Pick an event or just check em out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_22
1651 – St. Peter's Flood: A storm surge floods the Frisian coast, drowning 15,000 people.
1904 – The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina; the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
2005 – The 6.4 Mw Zarand earthquake shakes the Kerman Province of Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), leaving 612 people dead and 1,411 injured.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Peter%27s_flood
During the first storm tide, on 22 February, the East Frisian island of Juist was split in two. During the second disaster, on 4–5 March, the city of Amsterdam was flooded.
The year 1651 was something of an annus horribilis for flooding, with many disastrous floods in Europe. In the Netherlands, for instance, another storm tide that struck during the night of 25–26 February broke through a number of dikes and flooded large parts of the eastern Netherlands.
Mike, as you show the history of disasters, the thought occured to me that the Earth's population would be many billions larger without them.
Perhaps that is nature's way of population control, as she does with predictors and prey, in the forest and the sea, wars … and the cities and suburbs.
1980 – Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4–3.
Many important events to pick from, but I'll go with this feel-good one, when our amateurs beat the Russian pros.
Interesting thought about natural disasters being a form of population control carl.
Used to be that way, with famines caused by extreme weather and crop failures(often from cold and drought) for centuries but now, thanks to technology and the best weather/climate and weather in the last 1,000 years, world food production has been exceeding demand, even with the growing world population which is approaching 8 billion people.
Diseases used to kill alot more humans but vaccinations, antibiotics and medicine are saving many of those lives.
With the exception of Jutes, everything seems to be going swimmingly
The world’s population over the same time period. ….
