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Aoyate drought in the late 18th or early 19th century; 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia; 2008–2009 Kenya drought; 2011 East Africa drought; Sahel drought. 2010 Sahel famine; 2012 Sahel drought; Eastern Cape drought; 2017 Somali drought; 2018–2021 Southern African drought; 2020–2023 Horn of Africa drought; 2021 Somali drought; Food security ...
Lombok, drought and malnutrition, exacerbated by restrictions on regional rice trade: Indonesia: 50,000 [157] 1966–1967 Rice crisis [158] Burma: 1967–1970: Famine caused by Nigerian Civil War and blockade: Biafra: 2,000,000: 1968–1972: Sahel drought created a famine that killed a million people [159] Mauritania, Mali, Chad, Niger and ...
1540 European drought - Extreme drought and heatwave lasting 11 months in Europe. July 1743 heatwave in China - Beijing reached 44.4 °C (111.9 °F) on July 25, higher than any modern records. 11,400 people reportedly died. [1] July 1757 heatwave – Europe, hottest summer in Europe since 1540 and until 2003. [2] [3] [4] 1808 United Kingdom ...
87 people (including 78 firefighters) killed and several towns destroyed across north Idaho and western Montana. ~2,000 separate blazes burned an area the size of Connecticut in what is believed to have been the largest fire in recorded U.S. history up to that point, although it has since been exceeded by the 2011 Texas wildfires and the 2020 ...
The Grande Seca (English: Great Drought), or the Brazilian drought of 1877–1878, was the largest and most devastating drought in Brazilian history. [2] It caused the deaths of between 400,000 and 500,000 people.
The U.S. has droughts in every state except Alaska and Kentucky — the greatest number in history, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. According to the tracker, just more than 45 percent of ...
Yale's archrival, the Harvard Crimson, can claim the title of longest tournament drought in history. TThe Crimson went 66 years, from 1946 to 2012, without an appearance in the NCAA Men's ...
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