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December 1960 nor'easter: Blizzard Northeastern United States: 283+ 1859 Mendocino War: Massacre Mendocino County, California: 282 1881 Thumb Fire: Wildfire (rural) Michigan: $2,347,000 278 1876 Brooklyn Theatre fire: Fire (building) Brooklyn, New York: 276–702 [19] 2021 February 13–17, 2021 North American winter storm: Blizzard United ...
[93] [94] The building was finally demolished in November 2009 and construction of its replacement began on December 1, 2009. [95] The adjacent Verizon Building , an Art Deco building constructed in 1926, had extensive damage to its east facade from the collapse of 7 World Trade Center, though it was successfully restored at a cost of US$1.4 ...
1936 North American heat wave: United States, Canada Heat wave June – September 1937 11,021 1937 Great Hong Kong typhoon: China Tropical cyclone September 2 1938 715+ 1938 Hanshin flood: Japan Flood July 1939 32,700–32,968 1939 Erzincan earthquake: Turkey Earthquake December 27 1940 1,000 1940 Vrancea earthquake: Romania November 10 1941 1,200
The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2009. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
For example, the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, with a death toll of around 230,000 people, cost a 'mere' $15 billion, [1] whereas in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, in which 11 people died, the damage was six times higher. The most expensive disaster in human history is the Chernobyl disaster, costing an estimated $700 billion. [2]
2021 Western North America heat wave: Heat wave: Alberta and British Columbia 610 excess deaths in BC and 66 excess deaths in Alberta during the week [6] [7] [8] 500+ 1953 Polio: Epidemic: Canada 562 1873 RMS Atlantic: Shipwreck Mars Island, Nova Scotia 428 2009-2010 Swine flu: Pandemic Canada out of 3 million Canadians infected 360 1758 Duke ...
Floods in the United States (2000–present) Floods in the United States (2000–present) is a list of flood events which were of significant impact to the country during the 21st century, since 2000. Floods are generally caused by excessive rainfall, excessive snowmelt, storm surge from hurricanes, and dam failure.
blizzard.com. Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher based in Irvine, California. A subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, the company was founded in February 1991 as Silicon & Synapse, Inc. by three graduates of the University of California, Los Angeles: [1] Michael Morhaime, Frank Pearce and Allen Adham.