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The U.S. Weather Bureau would describe this tornado as "the most officially observed one in history". [52] 1940 Blizzard: 154 $2 million Armistice Day Blizzard: North and Central Midwest Damage total not adjusted for inflation. 1938 Hurricane: 600 Great New England Hurricane: 1938 Flood: 115 Los Angeles Flood of 1938: Los Angeles 1937 Flood ...
The official death count was previously 64. [9] The storm caused $90 billion (2017 USD) in damage in Puerto Rico, and three deaths in the U.S. Virgin Islands, plus 75 deaths and $1.6 billion in damage across the rest of the Caribbean. 2,823 1928 1928 Okeechobee hurricane: Tropical cyclone Florida, Puerto Rico: $800,000,000 (2005)
This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths directly or indirectly caused by the deadliest wars in history. These numbers encompass the deaths of military personnel resulting directly from battles or other wartime actions, as well as wartime or war-related civilian deaths, often caused by war-induced epidemics , famines , or genocides .
These timelines of world history detail recorded events since the creation of writing roughly 5000 years ago to the present day. For events from c. 3200 BC – c. 500 see: Timeline of ancient history; For events from c. 500 – c. 1499, see: Timeline of post-classical history; For events from c. 1500, see: Timelines of modern history
March 4, 1877 – After only two days as president-elect and vice president-elect, Hayes becomes the 19th president and Wheeler becomes the 19th vice president; 1877 – Reconstruction ends; 1877 – Nez Perce War; 1878 – Bland–Allison Act; 1878 – Morgan silver dollars first minted; 1879 – Thomas Edison creates first commercially viable ...
Death count Event Location Year 930,000–2,000,000 1887 Yellow River flood: China: 1887 8,967,000–4,000,000 1931 China floods: China: 1931 400,000–893,303
2011 – A series of tornadoes cause heavy damage in the South, Alabama being the hardest hit. 324 people are killed in the deadliest American natural disaster since Hurricane Katrina. 2011 – Osama bin Laden , leader of al-Qaeda and mastermind of the September 11 attacks , is killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan , by U.S. Navy SEALs.
The following are timelines of modern history, from the end of the Middle Ages, c. 1400 – c. 1500, [1] ... For a timeline of events from 1501 to 1600, ...