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Table of Contents Introduction Contributors 1492 Christopher Columbus's First Voyage 1492 European Diseases Decimate Native Americans 1590 Lost Colony of Roanoke 1609-10 Starving Time at Jamestown 1620 First Winter at Plymouth 1622 Great Massacre at Jamestown 1675 King Philip's War 1676 Bacon's Rebellion 1692 Salem Witchcraft Trials 1704 Deerfield Massacre 1721 Smallpox Epidemic 1739 Stono Rebellion 1741 New York City Fires and Slave "Conspiracy" 1752 Great South Carolina Hurricane 1755 Exile of the Acadians 1755 New England Earthquake 1765 Stamp Act Crisis 1770 Boston Massacre 1771 North Carolina Regulator Movement 1774 Coercive Acts 1775 Battles of Lexington and Concord 1775 Smallpox Epidemic in the American Revolution 1777 Deprivation at Valley Forge 1780 The "Dark Day" Forest Fires 1785 Economic Crisis 1786 Shays's Rebellion 1793 Yellow Fever Epidemic 1800-01 Presidential Election Crisis 1807 Impressment Crisis 1811 New Madrid Earthquakes 1814 Burning of Washington, D.C. 1814 Hartford Convention 1816 The Year Without a Summer 1819 Financial Panic and Depression 1822 Denmark Vesey Slave Plot 1824-25 Presidential Election Deadlock 1831 Nat Turner Slave Rebellion 1832 Cholera Epidemic 1833 Nullification Crisis 1834 Ursuline Convent Riot and Fire 1836 Battle of the Alamo 1837 Financial Panic and Depression 1838 Explosion of the Moselle 1838 Trail of Tears 1842 Dorr Rebellion 1844 Philadelphia Riots 1844 Millerites and the End of the World 1845 Irish Famine and Immigration 1846 The Donner Party 1850 Compromise of 1850 1853 Sinking of the San Francisco 1854 Wreck of the Arctic 1857 Financial Panic and Depression 1859 John Brown's Raid 1860 Wreck of the Lady Elgin 1860 Secession Crisis 1861 Battle of Bull Run 1863 New York City Draft Riots 1864 Sand Creek Massacre 1865 Assassination of President Lincoln 1865 Explosion of the Sultana 1868 Impeachment of President Johnson 1869 Avondale Mine Disaster 1871 Revere Railroad Accident 1871 Peshtigo Fire 1871 Great Chicago Fire 1872 Credit Mobilier Scandal 1872 Great Epizootic 1872 Great Boston Fire 1873 Financial Panic and Depression 1873 Locust Invasions Across the Great Plains 1874 Mill River Dam Collapse 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn 1876 Ashtabula Bridge Collapse 1876-77 Contested Presidential Election 1877 Great Railroad Strike 1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic 1881 Assassination of President Garfield 1886 Haymarket Square Incident 1888 Blizzard of '88 1889 Johnstown Flood [sidebar] American Red Cross 1892 Lynching Tragedy 1892 Homestead Strike 1893 Financial Panic and Depression 1893 Exterminating the Buffalo 1894 Pullman Strike 1898 Explosion of the U.S.S. Maine 1898 Sinking of the Portland 1899 Automobile Fatalities 1900 Outbreak of Bubonic Plague [sidebar] United States Public Health Service 1900 Galveston Hurricane 1901 Assassination of President McKinley 1903 Iroquois Theater Fire 1904 General Slocum Disaster 1904 American Chestnut Tree Blight 1905 Insurance Industry Scandal 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire 1906 Typhoid Mary 1907 Financial Panic and Depression 1908 Springfield Race Riot 1909 Cherry Mine Fire 1910 Wellington Avalanche and Railway Disaster 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire 1912 "Bread and Roses" Strike 1912 Sinking of the Titanic [sidebar] SOS 1914 Ludlow Massacre 1915 Sinking of the Lusitania 1915 Capsizing of the Eastland 1918 Influenza Pandemic 1919 Great Molasses Spill 1919 Bombing of Attorney General's House 1919 Chicago Race Riot 1919 Black Sox Baseball Scandal 1920 Ponzi Scheme 1920 Wall Street Bombing 1926 Miami Hurricane 1927 Mississippi River Flood 1928 St. Francis Dam Collapse 1929 St. Valentine's Day Massacre 1930 Demise of the American Elm Tree 1931 Scottsboro Case 1931 Hawk's Nest Tunnel Disaster 1932 Lindbergh Kidnapping 1933 The Great Depression 1934 Dust Bowl 1935 Florida Hurricane 1937 New London School Explosion 1937 Hindenburg Disaster 1937 Memorial Day Massacre 1937 Disappearance of Amelia Earhart 1937 Elixir Sulfanilamide Tragedy [sidebar] Food and Drug Administration 1938 Great New England Hurricane 1938 War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast Panic 1940 Collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor 1942 Cocoanut Grove Fire 1943 Los Angeles Smog Cloud 1944 Hartford Circus Fire 1945 Airplane Crash into the Empire State Building 1945 Atomic Bombs Dropped on Japan 1947 Grandcamp Explosion 1948 Donora Smog Tragedy 1950 Retreat from the Yalu 1952 Polio Epidemic [sidebar] Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 1953 Worcester Tornado 1956 Grand Canyon Airplane Crash 1957 Little Rock School Desegregation Crisis 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion 1962 Thalidomide Tragedy 1962 Silent Spring and Environmental Degradation 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis 1963 Assassination of President Kennedy 1964 Cigarettes and Lung Cancer 1964 Freedom Summer Civil Rights Murders 1965 Selma Voting Rights Demonstration 1965 Watts Riot 1967 Urban Riots 1968 Tet Offensive 1968 My Lai Massacre 1968 Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. 