Some Horrible And Amazing Events In The Modern History Of The World--1

**-- Jonestown Massacre** Perhaps on of the most disturbing event in modern history, the Jonestown Massacre was the site of the largest recorded mass suicide and point of origin for the phrase "drinking the Kool aid" On Nov,16 , 1978, more than 900 from the settlement of Jonestown, Guyana willingly died from poisoning. (Pictures above). The cult settlement was established by Jim Jones- a communist who founded his own church, the People;s Temple- in the early 1970. Jonestown was meant to be a utopia for its citizens, but as so often is the case, fell far short of its idyllic goals. Jonestown was a cesspool for illness, hard labor, overcrowded housing and food shortages. In 1978, Congressman Len Ryan visited Jonestown as part of an investigation, but he and several other members of his party died in a shooting at an airstrip outside of Jonestown. Jones grew paranoid after the incident and gathered the congregation to inform them that they were no longer safe from US government. Jones told the congregation that that the only way to escape from their cluches was to commit a "revolutionary act of suicide". Mre than 900 people took part. Jonestown residents infused grape flavored flavor Aid with cyanide, administering it to chidren through syringes. According to reports, 918 people (including Jones) died, though a few survived this unprecedented act of mass suicide. **--Tanguska Explosion**--

On June 30, 1908, an explosion 1,000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, estimated to have the the effects of 5.0 magnitude eartgquake, and was as hot and bright as the sun shook the wilderness of Tunguska, Siberia. about 80 million trees fell and the explosion lit up the night sky, able to be seen as far away as London. To this date, nobody is quite sure what caused the Tunguska Event, Witnesses claim that a fireball descended from the sky to cause the devastation, though some scientists believe that a meteor exploded just above the ground. Some wilder theories posit that UFO crashed into earth, that it was all Nikola Tesla's fault somehow, and even that a black hole touched the earth. But the real truth remains a mystery.