posted on Feb, 22 2011 @ 10:36 AM
There is also the Deepwater oil spill resonating exactly with 1979 Ixtoc oil spill. There is even a thread in here about that...
Anyway, for next days, check out these:
FEBRUARY 24 2011
1896
March 9 – Responding to national outrage at the defeat at Adowa, Italian Prime Minister Francesco Crispi resigns.
FEBRUARY 25 2011
1896
June 15 – An earthquake and tsunami in Sanriku, Japan, kills 27,000
FEBRUARY 26 2011
1896
July 30 – Shortly after 6:30 pm, at a crossing just west of Atlantic City, New Jersey, two trains collide, crushing five loaded passenger coaches,
killing fifty and seriously injuring approximately sixty, in the 1896 Atlantic City rail crash
August 27 – The shortest war in recorded history, the Anglo-Zanzibar War, starts at 9 in the morning and lasts for 45 minutes of shelling
FEBRUARY 28 2011
1896- 1897
November 30 – A large carcass, later postulated to be the remains of a gigantic octopus, is found washed ashore near St. Augustine, Florida.
January 4 – A British force is ambushed by Chief Ologbosere, son-in-law of the Oba of Benin. This leads to a punitive expedition against Benin