* 1374 – A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion.

After a winter storm dropped nearly 17 inches of snow in the Minneapolis / St Paul area the Saturday prior to the Vikings December 12 home game versus the New York Giants and 30 mph gusts drove snow removers off the dome's roof overnight, several panels were damaged as the weight of the snow caused the roof to collapse.

The collapse of sugar prices brought on by the Great Depression precipitated the birth of the organized labour movement in St. Kitts and Nevis.

** An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and Marche, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse.

In 1665, St. Croix reverted by purchase to the French West India Company, and upon the Company's collapse in 1674, the King of France claimed it as part of his dominions, although the island was subsequently ordered to be abandoned as an economic failure-the date of abandoning would later be hotly disputed.

Further, the company had represented the only remaining direct line of communication to the United Kingdom ; after its collapse mail had to be sent via St. Thomas and Copenhagen.

( Called in to advise on a leaking roof at St Chad's Church Shrewsbury in 1788, he correctly warned the church was in imminent danger of collapse ; his reputation was made locally when it collapsed 3 days later, but he was not the architect for its replacement ).

A burial memorial in the cemetery of the nearby St. Peter's Chapel dates to around the collapse of the Roman Empire.

Always frail, after a collapse in 1923 he retired from all teaching ( other than at St Paul's School, where he would remain until his death ) to devote the remaining eleven years of his life to composition.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, a large number of Kalmyks, primarily the young, moved from Kalmykia to larger cities in Russia, such as Moscow and St. Petersburg, and to the United States.

Puerto Rican migration was prevalent in the 1930s, 40s and 50s, as many Puerto Ricans relocated to St. Croix to cut sugar cane after the collapse of the sugar industry in Puerto Rico.

This church was dedicated to and named after St. Mark and located in St. Mark's Road but was demolished in 1960 after being declared unsafe and in danger of collapse due to inadequate foundations.

In 1834-6, he largely rebuilt the church of St Andrew, Hove, which had been in ruins since the collapse of its tower some years earlier.

In 1998, due to the collapse of Paris St Germain the club was promoted to Super League despite not winning the second division title.

Egyptian Bridge ( 1825 – 26 ) in St. Petersburg, Russia, prior to its 1905 collapse.

* September 26-An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and Marche, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi ( constructed 1228-1253 ) to collapse.

The Phillies faded, losing 10 games in a row before winning their last 2 games to finish tied for second place with the Cincinnati Reds, one game behind the St. Louis Cardinals in a collapse infamously known as the " Phold.

This eruption, similar to that of Mount St. Helens in 1980, produced a large horseshoe-shaped crater that was formed by collapse of the summit and an associated lateral blast.

The 1964 season became best remembered, however, for the Phillies ' late-season collapse ; despite a-game lead with 12 games to play, the Phillies lost ten in a row and finished one game behind the St. Louis Cardinals.

Major artwork at St. James Cathedral include an extensive collection of stained glass by Charles Connick, installed in 1917-1920, during the rebuilding of the cathedral following the collapse of the dome.

Two hundred years earlier and Farrer may well have seen a different sight as St Helens was scarred and pitted by shallow mining operations, often quickly abandoned, left to flood and exceedingly prone to collapse.

The collapse of the coal mining industry in St. Helens was the consequence of the implementation of government energy policy, which policy was opposed by the National Union of Mineworkers during the year-long Miners ' Strike of 1984-1985.

After the collapse of the miners ' strike in March 1985, St. Helens was but one of dozens of towns in the UK that was immediately set to lose a long standing employer owing to the government maintaining that the deep mining of coal was no longer an economically viable proposition in most British coalfields.

For the present it is enough to note that in the grotesque figure of Jacoby, at the moment of his collapse, all these elements come together in prophetic parody.

After the collapse of that desperate and ill-fated campaign the character of the king degenerated for a time into a futility that was not merely pitiable but often ridiculous.

Extensive osteoporosis with partial collapse of D8 was found.

A change in the balance to the parasympathetic side leads in the normal individual to sleep or, in special circumstances, to cardiovascular collapse or nausea and vomiting.

Pasley continued: `` They became an institution of the Chicago scene and marked the way to the moral and financial collapse of the municipal and county governments in 1928-29 ''.

3 The Redbirds' disheartening 11-7 collapse against the Phillies Sunday.

The renewal of civil war immediately after the elections, which were considered as fraudulent by UNITA, and the collapse of the Lusaka Protocol, created a split situation.

Daily conditions of life throughout the country and specifically Luanda ( population approximately 4 million ) mirror the collapse of administrative infrastructure as well as many social institutions.

Disagreements over slavery caused the Whig and " Know-Nothing " parties to collapse.

* 1831 – Soldiers marching on the Broughton Suspension Bridge in Manchester, England cause it to collapse.

This also led to the collapse of the Tiwanaku civilization around Lake Titicaca in present-day Bolivia.

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, conflict escalated into a full-scale war between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

The Australians were greatly demoralised by the manner of their second-innings collapse, but fast bowler Fred Spofforth, spurred on by some gamesmanship by his opponents, refused to give in.

After narrowly winning the Second Test at Lord's, dubbed " The Battle of the Ridge " because of a protrusion on the pitch that caused erratic bounce, Australia mounted a comeback on the final day of the Fourth Test at Old Trafford and sealed the series after a heavy collapse during the English runchase.

The ostensible reason was a report by XI Corps commander Maj. Gen. Oliver O. Howard that Doubleday's corps broke first, causing the entire Union line to collapse, but Meade also had a long history of disdain for Doubleday's combat effectiveness, dating back to South Mountain.

The building was formerly the State Bank Building until the collapse of the State Bank in 1991 and then the Santos House until 2006.

There has been some concern about this ice sheet, because there is a small chance that it will collapse.

Dominican amber, especially Dominican blue amber, is mined through bell pitting, which is dangerous due to the risk of tunnel collapse.

have shown " Archaeological and soil-stratigraphic data define the origin, growth, and collapse of Subir, the third millennium rain-fed agriculture civilization of northern Mesopotamia on the Habur Plains of Syria.

After four centuries of urban life, this abrupt climatic change evidently caused abandonment of Tell Leilan, regional desertion, and collapse of the Akkadian empire based in southern Mesopotamia.

Peter B. deMenocal, has shown there was an influence of the North Atlantic Oscillation on the stream flow of the Tigris and Euphrates at this time, which led to the collapse of the Akkadian Empire ".

This climate-induced collapse seems to have affected the whole of the Middle East, and to have coincided with the collapse of the Egyptian Old Kingdom.