|
DATE |
COUNTRY |
# OF DEATHS |
|
1340/1400 |
BLACK DEATH - PLAGUE |
75 MILLION
also see:
http://www.greatdreams.com/sacred/eighth-gate.htm |
|
1675-1676 |
King Phillip's
War |
(fought mostly by local militiamen from
Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island)
|
|
1676 |
Bacon's Rebellion (Virginia) |
By 1800, 10 to 15 million blacks had been
transported as slaves to the Americas, representing perhaps one-third of
those originally seized in Africa. It is roughly estimated that Africa
lost 50 million human beings to death and slavery at the hands of
slave traders and plantation owners in Western Europe and America,
History is a Weapon |
|
1689-1697 |
King
William's War (War of the League of Augsburg) |
This was the first French/Indian war. 1,500 Iroquois attacked the New
France settlement at La Chine In early 1692, in the
Candlemas Massacre an estimated 150 Abenakis commanded by officers of
New France entered the town of York, Maine, killing about 100 of the
English settlers |
|
1702-1713 |
Queen Anne's
War
(War of the Spanish Succession) |
This is the second French/Indian war . The Apalachee Massacre was and
episode that took place during Queen Anne's war in 1704.
The ex-governor
of
South Carolina
James Moore launched an invasion of the
Apalachee territory in western
Florida with 50 Englishmen and 1,000
Creek. They targeted the Apalachee because of the 14
Spanish
Franciscan
missions which had been established there for roughly a
century. Moore's forces defeated the combined Spanish and
Apalachee forces (which consisted of about 30 Spaniards and 400
Apalachees) lead by Captain Mexia.. All but one of the Spanish
missions was destroyed and Moore's forces looted the area,
capturing about 1,400
catholic Apalachees who were then sold into
slavery
|
|
1715-1716 |
Yamasee War
(Native Americans)
South Georgia and North Florida |
(both: yăm´esē, yäm´-) Yamasi , or Yemasee ,
Native North Americans whose language belongs to the Muskogean branch of
the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock. In the late 16th cent., when Spanish
missions were established among them, the Yamasee lived in S Georgia and N
Florida. They remained under Spanish rule until 1687, when they
revolted and fled to South Carolina. The Yamasee were initially friendly
toward the English, but in
1715 war broke
out and they massacred more than 200 white settlers. |
|
1739-1742 |
War
of Jenkins' Ear (Georgia and Florida)
Statistics |
On may 9th 1741, after 57 battle days,
with no food, half of his troops and sailors dead or sick by
tropical plagues, Vernon decided to sail back to Jamaica,
abandoned many vessels in the way out, due to the lack of people
to steer them.
The result: In the British side: 6000
British died - only 300 of the 4000 Virginian colonist survived.
7500 were wounded or sick and most of them died later on.
50 ships were taken or sunk for the Spanish defences or the
British who had not enough men to steer them. 1500 destroyed or
captured canons. At the end, about 16000 British died.
On the Spanish side: 800 died - 1200 wounded
or sick 6 ships sunk 350 canons temporarily taken by the enemy.
|
|
1744-1748 |
King George's War
(War of Austrian Succession)
the third of the French and Indian wars |
With the death
of Charles VI in 1740, the male line of the
Austrian
Hapsburgs ended. At the end of May, Frederick, with about
65,000 men, lay in the camp of
Frankenstein, between
Glatz and Neisse, while behind the
Karkonosze about
Landeshut Prince Charles had 85,000 Austrians
and Saxons. On
4 June
was fought the Battle of Hohenfriedberg or Striegau, the greatest victory
as yet of Frederick's career, and, of all his battles, excelled perhaps by
Leuthen and
Rossbach only. Prince Charles suffered a complete defeat and withdrew
through the mountains as he had come. Frederick's pursuit was methodical,
for the country was difficult and barren, and he did not know the extent
to which the enemy was demoralised. The Austro-Saxon army was crushed by
Frederick's advance; more than a third
of them were killed, and the rest fled for
their lives into the forests, where they were too widespread to regroup. |
|
1754-1763 |
French and Indian (Seven Years) War |
The tardiness of Bligh in moving his forces allowed a French force of
10,000 men from
Brest to catch up with him and open fire on the re-embarkation troops.
