Vesuvius Heat Explodes Skulls
26. The heat from the Vesuvius eruption was so extreme that the skulls of those caught in it literally burst from the pressure of vaporizing brain tissue and boiling blood.
27. The Dzungar genocide was the mass extermination of the Mongol Dzungar people by the Chinese Qing dynasty. After a rebellion, the Emperor chose to wipe out the Dzungar. About 80% of the population was exterminated in what a historian has called “the 18-century genocide par excellence.” This event brought the Uygur into today’s Xinjiang.
28. During the Colfax Massacre, approximately 150 Black men were murdered by white men with guns and cannons for attempting to freely assemble at a courthouse.
29. During Bangladesh’s liberation war in 1971, Pakistani soldiers killed 3 million Bangladeshi in one of the worst genocides in history. The USA sided with Pakistan, which they regretted later.
30. During the Bodo League Massacre, more than 100,000 suspected communists were killed by the South Korean government in 1950. US, Australian, and British officials saw and photographed the political genocide.
31. The 1815 Mount Tambora eruption killed 100,000 people and triggered a volcanic winter and a massive famine around the world. To this day it is the most powerful recorded eruption ever. It is rated VEI 7 on the Volcano Explosivity Index. It is widely known as “The Year without a summer.”
32. The Wounded Knee Massacre was a domestic massacre of 300 unarmed Lakota people by soldiers of US Army. 20 soldiers received Medals of Honor for the incident, including one for “conspicuous bravery in rounding up and bringing to the skirmish line a stampeded pack mule.”
33. Just a handful of people survived the mass suicide at Jonestown in 1978 where over 900 people took their lives, including a hearing-impaired man that didn’t hear the announcements over the loudspeaker, and an elderly woman who slept through the whole thing.
34. The Guatemalan government carried out a genocide in the 1980s known as the Silent Holocaust against the Mayan people. Throughout it, the US government under Ronald Reagan gave Guatemala military aid, helping the genocidaires commit their atrocities.
35. In 1883, gifts were handed out after a show in Victoria Hall. Many of the estimated 1100 children rushed down the stairs, but the door opened inward and had been bolted so only one could pass at a time. Those in front were crushed by those behind them. 183 children between the ages of 3 and 14 died.
Munich Rescue Failure
36. During the 1972 Munich massacre, the German Police had no trained snipers. The army did, but the constitution did not allow the military to be used on German soil during peacetime, which further contributed to the failure of the rescue operation.
37. On October 2, 1937, the massacre of thousands of Haitians living on the border with the Dominican Republic began. Dominican soldiers would hold up a sprig of parsley, and those who could not pronounce the Spanish word “perejil” properly were slaughtered. Few bullets were used during this “Parsley Massacre.” 17000-35000 Haitians were instead bludgeoned and bayonetted, then driven into the sea, where sharks finished what the soldiers had started.
38. The “London Beer Flood” of 1814 spilled 323,000 imperial gallons of beer into the streets of London, killing eight people and destroying two homes. The 1500 cubic meter flood was ruled an “Act of God,” and nobody was held responsible.
39. Many of those who survived the sinking of the USS Indianapolis in 1945 were later eaten by sharks as they drifted in open waters for four days. Navy intelligence had ignored a message from the sub that had torpedoed it, believing it was a trick to draw American rescue boats into an ambush.
40. The Bhopal gas disaster was the worst industrial disaster ever, killing close to 4000 people in roughly two weeks. At least 25,000 people are estimated to have died in the years after the disaster and a total of 558,125 injured. On the morning of December 3, 1984, more than 40 tons of methyl isocyanate gas leaked from a Union Carbide factory in Bhopal, India due to negligence. The American CEO of the company was arrested, released on $2100 bail, and never returned to India to face charges.
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