Prepárese para una escalofriante cuenta atrás de tragedias navideñas. Desvelamos los sucesos más devastadores ocurridos durante las fiestas navideñas.
Category
🗞
NoticiasTranscripción
00:00Merry Christmas, Tom. Merry Christmas.
00:03Hey, hello and welcome to WatchMojo Español.
00:06I'm G, and today we will review the most bloody and horrible disasters that occurred at Christmas or around this date.
00:13You sort of imagine a disaster like this to be in appalling weather and driving rain and howling gales and it was just the most perfectly tranquil day.
00:26The invasion of Afghanistan by the U.S.
00:28At the time, no one knew, but they were sure of one thing.
00:32The situation in the Afghan provinces was becoming extremely serious,
00:36especially close to the Pakistan border where a large number of anti-communist combatants had taken refuge.
00:42The eve of Christmas in 1979 marked the beginning of one of the greatest disasters in Russian history.
00:48That day, the Soviet Union launched its invasion of Afghanistan.
00:51What began as a covert operation to support such a brave communist government, quickly became a decade-long jam.
01:00Years of death, displacement, and despair followed.
01:04They said they'd been invited in to repel foreign intervention after a coup.
01:09In truth, President Hafizullah Amin was killed in his Darul Aman Palace, not by Afghans, but by Soviet special forces, the Spetsnaz.
01:18The invasion was brutal, marked by ground-breaking tactics, indiscriminate bombings,
01:25and the use of landmines that still affect Afghan soil devastated Afghan society, creating millions of refugees.
01:32And it unleashed one of the fiercest battles of the Cold War, as the United States armed the Mujahideens.
01:39Hundreds of thousands of Afghan civilians died in the conflict.
01:43The Soviet army, as bad as it performed in a lot of cases in Afghanistan in the 80s, did a lot better than the Russians are doing in Ukraine.
01:51The Christmas Massacre in Congo.
01:53We've just arrived at Bukande village, which is one of the sites of recent attacks.
01:59The first thing you see when you come into the village are the graves where people have been trying to bury their loved ones.
02:04The Democratic Republic of Congo is not alien to tragedies, and the year 2008 ended with a terrible one.
02:11After weeks of riots and violence, Christmas 2008 brought few signs of consolation or joy.
02:17The Lord's Resistance Army, a terrorist Christian cult, unleashed a devastating massacre.
02:23On Christmas Eve, the LRA attacked villages throughout the Haudelelle province.
02:30More than 600 people were brutally murdered in ways too atrocious to describe here.
02:36Dozens of people were also kidnapped, including girls and children.
02:40They committed acts of sexual violence against women and razed entire villages.
02:45This massacre was part of a long terror campaign of the LRA, leaving scars that persist to this day.
02:53Some were killed here. How many? How many were killed here?
02:57Five.
02:58And then they stopped here and killed another five men.
03:01Earthquake in Erzincan.
03:04During Christmas 1939, uncertainty reigned as the world prepared for the storm of war.
03:11In the midst of this panorama, Turkey faced a natural disaster.
03:14An earthquake shook the Erzincan region on December 27 with a devastating magnitude of 7.8 Richter.
03:22Entire villages were razed, leaving more than 32,000 dead and many more wounded or homeless in the cold winter.
03:29While Christmas bells rang in other parts of the world,
03:33Erzincan only echoed the cries of the survivors and the rumbling of the structures collapsing.
03:39It was a Christmas season marked not by joy, but by resilience to ruin.
03:45The disaster of the Italian Salon.
03:47Someone yelled fire and there were, I think, one very narrow entrance to the second floor.
03:53It resulted in a stampede to get out.
03:56Screaming fire in a crowded theater is a classic moral story,
03:59cited by law schools around the world as an exception to the First Amendment.
04:04But for the attendants at the 1913 Christmas party in the Italian Hall,
04:10it was not just a metaphor, it was a deadly reality.
04:13The copper miners on strike and their relatives met that night in Calumet, Michigan,
04:18to celebrate a Christmas party.
04:20They sought a short break in their exhausting fight against mining exploitation.
04:24The hall was full of joy and solidarity,
04:27until an unidentified figure shouted fire in the crowded room.
04:32There was no fire, but the rush to escape became tragic when 73 people,
04:37mostly minors, were crushed on the narrow staircase.
04:42In 1913, no one said that the doors opened the wrong way.
04:45If it had been the case, it would have been in the news, it would have been in the reports, but it wasn't.
04:49The Tangiwai train disaster.
04:51Hey, hey, stop!
04:53Stop!
04:55Stop the train!
04:57Christmas Eve 1953 was supposed to be a day of peace for the New Zealanders,
05:03but nature had other plans.
05:05The volcanic crater of Mount Ruapehu exploded silently,
05:10spilling a deadly mixture of mud, water and volcanic rubble along its slopes.
05:15The current swept away the dam that contained the lake of the crater,
05:19weakening the railway bridge of Tangiwai.
05:22That Christmas Eve, an express train full of Christmas travelers
05:26was heading, without knowing it, towards the disaster.
05:35The train engineer saw the damage, but it was too late.
05:39He braked, saving the back of the train,
05:41while the front one fell into Ruapehu River.