A rear-guard of 1,400 under General Dury held off the French while the
rest of the army embarked; they could not be saved, 750, including Dury,
were killed and the rest captured. |
|
1760-1761 |
Cherokee Uprising (Carolinas) |
The Cherokee and Virginians fell to fighting each other, with the
Virginians defeating the Cherokee, killing and
scalping about 20 of them. Later, the Virginians passed the scalps
off as those of Shawnees and collected bounties for them.
Two Cherokee warriors accused of the murder of white
settlers were turned over for execution, and 29 chiefs were given
as hostages, imprisoned at Fort Prince George In February of 1760, the
Cherokees attacked Fort Prince George in an attempt to rescue the
hostages. The fort's commander was killed, and his
replacement had all of the hostages executed and fended off the
attack.
Fort Ninety Six was also attacked, and withstood the siege |
|
1763-1764 |
Pontiac's Rebellion (fought mostly with militia from
Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia; in Michigan, New York and
Pennsylvania) |
|
Strength |
| ~3,000
soldiers[1] |
~3,500 warriors[2] |
|
Casualties and losses |
450 soldiers
killed,
2,000 civilians killed or captured,
4,000 civilians displaced |
~200 warriors killed,
possible additional war-related deaths from disease |
|
|
1771 |
War of the Regulators
(North Carolina)(Part of our own family
participated in this civil war) |
This was a small civil war between citizens of North Carolina.
Tryon reviewed the troops on May 3, 1771. There were 1,068 men; 151 were
officers. General Waddell and his 284 officers and men were
approaching Salisbury from the Cape Fear River. Governor Tryon and the
militia reached Hillsborough on May 9. General Waddell left Salisbury that
same day, but while crossing the Yadkin River he was met and stopped by a
large group of Regulators. The Regulators, estimated at about 2,000, were
waiting for Tryon's confrontation. Tryon's
forces lost nine to
death and sixty-one wounded, while the
Regulators lost the same number killed and had a large, but
undetermined number of people wounded. Tryon took about fifteen prisoners
and executed one on the spot with the idea of striking terror into the
hearts of the Regulators. The Regulators were compelled to retreat
from society and live life in the wilderness. Many migrated, some going to
Tennessee and down into the Mississippi River Valley. Others followed
Daniel Boone's trail into Kentucky. In fact, by 1772, just one year later,
about 1,500 of the former Regulators left North Carolina (12). |
|
1774 |
Lord Dunmore's War
(in Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio |
Following the 1768 treaty, British explorers, surveyors, and
settlers began pouring into the region. In September 1773, an
obscure hunter named
Daniel Boone led a group of about 50 emigrants in the first
attempt by British colonists to establish a settlement in
Kentucky County, Virginia. On
October 9, Boone's oldest son James and a small group of men
and boys who had left the main party to retrieve supplies were
attacked by a band of
Delawares, Shawnees, and Cherokees who had decided, in the
words of historian John Mack Faragher, "to send a message of their
opposition to settlement…" James Boone and
another boy were captured and gruesomely tortured to death.
The brutality of the killings sent shockwaves along the frontier,
and Boone's party abandoned their expedition. The massacre was one
of the first events in Dunmore's War. For the next several years,
the Indian nations opposed to the treaty increasingly attacked
settlers, mutilated and tortured to death the surviving men,
and took the women and children into slavery.
Immediately after the occurrence
of the Pipe Creek incident came the killing of the relatives of
the
Mingo
Chief Logan,
who up to this point had been peaceful towards the
settlers. With them was a small American child. It was not
known if Chief Logan had been involved in the murders and
kidnappings of the settler families or whether he had obtained the
child from other Shawnee-Ohio Confederates. Nonetheless, word was
sent to surrounding settlers. When the
Mingos were intoxicated the group of settlers that had been lying
in wait killed all of them and rescued the infant child.
