Worst Days In The History of the World
Worst Days In The History of the World
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8.86 -> The history of the world is full of misery
and tragedy.
11.83 -> Be it from natural disasters, human atrocities,
or the results of conflicts and wars between
17.16 -> nations, there are literally hundreds of stories
that line the pages of our history books,
21.84 -> and no doubt there will be more to come.
23.789 -> Which are the most tragic stories of them
all?
25.76 -> That’s what we’ll be exploring today!
27.48 -> Welcome to this episode of The Infographics
Show, the worst days in the history of the
31.64 -> world
32.64 -> Okay, so we’re going to cover 10 events
that are considered some of the worst days
35.71 -> in the history of the world.
37.25 -> During our research we found that there were
many to choose from, so the list is not in
40.95 -> any particular order.
42.28 -> All the stories could be considered the worst
in their own right.
45.59 -> And we haven’t covered every single war
there’s ever been, as that would be a whole
49.12 -> other list.
50.12 -> Instead, we’ve tried to dig out stories
that cover the centuries and many that go
54.22 -> back even further and some that have been
forgotten over time.
57.89 -> Let’s jump straight in and see what we discovered.
60.57 -> 10.
61.57 -> Pol Pot – Pol Pot was a Cambodian communist
revolutionary and politician who served as
66.99 -> the General Secretary of the Communist Party
of Kampuchea from 1963 to 1981.
72.5 -> He led the Khmer Rouge, a name given to the
followers of communism, from 1963 until 1997.
79.95 -> Why does his name come up when we look at
the worst days in history?
82.92 -> Well, from 1975 to 1979, what was known as
the Cambodian genocide was carried out by
89.33 -> the Khmer Rouge regime under the leadership
of Pol Pot.
93.049 -> Exact numbers of deaths are hard to calculate
because many were unrecorded, but somewhere
97.11 -> between 1.5 to 3 million Cambodian people
were killed during this time.
102.5 -> That is a staggering amount of people.
104.51 -> Many were left at sites known as The Cambodian
Killing Fields.
107.49 -> An analysis of 20,000 mass grave sites by
the DC-Cam Mapping Program and Yale University
113.439 -> indicate at least 1,386,734 victims were executed
and abandoned in these areas.
122.1 -> 9.
123.1 -> Irish Potato Famine – From 1845 to 1849,
the people of Ireland suffered through a four-year
129.119 -> period known as The Great Famine.
131.019 -> It was a time of mass starvation, disease,
and emigration in the country.
135.26 -> The cause of famine was potato blight, a disease
that ravaged potato crops throughout Europe
141.099 -> during the 1840s.
142.41 -> However, the impact was severely worsened
by the actions and inactions of the government.
148.06 -> Altogether about a million people in Ireland
are reliably estimated to have died of starvation
153.15 -> and epidemic disease during the four-year
famine.
156.01 -> The Irish famine killed nearly one-eighth
of the entire population and so was proportionally
161.06 -> much more destructive than the vast majority
of famines in modern times.
165.43 -> 8.
166.43 -> Nanking Massacre - 1937 was the year of the
Nanking Massacre.
170.43 -> For six weeks, the Imperial Japanese Army
brutally murdered hundreds of thousands of
174.91 -> people, including both soldiers and civilians,
in the Chinese city of Nanking.
179.42 -> At that time, Nanking was the capital of Nationalist
China.
183.37 -> It took decades for the city and its citizens
to recover from the savage attacks.
187.959 -> There are no official numbers for the death
toll in the Nanking Massacre, though estimates
191.85 -> range from 200,000 to 300,000 people.
195.06 -> And it is also known as the Nanking Massacre
or the Rape of Nanking because between 20,000
200.72 -> and 80,000 women were sexually assaulted.
203.61 -> Soon after the end of the war, General Matsui
and his lieutenant Tani Hisao, were convicted
208.69 -> for war crimes by the International Military
Tribunal for the Far East.
212.85 -> They were executed.
214.08 -> 7.
215.16 -> Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki – World
War Two lasted for 6 years from 1939 to 1945.
221.9 -> It was the deadliest conflict in human history
with 15 million military deaths, 45 million
227.52 -> civilian deaths, and 25 million wounded.
230.41 -> But it’s what ended that war, which will
go down as causing some of the darkest days
234.909 -> in history.
235.909 -> On August 6, 1945, an American B-29 bomber
dropped the world’s first atomic bomb over
241.799 -> the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
243.769 -> The huge explosion wiped out 90% of the city,
killing an estimated 90,000 to 146,000 people.
250.629 -> Tens of thousands more later died of radiation
exposure.
