1878: More than 300 crew members die when the HMS Eurydice, a 26-gun frigate, sinks in a storm off the Isle of Wight.
1976: In Argentina, President Isabel Peron is ousted in a military coup.
1980: Archbishop Oscar Romero is assassinated while saying Mass in San Salvador.
1989: In Alaska, the tanker Exxon Valdez runs aground and spills 240,000 gallons of crude oil into Prince William Sound.
1998: Two hundred and fifty people die when a tornado devastates Dantan, Indiana.
1999: Thirty-eight people die in a fire in the Mont Blanc highway tunnel in the Alps between France and Italy.
2015: All 150 aboard a Germanwings airliner die when the plane crashes into the French Alps in what authorities will describe as mass murder by a suicidal pilot.
1976: In Argentina, President Isabel Peron is ousted in a military coup.
1980: Archbishop Oscar Romero is assassinated while saying Mass in San Salvador.
1989: In Alaska, the tanker Exxon Valdez runs aground and spills 240,000 gallons of crude oil into Prince William Sound.
1998: Two hundred and fifty people die when a tornado devastates Dantan, Indiana.
1999: Thirty-eight people die in a fire in the Mont Blanc highway tunnel in the Alps between France and Italy.
2015: All 150 aboard a Germanwings airliner die when the plane crashes into the French Alps in what authorities will describe as mass murder by a suicidal pilot.
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