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Today in Military History

April 27 in Military HistoryToday

The overloaded SS Sultana before her catastrophic explosion on the Mississippi River, April 1865

Defining Moment · 161 years ago today

The Sinking of the SS Sultana

The steamboat SS Sultana, massively overloaded with 2,300 recently released Union POWs against a legal capacity of 376, exploded on the Mississippi River near Memphis. Three boilers detonated, killing approximately 1,168 people, the deadliest maritime disaster in American history, exceeding even the Titanic.

Also on this day1813Battle of York, Capture of Toronto 1941Athens Falls to Germany 1978Saur Revolution in Afghanistan 1805Battle of Derna

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