The settlers who did the killing were under the leadership of
Daniel Greathouse, a settler living near the mouth of King's
Creek. On
October 10, before Lewis had commenced his movement across the
Ohio, he and his 1,100 men were surprised and attacked by warriors
under Chief
Cornstalk. The
Battle of Point Pleasant raged nearly all day and descended
into hand to hand combat. Lewis's army
suffered about 200 casualties, including Lewis's brother,
but the battle resulted in the defeat of the Ohio Confederate
warriors,
|
|
1775-1783 |
Revolutionary War |
|
Casualties and losses |
American
7,174 KIA
10,000 Killed from Disease
French
10,000 KIA
Spanish
5,000 Killed, Wounded or Captured
Dutch
500 Killed, Wounded, or Captured
Civillians
6,186 Killed
Total: 22,674 Killed, Wounded or Captured in Action |
British
8,500 KIA
German Mercenaries
3,000 KIA
Loyalists and Canadians
3,000 KIA
Native Americans
500 KIA
Total: 15,000 KIA |
|
|
1780-1890 |
Indian Wars
this is in addition to those listed separately |
Battle of Tippecanoe, Indiana in 1811; Navajo
Wars in New Mexico and Arizona, 1846-1868; and Yakima Wars in Washington,
Oregon, Idaho, 1855-1858; Sioux War in the Dakotas and
Montana, 1866-1890; Apache Wars in Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico in
1870-1886; Modoc War in California in 1872-1873; and the Nez Perce Wars in
Idaho and Montana in 1877 |
|
1786-1787 |
Shays Rebellion (Massachusetts) |
Governor James Bowdoin ordered the local militia of 600 men
under the command of General William Shepherd to protect the
Springfield court. Shays sent a message to Day proposing an attack
on
January 25,
1787,
before General Benjamin Lincoln's 4,000-man combined Boston and
Springfield militia could arrive. Day's response that his forces
would not be ready until
January 26 was never received (thus providing a real-world
example of the
Two Generals' Problem). Shays attacked the Armory not knowing
he would not have reinforcements.
When Shays and his forces attacked, Shepherd ordered a
warning shot, followed by a single round into the oncoming
mob. Two or three of the Shaysites
were killed, and the rest fled north. On the
opposite side of the river, Day's forces also fled north.
The militia captured many of the rebels on
February 4 in
Petersham, Massachusetts; by March there was no more
armed resistance.
|
|
1794 |
Whiskey Rebellion (Pennsylvania) |
The militia force of 12,950 men was organized, roughly the size of the
entire army in the Revolutionary War. Under the personal command of
Washington, Hamilton and Revolutionary War hero General
Henry "Lighthorse Harry" Lee, the army assembled in Harrisburg and
marched into
western Pennsylvania (to what is now
Monongahela) in October of 1794. the militia expended considerable
effort rounding up 20 prisoners, clearly demonstrating Federalist
authority in the national government. The men were imprisoned, where
one died, while two, including Philip
Vigol (later spelled Philip Wigal), were convicted of treason and
sentenced to death by hanging. Washington, however, pardoned them on the
grounds that one was a "simpleton," and the other, "insane |
|
1798-1800 |
Quasi-war with France (Atlantic Coast and West Indies) |
|
United States - Strength - France |
18 Frigates
4 Sloops
2 Brigs
3 Schooners
5,700 Sailors
365 privateers |
Unknown |
|
Casualties and losses |
20 dead
42 wounded |
Unknown |
|
|
1801-1805 |
War with the Barbary Pirates |
This war was acted out completely at sea:
|
|
1812-1815
September 1814 |
War of 1812
War
of 1812
Lake Champlain,
New York |
Participants - 287,000 -
United States
2,260 KIA
4,505 Wounded
4,535 Killed from Disease
500 Civillans Dead
Total-11,700 |
Britain
1,600 KIA
3,679 Wounded
3,321 Killed by disease or weather
Total-8,600 |
A U.S. naval victory on Lake Champlain in September 1814 compelled
one invading army to retreat to Canada, but not before other British
troops had burned Washington, D.C., in August and also occupied
northeastern Maine. British forces, however, failed to take Baltimore, Md.
During the bombardment of the city (September 13–14), American poet
Francis Scott Key wrote “The Star-Spangled Banner;” his verses later
became the U.S. national anthem. |
|
1817/1898 |
Indian Wars
First Seminole War |
Participants - 106,000 - Deaths - 1,000
(See more details at link)
1817-1819 First Seminole War - some escaped black
slaves became Seminoles. The blacks in the fort fired
their cannon at the U.S. soldiers and their Creek allies, but had no
training or experience in aiming the cannon. The Americans fired back, and
the ninth shot fired by the gunboats, a "hot shot" (a cannon ball heated
to a red glow), landed in the fort's powder magazine. The resulting
explosion, which was heard more than 100 miles (160 km) away in Pensacola,
leveled the fort. Of about 320 people who had been in the fort,
more than 250 died instantly, and many more died
from their injuries soon after. After the destruction of the fort,
the U.S. Army withdrew from Florida, but American
squatters and outlaws carried out raids against the Seminoles, killing the
Indians and stealing their cattle. Resentment over the killings and
thefts committed by white Americans spread among the Seminoles, leading to
retaliation, particularly stealing cattle back from the settlers. On
February 24, 1817, the Seminoles murdered Mrs.
