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The Really Small Bad Day Almanac: August 2

1922: More than 50,000 people die when a typhoon hits China.
1968: Nearly 300 people die in an earthquake in Casiguran, in the Philippines.
1973: Fifty-one people die in a flash fire at the Summerland amusement park on the Isle of Man.
1980: Eighty-five people die when a bomb explodes at a Bologna, Italy, train station.
1985: In Texas, 137 people die when a Delta Air Lines Lockheed TriStar crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.

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