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2013 Event - In Belize, a construction company requiring road fill gravel destroys a 2,300 year-old Mayan pyramid

2010 Event - In San Bruno, California, a fire begins with a massive explosion in a natural gas line, kills 4 people, destroys many homes, and continues burning

2010 Event - A 5.2 magnitude earthquake in Sichuan province, China, destroys at least 100 homes, injures 11 and kills one person

2010 Event - A suicide bomber kills 95 people, injures over 100, and destroys 20 houses at a volleyball game in Lakki Marwat, Pakistan

2008 Event - U.S. Navy destroys a U.S. spy satellite with a missile

1998 Event - U.S. hockey team destroys their rooms at Olympic village in Japan

1995 Event - 7.2 earthquake destroys Kobe Japan killing 5,372 die

1994 Event - 6.0 earthquake/avalanche destroys Toez Colombia, about 1000 killed

1990 Event - Fire destroys some of Universal Studio's stages

1988 Event - Heavy fire destroys historic center of Lisbon

1985 Event - Bomb destroys Air India Boeing 747 in air near Ireland, 329 die

1985 Event - Explosions destroys 2 tankers off of Gibraltar, 30 die

1984 Event - Fire destroys a set in "A View to the Kill"

1981 Event - Israeli F-15's and F-16's destroys Iraqi plutonium production facility

1978 Event - High Council destroys judgment against war criminal Pieter Menten

1974 Event - Cyclone Tracy virtually destroys Darwin, Australia

1974 Event - Worst fire in Argentine history destroys 1.2 million acres

1972 Event - 6.25 Earthquake destroys central Managua Nicaragua, 10,000 die

1970 Event - 1,086 die when 7.4 quake destroys 254 villages (Gediz Turkey)

1968 Event - Earthquake destroys Ferdows Persia, 2,000 killed

1968 Event - 12,000 die in 7.8 quake destroys 60,000 buildings in NE Iran

1966 Event - Flooding of Arno River (Italy) destroys countless art works, kills 113

1965 Event - Bomb destroys USAF base Bien Hoa South Vietnam

1953 Event - Typhoon destroys 1/3 of Nagoya Japan

1949 Event - Fire in Chiang-king, China, destroys 7,000 lives

1947 Event - Chemical mixing error causes explosion that destroys 42 blocks in Los Angeles

1945 Event - U.S. drops 2nd atomic bomb "Fat Man" on Japan destroys part of Nagasaki

1945 Event - U.S. Task Force 38 destroys 41 Japanese ships in Battle of South China Sea

1942 Event - 1 salvo Katjoesja-rocket destroys nazi battalion in Stalingrad

1942 Event - Tornado destroys Pryor, Oklahoma killing 100, injuring 300

1940 Event - British air attack destroys half of Italian fleet

1940 Event - British destroys French battle fleet at Oran, Algeria, 1267 die

1939 Event - Oil refinery fire kills 500 and destroys Lagunillas, Venezuela

1937 Event - German Luftwaffe destroys Basque town of Guernica in Spain

1934 Event - Fire destroys Hakodate Japan (kills 1,500, injures 1,000)

1934 Event - Fire destroys Hakodate Japan, killing about 1,500

1920 Event - 8.6 earthquake destroys 15,000 miles (Kansu China); Over 180,000 die

1919 Event - Romanian forces destroys Bela Kun Republic in Budapest

1911 Event - Great fire destroys downtown Constantinople/Istanbul Turkey

1910 Event - Great Idaho Fire destroys 3 million acres of timber

1906 Event - 8.6 earthquake destroys Valparaiso Chile, fire kills 20,000

1906 Event - San Francisco earthquake and fire kills nearly 4,000 and destroys 75% of city

1905 Event - Japanese fleet destroys Russian East Sea fleet in Straits of Tushima

1902 Event - Earthquake destroys Turkish city of Tochangri

1901 Event - Battle at Elands River Port: Boer General Smuts destroys unit 17th Lancers

1900 Event - Fire in Cincinnati nearly destroys Reds' grandstand

1898 Event - Lord Kitchener destroys Mahdi's tomb in Omdurman

1894 Event - Fire in Boston destroys baseball stadium and 170 other buildings

1893 Event - Tornado destroys coast of Savannah and Charleston, about 1000 die

1889 Event - Great Fire in Seattle destroys 25 downtown blocks

1886 Event - Eruption of Tarawera volcano destroys famous pink and white calcium carbonate hot-spring terraces (North Island, New Zealand)

