On this day — August 8

Seventeen thousand acres of land are burned and at least 101 people are killed, with two others missing, when a series of wildfires break out on the island of Maui in Hawaii.

Russia, kills five people.

Pakistan with a suicide blast and shooting, killing between 70 and 94 people, and injuring around 130 others.

Texas.

A mudslide in Zhugqu County, Gansu, China, kills more than 1,400 people.

killing nine people.

Poland to Prague, Czech Republic strikes a part of a motorway bridge that had fallen onto the railroad track near Studénka railway station in the Czech Republic and derails, killing eight people and injuring 64 others.

China until August 24.

New York, the most powerful tornado in New York to date and the first in Brooklyn since 1889.

STS-118 Mission: Endeavour takes off on a mission to the International Space Station.

killing 10 soldiers.