1) Man-made disaster in Latvia
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[ship] On August 13, 1950 the steamer Mayakovsky (named for Soviet poet Vladimir Mayakovsky) sank at around 12:00pm local time due overloading the vessel with too many people. Mayakovsky sank in the center of Riga, just 12-15 meters from the present day site of the Stone Bridge. A total of 147 people died, including 48 children. It was the ...
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