Garrett, a woman living in
Camden County, Georgia,
and her children, one three years old and the other two months old
A week later a boat carrying supplies for Fort Scott,
under the command of Lt. R. W. Scott, was attacked on the Apalachicola
River. There were forty to fifty people on the boat,
including twenty sick soldiers, seven wives of soldiers, and possibly some
children. (While there are reports of four children being killed by the
Seminoles, they were not mentioned in early reports of the massacre, and
their presence has not been confirmed.) Most of the boat's passengers were
killed by the Indians.
As soon as Jackson arrived at St. Marks, the
two Indians were brought ashore and hanged. |
|
1831-1832 |
Black Hawk War |
The Black Hawk War was fought in 1832 in the
Midwestern United States. The war was named for
Black Hawk, a war chief of the
Sauk,
Fox, and
Kickapoo
Native Americans, whose
British Band fought against the
United States Army and
militia
from
Illinois and the
Michigan Territory (present-day
Wisconsin) for possession of lands in the area.
|
|
1835-1842 |
Florida War; also known as
the Second Seminole War |
As the realization that the Seminoles would resist relocation
sank in, Florida began preparing for war. The St. Augustine
Militia asked the
War Department for the loan of 500 muskets. Five hundred
volunteers were mobilized under Brig. Gen.
Richard K. Call. Indian war parties raided farms and
settlements, and families fled to forts, large towns, or out of
the territory altogether. A war party led by Osceola captured a
Florida militia supply train, killing eight
of its guards and wounding six others. Most of the goods
taken were recovered by the militia in another fight a few days
later. Sugar plantations along the Atlantic coast south of St.
Augustine were destroyed, with many of the slaves on the
plantations joining the Seminoles. On
December 23,
1835
the two companies, totaling 108 men,
left Fort Brooke under the command of Maj.
Francis L. Dade. Seminoles shadowed the marching soldiers for
five days. On
December 28 the Seminoles ambushed the
soldiers, and wiped out the command. Only three men
survived the massacre, and one, Edwin De
Courcey, was hunted down and killed by a Seminole the next day.
|
|
Feb/Mar 1836 |
The Alamo
Texas War of
Independence |
U.S. between 182 and 257 Mexico 400–600 |
|
1839 |
Aroostook War (land dispute between Canadian lumbermen and
American settlers who had been granted lands within the Madaueskan area of
Maine) |
|
|
1841 |
Door Rebellion (Rhode Island) |
1842 Rhode Island does not join most other states with reformed voting rights
and continues to require property ownership to qualify to vote.
This issue causes much controversy, and rival state governments are elected
in Providence and Newport. Thomas W. Door begins a movement known
as the Door Rebellion, which is victorious and forces
Rhode Island to adopt
a
new constitution in 1843. This provides broader suffrage
provisions
(I didn't locate any notices of death in this rebellion) |
|
1846-1848 |
Mexican
War |
Participants 79,000 - Deaths - 13,000
|
|
1848-1858 |
Third Seminole War |
Relentless U.S. military incursions, complete with bloodhounds,
reduced the Seminole population to between 200 and 300. The war ended with
Bowlegs' surrender on May 7, 1858. He had only 40 warriors with him.
Shortly after, Colonel Loomis, commander of the forces in Florida,
announced an end to all hostilities. In effect, the U.S. government had
abandoned efforts to remove all Seminoles. |
|
1856-1860 |
Opium wars -
China |
For ten days dead bodies, in incredible numbers,
had been floating down the river, and, several times a day coolies
were sent to this place with poles to set free the accumulation of bodies
and allow them to float down stream. At this moment, you see, there
are only four or five in view, but at other times there are large numbers,
especially in the morning, after a night's accumulation. At times I have
seen heads and headless trunks in this flotsam of war. Many of these
dead have been killed by the relief troop who first entered Tinajin. |
|
1857-1858 |
Utah War |
The Utah War, also known as the Utah Expedition or Buchanan's Blunder,
was an armed dispute between
Latter-day Saint ("Mormon")
settlers in
Utah Territory and the
United States federal government. The confrontation lasted from May
1857 until July 1858. While not fully bloodless, the war consisted of no
pitched battles and was ultimately resolved through negotiation.
|
|
1861/1865 |
Civil War |
Union Participants 2,213,000 -
Union Deaths in Service - 364,000
Confederate Participants* 1,000,000 -
Confederate Deaths in Service* 133,821 |
|
|
10-28-1868 |
Hayward Fault earthquake - 6.8 - 7.0 |
Because of its location in the heart of the Bay Area, then having a
total population of about 260,000, and its magnitude, variously estimated
as between 6.8 and 7.0, this earthquake was one of the most destructive in
California history. Property loss was extensive and 30 people were killed.
