Incidents on 3 January 2024
Wednesday, 3 January 2024 — 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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For the first time in history, all five major storm surge gates in the Netherlands are closed simultaneously in the wake of a storm.
Flash Airlines Flight 604 crashes into the Red Sea, resulting in 148 deaths, making it one of the deadliest aviation accidents in Egyptian history.
Baikal Airlines Flight 130 crashes near Mamoney, Irkutsk, Russia, resulting in 125 deaths.
Varig Flight 797 crashes near Akouré in the Ivory Coast, resulting in 50 deaths.
The SL-1 nuclear reactor, near Idaho Falls, Idaho, is destroyed by a steam explosion in the only reactor incident in the United States to cause immediate fatalities.
A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower.
Over 640 are killed after a magnitude 6.4 earthquake strikes the Mexican states Puebla and Veracruz.
An Atlantic coast storm sets the lowest confirmed barometric pressure reading (955.0 mb (28.20 inHg)) for a non-tropical system in the continental United States.
A magnitude 7.7 earthquake destroys the city of Almaty in Russian Turkestan.
A gun battle in the East End of London leaves two dead. It sparked a political row over the involvement of then-Home Secretary Winston Churchill.
Historical entries from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), filtered to disasters and incidents.