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A natural occurrence or social activity of significance.
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Supervolcano Toba
Events; Disasters
Lake Toba is in the middle of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia. Known locally as a caldera, or the crater formed by a volcanic eruption, Lake Toba is big, measuring eighteen by sixty ...
Lake Okeechobee hurricane
Events; Disasters
Also called hurricane San Felipe Segundo, named after the saint's day on which the storm did so much damage to Puerto Rico, the Okeechobee Hurricane was the first recorded ...
Mona Passage earthquake
Events; Disasters
On the morning of October 11, 1918, Puerto Rico was devastated by one of the most severe earthquakes it had ever experienced in modern times. The initial earthquake measured a ...
Thalidomide drug tragedy
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Thalidomide was launched in Germany on October 1, 1957 by Celgene Corporation to help pregnant women with pregnancy related symptoms. It was promoted as a drug that was nontoxic, ...
Hurricane Agnes
Events; Disasters
Hurricane Agnes was considered an early hurricane because most hurricanes hit the United States after the month of July. The storm made landfall in Florida on June 19, 1972, where ...
Persian Gulf oil inferno
Events; Disasters
In August 1990, Iraqi troops invaded Kuwait in order to turn it into a province of Iraq and to gain control of its oilfields. The United Nations immediately condemned this action ...
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