Categories - Natural Phenomena
- Aristotle Isolates Science as a Discipline
- Armenian Earthquake Leads to Calls for Building Reform
- Avalanches in the Alps Lead to Snow-Management Programs
- Caribbean Volcano Erupts, Destroying Much of Island of Montserrat
- Donora, Pennsylvania, Suffers Deadly Temperature Inversion
- Drought Begins in the Sahel Region of Africa
- The Dust Bowl
- The Dust Bowl Chokes the Central United States
- Earthquake Levels San Francisco
- Earthquakes Devastate Mexico City
- Fires Devastate Communities in Southern California
- Gamow Explains Radioactive Alpha Decay
- Hurricane Levels Galveston, Texas
- Iceberg Sinks “Unsinkable” Ocean Liner Titanic
- Invasion of the Black Death
- Mount Pinatubo Erupts with Worldwide Consequences
- Mount St. Helens Erupts
- Nernst Develops Third Law of Thermodynamics
- Pauli Formulates Exclusion Principle
- Powerful Earthquake Hits Kobe, Japan
- Prolonged Worldwide Droughts Result in Famines
- San Francisco Earthquake
- Schrödinger Proposes Wave-Mechanical Theory of Atom
- Seven Climber Deaths on Mount Everest Echo Previous Year’s Tragedy
- Thomson Confirms Existence of Isotopes
- Typhoon Devastates East Pakistan
- Urey Discovers Deuterium and “Heavy Water”
- Yukawa Proposes Existence of Mesons