Incidents on 11 May 2023
Thursday, 11 May 2023 — before continuous monitoring began on 9 August 2026. For this day we hold earthquakes from the USGS catalogue (magnitude 2.5 and above) and a few historical records, not a full record of every incident.
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Fifteen people are killed and 46 injured in Kinshasa, DRC, in a stampede caused by tear gas being thrown into soccer stands by police officers.
An earthquake of magnitude 5.1 hits Lorca, Spain.
An American soldier in Iraq opens fire on a counseling center at Camp Liberty in Baghdad, killing five other US soldiers and wounding three.
After the aircraft's departure from Miami, a fire started by improperly handled chemical oxygen generators in the cargo hold of Atlanta-bound ValuJet Airlines Flight 592 causes the Douglas DC-9 to crash in the Florida Everglades, killing all 110 on board.
Fifty-six spectators die and more than 200 are injured in the Bradford City stadium fire.
The 1970 Lubbock tornado kills 26 and causes $250 million in damage.
In the deadliest of a series of tornadoes, an F5 tornado kills 114 in Waco, Texas.
Historical entries from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), filtered to disasters and incidents.