Disaster Area

2001 was not the only year in which something tragic occurred on September 11th. On that day in 1974, eighty-two people would board a plane from Charleston, South Carolina, to Charlotte, North Carolina. Only ten would survive.

Videos:

9/11/74: The Untold Story of Charlotte's Deadliest Plane Crash
Stephen Colbert and Anderson Cooper's beautiful conversation about grief
Talkative Pilots: Eastern Airlines Flight 212

Articles and books:

A fiery plane crash on 9/11/74 changed Charleston forever. 50 years later, its scars linger.
NTSB Crash Report for Eastern Airlines Flight 212
Charlotte's deadliest plane crash has finally been memorialized after 51 years

King Henry I of England had grand plans for the future of his sole legitimate male heir, William Aetheling. None of those plans would come to pass.

Articles and books:

The Sinking Of The White Ship 1120
The White Ship, by Charles Spencer
The Impact of the White Ship Disaster of 1120
900 years since the White Ship disaster
How one catastrophic shipwreck sank a medieval dynasty
Divers find The Tragic White Ship

On a cold April night in 1865, the calm across the waters of the Mississippi River was shattered by a sudden explosion - one which destroyed a steamboat and most of the Confederate POWs crowded on its decks.

Videos:

Remember the Sultana
The History Channel: The Sultana
Part-Time Explorer: America's Worst Shipwreck

Articles and books:

Sultana: Surviving the Civil War, Prison, and the Worst Maritime Disaster in American History, by Alan Huffman
Knoxville, TN: S.S. Sultana Memorial
Appomattox Court House: The Surrender Meeting
American Battlefield Trust: The Sultana Disaster
The Sultana Disaster Museum
Toledo Blade: The Sinking of the Sultana

On a cold April night in 1865, the calm across the waters of the Mississippi River was shattered by a sudden explosion - one which destroyed a steamboat and most of the Confederate POWs crowded on its decks.

Videos:

Remember the Sultana
The History Channel: The Sultana
Part-Time Explorer: America's Worst Shipwreck

Articles and books:

Sultana: Surviving the Civil War, Prison, and the Worst Maritime Disaster in American History, by Alan Huffman
Knoxville, TN: S.S. Sultana Memorial
Appomattox Court House: The Surrender Meeting
American Battlefield Trust: The Sultana Disaster
The Sultana Disaster Museum
Toledo Blade: The Sinking of the Sultana

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