Read more |
|
1878 |
Lincoln
County War
New Mexico |
4? The posse formed to recover the horses contained many
criminals, most members of a gang of outlaws known as
"The Boys", led by a transplanted Texas desperado named
Jessie Evans. At one time, a youthful
Billy the Kid had been a member of the gang, as was outlaw William
Bresnahan, better known as
Curly Bill Brocius, who would shoot to infamy as the nemesis of lawman
Wyatt
Earp.
Murphy-Dolan also enlisted the
John Kinney Gang. |
|
1878/1879 |
The Cheyenne War
with Chief Dull Knife |
20-30 |
|
1880 |
Denmark - health |
The average Danish citizen consumed over 29 pounds of refined sugar
annually. At that time, the recorded death rate from diabetes was 1.8 per
100,000. |
|
1880 |
Sweden - health |
consumption per person of refined sugar rose from 12 pounds in 1880 to
over 120 pounds per person in 1929. One out of six people in Sweden has
cancer. |
|
1898-1902 |
Spanish
American War |
|
|
1899-1902 |
Philippine Insurrection |
|
|
9-08-1900 |
Galveston, Texas hurricane |
between 6,000 and 12,000 people - category 4 storm |
|
1900 |
India - heat -drought |
drought in India blamed for 250000 to 3 million
deaths. ... |
|
1900 |
Boxer Revolt
-Rebellion (China) |
In June 1900, the Boxers invaded
Beijing
and killed 230 foreign diplomats and foreigners. Some Chinese Christians
were also killed, mostly in
Shandong
and Shanxi
Provinces as part of the uprising.
|
Strength |
| 20,000
initially 49,000 total |
50,000–100,000 Boxers
70,000 Imperial troops |
|
Casualties and losses |
2,500
soldiers,
526 foreigners and Chinese Christians |
"All" Boxers,
? Imperial troops |
|
Civilians = 18,952+ |
|
|
1906 |
Japan health |
Refined sugar was introduced to Japan after the U.S. Civil War, and the
Japanese used it as a medicine. By 1906, 45,000 acres of sugar cane were
cultivated in Japan. As the Japanese consumed more sugar, the onset of
"western" diseases increased. |
|
4-18-1906 |
San Francisco, CA
earthquake - 7.7 |
The news reports 700 killed, but the death toll is estimated to 4 times
that many. The length of quake was remarkable -
|
|
12-30-1908 |
Messina, Italy
earthquake - 7.5 |
over 100,000 people killed in the quake and consuming fires thereafter.
The channel of Messina between Italy and Sicily was so distorted by the
quake that it was no longer recognisable. 70,000 people were killed
in Messina alone. |
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|
1909 |
Grande Isle, Louisiana hurricane |
category 4 - 350 deaths |
|
1911 |
Denmark - health |
consumption of sugar more than doubled to 82 pounds per person, and the
death rate from diabetes rose to 8 per 100,000. |
|
4-14-1914 |
Tampico -
no deaths - only 9 or 10 soldiers participated on either side
Vera Cruz Incident in Mexico |
|
Strength |
United States
Total: 3,948
Landing force: 757 |
Mexico
N/A |
|
Casualties and losses |
22 killed
70 wounded
92 total |
152–172 killed
195–250 wounded
347–422 total |
|
|
1914/1917 |
Mesopotamia/Iraq war campaign of Gr.Britain |
92,000/100,000 |
|
1915 |
New Orleans, Louisiana - hurricane |
category 4 - 275 deaths |
|
1915 |
Galveston, TX - hurricane |
category 4 - 275 deaths |
|
1916-1917 |
Mexican Punitive Expedition |
Gen. John J. Pershing went to Mexico in search of "Pancho"
Villa. 24 Americans 80 Mexicans died |
|
1917-1918 |
WW I |
Participants - 4,744,000 - Deaths in Service-
116,000 |
|
1918 |
WW I health |
Other statistics in the United States show that the outbreak of
diabetes dropped sharply during World War I when sugar was rationed
(except it was not rationed to the soldiers who were doomed anyway and the
military incidence of diabetes went up). |
|
1919 |
Florida Keys, and South Texas - hurricane |
category 4 - 600 deaths - most on ships |
|
1919 |
Communist
Revolution
Trotsky Did It |
These Christians are but a few of
the 100,000,000 Christian innocents who were exterminated by All
Anti-Christian Jewish Red Commissars in Russia under the orders of
Trotsky, the Jewish Commissar of Commissars.
