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09/12/2002: "Remember this day.. but I bet you won't"

A bright fellow over at slashdot gives us other days we might not want to forget-- yet, amazingly, many of us have. January 28, (1986) The Challenger Accident February 13, (2001) San Salvador, El Salvador 6.1 Earthquake March 24, (1989) Exxon Valdez March 28, (1979) 3 Mile Island April 18, (1906) The San Francisco Earthquake April 19, (1995) The Oklahoma City Bombing April 14, (1912) The Titanic May 6th (1937) The Hindenburg Disaster June 6th, (1944) D-Day July 25, (1956) The Andrea Doria sinking. August 6, (1945) Hiroshima Bombed August 16 - 28 (1992) Hurricane Andrew October 8, 9, and 10, (1871) The Great Chicago Fire October 17, (1989) Loma Prieta earthquake October 23-29, (1929) Stock Market Crash November 17-18, (1978) Jonestown November 22, (1963) Kennedy Assaination December (1984) Union Carbide Bhopal Disaster December 7, (1941) Pearl Harbour December 21, (1988) Pan Am Flight 103 Lockerbie bombing And for that matter, the Great Chicago Fire wasn't even the biggest death toll of the day. 300 people died in the Chicago fire. But on October 8, 1871 the logging town of Peshtigo, Wisconsin also caught fire, as well as the surrounding forest. 1,150 people died there. But the town's telegraph lines burned down along with everything else, so the news was late getting out, and got dwarfed by the news of Chicago, as well as the colorful story about the lantern. Just going to prove the saying If At All Possible, Involve A Cow.