05:45Of the 285 passengers, 151 died in the icy waters,
05:50becoming the worst railway tragedy in New Zealand.
05:55I couldn't believe what I saw, actually.
05:57A lighted carriage on its side,
06:00floating down, well, floating down on its side with the lights on,
06:05and the river, and then it suddenly went out.
06:08The Congress Library Fire
06:27The United States Congress Library has a very ardent history of tragedies.
06:31Its first collection was destroyed in flames in 1814,
06:35when British troops set fire to the Capitol during the 1812 War.
06:40The Congress rebuilt the library a year later,
06:43buying more than 6,000 volumes of Thomas Jefferson's personal collection.
06:57But on Christmas Eve 1851, the disaster hit again.
07:02A broken fireplace caused a fire in the library's main hall.
07:06Almost two-thirds of the library's collection,
07:08including much of Jefferson's donation, were destroyed.
07:12In total, the fire devoured 35,000 books, manuscripts and maps,
07:16turning what was supposed to be a season of joy,
07:20into a season of cultural loss.
07:25The Christmas Flood
07:32During the winter of 1717, the Dutch didn't have a Merry Christmas.
07:38While the families celebrated,
07:40a devastating tidal wave from the North Sea swept the country,
07:44breaking docks and flooding lower regions.
07:47Known as the Christmas Flood,
07:49it was one of the deadliest disasters in the history of the Netherlands,
07:53and it also affected Germany and Scandinavia.
07:56The waters of the river were flooded,
07:59leaving submerged communities and countless homes destroyed.
08:03Towns disappeared, cattle drowned,
08:06and survivors faced a frozen páramo,
08:08where the festive joy was replaced by grief.
08:18The Dutch, great experts in the history of the Netherlands,
08:21were the first to realize that this was not the end of the world.
08:26The Dutch, great experts in water management,
08:28were humiliated by the ferocity of nature.
08:31The tragedy highlighted the danger of living below sea level,
08:36and renewed efforts to fortify their defenses.
08:48Foundation of the Ku Klux Klan
08:56The foundation of the Ku Klux Klan
09:02The Christmas season of 1865 was bittersweet.
09:06The Civil War had ended, slavery was abolished,
09:09and the nation began to heal,
09:11but it was also a time of deep uncertainty.
09:14Abraham Lincoln was no longer there,
09:16the future of Reconstruction was uncertain,
09:18and not everyone accepted the promise of equality.
09:21On Christmas Eve, in Pulaski, Tennessee,
09:24a small group of Confederate veterans gathered.
09:27Enveloping their revanchist ambitions in a sinister secret command,
09:32they founded the Ku Klux Klan.
09:34Its name was inspired by the Greek word for circle.
09:38Nathan Bedford Forrest was the Klan's first imperial wizard,
09:42and the hoods and robes were used to frighten black people in their homes.
09:46What began as a fraternity quickly became a terrorist organization.
09:52The KKK used violence and intimidation to maintain white supremacy,
09:56and to undermine the fragile progress of Reconstruction.
10:00Instead of goodwill and peace, these men sowed fear and hatred,
10:04projecting a dark shadow over the country for the following decades.
10:08The tsunami of the Indian Ocean
10:11On December 26, 2004, it began with joy,
10:15but ended in an unimaginable tragedy,
10:19when the Indian Ocean unleashed one of the deadliest natural disasters in history.
10:23A huge earthquake off the coast of Sumatra
10:27caused a tsunami that devastated more than a dozen countries,
10:31from Indonesia to the Philippines,
10:35and the Philippines to the Philippines.
10:39Entire towns were engulfed by water walls,
10:43leaving devastation in their wake.
10:55Almost 230,000 lives were lost.
10:59Families were instantly separated, communities erased in a matter of minutes.
11:03Beaches that used to be full of festive tourists
11:07became scenes of unimaginable chaos and destruction.
11:11The tsunami struck without warning, with unparalleled ferocity,
11:15turning a time of peace into a time of world mourning.
11:27Before continuing, make sure to subscribe to our channel
11:31and activate the bell to receive notifications about our latest videos.
11:35Very well, let's go to the end.
11:37The Black Christmas
11:39They were old propaganda pictures from the neighboring American POW camp,
11:43for which the prisoners were forced to stage happy-looking occasions.
11:47On December 7, 1941, it will always be remembered
11:51for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,
11:55but a day earlier, the Japanese forces also launched their assault on the British colony of Hong Kong.
11:59Outnumbered by more than 2 to 1,
12:03the British resisted for 17 brutal days,
12:07but on Christmas Day, with the defenses destroyed and supplies exhausted,
12:11Hong Kong fell.
12:23For the survivors, the surrender marked the beginning of a nightmare.
12:27The Japanese troops unleashed a wave of atrocities,
12:31incursions of prisoners of war, sexual violence against innumerable women,
12:35and massive looting spread throughout the city.
12:39The towns on the outskirts were decimated, the civilians died of hunger or were murdered.
12:43Later, the end of the Hong Kong battle would become known as Black Christmas.
13:01Do you know other horrors that happened in the most wonderful time of the year?
13:05Tell us in the comments and don't miss these other videos of WatchMojo Español.