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The list covers the name of the event, location and the start and end of each event. Some events may belong in more than one category. In addition, some of the listed events overlap each other, and in some cases the death toll from a smaller event is included in the one for the larger event or time period of which it was part.
Toggle Historic events in the 20th century subsection. The world at the beginning of the century. "The war to end all wars": World War I (1914–1918) The Russian Revolution and Communism. Between the wars. Economic depression. The rise of dictatorship. Global war: World War II (1939–1945) Operation Barbarossa.
The following is the list of most watched television broadcasts in the United States by average viewership, according to Nielsen. Of the 30 most-watched telecasts, 27 are Super Bowls. The Apollo 11 moon landing is generally considered to have been the most watched event in American television history, having garnered an estimated viewership of ...
November 10 1941 1,200 1941 Jabal Razih earthquake: Yemen January 11 1942 61,000 1942 West Bengal cyclone: India Tropical cyclone October 14 – 18 1943 2,824-5,000 1943 Tosya–Ladik earthquake: Turkey Earthquake November 27 1944 10,000 1944 San Juan earthquake: Argentina January 15 1945 4,000 1945 Balochistan earthquake: Pakistan November 28 ...
Second-deadliest disaster in United States history. 675,000: 1918 – 1920 1918 influenza pandemic: Pandemic Nationwide Fatalities estimated. Third-deadliest disaster in United States history. 116,000: 1957 – 1958 1957–1958 influenza pandemic: Pandemic Nationwide Fatalities estimated. Fourth-deadliest disaster in United States history ...
Scholarship varies on the definition of genocide employed when analysing whether events are genocidal in nature. The United Nations Genocide Convention, not always employed, defines genocide as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental ...
September 10: Storm Daniel becomes the deadiest Mediterranean storm in history, with over 4000 deaths in Libya. September 19 – 20: 2023 Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh. October 3: Kevin McCarthy's expulsion via a motion introduced by Matt Gaetz is the first ousting of a Speaker of the United States House of Representatives in history.
History is the interpretation of past events, societies and civilizations. The term history comes from the Greek historia ( ἱστορία ), "an account of one's inquiries," and shares that etymology with the English word story as narrative. The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica stated that "history in the wider sense is all that has happened ...