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2012-07-05 | 1857: The ship Dunbar crashed into rocks at Sydney Heads. Only one person survived. |
2012-07-05 | 1878: Two goods trains collide head-on at Lapstone. Both train crews are killed. |
2012-07-08 | 1887: Explosion at Bulli mine. |
2012-07-05 | 1887: Train runs out of control down the Cowan Bank and crashes at Brooklyn station. |
2012-07-05 | 1893: Two huge floods in a week destroy most of Brisbane. |
2012-07-05 | 1899: Two cyclones collide right above the North Queensland pearling fleet. 305 lives are lost. |
2012-07-05 | 1901: Train derails just past Sydenham station. |
2012-07-05 | 1901: In Sydney CDB, 5 huge buildings that make up the Anthony Horderns shopping district burn to the ground. |
2012-07-08 | 1902: Explosion at Mount Kembla mine. |
2012-07-08 | 1908: 44 lives are lost when 2 trains collide at Sunshine station. |
2012-07-05 | 1910: Two trains crash during thick fog at Richmond station. |
2012-07-05 | 1910: Locomotive is left hanging over a 1000-foot cliff at the ZigZag. |
2012-07-08 | 1921: Explosion at Mount Mulligan mine. |
2018-03-26 | 1931: The Southern Cloud - Australia's first commercial airline crash. |
2012-07-05 | 1938: In Sydney Harbour, the ferry Rodney capsizes during a farewell to American sailors. |
2012-07-05 | 1939: Bushfires ravage Victoria from end to end. |
2016-01-23 | 1944: Level crossing accident at Brooklyn. |
2012-07-05 | 1945: Train derails at Merrylands. Vandals had placed a large bolt on the track. |
2012-07-05 | 1951: Rear-end collision at Eagle Farm station. |
2012-07-05 | 1959: The North-West mail crashes into a goods train at Lochinvar. |
2012-07-05 | 1968: A helicopter crashes on an oil rig in Bass Strait. |
2012-07-08 | 1969: The Sydney to Melbourne Southern Aurora express train crashes head-on into a goods train at Violet Town. |
2012-07-08 | 1970: The Westgate Bridge in Melbourne collapses during construction. |
2012-07-08 | 1975: A ship collides with Hobart's main bridge, causing the bridge to collapse and sink the ship. |
2012-07-08 | 1977: Australia's worst train crash, at Granville. |
2012-07-05 | 1987: Two trains hit a car which had been pushed onto the tracks at Jannali. |
2012-07-05 | 1994: Waterfall station is damaged after two trains collide. |
2012-07-05 | 1998: Coal train comes to grief at Two Mile Creek after running into a flood. |
2012-07-05 | 1999: Spectacular freight train derailment at Douglas Park. |
2012-07-05 | 1999: Intercity electric train crashes into the rear of the Indian Pacific near Glenbrook. |
2012-07-05 | The engine of the Indian Pacific gets trapped at Platform 1, Sydney Station. |
2012-07-05 | The Welcome Level Crossing at Parkes where whoever causes the accident dies. |
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2012-07-05 | 1930: The R101 disaster. A badly-designed British airship crashes in France on its maiden voyage. |
2012-07-05 | 1931: An earthquake devastates Napier, New Zealand. |
2012-07-05 | 1942: 491 killed in the Cocoanut Grove nightclub, Boston. |
2012-07-05 | 1945: A small plane crashes into the Empire State building in New York. |
2012-07-05 | 1952: Collision of 3 trains at Harrow & Wealdstone station in London takes 112 lives. |
2012-07-05 | 1952: Intense smog in London kills 4000. |
2012-07-05 | 1953: Huge storms put much of England's east coast into the channel. |
2012-07-08 | 1953: New Zealand's worst train accident was caused by a volcano. |
2012-07-05 | 1963: In Italy, whole villages are wiped out when a landslide causes the Vaiont Dam to overflow. |
2012-07-08 | 1968: The incompetence of rescue services causes the loss of 51 lives when the Wahine runs aground in Wellington harbour. |
2012-07-05 | 1977: The world's worst air disaster occurs on the runway at Tenerife, when two jumbo jets collide. |
2012-07-05 | 1985: 43 are killed when 2 trains collide at Argent-sur-creuse, France. |
2012-07-05 | 1997: 6 killed when an express train hits a freight train at Southall, London. |
2012-07-05 | 2001: Two trains collide at high speed after one of them runs into a car at Great Heck near Selby. |
2012-07-05 | Natural disasters at Krakatoa and Belize. |