some major bad events that happened in the last ~40 years in the coming week:
Sep 06
#1997 â Diana, Princess of Wales is laid to rest in front of a television audience of more than 2.5 billion.
Sep 07
#1979 â The Chrysler Corporation asks the United States government for USD $1.5 billion to avoid bankruptcy.
# 1999 â A 5.9 magnitude earthquake rocks Athens, rupturing a previously unknown fault, killing 143, injuring more than 500, and leaving 50,000 people homeless.
# 2004 â Hurricane Ivan, a Category 5 hurricane hit Grenada, killing 39 and damaging 90% of its buildings.
#2008 â The US Government takes control of the two largest mortgage financing companies in the US, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Sep 08
# 1970 â Hijacking (and subsequent destruction) of three airliners to Jordan by Palestinians; the events to follow would later become known as Black September
Sep 09
# 1965 â Hurricane Betsy makes its second landfall near New Orleans, Louisiana, leaving 76 dead and $1.42 billion ($10â12 billion in 2005 dollars) in damages, becoming the first hurricane to top $1 billion in unadjusted damages.
# 1966 â The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
# 1969 â Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 DC-9 collides in flight with a Piper PA-28 and crashes near Fairland, Indiana.
Sep 10
# 1972 â The United States suffers its first loss of an international basketball game in a disputed match against the Soviet Union at Munich, Germany.
# 1976 â A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.
#2008 â The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.
Sep 11
# 1968 â Air France Flight 1611 crashes off Nice, France, killing 89 passengers and 6 crew.
#1973 â A coup in Chile headed by General Augusto Pinochet topples the democratically elected president Salvador Allende. Pinochet remains in power for almost 17 years.
#1982 â The international forces that were guaranteeing the safety of Palestinian refugees following Israel's 1982 Invasion of Lebanon leave Beirut. Five days later, several thousand refugees are massacred in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.
#1992 â Hurricane Iniki, one of the most damaging hurricanes in United States history, devastates Hawaii, especially the islands of Kauai and Oahu.
#2001 â The September 11 attacks take place in the United States. Airplane hijackings result in the collapse of the World Trade Center in New York City, destruction of the western portion of The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and a passenger airliner crash in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
# 2007 â Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of all bombs.