1912 ⟶ Sinking of the RMS Titanic in the North Atlantic
April 15: Sinking of the RMS Titanic.
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🚢 Sinking of the RMS Titanic in the North Atlantic
April 15: Sinking of the RMS Titanic.⟶
Maritime DisasterShipwreckTechnological FailureImmigrationEdwardian Era
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Canada🚢 Sinking of the RMS Lusitania by German U-Boat
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GermanyUnited States🚢 Titanic Wreckage Discovered
September 1: 73 years after its infamous disaster, the wreck of the Titanic is found off the coast of Newfoundland by a joint French–American expedition led by Jean-Louis Michel of IFREMER and Robert Ballard of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.⟶
OceanographyMaritime HistoryExplorationShipwreck
FranceUnited StatesCanada✈️ Pan Am Flight 103 Bombing Over Lockerbie
December 21: Pan Am Flight 103 is destroyed by a bomb and falls over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 259 people on-board, leaving no survivors, and 11 in town.⟶
TerrorismAviation DisasterBombingCold WarInternational RelationsAviation Safety
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Libya🦠 Swine Flu Pandemic Emerges in North America
2009 swine flu pandemic begins in North America.⟶
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