Wikipedia has an interestingly (if morbidly so) list of natural disasters ranked by death toll.
Some major ones I had never heard of; the worst being the 1931 Yellow River Flood with 1 to 2 million souls.
The biggies are Smallpox and the Bubonic Plague with 300 Million each. A close winner is the 20 to 43 Million fatalities which resulted from Mao's incompetent rule - the so-called Period of Three Difficult Years. Goes to show just how good a form of government Communism is…
Posted by DaveH at September 17, 2007 08:11 PM | TrackBack