See:
http://www.greatdreams.com/political/picnic.htm |
|
July 27 to August 2, 1919 |
Race Riots
Chicago, IL
This wasn't the beginning and it won't be the end |
38 - Tulsa, Ok - May 31, 1921 - almost 100, Detroit - 1943 - 20
1967 - Newark, NJ
- 28 - 1993 - India - they just went missing. 7 years went by to have
them declared dead - 12
April 4, 1998 - Washington, DC. - 13 - February 8, 2000 - Spain - 2
June 24, 2002 - Bulgaria - 2 -
Rwandan genocide
of 1994 - 500,000+
The Darfur
conflict - 2003 - 400,000+ |
|
9-1-1923 |
Yokohama, Japan earthquake of 8.3 |
Casualty estimates range from about 100,000 to 142,000 deaths, the
latter figure including approximately 37,000 who went missing and were
presumed dead. According to the Japanese construction company Kajima
Kobori Research's report of September 2005, there were 105,000 confirmed
deaths in the 1923 quake |
|
1928 |
Lake Okeechobee, Florida hurricane |
category 4 - 1836 deaths |
|
1934 |
Denmark - health |
sugar consumption rose to 113 pounds per person and the death rate from
diabetes rose to 18.9 per 100,000. It is interesting that one out of five
people in Denmark also have cancer. |
| 1925 |
England - health |
deaths because of diabetes in 1925 were 112 per million people.
After the introduction of insulin shots in 1925, deaths rose to 115 per
million in 1926, and have continued to rise: 131 per million in 1928, 142
per million in 1929, and 145 per million in 1931. |
| 1926 |
Miami hurricane |
With a
highly transient population across southeastern Florida during the 1920s,
the death toll is uncertain since more than 800 people were missing in the
aftermath of the cyclone. A Red Cross report lists 373 deaths and 6,381
injuries as a result of the hurricane.
|
| 1930 |
China-Japan-Italy
health |
In the 1930's researchers in the United States discovered that
Chinese and Japanese who take rice (natural, not polished) as their
principle food had very little diabetes. They also noticed that Jews and
Italians had a high incidence of diabetes, as their sugar intake was
correspondingly higher.
NOTE: Type 2 diabetes became known only after the invention of
High Fructose corn syrup which is almost every processed food. Donald
Rumsfeld had a hand in the invention of High Fructose corn syrup and
continues to make his fortune on the backs of people with Type 2
diabetes
|
| 1935 |
Florida Keys -
hurricane |
category 5 - 408 deaths |
| 1938 |
New England hurricane |
category 3 - 600 deaths |
| 12-28-1938 |
Turkey
8.0 earthquake |
Earthquake - over 20,000 deaths - many of these people froze
to death in the 22 degree weather, after 800 had died in previous quakes
the same week. |
| 1940-1945 |
WWII |
Participants - 16,535,000 - Deaths in Service
- 406,000 |
| 12-7-1941 |
Pearl Harbor |
2,345 military and 57 civilians killed,
1,247 military and 35 civilians wounded
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor |
| 1942 |
The Blitz - England |
by combined US and British bombers. In those raids, post-raid
estimates show that maybe 80% of housing was destroyed along with upwards
of 50,000 to 80,000 lives and untold injuries. |
| 1944 |
Northeast Coast - hurricane |
category 3 - 390 deaths |
| 1945 |
Hiroshima/Nagasaki |
Blowing in the
Wind The best estimate is 40,000 people died initially, with
60,000 more injured. By January 1946, the number of deaths probably
approached 70,000, with perhaps ultimately twice that number dead total
within five years. For those areas of Nagasaki affected by the explosion,
the death rate was comparable to that at Hiroshima.
