Also known as the Great Famine; a period of mass starvation in Ireland that started in 1845 and lasted until 1852. Let’s take a closer look at what happened with this horrible period. Potatoes killed 1,000,000 people in Ireland in 1845 and afterwards, migrated tens of thousands of people, reduced the country’s population by 25%, […]

In Indonesia, the Tambora Volcano eruption in 1815 is considered the biggest volcanic event in the last 200 years. This explosion apparently gave birth to two literary classics. We can say that the phrase “Geography is destiny” is an interesting addition to this event. The Tambora volcano eruption in 1815 had a direct impact on […]

The 9.5 magnitude earthquake that took place in Valdivia, Chile on 22 May 1960, is the largest earthquake in the world measured with the Richter scale. The 9.5 magnitude Valdivia earthquake is the largest of the massive earthquakes (8 earthquakes greater than 7.0 in total) that occurred in Chile on May 22, 1960. Chile Earthquake […]

Phineas Gage, who has a 1 meter iron rod on his head, is alive, but what has changed in his life is neither his skull nor his physical health. Gage becomes a completely different person after this event.In 1848, as a result of an explosion during a railroad construction in the United States, the 2.5 […]

An event occurred in London in 1809, which we would not be surprised; if we see it in today’s domestic TV series. Do not say if it is a historical prank, it does. The Berners Street Scam was perpetrated by Theodore Hook in Westminster, London, England in 1809. Hook makes a bet with his friend […]

The disaster that took place near the city of Pripyat; in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 did not come as much of a surprise.While searching the archive, I found the biggest bomb. Yuri Andropov, when he was chairman of the kgb in 1979; sent a report to the communist party central committee on […]

On June 6, 1944, during the Normandy Landing; when the US landed on the shores of France and clashed with German forces. A German soldier; his name is Heinrich Severloh. He alone gave the other side a lot of casualties. Let’s know Heinrich Severloh briefly Heinrich Severloh, who is a little known being a German […]