A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.

* 2002 – Ukraine airshow disaster: a Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes during an air show at Lviv, Ukraine killing 85 and injuring more than 100 others, the largest air show disaster in history.

* 1864 – The Great Sheffield Flood: The largest man-made disaster ever to befall England kills over 250 people in Sheffield.

* 2002 – The Greek oil tanker Prestige splits in half and sinks off the coast of Galicia, releasing over 20 million US gallons ( 76, 000 m³ ) of oil in the largest environmental disaster in Spanish and Portuguese history.

* 1862 – American Civil War: The Allegheny Arsenal explosion results in the single largest civilian disaster during the war.

* February 24 – The, carrying Jewish refugees from Axis-allied Romania to British-controlled Palestine, is torpedoed and sunk by the Soviet submarine Shch 213, killing 768 men, women and children, with only one survivor, a 19 year old man, making it the largest exclusively civilian naval disaster of the war.

** American Civil War: The Allegheny Arsenal explosion results in the single largest civilian disaster during the war.

But in 1956, disaster struck when the region's largest hydropower station was partially destroyed in a landslide.

In recent years, the county was declared a disaster area in September 1979 due to damage from Hurricane Frederic The largest religious bodies were The Southern Baptist Convention ( with 27, 789 members ) and The Catholic Church ( with 10, 482 members ).

Duryea, Pennsylvania, which had experienced similar flooding as the result of Hurricane Agnes in 1972, sought a town similar in size and demographics to " adopt " and help rebuild after the devastation wrought by the largest natural disaster in the history of the town.

The Harmelen train disaster, resulting in 93 fatalities, was the largest train accident in Dutch history.

To the extent the actions in Jonestown were viewed as a mass murder, it was the largest such event in modern history and resulted in the largest single loss of American civilian life in a non-natural disaster until the events of September 11, 2001.

The incident in Guyana ranks among the largest mass suicides in history, though most likely it involved forced suicide and / or murder, and was the single greatest loss of American civilian life in a non-natural disaster until the events of September 11, 2001.

On 29 August 2005, the largest natural disaster the Air Guard faced in its 60 year history began when Hurricane Katrina hit the United States Gulf Coast.

The island province suffered an ecological disaster in Aug. 2006, after 998 ton gross weight M / T Solar 1, chartered by Petron, the Philippines ’ largest oil refiner, carrying 2. 4 million litres of oil sank 17 kilometrres off the coast, contaminating 24 km < sup > 2 </ sup >.

One of the largest fundraising efforts for the city and the victims of the disaster was organized by Sam Maceo, one of the two brothers who ran organized crime in Galveston at the time.

The largest local disaster was in 1910 at Wellington pit where 136 miners lost their lives.

Over 12, 000 tons of oil spilled into the Arabian Sea in what is considered by some to be the largest environmental disaster in Pakistan's history.

The largest disaster involving smokejumper deaths on the job was the Mann Gulch fire blowup of 1949 which occurred north of Helena, Montana at the Gates of the Mountains area along the Missouri River.

The incident was the largest mass murder in Canadian history, and the deadliest aviation disaster to occur over a body of water.

It was the largest deployment of troops ever to serve on Canadian soil in response to a natural disaster, and the largest operational deployment of Canadian military personnel since the Korean War.

About 92, 000 people die as a direct consequence of this disaster, the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history.

It was all right to put a bunch of ranchers onto horses, to call them Night Riders, to set out to attack the largest mining combination the country had ever seen if all they wanted was adventure.

`` It was a king cobra, the largest you ever saw, and it deserved to live out its life in the jungle, didn't it??

Both Alfred Harcourt and Donald Brace had written him enthusiastic praise of Elmer Gantry ( any changes could be made in proof, which was already coming from the printer ) and they had ordered 140,000 copies -- the largest first printing of any book in history.

It was the Eisenhower Administration which produced the largest peacetime deficit.

This was the largest house he had ever been in, almost the largest building, except for a hotel.

In spite of the fact that our largest market, the textile industry, was affected substantially by the current decline in business activity, we have been able to produce and deliver our machines throughout the year 1960 at a rate materially higher than during 1959.

Reflecting the largest percentage of high-end sets such as consoles and combinations since 1953, dollar value of home entertainment electronics in 1960 was about $1.9 billion, compared to $1.7 billion in 1959.

Even so, it was still not clear to many in the enormous horde of spectators -- unquestionably the largest golf crowd ever -- that this tournament was to be, essentially, a match between Palmer and Player.

From 1853 to 1860, another of Lincoln's largest clients was the Illinois Central Railroad.

The single largest organization of Anthropologists is the American Anthropological Association ( AAA ), which was founded in 1903.

The largest structure ever made from adobe ( bricks ) was the Bam Citadel, which suffered serious damage ( up to 80 %) by an earthquake on December 26, 2003.

* 1965 – The largest swimming pool in Europe was opened in Fürstenfeld, Austria.

In December 1988, the second largest city in the republic, Leninakan ( now Gyumri ), was heavily damaged by a massive quake that killed more than 25, 000 people.

According to the National Statistical Service, during the January – August 2007 period, Armenia's industrial sector was the single largest contributor to the country's GDP, but remained largely stagnant with industrial output increasing only by 1. 7 percent per year.

The largest successful publicly known brute force attack against any block-cipher encryption was against a 64-bit RC5 key by distributed. net in 2006.

( The largest problem that could be solved without the use of the intermediate output and input was two simultaneous equations, a trivial problem.

The massive skull of Albertosaurus, perched on a short, S-shaped neck, was approximately 1 metre ( 3. 3 ft ) long in the largest adults.

* 1990 – Sue, the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton found to date, was discovered by Sue Hendrickson in South Dakota.

Aachen Cathedral was erected on the orders of Charlemagne in AD 786 and was on completion the largest cathedral north of the Alps.

The largest of these contingents was that of the Goths, who in 382, had been allowed to settle within the imperial boundaries, keeping a large degree of autonomy.

Among these was a raid taking place in Kent, an allied country in Southeast England, during the year 885, which was quite possibly the largest raid since the battles with Guthrum.