Halifax explosion
1917 · Event
Munitions-ship collision devastates Halifax; the largest man-made explosion before nuclear weapons (~2,000 dead).
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Around 1917
- Mexican Revolution (1910)
- Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910)
- Presidency of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1923)
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- Irish revolutionary period (1912)
- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Pop music: the 1920s (1920)
- Pop music: the 1910s (1910)
- Stalin's rule of the Soviet Union (1924)