<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion" id="mwhQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Halifax Explosion">Halifax Explosion</a>: A munitions explosion near <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax,_Nova_Scotia" id="mwhg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Halifax, Nova Scotia">Halifax, Nova Scotia</a> kills more than 1,900 people in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_artificial_non-nuclear_explosions#Largest_accidental_artificial_non-nuclear_explosions_by_magnitude" id="mwhw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Largest artificial non-nuclear explosions">largest artificial explosion up to that time</a>.