On this day in 1883, west of Java in Indonesia, the volcano, Krakatoa, violently erupts.

Listen to a first-hand account of the immense destruction from a ship’s journal, which was just off the coast of the volcano.

Today is August 27, 2020.

This is the Librarian’s Almanac.

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