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ON THIS DAY IN LONDON
19th September 1978 Actor Ramin Karimloo, Phantom & Love Never Dies London, born in Tehran.
19th September 1972 Diplomat at the Israeli embassy killed by a letter bomb.
19th September 1946 Born today: John Coghlan, London, rock drummer (Status Quo)
19th September 1945 Nazi propagandist William Joyce (Lord Haw Haw) sentenced to death.
19th September 1867 Illustrator Arthur Rackham was born in Lewisham.
Top Disaster-related places to visit in London.
Events that caused great destruction or great loss of life don't come around very often. Every now and again someone or something wages a war on the city and it's inhabitants.
TOP 10 DISASTER RELATED SIGHTS IN LONDON:
MORE DISASTER SIGHTS:
11. Blow Up Bridge @ Macclesfield Bridge, Regents Park, London
12. All Hallows Church @ Byward Street, London
13. The Piccadilly Tornado @ 12 Sherwood Street, Piccadilly, London
14. Green Jackets Bandstand bomb @ Bandstand, Regents Park
15. Edgware Gas Explosion @ Highview Gardens, Edgware, London
16. Holland House @ Holland Park, Holland Walk, Kensington
17. House of Reeves @ 120 Church Street, Croydon
18. Thai Chilli Sauce Terror Cloud @ Thai Cottage, 34 D'arblay Street, Soho, London
19. Earls Court Big Wheel @ Earl's Court, London
20. Home of Titanic's Duff-Gordons @ 22 Lennox Gardens, Knighsbridge, London
21. 1867 Ice Skating Disaster @ Regent's Park Boating Lake, London
22. WT Stead lived here @ 5 Smith Square, Westminster, London
23. The Camden Markets @ Camden Lock Place
24. The Silvertown Explosion @ North Woolwich Road, London
25. The SS Montgomery Wreck @ Thames off Sheerness
26. Spanish Rooms Fire @ 18 Denmark Place, Tottenham Court Road
27. The atom bomb was born here @ Southampton Row, London
28. The Chinese Bridge and Pagoda @ St James Park
29. Houses Collapsed into Hole @ Ridley Road, Bromley
30. Scene of Great Tooley St Fire @ Cottons Wharf, Southwark, London
31. Lepers, Beer, and Thespians @ 268-269 Tottenham Court Road
32. Sandhurst School @ Minard Road, Catford, London
33. The Battles of Brentford @ Syon Park, Brentford, Middlesex
34. Turner and Rushgrove House @ Rushgrove Street, Woolwich
35. London's 9/11 Memorial @ Grosvenor Square, London
36. Dr Johnson's Dictionary House @ 17 Gough Square, London
37. The Cutty Sark @ 2 Greenwich Church Street, Greenwich, London
38. The Gherkin @ 30 St Mary Axe
39. St Magnus the Martyr @ Lower Thames Street, London
40. Bomb Plotters Flat @ 386A Forest Road, Walthamstow
41. Exchange Alley @ Bank, London
42. Vincent C. Richmond lived here @ 24 Silverdale Road, Highams Park
43. The Apollo Theatre @ Shaftesbury Avenue
44. The Piccadilly Hotel's Tornado @ 12 Sherwood Street, Piccadilly, London
45. Thames Flood Barrier @ Unity Way, Woolwich
46. 21/7 Bomb Factory @ 58 Curtis House, Ladderswood Way, New Southgate,
47. Grenfell Tower @ Station Walk, North Kensington
mapping London's most interesting and unusual places and history
