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The Beatles recorded all ten tracks of their debut LP, Please Please Me, in just under ten hours.
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When things go wrong > Explosions
On 15th February, 1898, A mysterious explosion destroyed the USS Maine... Read more »
On 19th January, 1917, An explosion of TNT occurred at an ammunitions factory in Silvertown, England... Read more »
On 15th January, 1919, The Great Boston Molasses Disaster claimed 21 lives... Read more »
On 18th March, 1937, The New London School Explosion claimed at least 296 lives... Read more »
On 26th April, 1942, An explosion at the Benxihu Colliery in China killed 1,549 miners... Read more »
On 16th April, 1947, A freighter exploded in Texas, USA, causing a loss of almost 600 lives... Read more »
On 29th July, 1967, The USS Forrestal aircraft carrier was accidentally hit with a rocket... Read more »
On 26th April, 1986, The worst nuclear accident in history took place at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant... Read more »
On 27th January, 2002, An ammunition explosion in Lagos, Nigeria, killed approximately 1000 people... Read more »
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