1886 Event - Fire destroys nearly 1,000 buildings in Vancouver

1883 Event - Battle at El Obeid Sudan: Mahdi's army destroys Egyptian army

1882 Event - British HMS Flirt destroys village of Asaba Niger

1872 Event - Fire destroys nearly 1,000 buildings in Boston

1872 Event - "3 Fingers" Mackenzie destroys Kwahadi-Commanche village

1871 Event - Gas explosion destroys Peshtigo, Wisconsin

1871 Event - Great Fire kills 200, destroys over 4miles (10 km) of Chicago buildings, and original Emancipation Proclamation

1866 Event - Great fire in Quebec destroys 2,500 houses

1852 Event - Fire destroys 1,100 construction sites in Montreal Canada and no one die

1851 Event - Fire devastates Library of Congress in Wash, destroys 35,000 volumes

1851 Event - Fire destroys part of San Francisco

1850 Event - Fire destroys part of San Francisco

1849 Event - Pack destroys Astor Place opera house in New York City (22 killed)

1845 Event - Fire in New York City destroys 1,000 homes and kills many

1844 Event - Fire destroys U.S. mint at Charlotte, North Carolina

1839 Event - Earthquake at Martinique destroys half of Port Royal-700 die

1838 Event - Fire destroys half of Charleston

1832 Event - U.S. ship destroys Sumatran village in retaliation for piracy

1822 Event - 2nd eruption of Galunggung (Java) destroys summit of mountain

1812 Event - Fire in Moscow destroys 90% of houses and 1,000 churchs

1812 Event - Earthquake destroys Caracas, Venezuela

1812 Event - Earthquake destroys 90% of Caracas; about 20,000 die

1797 Event - Battle at Kamperduin: English fleet destroys Bataafse

1788 Event - Russian fleet destroys Swedish

1760 Event - Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings

1751 Event - Fire in Stockholm destroys 1,000 houses

1737 Event - Earthquake kills 300,000 and destroys of Calcutta India

1718 Event - Battle at Cape Passaro: English fleet destroys Spanish

1718 Event - Battle at Cape Passaro: English fleet destroys Spanish

1718 Event - Avalanche destroys every building in Leukerbad, Switzerland; kills 53

1667 Event - Michiel de Ruyter destroys English fleet

1666 Event - Fire in London destroys 13,000 houses and kills 8

1654 Event - Fire after heavy storm destroys 2/3 of De Rijp, Netherlands, 1 dies

1651 Event - Battle at Worcester-Oliver Cromwell destroys English royalists

1649 Event - Treaty of Rueil destroys 1st Fronde-uprising

1643 Event - Battle at Rocroi/Allersheim: French army destroys Spanish army

1631 Event - Mount Vesuvious, Italy erupts, destroys 6 villages and kills 4,000

1623 Event - Fire at Plymouth, Massachusetts destroys several buildings

1618 Event - "Rodi" avalanche destroys Plurs Switzerland, 1,500 killed

1608 Event - Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia

1572 Event - Spanish army occupies/plunders/destroys Mechelen

1571 Event - Battle at Lepanto: Saint League (Spain and Italy) destroys Turkish fleet

1549 Event - Battle at Dussindale: John Dudley destroys English boer army

1401 Event - Mongol monarch Timur Lenk destroys Baghdad

1360 Event - Danish King Waldemar IV destroys Visby Gotland

1348 Event - Earthquake destroys Villach, killing 5,000

1340 Event - In the Hundred Years War, British fleet destroys French at Sluys

1014 Event - Battle of Strumitsa-valley: Byzantine destroys Bulgarian armies

902 Event - Aghlabidisch emir Ibrahim II destroys Taormina, Sicily

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