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Arthur Rothstein's Farmer and Sons Walking in the Face of a Dust Storm, a Resettlement Administration photograph taken in Cimarron County, Oklahoma, in April 1936. The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s.
The 1931 China floods, or the 1931 Yangtze–Huai River floods, was a devastating flood that occurred from June to August 1931 in China, hitting major cities such as Wuhan, Nanjing and beyond, and eventually culminated in a dike breach along Lake Gaoyou on 25 August 1931. Fatality estimates vary widely.
The world's tallest building (for the next 35 years) was constructed, opening as the Empire State Building on May 3, 1931, in New York City. The Golden Gate Bridge was constructed, opening on May 27, 1937, in San Francisco, USA. Kavanagh Building is completed in 1936, becoming the tallest skyscraper in Latin America until 1947.
The evidence for this drought is also primarily in tree-ring, rather than rain gauge, data. The 1890s drought, between 1890 and 1896, was the first to be widely and adequately recorded by rain gauges, with much of the American West having been settled.
1931 187 Ulaanbaatar-Tov area, heavy rain, mostly during August Mongolia: 1982 182 Rio Grande do Sul floods Brazil: 2024 172 2012 Russian floods: Krymsk: 2012 165 2004 Brazil flood, mainly São Paulo, Pemambuco, torrential rain, mudslide Brazil: 2004 159 Sarno flood and landslide Italy: 1998 154 KwaZulu-Natal: South Africa: 1995 141+
A sudden decline in birthrates permanently "scarred" the long-term population growth of the Soviet Union in a way similar to that of World War II. Estimates of Soviet deaths attributable to the 1932–1933 famine vary wildly, but are typically given in the range of millions.
Here are some fun map facts for you: one of the oldest surviving maps is the Babylonian Map of The World. Archaeologists date it back to around 700 to 500 B.C. The map was a clay tablet nearly the ...
The Chinese famine of 1928–1930 occurred as widespread drought hit Northwestern and Northern China, most notably in the provinces of Henan, Shaanxi and Gansu. [1] Mortality is estimated to be within 6 million, which already included deaths from famine-led diseases. [ 2 ]