A Rip In
The Space Time Continuum |
| 1945 |
WW II |
see chart at bottom of page by country |
| 1947 |
Texas
Oil Explosion |
567 - there had been 167 serious accidents over a 20-year
period involving out-of-control chemical reactions. The accidents caused
108 deaths as well as hundreds of millions of dollars in property damage. |
| June 25, 1950 - July 27, 1953. |
Korean War |
See chart at bottom of page by country |
| 1957 |
Audrey - hurricane |
category 4 - 390 deaths |
| 1959 - 1975 |
Vietnam War |
See chart at bottom of page |
| 4-17-1961 |
Bay of Pigs- Cuba |
about 1,500 Cuban exiles landed in the Bahía de
Cochinos (Bay of Pigs) with the aim of ousting the Communist regime of
Fidel CASTRO. They had been trained in Guatemala by the CIA, supplied with
U.S. arms. Most were captured or killed by the Cuban army. |
October
1964 |
Hurricane Hilda, Louisiana |
Almost a complete evacuation of the entire Louisiana coast accounted
for the low death toll of 38, most of which were caused by tornadoes
spawned by the storm as it approached the coast. One twister at Larose,
Louisiana killed 22 and injured 200 people.
|
| 1964 |
Alaska
Alaska |
100 + 600 feared |
| 8-17-1969 |
Camille - hurricane |
255 |
| 5-4-1970 |
Kent State, Ohio
massacre |
4 |
| 11-14-1970 |
Bhola Pakistan Cyclone |
500,000 est. Entire islands were wiped off the face of the
planet in this storm. |
| 11-18-1978 |
Jonestown, Guayana |
909 inhabitants of Jonestown, 276 of them children, died of
apparent cyanide poisoning, |
| 8-17-1983 |
Hurricane Alicia |
In 1983, Hurricane Alicia slammed into the Texas
coast, leaving 21 dead and causing more than a billion dollars' worth of
damage |
| 8-24-1992 |
Hurricane Andrew |
Andrew made landfall in South Florida with winds of
over 150 miles per hour.
The storm killed 23 people and left behind
nearly $25 billion in damages. It changed South
Florida's landscape and spurred new building codes
|
|
| 1973-1994 |
cancer in children
cancer in children |
There is reported a two to three fold increase in cancer
deaths among children living near high current power lines in
Denver, Colorado. Risks to children living near power lines have been a
public health concern since 1979 when a epidemiological study linked
exposure to electromagnetic fields (emfs) with childhood cancer.
(Particularly leukemia. The annual incidence rate for brain tumors in
children up to age 14 rose from 2.4
per
100,000 in 1973-1974 to 3.3 in 1993-1994. For acute lymphoblastic
leukemia, the rate rose from 2.7
per
100,000 in 1973-1974 to a peak of 3.8 in 1989, |
| 02-1976 |
Guatemala |
23,000 |
| 5-18-1980 |
Mt.
St. Helens
Washington State |
The 1980 explosion. By the time the ash settled, 57 people (including
innkeeper
Harry Truman and geologist
David A. Johnston; a full list is available here: and thousands
of animals were dead. Hundreds of square miles were reduced to wasteland,
over a billion
U.S. dollars in damage had occurred ($2.74 billion in 2007 dollars[1]),
and the face of Mount St. Helens was scarred with a huge crater on its
north side. |
| 10-10-1980 |
Algeria earthquake |
Provisional figures issued by the United Nations said 2,590 killed.
Registered up to 7.3 on the Richter scale. The earthquake centred on the
town of El Asnam and left 330,000 people homeless. |
| 11-23-1980 |
Italy earthquake |
2,735 people killed and over 7,500 injured. 7.2 on Richter scale.
The epicenter was at Eboli but damage was reported over a huge area to
Naples. Over 1,500 people were reported missing. |
| 6-11-1981 |
Iran earthquake |
1,027 people killed and over 800 injured. 6.8 on the Richter scale.
The town of Golbaf in Kerman province was destroyed. |
| 12-13-1982 |
Yemen earthquake |
3,000 people killed and 2,000 people injured. 6 on the Richter
scale. The earthquake devastated Dhamar province southeast of Sanaa. |
| 10-30-1983 |
Turkey earthquake |
About 1,300 people killed and 500 injured. Over 6 on
the Richter scale. The earthquake struck around the city of Erzurum. Over
35,000 people homeless.
|
| 1984 |
India |
1984 Anti-massacre. Indira Ghandi assassinated. 2733
reported killed |