1968 Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy 1968 Democratic Convention and Riot 1969 Santa Barbara Oil Spill 1969 Depletion of New England Fisheries 1972 Rapid City Flood [sidebar] National Weather Service 1972 Watergate Scandal 1973 Oil Embargo 1976 Legionnaires' Disease Outbreak 1977 New York City Blackout 1978 Blizzard of '78 1978 Love Canal Crisis [sidebar] Environmental Protection Agency 1979 Accident at Three Mile Island 1979 Crash of American Airlines Flight 191 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis 1980 Mariel Boatlift Exodus 1980 Eruption of Mount St. Helens 1980 Deadly Heat Wave 1981 AIDS Epidemic 1983 Bombing of U.S. Marine Barracks 1984 Chemical Explosion in Bhopal 1986 Shuttle Challenger Explosion 1988 Yellowstone Fires 1989 Exxon Valdez Oil Spill 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake 1992 Los Angeles Riot 1992 Hurricane Andrew 1992 Silicone Breast Implant Crisis 1993 Raid on Branch Davidian Compound 1993 World Trade Center Bombing 1993 Superstorm 1993 Mississippi River Flood 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing 1995 Federal Government Shutdown 1996 Explosion of TWA Flight 800 1999 Columbine School Shooting 2000 Presidential Election Stalemate 2001 9/11 Terrorist Attack 2001 Enron Scandal 2002 Catholic Church Sex Abuse Scandal 2003 Shuttle Columbia Disaster 2005 Hurricane Katrina [sidebar] Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Appendix A Disaster Movies Appendix B "Worst of" Lists Bibliography Index Topical Table of Contents Hurricanes, Tornados, Storms, and Blizzards 1752 Great South Carolina Hurricane 1888 Blizzard of '88 1900 Galveston Hurricane 1926 Miami Hurricane 1935 Florida Hurricane 1938 Great New England Hurricane 1953 Worcester Tornado 1978 Blizzard of '78 1992 Hurricane Andrew 1993 Superstorm 2005 Hurricane Katrina Earthquakes, Floods, and Forest Fires 1755 New England Earthquake 1780 The "Dark Day" Forest Fires 1811 New Madrid Earthquakes 1871 Peshtigo Fire 1889 Johnstown Flood 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire 1927 Mississippi River Flood 1972 Rapid City Flood 1988 Yellowstone Fires 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake 1993 Mississippi River Flood Other Natural Disasters 1816 The Year Without a Summer 1874 Locust Invasion Across the Great Plains 1910 Wellington Avalanche and Railway Disaster 1980 Eruption of Mount St. Helens 1980 Deadly Heatwave Environmental Disasters 1893 Exterminating the Buffalo 1904 American Chestnut Tree Blight 1930 Demise of the American Elm Tree 1934 Dust Bowl 1943 Los Angeles Smog Cloud 1948 Donora Smog Tragedy 1962 Silent Spring and Environmental Degradation 1969 Santa Barbara Oil Spill 1969 Depletion of New England Fisheries 1978 Love Canal Crisis 1989 Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Riots and Terrorist Attacks 1834 Ursuline Convent Riot and Fire 1844 Philadelphia Riots 1863 New York City Draft Riots 1908 Springfield Race Riot 1919 Bombing of Attorney General's House 1919 Chicago Race Riot 1920 Wall Street Bombing 1965 Watts Riot 1967 Urban Riots 1968 Democratic Convention and Riot 1983 Bombing of U.S. Marine Barracks 1992 Los Angeles Riot 1993 World Trade Center Bombing 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing 2001 9/11 Terrorist Attack Social Disasters and Crises 1609-10 Starving Time at Jamestown 1620 First Winter at Plymouth 1755 Exile of the Acadians 1838 Trail of Tears 1844 Millerites and the End of the World 1845 Irish Famine and Immigration 1846 The Donner Party 1938 War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast Panic 1980 Mariel Boatlift Exodus Sensational Crimes 1692 Salem Witchcraft Trials 1892 Lynching Tragedy 1929 St. Valentine's Day Massacre 1931 Scottsboro Case 1932 Lindbergh Kidnapping 1964 Freedom Summer Civil Rights Murders 1999 Columbine School Shooting 2002 Catholic Church Sex Abuse Scandal Military Disasters 1622 Great Massacre at Jamestown 1704 Deerfield Massacre 1814 Burning of Washington, D.C. 1836 Battle of the Alamo 1861 Battle of Bull Run 1864 Sand Creek Massacre 1876 Battle of Little Big Horn 1945 Atomic bombs Dropped on Japan 1950 Retreat from the Yalu 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion 1968 