Statistics for Disasters and Accidents by year

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Disasters	Year	% Correct
9/11	2001	97%
Sinking of the Titanic	1912	83%
Chernobyl disaster	1986	83%
Bombing of Dresden in World War II	1945	71%
Assassination of John F. Kennedy	1963	69%
Start of the COVID-19 pandemic	2019	69%
Hindenburg disaster (LZ 129)	1937	66%
Beirut explosion	2020	60%
Hurricane Katrina	2005	57%
Spanish flu	1918	54%
Deepwater Horizon oil spill	2010	54%
Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami	2011	51%
Great Fire of London	1666	46%
Munich massacre	1972	46%
Tenerife airport disaster	1977	46%
Malaysia-Airlines-Flight 17	2014	46%
Malaysia-Airlines-Flight 370	2014	46%
Columbine High School massacre	1999	40%
Coventry Blitz	1940	34%
Three Mile Island accident	1979	34%
Lockerbie bombing (Pan Am Flight 103)	1988	34%
Sinking of the MS Estonia	1994	34%
Sri Lanka tsunami train wreck	2004	34%
Bhopal chemical disaster	1984	31%
Hillsborough disaster	1989	31%
Eruption of Krakatoa	1883	29%
Great Smog of London	1952	29%
Tokyo subway sarin attack	1995	20%
Sinking of MV Wilhelm Gustloff	1945	17%
Banqiao Dam failure	1975	17%
New York City blackout	1977	17%
Moore tornado Oklahoma	2013	17%
Bengal famine	1943	14%
Bhola cyclone, East Pakistan	1970	14%
Tangshan earthquake	1976	14%
Japan-Air-Lines-Flight 123	1985	14%
Dyatlov Pass incident	1959	11%
Wall Street bombing	1920	9%
St. Francis Dam collapse	1926	9%
Lake Nyos disaster	1986	9%
Oppau nitrogen explosion	1921	6%
Lima stadium disaster	1964	6%
Perfect Storm	1991	6%
Benxihu coal-dust explosion	1942	3%
Ponte das Barcas disaster Porto	1809	0%
Haiyuan earthquake	1920	0%
St Nedelya Church assault	1925	0%
Kyshtym disaster	1957	0%
Sverdlovsk anthrax leak	1979	0%
Sinking of Spice Islander I	2011	0%