Join Kelli as she goes over the biggest, manmade, non-nuclear explosion in history - the Halifax Explosion.

On December 6th, 1917, a French ship filled with explosives was heading into Halifax Harbor, in Nova Scotia, Canada. At the same time, the Norwegian ship Imo was leaving to pick up supplies from New York to ship over to Europe to help with WWI. Unfortunately for thousands of people at Halifax, both at sea and on land, the two collided. The ensuing explosion killed upwards of 1,600 people, injured over 9,000 more, demolished the town, and cemented itself as the biggest (non-nuclear) explosion.

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