My Lai Massacre Fires 1871 Great Chicago Fire 1872 Great Boston Fire 1903 Iroquois Theater Fire 1909 Cherry Mine Fire 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire 1942 Cocoanut Grove Fire 1944 Hartford Circus Fire Ship and Maritime Accidents 1838 Explosion of the Moselle 1853 Sinking of the San Francisco 1854 Wreck of the Arctic 1860 Wreck of the Lady Elgin 1865 Explosion of the Sultana 1898 Sinking of the Portland 1904 General Slocum Disaster 1912 Sinking of the Titanic 1915 Capsizing of the Eastland 1947 Grandcamp Explosion Rail, Automobile, and Air Accidents 1871 Revere Railroad Accident 1899 Automobile Fatalities 1937 Hindenberg Disaster 1945 Airplane Crash into the Empire State Building 1956 Grand Canyon Airplane Crash 1979 Crash of American Airlines Flight 191 1986 Shuttle Challenger Explosion 1996 Explosion of TWA Flight 800 2003 Shuttle Columbia Disaster Bridge and Dam Collapses, Explosions, and Industrial Accidents 1869 Avondale Mining Disaster 1874 Mill River Dam Collapse 1876 Ashtabula Bridge Collapse This is a Road accident 1919 Great Molasses Spill 1928 St. Francis Dam Collapse 1937 New London School Explosion 1940 Collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge 1977 New York City Blackout 1979 Accident at Three Mile Island 1984 Chemical Explosion in Bhopal Epidemics and Health Crises 1492 European Diseases Decimate Native Americans 1721 Smallpox Epidemic 1775 Smallpox Epidemic in the American Revolution 1793 Yellow Fever Epidemic 1832 Cholera Epidemic 1872 Great Epizootic 1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic 1900 Outbreak of Bubonic Plague 1906 Typhoid Mary 1918 Influenza Pandemic 1931 Hawk's Nest Tunnel Disaster 1937 Elixir Sulfanilamide Tragedy 1952 Polio Epidemic 1962 Thalidomide Tragedy 1964 Cigarettes and Lung Cancer 1976 Outbreak of Legionnaire's Disease 1981 AIDS Epidemic 1992 Silicon Breast Implant Crisis Economic, Business, and Labor Crises 1785 Economic Crisis 1819 Financial Panic and Depression 1837 Financial Panic and Depression 1857 Financial Panic and Depression 1873 Financial Panic and Depression 1877 Great Railroad Strike 1886 Haymarket Square Incident 1892 Homestead Strike 1893 Financial Panic and Depression 1894 Pullman Strike 1906 Insurance Industry Scandal 1907 Financial Panic and Depression 1912 "Bread and Roses" Strike 1914 Ludlow Massacre 1919 Black Sox Baseball Scandal 1920 Ponzi Scheme 1933 The Great Depression 1937 Memorial Day Massacre 1973 Oil Embargo 2001 Enron Scandal Rebellions, Uprisings, and Revolts 1676 Bacon's Rebellion 1739 Stono Rebellion 1741 New York City Fires and "Conspiracy" 1771 North Carolina Regulator Movement 1786 Shays's Rebellion 1822 Denmark Vesey Slave Plot 1831 Nat Tuner Slave Rebellion 1842 Dorr Rebellion 1859 John Brown's Raid Political Crises 1765 Stamp Act Crisis 1770 Boston Massacre 1774 Coercive Acts 1814 Hartford Convention 1833 Nullification Crisis 1850 Compromise of 1850 1860 Secession Crisis 1868 Impeachment of President Johnson 1872 Credit Mobilier Scandal 1957 Little Rock School Desegregation Crisis 1965 Selma Voting Rights Demonstration 1968 Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. 1968 Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy 1972 Watergate Scandal 1993 Raid on Branch Davidian Compound 1995 Federal Government Shutdown Military Crises 1675 King Philip's War 1777 Deprivation at Valley Forge 1807 Impressment Crisis 1898 Explosion of the U.S.S. Maine 1915 Sinking of the Lusitania 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis 1968 Tet Offensive 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis Presidential Election Crises and Assassinations 1800-01 Presidential Election Crisis 1824-25 Presidential Election Deadlock 1865 Assassination of President Lincoln 1876-77 Contested Presidential Election 1881 Assassination of President Garfield 1901 Assassination of President McKinley 1963 Assassination of President Kennedy 2000 Presidential Election Stalemate Accidents and Mysteries 1492 Christopher Columbus's First Voyage 1590 Lost Colony of Roanoke 1937 Disappearance of Amelia Earhart Agencies and Emergency Relief American Red Cross United States Public Health Service S.O.S. Food and Drug Administration Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Weather Service Environmental Protection Agency Federal Emergency Management Agency
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Disasters -- United States -- History.
Disasters -- Social aspects -- United States.
Crises -- United States -- History.
Crises -- Social aspects -- United States.
Accidents -- United States -- History.
Accidents -- Social aspects -- United States.
United States -- Social conditions.
United States -- History -- Anecdotes.