Today is the 71st anniversary of the Hindenburg disaster and I'm going to admit - while it was a horrific event, the videos from that day have always fascinated me. The size of the blimp and the way it peels apart as it bursts into flames is a spectacular sight.

Here's a video report from the day:

I won't detail the story, since everybody has at least a vague idea of what happened that day (but here's the Wikipedia page [1], just in case.)