On this day in 2014, 16 Nepali mountaineering guides, most of them ethnic Sherpas, are killed by an avalanche on […]

On this day in 2013, 19 firefighters perish while battling a wildfire near Yarnell, Arizona. All were members of the […]

On this day in 2012, an explosion and fire aboard the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling rig in the Gulf of […]

On this day in 2010, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake devastates the Caribbean island nation of Haiti. The quake, which was […]

Hurricane Claudette gathers strength over the Gulf of Mexico and heads for the Texas coast on this day in 2003. […]