• the erfurt latrine disaster (1184) - during a hoftag (informal assembly) held by henry vi, king of germany, the combined weight of the assembled nobles caused the wooden second story floor of the building to collapse into the latrine cesspit below, where about 60 drowned in liquid excrement
• the anglo-zanzibar war (1896) - a 38 - 45 minute war between the united kingdom and sultanate of zanzibar
• the great molasses flood/boston molasses disaster (1919) - a 2.3 million gallon molasses filled storage tank burst resulting in a 35 mph wave that rushed through the streets of the north end neighborhood of boston, massachusetts, killing 21 and injuring 150
• the kentucky meat shower (1876) - between 11am and 12pm, what appeared to be chunks of red meat, fell from the sky in a 100-by-50-yard area

people

• đorđe martinović (1929 - 2000) - a serbian farmer who inserted a bottle into his anus which eventually led to the collapse of yugoslavia in 1991
• mary toft (1701 - 1763) - an englishwoman who tricked doctors into believing she had given birth to rabbits