680: Al-Hussein (Al-Ḥusayn ibn) and his followers are killed at Karbala by the army of Yazid, the Umayyad caliph, on their way to Kufa
1780: The Great Hurricane of 1780 hits Barbados and goes on to kill 20,000 to 30,000 people in the Caribbean, making it the Atlantic’s deadliest recorded hurricane
1871: The Great Chicago Fire is finally extinguished after 3 days, leaving approximately 300 dead, 100,000 homeless, and costing $222m in damage
1954: Ho Chi Minh enters Hanoi after the withdrawal of French troops
1957: A fire at the Windscale nuclear plant in Cumbria, England becomes the world’s first major nuclear accident
Source: Onthisday.com
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