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January 22, 2007
- A large bushfire is raging North of Sydney. (Daily Telegraph)
January 20, 2007
- The United States military has confirmed that all 13 U.S. soldiers aboard a Blackhawk military helicopter were killed when it crashed near Baghdad, Iraq. (Los Angeles Times)
January 13, 2007
- At least 2 coal miners in Cucumber, West Virginia were killed inside an underground mine after the roof collapsed when a pillar fell over. (USA Today)
January 1, 2007
- Adam Air Flight 574, a Boeing 737 with 102 people on board, has been lost without trace over Indonesia. (Sky News)

December 27, 2006
- Reports say that hundreds of people are dead after a gasoline pipeline exploded in the northern suburbs of Lagos, Nigeria. Reuters
December 15, 2006
- A severe windstorm hits the American Pacific Northwest, with wind gusts reported as high as 97 miles per hour. A state of emergency was declared as eight people were killed in Washington, and at the peak of the storm over one million people were without electricity. (KIRO and AP)
December 9, 2006
- 46 women are killed by a fire in the womans ward of a drug rehabilitation centre in Moscow, Russia. (CNN)
December 1, 2006
- Typhoon Durian strikes the Philippines, killing at least 406 people, many as a result of subsequent mudslides. The death toll is speculated to rise into the thousands. (CNN)

November 17, 2006
- Over two million people are without drinkable water in the greater Vancouver, Canada area, after heavy November rainfall polluted water reservoirs, thus contaminating the area's water supply. (London Free Press)
November 16, 2006
- A tornado strikes a mobile home park in the small town of Riegelwood, North Carolina, killing eight people and injuring twenty. (CNN)
November 13, 2006
- A Metrorail collides with a truck just outside of Cape Town, South Africa, killing twenty seven people and injuring six more. (BBC)
- Two high voltage power lines in Germany fail, and as a result a cascade of cuts as automatic safety devices cut millions of customers in order to prevent a total blackout of Europe. Parts of Germany, Belgium, France (including parts of Paris), Spain, and Italy were affected. WikiNews
November 22, 2006
- An explosion that was "equivalent to a 2,000 lb. bomb" and registered 0.5 on the Richter scale decimated an area of Danvers, Massachusetts. There was some damage to houses in the area, but no injuries or deaths were reported. (Associated Press)
- Nine people are confirmed dead in a fire in a leather bag factory in Kolkata's South 24 Pargana district in Topsia. area.(CNN IBN)

October 29, 2006
- ADC Flight 53 crashes shortly after taking off from Abuja International Airport in Nigeria, killing more than 100 passengers including Mohammadu Maccido, the Sultan of Sokoto. (CNN)
October 27, 2006
- Arson is suspected in a California wildfire that has resulted in the deaths of four firefighters, and another being seriously injured. (WikiNews)
October 17, 2006
- Two metro trains collide in Rome, killing at least two people and injuring about 120 others. (BBC)
October 13, 2006
- A surprisingly early October lake effect snowstorm moves through the Great Lakes area, dumping up to two feet of snow in certain places around Buffalo, New York. (Houston Chronicle)
October 11, 2006
- Major League Baseball pitcher Cory Lidle and his flight instructor were killed when his private plane crashes into a building in Manhattan. (CNN) (The New York Times)
- Twelve people have died following a train collision at Zoufftgen in north-east France, near the Luxembourg border. (BBC)
October 6, 2006
- Up to 17,000 residents of Apex, North Carolina have been evacuated after a chlorine gas leak occurred during a hazardous waste facility explosion and fire. (CNN)

September 30, 2006
- Three lanes of the overpass on Boulevard de la Concorde and a pedestrian sidewalk collapsed onto Autoroute 19 in the Montreal area, Quebec. Two cars were trapped under, 5 were killed and at least 6 are injured, 2 critically. (Reuters) (CTV NEWS)
- In Nigeria, the collapse of a dam wall kills forty people in Gusau, Zamfara state. 500 homes were also swept away by surging waters from the dam collapse. (ABC Australia)
September 29, 2006
- A Brazilian Air Force search and rescue team locates the wreckage of Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 near the town of Peixoto de Azevedo, in northern Mato Grosso state. The Boeing 737-800 disappeared from radar after allegedly colliding in mid-air with an Embraer Legacy executive jet. There are no reports on survivors. (Reuters) (Globo, Portuguese) (AP)

September 22, 2006
- A prototype Transrapid Maglev train crashes into a maintenance vehicle on elevated track in Emsland, Germany, killing 23 people and severely injuring 10. (Washington Post/Reuters) (BBC) (Deutsche Welle)

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