Events in U.S. History
Weather Events		Presidential Assassinations
April 19, 1822 Hurricane in Huntsville, Alabama Galveston Hurricane of 1900 Indiana and Illinois Tornadoes of 1912 (Located on our Indiana Trails site)		President McKinley - 1901
Floods		Miscellaneous Events
1927 Mississippi River Flood (Located on our Arkansas Trails site)		1824 Meteor 1934 Gnat Plague (Located on our Arkansas Trails site) Epidemics in U.S. - 1657 - 1918 [on our Illinois site]
Catastrophic Events PRINCIPAL DEATH-DEALING STORMS IN THE UNITED STATES (pre-1901)
The 1859 Erie Canal Bridge Collapse at Albion, NY located at our New York State Site New Madrid Earthquakes - 1811-1812 Newspaper Accounts of the Earthquakes		The River Steamer Sultana Disaster Page 1: Overview ~ Picture of the Sultana ~ Boone County, Indiana Casualties ~ First Hand Account of Survivor Uriah Mavity Page 2: "The Sultana Tragedy" written in 1913. First hand account of Andersonville prisoner and Sultana survivor, Joseph Taylor Elliott ~ The Statement of William B. Floyd, rescuer
September 11, 2001 - History of the World Trade Center, Timeline of the Events of the Day, Casualty Lists
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