genocide
400,000 Darfur, Sudan
2003 Feb-Now Janjaweed
Start of 2003 Karkur Junction Bombing
14 Karkur Junc., Wadi Ada, Israel
2002 Oct 21 al-Quds Brigades
? Bali nightclub bombings
202 Kuta, Bali, Indonesia
2002 Oct 12 Jemaah Islamiyah
Bali Bombing Memorial Megiddo Junction Bombing
17 Megiddo Junction, Israel
2002 Jun 5 Islamic Jihad
Memorial near the site of the attack Jenin Massacre
c.75 Refugee Camp, Jenin, Palestine
2002 Apr 1-11 Israel vs. Refugees
Museum in Old Hijaz Railway building. Passover Massacre
30 Park Hotel, Netanya, Israel
2002 Mar 27 Hamas
? Gugerat Riots
1,044 Gugerat State, India
2002 Feb-Mar Hindus v. Muslims
Gulberg Society, Ahmedabad (unintentional monument) Bat Mitzvah Massacre
6 Hadera, Israel
2002 Jan Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade
? Start of 2002 Shoe Bomber
None AA flight 63 (Paris-Miami/NYC)
2001 Dec 22 Richard Reid
9/11 Flight 93 Crash
44 Shanksville, Pennsylvania, USA
2001 Sep 11 Al-Qaeda
Flight 93 National Memorial, Shanksville, PA 9/11 Pentagon
184 Arlington, Virginia, USA
2001 Sep 11 Al-Qaeda
Pentagon Memorial, Arlington, VA 9/11 World Trade Center
2,823 New York City, New York, USA
2001 Sep 11 Al-Qaeda
9/11 Memorial & Museum, New York City, NY td> Start of 2001 Bombing of "USS Cole"
17 Aden, Yemen
2000 Oct 12 Sudan Government?
Memorial, Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia, USA Second Intifada
7,908-9,046 ![]()
Palestine & Israel
2000/9-2005/2 Palestinians (PLO)
Various monuments Bombing of US embassies
223 plus ![]()
Nairobi + Dar-es-Salaam
1998 Aug 7 Islamic Jihad
August 7 Memorial Park, Nairobi, Kenya Bombing of Khobar Towers
20 Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
1998 Jun 25 Hezbollah Al-Hejaz
Headstones, Arlington National Cemetery, VA, USA INCOMPLETE INCOMPLETE BEFORE 1998 Battle of Mogadishu
220-520 Mogadishu, Somalia
1993 Oct 3-4 Somali militiamen
Airborne & Special Operations Museum, Fort Bragg, NC UTA flight 772
170 Niger (Brazzaville-Paris)
1989 Sep 19 Islamic Jihad
Memorial of victims' families, Ténéré Desert, Niger (2007) Pan Am flight 103
270 Lockerbie, Scotland, UK
1988 Dec 22 Libya with A. al-Megrahi
Memorial Cairn, Arlington National Cemetery, VA, USA First Intifada
2,204 ![]()
Palestine & Israel
1987/12-1993/9 Palestinians (PUNLU)
Various monuments Pan Am flight 73
20 Karachi, Pakistan
1986 Sep 5 Abu Nidal Organization
Discothèque bombing
3 Berlin, Germany
1986 Apr 5 Libya
Memorial plaque on La Belle discothèque Native American History Pine Ridge Shootout 3 Pine Ridge IR, South Dakota, USA
1975 Jun 26 AIM v. FBI
"The Leonard Peltier Story" (1992 documentary) Wounded Knee Incident 2 Pine Ridge IR, South Dakota, USA
1973 2/27-5/8 AIM v. US Marshalls
"Thurderheart" (1992 film) Murders by Military Government 434+8,300 Brazil
