about the Bermuda Triangle heard everything.This mysterious place is located in the Atlantic and direct relationship to us is.Much less well known is "The Bermuda Triangle" - temporary.It covers approximately 10 days until April 15, and is the source of many troubles and tragedies of recent times.
Let's start with the most famous disaster of the XX century - the death of "Titanic."The tragedy occurred on the night of 14 on April 15 and claimed the lives of more than a thousand people.Details of this drama are well known.Cold April night the huge liner hit a iceberg ripped through the bottom third of the length of the hull and sank in a matter of hours.It is worth recalling that the "Titanic" was considered absolutely safe ship before the fatal flight of the newspapers wrote that he could not drown God himself.As they say, did not ...
even more terrible, but less well-known disaster occurred on April 14, too, but in 1944 in the port of Bombay (India).On this day, after a fire on board detonated and blown up bomb British steamer "Fort Staykin."The power of the explosion was such that from the large, powerful ship almost nothing left.The ship was torn to pieces, and then part of it is a few kilometers from the epicenter.This tragedy in India is still remembered.After the disaster the city was on the verge of death from fire.The inhabitants of Bombay still exist expression "before the ship blew up" and "after the explosion," like our "before the revolution" and "the revolution."By the most conservative estimates, during the Indian apocalypse killed more than a thousand people.This catastrophe on the scale of the tragedy has surpassed "Titanic", but did not become so famous because of the fact that in 1944, when it happened, there was a war.
similar accident occurred in almost the same period, three years later.In 1947, at the American port of Texas City blew up a French freighter "Grandcamp" with a cargo of nitrate in the hold.The effects of the explosion were even more terrible than in the case with the British steamer "Fort Staykin" (if at all).Because nitrate detonation broke out and nearly burned up the big city, were killed or went missing more than two thousand people.
April 13, 1970 there was one of the worst accidents in the history of astronautics."The Bermuda Triangle" of time captured in its sphere of influence and space.The trouble occurred during the flight of the American "Apollo-13" to the moon.At a distance of 330 thous. Km from Earth aboard the space shuttle exploded buck oxygen.If this had happened on the way back to Earth, the astronauts will inevitably be lost.Due to the fact that the crew had not yet landed on the moon, it was possible to use the resources of the lander and to save people.Although no tragic consequences not done.After a dramatic epic astronauts returned home sick and exhausted.Shortly after returning astronaut John Suidzhert died of cancer, severe moral injury survived and the rest of the flight.
On the night of 14 on April 15, 1865 was one of the most high-profile political assassinations in history.This was the last day in the life of US President Abraham Lincoln.The politician was shot dead in the bed of the Washington-based theater actor D. Booth.This murder was the first, but unfortunately, not the last in a series of violent deaths of the leaders of the North American States.
April 15 was a black day in the history of the conquest of the ocean air.On this day in 1875 in the skies of France crashed balloon record "Zenith".For the first time in human history, he rose to a height of 8 thous. M, however, is to achieve cost the lives of two scientists, the pioneers of aeronautics Croce Spinelli and SIVEL who died from suffocation and were buried in Paris's famous Pere Lachaise cemetery.
In recent years the word "genocide" has become very popular.However, few know where it happened.He coined the Polish jurist Raphael Lemkin after the pogroms of the Armenian people by the Turks at the beginning of the last century.They began April 13, 1909 in Cilicia.Then, as a result of the massacre of Armenians by the Turks killed more than 30 thousand women, old people and children.They were killed just because they were Christians and would not betray the faith of their fathers.
400 years ago on April 13 in the northern capital has died Russian Tsar Boris Godunov.This event, many historians associate with the beginning of the Troubles - one of the darkest and most mysterious periods in Russian history.The kings and pretenders to the throne were replaced with kaleidoscopic rapidity and palace coups and civil wars have occurred so often that their exact number today, no one remembers.
April 10 was truly a black day in the history of the submarine fleet.On this day in 1963 off the coast of the United States (by the way, in the geographical area of the Bermuda Triangle) disappeared newest nuclear submarine "Thresher".However, nuclear-powered ships were lost 129 scientists and crew members.The exact cause of death of the underwater vessel until now no one knows.
It was necessary to happen in the same day, April 10, 1970 but caught fire and sank Soviet modern submarine K-8.Fire on board the boat caused the death of 52 people.It was the first, but unfortunately, not the last victim in the history of the Russian nuclear submarine fleet.
After 19 years, 7 April 1989, the tragedy was repeated.Then, under mysterious circumstances on fire until the end and the bottom supersubmarina poshlana "Komsomolets".The cold waters of the Norwegian Sea, then found his grave 42 sailor.
trouble comes unexpectedly.In this truism in 1996 once again were able to see the inhabitants of the town.April 11 at the airport of the German city occurred one of the largest fire in the history of Germany.As a result of violence of fire died or became disabled, dozens of people, Dusseldorf airport burned down.The picture that emerged at the time of the fire, difficult to describe.Frantic with fear passengers waiting to board the plane, rushed in search of salvation and, finding no way out of the building, were killed in a fire, or suffocating in the smoke.
no less a nightmare experienced and the passengers of the liner "Princess Kashmir", en route from Hong Kong to Indonesia.This tragedy took place April 12, 1955, about her once made headlines around the world.Then, on board the aircraft was the Chinese government delegation of 12 people.They all died.The cause of the tragedy was the explosion of a bomb on board.Who planned the attack and carried the infernal machine in the plane is still not known.
badly for thousands of Americans became the date of April 18th.On this day in 1906 in San Francisco was one of the biggest earthquakes in the history of mankind.The strength of the tremors reached 8.3 on the Richter scale.Megapolis was destroyed to the ground, the cataclysm has killed thousands of people."The city is dead.Everything was destroyed, "- she wrote an eyewitness of the accident, the famous writer Jack London.
That is not a complete list of disasters and accidents that have occurred at different times in different places in the middle of April.
If we slightly expanded the "Bermuda Triangle" of time, it will incorporate the Chernobyl accident, the death of Vladimir Komarov on the "Soyuz-1", the birth of Hitler and many other lesser known, but no less tragic dates and dramatic event in the history of mankind.
Oleg Pilipchenko
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