The SS Mont-Blanc was a French cargo ship fully loaded with wartime explosives that collided with the Norwegian vessel SS Imo. Approximately twenty minutes later, a fire on board the SS Mont-Blanc ignited her explosive cargo, causing a cataclysmic explosion that devastated the Richmond District. (6 December 1917)
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Wednesday 31st of January 1996 (x) — Another 1400 people are injured when a commando of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam crash a lorry containing about 440 pounds of high explosives through the main gate. The suicide bombers were Raju, Subramanium Vigneswaram aka Kittu and Sivasamy Dharmendra aka Raju.