Oppau 1921

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary in September 2021 the German magazine Der Spiegel wrote that what happened at the Badische Anilin- & Sodafabrik (hereafter BASF) facility in Oppau at 7:32 a.m. on 21 September 1921 was “bis heute größte Explosionskatastrophe der deutschen Geschichte” (“still considered the largest explosion disaster in German history”) in […]

Oklahoma City 1995

Shortly after 11 a.m., two hours after the blast(s) that rocked Oklahoma City on 19 April 1995, Mayor Ron Norick told the press that the explosion had been caused by a car bomb. When asked about the location of the car bomb, Norick said the Police Department had at first thought it was in the […]