December 26, 1811, was a deadly night in Richmond Virginia when the scenery of the Richmond Theatre caught fire during a show. The Pantomime, ?The Bleeding Nun? was just starting the second act when the raised scenery of the first act caught fire, also igniting the 35 other scenes hanging above the stage. Once the flames were noticed, panic overcame the crowd. Everyone began pushing and running toward the one exit. Of the 598 people in the theatre that night, seventy-two persons died - 54 were women and 18 were men, among them Governor George W. Smith who had plunged back into the burning building to rescue his child.
A large portion of the Chinese part of Hong-Kong was destroyed by fire on December 26, 1851, including all the printing offices, the finest edifices and public buildings. There was a loss of nearly 500 houses and many human lives.
An exploding propane gas tank at the Taeyokale Hotel in Seoul, South Korea, caused the worst hotel fire in history on December 26, 1971. One-hundred-sixty-six people died as a result of the fire.
Tsunamis triggered by an earthquake under the Indian Ocean killed more than 200,000 people in 13 countries on December 26, 2004. At least 128,000 people died in Indonesia alone. The massive sea surge was triggered when an earthquake caused the sea floor to jolt vertically by about 33 feet, which displaced hundreds of cubic miles of water. The resulting waves travelled at speeds of up to 497mph.
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