October 29

October 29
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1913: Floods in El Salvador kill thousands.

1929: “Black Tuesday” Stock Market crash triggers the Great Depression.

1942: Nazis murder 16,000 Jews in Pinsk, Soviet Union.

1960: A plane carrying Cal State’s football team crashes, killing 16.

1998: Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history (over 11,000 killed), made landfall in Honduras.

1999: The deadliest Indian Ocean tropical cyclone hits Orissa, India, killing 15,000.

2012: Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in New Jersey resulting in 110 deaths and $50 billion in damage.

2018: Lion Air flight JT 610 crashes into the sea just after takeoff, killing all 189 onboard.

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December 7

December 7

43BC: Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106 BC), Roman orator and politician assassinated.

1941: Imperial Japanese Navy attacks the American fleet at Pearl Harbor Naval Base, Hawaii, killing 2,403. The next day, the United States enters World War II.

1946: Fire at Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta kills 119.

1983: Two jets collided at Madrid Airport, killing 93.

1988: A 6.9 earthquake in Spitak, Armenia leaves 25,000 dead and 5 million homeless.

1993: The Long Island Rail Road massacre. Passenger Colin Ferguson murders six people and injures 19 others on a commuter train in Nassau County, New York.

While all of these days are unlucky, lots of bad things still happened on Friday the 13th. Like these odd and creepy things.

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