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The St. Francis Dam National Memorial Foundation is a non-profit organization, established in 2019, with the goal of raising funds to support the United States Forest Service in building and maintaining the St. Francis Dam Disaster National Memorial and Monument, including the construction of a visitor center and a memorial wall with the names ...
September 25, 1939 – A tropical storm known as El Cordonazo, or The Lash of St. Francis, made landfall near Long Beach with sustained winds of 50 mph (85 km/h), which as of 2025 is the most recent tropical storm landfall in California. The storm killed 45 people across southern California, and another 48 people at sea, with residents caught ...
Rosa Cordova was pregnant with her youngest son, Rudolph, when the St. Francis Dam failed on 12 March 1928. She was among those who helped identify the bodies of victims recovered in the wake of the disaster. [2] Ignacio Cordova found the body of a school friend lodged in a treetop beside the Santa Clara River bed.
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St. Francis Dam: Accident – dam failure Santa Clarita, California: 581 1947 Texas City disaster: Accident – explosion Texas City, Texas: Ammonium nitrate on board ship 501+ 1896 Tornado outbreak sequence of May 1896: Tornado outbreak sequence Central United States, Southern United States: $2,900,000,000 (1997)
First St. Marcellus flood, storm surge Holy Roman Empire: 1219 33,000 1954 Yangtze River floods: China: 1954 27,000–1,500,000 1974 Bangladesh flood due to monsoon rain Bangladesh: 1974 26,000–240,000 1975 Banqiao Dam failure and floods China: 1975 25,000–40,000 St. Marcellus flood / Grote Mandrenke, storm tide Holy Roman Empire, Denmark: 1362
Between 1924 and 1926, the canyon was the site of the construction of the St. Francis Dam. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power began filling a reservoir in the San Francisquito Canyon in 1926. At 11:57 pm on March 12, 1928, the dam catastrophically failed, and the resulting flood took the lives of at least 431 people.
St. Francis Dam: Santa Clarita, California, US Dam ~600 dead [3] ... Brumadinho dam disaster: Brumadinho, Brazil: Tailings dam: 270 dead 2020–present. Year Structure