* 1974 – Flixborough disaster: an explosion at a chemical plant kills 28 people.

* 2004 – An inflatable boat carrying illegal Albanian emigrants stalls near the Karaburun Peninsula while on the way to Brindisi, Italy ; exposure to the elements kills 28.

* 2009 – The 28 October 2009 Peshawar bombing kills 117 and wounds 213.

* April 27 – The Guatemala City air disaster kills 28 people.

* January 29 – Plane crash at Los Gatos Creek, California kills 4 US citizens and 28 deportees, commemorated in a song by Woody Guthrie.

* November 28 – An earthquake in Balochistan ( Pakistan ) causes a tsunami and kills 4, 000.

* July 28 – WWII: Operation Gomorrha – The British bomb Hamburg, causing a firestorm that kills 42, 000 German civilians.

* April 28 – In Daegu, South Korea, a gas explosion at a subway construction site kills 101 people, mostly teenage schoolboys.

* May 28 – A 7. 6 magnitude earthquake in Neftegorsk, Russia kills at least 2, 000.

* August 28 – A Serbian mortar bomb near a Sarajevo market square kills 38 civilians.

** The Hebgen Lake Earthquake in southwest Montana kills 28.

* April 28 – An explosion in the mine of the Wheeling Steel Corporation in Benwood, West Virginia kills 119 men.

* June 28 – A tornado touches down in Lorain, Ohio and kills 78 people.

* October 28 – The St. Johns School Fire in Peabody, Massachusetts kills twenty-one girls between the ages of 7 and 17.

* March 6 – A fire in a mental hospital at Burghölzli, Switzerland, kills 28 people.

* March 28 – A fire in the maternity wing at Kucic Hospital in Rijeka, former Yugoslavia, kills 25 people.

** Continuing violence in Ahmedabad, India kills 28 ; police shoot and kill 5 rioters.

In the movie 28 Weeks Later, the Isle of Dogs is the primary location of the film, being the only secure and quarantined area in all of Britain suitable for recivilization after a massive epidemic of the " Rage Virus " kills the entire population of Britain.

* February 28: 2005 Al Hillah bombing: In the deadliest single blast up to that time, a car bomb kills 127 in Hillah ; the identity of the bomber as a Jordanian caused a diplomatic row between Iraq and Jordan.

After fierce fighting over Dunkirk during the evacuation of Dunkirk on 28 June 1940, Malan was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross having achieved five ' kills '.

* June 30-A tornado ( the " Regina Cyclone ") kills 28.

* 1 March – Continuing violence in Ahmedabad kills 28 ; police shoot and kill 5 rioters.

* 1996 ( 28 April ): Gunman Martin Bryant kills 35 people and injures 20 more in shooting rampage at Port Arthur historic site ; Supreme Court sentences him to life imprisonment

Dors dies in Seldon's arms after being his spouse for 28 years, apparently as a result of both the EM damage inflicted during the attempt on her life by a traitor in Seldon's ranks, Tamwile Elar, and a violation of the First Law of Robotics as Dors kills Elar in defense of the Psychohistorical Project, thus essentially choosing to follow the Zeroth Law and suffering a fate similar to that of R. Giskard Reventlov.

* 1953 – In Warner Robins, Georgia, an F4 tornado kills 18 people.

* 2010 – Flash floods across a large part of Jammu and Kashmir, India, damages 71 towns and kills at least 255 people.

* 1966 – Charles Whitman kills 16 people at the University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police.

* 2004 – A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 in Asunción, Paraguay.

* 2010 – 2010 China floods: A mudslide in Zhugqu County, Gansu, China, kills more than 1, 400 people.

* 2007 – The 2007 Kahtaniya bombings kills at least 796 people.

* 1987 – Hungerford massacre: in the United Kingdom, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with an assault rifle and then commits suicide.

* 2012 – A plane crash kills 32 people in Sudan.

* 1933 – The Diexi earthquake strikes Mao County, Sichuan, China and kills 9, 000 people.

* 2008 – A train collision in Shandong, China, kills 72 people and injures 416 more.

* 2005 – A stampede on Al-Aaimmah bridge in Baghdad kills 1, 199 people.

Police riot kills three people, including journalist Ruben Salazar.

* 1940 – The Rhythm Night Club fire at a dance hall in Natchez, Mississippi, kills 198 people.

* 1949 – A fire in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois, kills 77 people and leads to nationwide fire code improvements in the United States.

The eruption ultimately kills 71, 000 people and affects Earth's climate for the next two years.

: " If anyone kills person – unless it be ( a punishment ) for murder or for spreading mischief in the land — it would be as if he killed all people.

Because the poor people are upset by this, from now on, Musuluman Huihui and Zhuhu Huihui, no matter who kills animal will eat and must cease slaughtering sheep themselves, and cease the rite of circumcision.

1997 — In November, Cyclone Martin in Manihiki kills at least six people ; 80 % of buildings are damaged and the black pearl industry suffered severe losses.

* 1946 – A fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia kills 119 people, the deadliest hotel fire in U. S. history.

* 1987 – Frank Vitkovic shoots and kills eight people at the Australia Post building in Melbourne, before jumping to his death.

* 1917 – Halifax Explosion: In Canada, a munitions explosion kills more than 1, 900 people and destroys part of the City of Halifax, Nova Scotia.

* 1876 – Brooklyn Theater Fire kills at least 278 people in Brooklyn, NY.

* 1984 – Bhopal Disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, kills more than 3, 800 people outright and injures 150, 000 – 600, 000 others ( some 6, 000 of whom would later die from their injuries ) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.

* 1997 – The Sid El-Antri massacre ( or Sidi Lamri ) in Algeria kills 50-100 people.