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engineering
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Disasters & Accidents January 15 1919
A Wave of Molasses: Boston's Strangest Disaster
On 15 January 1919, a fifty-foot steel tank in Boston's North End burst, sending millions of gallons of molasses through the streets in a wave that killed 21 people — and produced a landmark corporate-negligence case.
Disasters & Accidents April 26 1986
Reactor Four: The Chernobyl Disaster
In the early hours of 26 April 1986, a botched safety test at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Soviet Ukraine blew apart Reactor No. 4, spreading radioactive fallout across Europe and reshaping the world's view of nuclear power.