** The Greek ferry Express Samina sinks off the coast of the island of Paros ; 80 out of a total of over 500 passengers perish in one of Greece's worst sea disasters.

** Australia's worst railway disaster at Granville, near Sydney, leaves 83 people dead.

** Bhopal Disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, kills more than 8, 000 people outright and injures over half a million ( with more later dying from their injuries the death toll is now 23, 000 +) in the worst industrial disaster in history.

** Malbone Street Wreck: The worst rapid transit accident in world history occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue, in Brooklyn, New York City, with at least 93 dead.

** An earthquake hits San Juan, Argentina, killing an estimated 10, 000 people in the worst natural disaster in Argentina's history.

** Hartford circus fire: More than 100 children die in one of the worst fire disasters in the history of the United States.

** The MV Bukoba sinks in Tanzanian waters in Lake Victoria, killing nearly 1, 000 in one of Africa's worst maritime disasters.

** Trans-Canada Airlines Flight 831, a Douglas DC-8 carrying 118, crashes into a wooded hillside after taking-off from Dorval International Airport near Montreal, killing all on board ( the worst air disaster for many years in Canada's history ).

** Serb troops take Vukovar after an 87-day siege, and commit the worst massacre in Croatian history.

** 1970 Bhola cyclone: A 120-mph ( 193 km / h ) tropical cyclone hits the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan ( now Bangladesh ), killing an estimated 500, 000 people ( considered the 20th century's worst cyclone disaster ).

** A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 600, 000 tons ( 176, 400, 000 gallons ) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the worst oil spill to date.

** A hurricane and huge waves kill about 2, 500 in Santa Cruz del Sur in the worst natural disaster in Cuban history.

** Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party loses control of the House of Councillors, the LDP's worst electoral showing in 34 years, leading to Prime Minister Uno announcing he will resign to take responsibility for the result.

** In the Republic of China legislative election, the Kuomintang suffers its worst election setback in 40 years in power, winning only 53 % of the popular vote.

** A Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes at an air show in Ukraine, killing 77 and injuring more than 100, making it the worst air show disaster in history ( see Sknyliv airshow disaster ).

** Johnstown Flood, one of the worst flood disasters in US history

** Montevideo Maru, a Japanese ship sunk in World War II, resulting in the loss of large numbers of Austalian prisoners of war and civilians and Australia's worst maritime disaster

** Worst case ontario ( worst case scenario )

** Danny Way clipped his shins on the lip of the quarterpipe after a 20 + foot freefall during the big air competition, which the commentators refer to as the " second worst fall ever at the X Games " ( the first being Jake Brown's the year before ).

** Pierre Levegh killed along with more than 80 spectators in the worst auto racing accident in history

** The Hyatt Regency Kansas City in Kansas City, Missouri, was the site of one of the worst hotel disasters in U. S. history.

** Catastrophizing – Inability to foresee anything other than the worst possible outcome, however unlikely, or experiencing a situation as unbearable or impossible when it is just uncomfortable.

** the worst were: Liu Kang's " Cartwheel " in MK, Kano's " Knee Stomp " in MK vs DC, Kitana's " Kiss of Death " in MKII, Kabal's " Inflating Head " and " Scary Face " in MK3, Rain's " Upside-Down Uppercut " in Trilogy, Bo ' Rai Cho's " Fart of Doom " in Deception ;

** They later published a list of their top worst MK Fatalities: Tanya's " Neck Breaker " ( MK4 ), Kabal's " Scary Face " ( MK3 ), Sindel's " Hara-Kiri " ( MK: D ), Kenshi's " Eyeball-Popper " ( MK: DA ), Quan Chi's " Neck-Stretcher " ( MK: DA ), Raiden's " Accident " ( MK: D ), Reptile's " Animality " ( MK3 ), Motaro's " Head Yoink " ( MK: T ), Liu Kang's " Somersault Kick " ( MK ), and every Fatality / Heroic Brutality from MK Vs. DC.

** The burning of fossil fuels ( coal, natural gas, or petroleum ).

** Most methanol is made from coal.

** Gasoline can be made from carbon ( coal ) using the Fischer-Tropsch process

** A coal gas explosion at the giant Bishop coal mine in Bishop, Virginia kills 37 men.

** Miike Coal Mine explosion: In Japan, a coal mine explosion kills 458 and sends 839 carbon monoxide poisoning victims to the hospital.

** A coal mine explosion in West Virginia kills 50 miners.

** A coal sludge spill kills 125 people in Buffalo Creek, West Virginia.

** A coal mining disaster in Ny-Ålesund kills 21 people.

** A coal strike ends in England.

** A coal mine explosion in Fukuoka, Japan kills 237.

** 21. 6 TWh ( 3. 9 %) by coal power

** Last company-operated coal mining discontinued.

** Organic sedimentary rocks are important deposits formed from the accumulation of biological detritus, and form coal and oil shale deposits, and are typically found within basins of clastic sedimentary rocks

** Cerrejón, 33. 3 % owned coal mine in Guajira department

** BECSA ( BHP Billiton Energy Coal South Africa ), comprises several coal mines in the Witbank / Emalahleni area in Mpumalanga

** New Mexico Coal Company, coal mine in New Mexico consisting of San Juan and Navajo mines

** additional benefits to spouses of coal miners who die of black lung disease

** Himalaya-an 1850s passenger liner, which served for many years as a troopship and later as a coal or fuel barge in the centre of the harbour

** coal gas – used in the early days of ballooning ; it is highly flammable.

** Diffused out from deposits of coal / gas tars

** Present in coal tar, gas tar, and pitch at significant concentrations.

** Leaded solder for gas mains, lead piping, coal ashes.

** Any of various units of energy, such as gigatons of TNT equivalent, gigatons of coal equivalent, gigatons petroleum equivalent.