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September 21, 1921
On September 21, 1921, a storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 500–600 people.
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Featured · September 21, 1921
A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 500–600 people.
The Oppau explosion occurred on September 21, 1921, when approximately 4,500 tonnes of a mixture of ammonium sulfate and ammonium nitrate fertilizer stored in a tower silo exploded at a BASF plant in Oppau, now part of Ludwigshafen, Germany, killing at least 560 people and injuring about 2,000 more.
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1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1921st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 921st year of the 2nd millennium, the 21st year of the 20th…
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On September 21, 1921
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1921 A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 500–600 people. 1921 industrial disaster in present-day Ludwigshafen, Germany
The Oppau explosion occurred on September 21, 1921, when approximately 4,500 tonnes of a mixture of ammonium sulfate and ammonium nitrate fertilizer stored in a tower silo exploded at a BASF plant in Oppau, now part of Ludwigshafen, Germany, killing at least 560 people and injuring about 2,000 more.
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Other moments from 1921
- April 11 Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.
- April 2 The Autonomous Government of Khorasan, a military government encompassing the modern state of Iran, is established.
- August 14 Tannu Uriankhai, later Tuvan People's Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Soviet Russia).
- August 23 British airship R-38 experiences structural failure over Hull in England and crashes in the Humber Estuary; of her 49 British and American training crew, only four survive.
- August 28 Russian Civil War: The Red Army dissolves the Makhnovshchina after driving the Revolutionary Insurgent Army out of Ukraine.
- August 3 Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.
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