1964-1985 Military Government
"Tortura Nunca Mais/Torture Never Again," Recife Wounded Knee Massacre c.325 Pine Ridge IR, South Dakota, USA
1890 Dec 29 US Army
National Historic Landmark 2nd Riel Rebellion 125 Saskatchewan, Canada
1885 Spring Province vs. Métis
Bell of Batoche (taken to Ontario & lost) Battle of Little Big Horn 263 Crow Agency, Montana, USA
1876 Jun 25-6 US Army v. Indians
Little Big Horn Battlefield National Monument Sioux Uprising 300-800 Minnesota, USA
1862 Aug-Sep Sioux Indians
Reconciliation Park, Mankato, MN Massacre of Pioneers 400 less Great Plains, USA
1842-1859 Plains Indians
Massacre Rocks State Park, Idaho Fort Mims Massacre 500+ Fort Mims, Alabama, USA
1813 Aug 30 Creek Indians
Ft Mims State Hist Site, Tensaw, AL Battle of Tippecanoe 113-128 Near Lafayette, Indiana, USA
1811 Nov 7 Indiana Terr. v. Tecumseh
Battlefield monument American Indian Wars (in the West) ? West of Mississippi, USA
1811-1924 US Army
Battle of Fallen Timbers 52-73 Maumee, Ohio, USA
1794, Aug 20 US v. Indian Tribes
Battle of Fallen Timbers Monument Gnadenhütten Massacre 96 Gnadenhütten, Ohio, USA
1782 Mar 8 Pennsylvania Militia
Gnadenhütten Memorial (1872) American Indian Wars (in the East) ? East of Mississippi, USA
1775-1842 US Army
Conestoga Massacre 20 Lancaster County, PA, USA
1763 Dec 14/27 Paxton Boys (mob)
"Indian Burial Ground" (no remains) Pontiac's Rebellion c.650-1,950 ![]()
Great Lakes region
1763 British v. Chief Pontiac
Council Point Park, Lincoln Park, Michigan, USA Battle of Cajamarca >2,005 Cajamarca, Inca Empire, Peru
1532 Nov 16 Pizarro v. Inca Empire
Ransom Room of Emperor Atahualpa, Cajamarca, Peru Conquest of Tenochtitlan 220,450+ Tenochtitlan, Mexico
1521 5/26-8/13 Cortés v. Aztec Empire
Temple site, Mexico City, Mexico Natural Disasters Hindu Kush Earthquake 398 ![]()
Afghanistan & Pakistan
2015 Oct 26 Nature
Nepal Earthquake 8,964 Kathmandu, Nepal
2015 Apr 25 Nature
Oso Mudslide 43 Oso, Washington, USA
2014 Mar 22 Nature
Memorial mailed to tree by rescue workers Ebola Epidemic 3,000+++ ![]()
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West Africa
2013 Dec-2014 Nature
None so far Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda 10,000+ Phillipines
2013 Nov 6-8 Nature
Yarnell Hill Forest Fire 19 Near Yarnell, Arizona, USA
2013 Jun 30 Forest Fire
Prescott Fire Department, Prescott, Arizona Moore Tornado 24 Moore, Oklahoma, USA
2013 May 20 Nature
Super Storm Sandy 285 NJ, NY, 6 other countries
2012 Oct 22-31 Nature
Tohoku Earthquake/Tsunami 27,786 Sendai, Japan
2011 Mar 14 Nature
Kobe "Light of Hope" Christchurch Earthquake 181 Christchurch, New Zealand
2011 Feb 22 Nature
Christchurch Cathedral (unintentional monument) "2nd Katyn Massacre"
