Natural Disasters & Epidemics
Monday, 09 December 2024
1961 Seventh cholera pandemic in Worldwide
1966 Canadian Pacific DC-8 explodes on landing at Tokyo, killing 64 people, including 18 Canadians
1968 louise Granville, entertainer, dies of influenza at 73
1968 Hong Kong flu in Worldwide killing 1-4 million people
1970 Bhola cyclone in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) killing =500,000 people
1970 Bhola cyclone in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) killing =500,000 people
1971 Mud slide buries part of St-Jean Vianney Quebec, killing 31 people; $1 million damage
1972 outbreak of smallpox in Yugoslavia killing 35 people
1972 london flu in United States killing 1,027 people
1973 Israeli jet fighters shoot down a Libyan Airlines passenger plane over the Sinai Desert, killing more than 100 people
1973 An earthquake jolts Mexico, killing more than 500 people
1974 smallpox epidemic of India in India killing 15,000 people
1975 A strong earthquake rocks Guatemala and Honduras, killing more than 22,000 people
1975 Michel Simon, actor (Panic, Plague, Two of Us), dies at 80
1975 Typhoon Nina in China killing 229,000 people
1975 Typhoon Nina—contributed to Banqiao Dam failure in China killing 229,000 people
1976 Swine Flu vaccine, for non-epidemic, enters testing
1976 Tangshan earthquake in China killing 655,000 people
1976 tangshan earthquake in China killing 242,769-655,000 people
1978 pacific Western Airlines aircraft crashes at Cranbrook, killing 43 people; snowplow on runway during PWA jet's landing
1979 Hurricane David in Dominican Republic, Dominica killing 2,069 people
1980 world Health Organization announced smallpox had been eradicated
1980 el Asnam earthquake in Algeria killing 5,000 people
1981 HIV/AIDS pandemic in Worldwide killing 32 million+ people
1981 Golbaf earthquake in Iran killing 3,000 people
1982 north Yemen earthquake in Yemen killing 2,800 people
1983 A Soviet fighter plane downs a KAL Boeing 747 jumbo jet that veered 100 miles into Soviet airspace, killing all 269 people aboard
1983 Erzurum earthquake in Turkey killing 1,342 people
1984 typhoon Ike in Philippines killing 1,474 people
1985 Armero tragedy in Colombia killing 23,000 people
1986 A private plane collides with an Aeromexico jet over Cerritos, CA, killing 82 people.Aug 31,
1986 lake Nyos disaster in Cameroon killing 1,746 people
1987 Torrential rains and mudslides in Tajikistan, Soviet Union, destroy dam, killing 19 people and leaving nine others missing
1987 ecuador earthquakes in Ecuador killing 5,000 people
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