Tragedy struck the organization and the rest of the National Hockey League upon the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl air disaster, which claimed the lives of former Red Wings assistant coach Brad McCrimmon and defenseman Ruslan Salei, who had joined the KHL team during the summer.

Tragedy struck in his personal life as his wife succumbed to depression after the birth of their third child in 1840.

Tragedy struck the Longstreet family in January 1862.

Tragedy struck the settlement when on the morning of December 8, 1812, the " Feast Day of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin ", a series of large earthquakes shook Southern California during the first Sunday service.

Tragedy struck the Penguins just days after their playoff heroics.

Tragedy struck the team just eight days after the sale, as star forward Dany Heatley crashed his Ferrari in a one-car accident that seriously injured both himself and Thrashers center Dan Snyder.

Tragedy struck the Blue Jackets organization in March 2002 when 13-year-old Brittanie Cecil was killed after a deflected puck shot by Espen Knutsen struck her in the head while she was in the stands at Nationwide Arena.

Tragedy struck when her son died in an automobile accident in 1981 at the age of 35.

Tragedy struck on May 9, 1980 when the southbound span of the original Sunshine Skyway Bridge was struck by the freighter MV Summit Venture during a storm, sending over 1200 feet ( 366m ) of the bridge plummeting into Tampa Bay.

Tragedy struck Dolley, as she lost both her husband and younger son William in the epidemic, as well as her Payne parents-in-law.

Tragedy also struck at home when his eldest son died.

Tragedy struck this track on September 11, 1950 when the crack passenger train " Spirit of Saint Louis " hit another train carrying 600 men of the 109th Field Artillery Battalion of the Pennsylvania National Guard.

Tragedy struck his family as his mother died of ' creeping fever ' when he was seven.

Tragedy struck the Bees on April 9, 2009, when former team member Nick Adenhart was killed in a car accident near Fullerton, California.

Tragedy struck again in 1902 when 34 miners were killed in an explosion in the Day West Mine.

Tragedy struck the Edge staff just a few months later, when Martin Streek took his own life on July 9.

Tragedy struck in November 1950.

Tragedy struck a year later when an accident in a celebrity boat race left him with eighteen fractured ribs, two broken clavicles and a collapsed lung.

Tragedy struck the same year when an automobile accident killed his wife of 18 years, Katharine Smith, and cost him the sight in one eye.

Tragedy struck the family when Greenhow's husband died soon after little Rose's birth.

Tragedy struck the Lomax family in 1931 when Lomax's beloved wife Bess Brown died at the age of fifty, leaving four children ( the youngest, Bess, only ten years old ).

Tragedy struck Snowe again in 1973, when her husband was killed in an automobile accident.

Tragedy struck Snowe yet again in 1991 when her stepson Peter McKernan died from a heart ailment at the age of 20.

Beginning with Three Act Tragedy ( 1934 ), Christie had perfected during the inter-war years a sub-genre of Poirot novel in which the detective himself spent much of the first third of the novel on the periphery of events.

* 1896 – Khodynka Tragedy: A mass panic on Khodynka Field in Moscow during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1, 389 people.

The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1603, and based on the Italian short story Un Capitano Moro (" A Moorish Captain ") by Cinthio, a disciple of Boccaccio, first published in 1565.

The anonymous play The True Tragedy of Richard III ( c1590 ), performed in the same decade as Shakespeare's work, was probably an influence on Shakespeare.

Neither of the two plays place any emphasis on Richard's physical appearance, though the True Tragedy briefly mentions that he is " A man ill shaped, crooked backed, lame armed " adding that he is " valiantly minded, but tyrannous in authority.

The Boston Molasses Disaster, also known as the Great Molasses Flood and the Great Boston Molasses Tragedy, occurred on January 15, 1919, in the North End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts in the United States.

*" Venus ", a song by gothic metal band Theatre of Tragedy on their album Aégis

* June 6-The Double Six Tragedy, a plane crash in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, kills everyone on board, including Sabahan Chief Minister Tun Fuad Stephens.

* April 14 – First performance, in London, of Joseph Addison's libertarian play Cato, a Tragedy, which will be influential on both sides of the Atlantic.

They performed 23 different plays, some only once, and their most popular play of the season, The First Part of Hieronimo, ( based on Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy ), 15 times.

Cymbeline (), also known as Cymbeline, King of Britain or The Tragedy of Cymbeline, is a play by William Shakespeare, based on legends concerning the early Celtic British King Cunobelinus.

Tragedy is so far from being a proof of the pessimism ( in Schopenhauer's sense ) of the Greeks that it may, on the contrary, be considered a decisive rebuttal and counterexample.

Over the course of the next three years, four plays with their name on the title page were published ; Christopher Marlowe's Edward II ( published in quarto in July 1593 ), and Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus ( published in quarto in 1594 ), The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York ( published in octavo in 1595 ) and The Taming of a Shrew ( published in quarto in May, 1594 ).

The Oxford Middleton and its companion piece, Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture, offer the most extensive and decisive evidence to date not only for Middleton's authorship of The Revenger's Tragedy, but also for his collaboration with Shakespeare on Timon of Athens and his adaptation and revision of Shakespeare's Macbeth and Measure for Measure.

* A Yorkshire Tragedy, a one-act tragedy ( 1605 ); attributed to Shakespeare on its title page, but stylistic analysis favours Middleton.

* Pieces by Norwegian doom / gothic metal band Theatre of Tragedy, such as " Amor volat undique " and " Circa mea pectora " in the song " Venus " on their 1998 album Aégis

* Lucas, F. L., Seneca and Elizabethan Tragedy ( Cambridge University Press, 1922 ; paperback 2009, ISBN 978-1-108-00358-2 ); on Seneca the man, his plays, and the influence of his tragedies on later drama.

* Booknotes interview with McNamara on In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam, April 23, 1995.

In 1681, John Crowne wrote Thyestes, A Tragedy, based closely on Seneca's Thyestes, but with the incongruous addition of a love story.

* Cato, a Tragedy, 18th century drama by Joseph Addison, based on the life of Cato the Younger

George Chapman's The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron ( 1608 ) was censored when it appeared on the stage, and caused a scandal when the players violated that censorship ; Buck has been associated with the scandal, and it is certainly true that Buck licensed the publication of the censored text later in that year.

The book was one of the inspirations for filmmaker Tony Richardson's 1965 film The Loved One, which was based on Evelyn Waugh's short satirical 1948 novel of the same name, tellingly subtitled " An Anglo-American Tragedy ".