96 Smolensk, Russia
2010 Apr 10 Fog. Also pilot error?
Burials in Poland Cauquenes Earthquake 8.8 800 Concepción, Chile
2010 Feb 27 Nature
Haiti Earthquake 7.0 230,000+ Port-au-Prince, Haiti
2010 Jan 12 Nature+Bad Buildings
"temporary" refugee tent camps Swine Flu (H1N1) 100+ ![]()
Mexico+World
2009 Apr Nature
? Great Sichuan Earthquake 69,000+ Sichuan, China
2008 May 12 Nature+Bad Buildings
Beichuan National Earthquake Ruins Museum Great Pakistan Earthquake 79,000+ Kashmir, Pakistan
2005 Oct 8 Nature+Bad Buildings
Hurricane Katrina 1,836 New Orleans etc., USA
2005 Aug 29 Nature
Katrina Memorial, Biloxi, MS Indian Ocean Tsunami 230,210 Indonesia & other nations
2004 Dec 26 Nature
Khao-lak Lamru Nat Pk, Thailand INCOMPLETE INCOMPLETE BEFORE 2004 Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler & Eva Braun suicides 2 Führerbunker, Berlin, Germany
1945 Apr 30 Adolf Hitler & Eva Braun
Information board at Führerbunker site Dresden Air Raid 24-40,000 Dresden, Germany
1945 Feb 13 UK+USA
Monument to Memory of WW-II, Dresden Marzabotto Massacre 770 Monte Sole, Italy
1944 Oct Waffen SS
Peace School Foundation, Monte Sole, Italy Epuration sauvage 9,000 France
1944 France
? Executions after July 20 Plot 4,980 Nazi Germany
1944 Gestapo
Memorial to German Resistance, Bendlerblock, Berlin July 20 Plot against Adolf Hitler 4 Rastenburg, Nazi Germany
1944 Jul 20 Claus von Stauffenberg
Memorial to German Resistance, Bendlerblock, Berlin Oradour Massacre 642 Oradour-sur-Glane, France
1944 Jun 10 Waffen SS
Centre de la mémoire d'Oradour, France Operation Gomorrah 50,000 Hamburg, Germany
1943 Jul 24+ UK (Royal Air Force)
Nikolaikirche, Hamburg Holocaust (Netherlands) 101,800 Netherlands
1942-1945 Nazi Germany
Memorial Center Camp Westerbork Holocaust or Shoah (Genocide) 6,000,000 ![]()
Nazi Germany & Europe
1941-1945 Nazi Germany
US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC Lidice Massacre c.340 Lidice, Czech Republic
1942 Jun 10 Nazi Germany
Phillips, Wisconsin (1944) & Lidice (c.1995) Rumbula Massacre 25,000 Rumbula Forest, Latvia
1941 Nov-Dec Nazi Germany
"Soviet Era" Marker, Rumbula Kragujevac Massacre 2,796 Kragujevac, Serbia
1941 Oct 21 Nazi Germany
October 21 Memorial Park, Kragujevac td> Babi Yar Massacre 33,771 Kiev, Ukraine
1941 Sep 29-30 Nazi Germany
Babi Yar Monument, Kiev Jedwabne Pogrom 300 plus Jedwabne, Poland
1941 Jul 10 Polish Gentiles
Jedwabne Memorial, Poland Sinking of batteship "Bismarck" c2,086 North Atlantic Ocean
1941 May 27 Royal Navy
Wreck about 650 km (400 mi) west of Brest, France Warsaw Ghetto 3-400,000 Warsaw, Poland
1940/10-1943/5 Nazi Germany
___, Warsaw Auschwitz Concentration Camp 1,100,000+ Auschwitz, Poland
1940/5-1945/1 Nazi Germany
Auschwitz Concentration Camp (unintentional monument) Voyage of the "MS St. Louis" 254 ![]()
Atlantic Ocean
1939 5/13-6/17 Nazis, Cuba, USA
Florida Holocaust Museum, St Petersburg, FL, USA Kristallnacht 91 ![]()
Germany+Austria
1938 Nov 9-10 Nazi Germany
Kristallnacht Memorial, Austria Unjust Nazi Executions 3,000 Plöetzensee Prison, Berlin
1933-1945 Nazi Germany
Plöetzensee Memorial, Berlin td> Burning of the Reichstag ? Berlin, Germany
1933 Feb 27 ?
Beer Hall Putsch 20 Bürgerbräukeller, Munich, Germ.
1923 Nov 8-9 Adolf Hitler et al
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