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re: What is the worst day in human history? Not an event

Posted on 3/23/16 at 9:40 pm to
Posted by tonydtigr
Beautiful Downtown Glenn Springs,Tx
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Posted on 3/23/16 at 9:40 pm to
Try 300,000. Where did you get those numbers?
Posted by Walt OReilly
Poplarville, MS
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Posted on 3/23/16 at 9:41 pm to
We give up

Whats the damn answer
Posted by nvasil1
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Posted on 3/23/16 at 9:43 pm to
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Rape of Nanking

First thing that crossed my mind, but didn't it end up lasting several weeks, if not months? Doesn't fit the OP's constraint.
Posted by StrongBackWeakMind
Member since May 2014
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Posted on 3/23/16 at 9:46 pm to
The entire population of Hiroshima doesn't even come close to 1.2 million.
Posted by OMLandshark
Member since Apr 2009
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Posted on 3/23/16 at 9:46 pm to
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First thing that crossed my mind, but didn't it end up lasting several weeks, if not months? Doesn't fit the OP's constraint.



The OP's criteria is retarded. Only an A-Bomb could possibly be the answer. I first started thinking horrific death toll, but then the worst actually in human history. Both those libraries being destroyed I think would reign supreme in that regard. And Baghdad was the most horrific scene in the last thousand years even without the library being destroyed. The rivers ran black it was so horrific.
Posted by StrongBackWeakMind
Member since May 2014
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Posted on 3/23/16 at 9:48 pm to
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Only an A-Bomb could possibly be the answer.
More people died in the 2004 tsunami.
Posted by nvasil1
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Posted on 3/23/16 at 9:49 pm to
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I am still amazed we got away with both of those bombs.

Thankfully the Japanese believe cows and chickens are to blame after we admitted to lying about the whales and dolphins.
Posted by LeMarteau
Hoover, AL (B.R. native)
Member since Mar 2008
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Posted on 3/23/16 at 9:52 pm to
The day that Adam & Eve ate the wrong fruit.
Posted by retired trucker
midwest
Member since Feb 2015
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Posted on 3/23/16 at 10:01 pm to
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The day that Adam & Eve ate the wrong fruit.


people just gobble up the liars and obfuscators...

too bad you won't believe me...
b like trying to reverse an avalanche
Posted by OMLandshark
Member since Apr 2009
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Posted on 3/23/16 at 10:02 pm to
quote:

More people died in the 2004 tsunami.



Yeah, you're right. Then that.
Posted by retired trucker
midwest
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Posted on 3/23/16 at 10:05 pm to
spanish flu early 1900's
Posted by cave canem
pullarius dominus
Member since Oct 2012
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Posted on 3/23/16 at 10:10 pm to
quote:

Try 300,000. Where did you get those numbers?


300,000 instant deaths, the final toll was much worse due to the after effects. I will look for the numbers but this estimate was based on later deaths due to radiation poisoning, destruction of services, irradiation of food and water sources, cancer cases etc.
Posted by foreverLSU
Member since Mar 2006
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Posted on 3/23/16 at 10:11 pm to
October 14, 2007- the day Keeping Up With the Kardashians premiered on TV
Posted by StrongBackWeakMind
Member since May 2014
22650 posts
Posted on 3/23/16 at 10:12 pm to
I would like to see the support for that figure.

Pre-bomb population was 330-360k.
Posted by AbuTheMonkey
Chicago, IL
Member since May 2014
8641 posts
Posted on 3/23/16 at 10:15 pm to
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August 2, 216 BC was probably the worst I can think of


That was the one that immediately came to my mind as well, but it looks like the 16th century earthquake in China was a lot more than that.
Posted by gthog61
Irving, TX
Member since Nov 2009
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Posted on 3/23/16 at 10:17 pm to
Speaking of Hiroshima I read a story once about a few people there who then rode the train to ... Nagasaki.
Posted by tennvol
Member since Nov 2014
2495 posts
Posted on 3/23/16 at 10:19 pm to
may 24 1940.
Posted by Havoc
Member since Nov 2015
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Posted on 3/23/16 at 10:19 pm to
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am still amazed we got away with both of those bombs.

Uhh. What?
Posted by jlu03
San Diego
Member since Jul 2012
3357 posts
Posted on 3/23/16 at 10:21 pm to
Toba eruption - nearly made humans extinct.

or

Franz Ferdinand being shot.
Posted by tennvol
Member since Nov 2014
2495 posts
Posted on 3/23/16 at 10:22 pm to
Not a day but a year, 70 AD, created the monster that took over the world.
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