Some funny pages i have stumbled on:

Black_Tom_explosion, in 1916 the Germans blow up two million pounds of munition in New York.

Zubian, during WW1 the warship Zulu got hit in the stern, the Nubian in the bow. At Chatham Dockyard they made a new ship, Zubian, out of the stern from Nubian and the bow from Zulu.

1816, the year without a summer