254.12 -> Three days later, a second atomic bomb was
dropped on Nagasaki, killing an estimated
259.06 -> 40,000 - 80,000 people.
261.06 -> This tragic example of wartime destruction
also led to the end of World War Two, as Japan’s
266.27 -> Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s
unconditional surrender, citing the devastating
271.509 -> power of “a new and most cruel bomb.”
274.379 -> So the only good that can be taken from these
events is that by the war ending at least
278.729 -> further casualties were avoided.
281.03 -> 6.
282.03 -> 2004 Asian Tsunami – Anyone who was around
in 2004 will remember the tragic news on Boxing
288.009 -> Day (December 26) when one of the biggest
tsunamis ever was created from an earthquake
294.02 -> deep in the Indian Ocean.
295.49 -> We were just talking about Hiroshima.
297.499 -> Well, the energy from this earthquake is thought
to have had the energy of 23,000 Hiroshima-type
304.289 -> atomic bombs.
305.319 -> The rupture was more than 600 miles (965.6
km) long, displacing the seafloor by 10 yards
309.849 -> (9.1 m) horizontally and several yards vertically.
312.499 -> That sent a tidal wave that caused catastrophic
damage in 14 countries, including India, Indonesia,
318.369 -> Malaysia, the Maldives, Myanmar, Somalia,
Sri Lanka, Thailand, Bangladesh, South Africa,
324.559 -> Madagascar, Kenya, Tanzania and the Seychelles.
328.05 -> According to British news paper The Telegraph,
230,000 people lost their lives, and 1.7 million
334.15 -> people were left homeless after the 2004 Boxing
Day tsunami.
339.099 -> 5.
340.099 -> The Rwandan Genocide – 1994 marked the year
of The Rwandan Genocide, a mass slaughter
345.289 -> that took place over a 100-day period from
April 7 to mid-July 1994.
350.879 -> Members of the Hutu ethnic majority in the
east central African nation of Rwanda murdered
355.999 -> as many as 800,000 people, mostly of the Tutsi
minority, so it was also known as the genocide
362.619 -> against the Tutsi.
363.759 -> Among the first victims of the genocide were
the Hutu Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana
369.219 -> and her 10 Belgian bodyguards.
371.119 -> This created a political vacuum that an interim
government of extremist Hutu Power leaders
376.119 -> from the military high command filled on April
9.
379.419 -> Following the genocide, more than 2 million
people fled Rwanda, crowding into refugee
383.569 -> camps in the Congo and other neighboring countries.
386.429 -> 4.
387.429 -> The Black Death – Stepping back a bit further
in time now, we look at the Black Death and
392.1 -> without doubt some of the bleakest days in
the world’s history.
395.039 -> The Black Death spread across Europe in the
years 1346 to 1353.
399.649 -> The frightening name most likely came from
a mistranslation of the Latin word atra meaning
404.479 -> both “terrible” and “black.”
406.339 -> There were varying symptoms to this fatal
disease.
409.009 -> Some would get an infection of the lungs,
leading to breathing difficulties that left
412.55 -> people dead within two days.
414.259 -> Another form consisted of boils erupting under
the armpits and swollen lymph nodes in the
419.539 -> groin area.
420.539 -> It is estimated that the Black Death killed
75 to 200 million people 1347.
427.289 -> Up to 60% of Europe's total population was
wiped out.
430.61 -> In total, the plague may have reduced the
world population from an estimated 450 million
436 -> down to 350 to 375 million in the 14th century.
440.509 -> It took 200 years for the world population
to recover to its previous level.
445.419 -> 3.
446.419 -> 9/11 – 9/11, which occurred on September
11, 2001, is the worst terror attack to take
452.33 -> place on American soil and is still etched
in the memories of many people.
456.77 -> 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist
group al-Qaeda hijacked four Boeing airplanes
463.08 -> and carried out suicide attacks against targets
in the United States.
466.449 -> Two of the planes were flown into the Twin
Towers of the World Trade Center in New York
470.809 -> City, a third plane hit the Pentagon just
outside of Washington, D.C., and the fourth
475.52 -> plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania.
478.289 -> On that day, almost 3,000 people were killed.
480.959 -> The incident led to extensive bombing of Afghanistan
as troops hunted down the leader of al-Qaeda,
485.979 -> Osama bin Laden, and it also eventually led
to a second war in Iraq.
490.77 -> 2.
491.77 -> The Vietnam War – When talking about the
worst days in history, it’s hard not to
495.18 -> mention the Vietnam War.
496.689 -> It officially ran from August 5, 1964 to May
7, 1975, so it was not just a few days but
503.539 -> many years.
504.539 -> An estimated 9,087,000 military personnel
served on active duty during that time.
510.529 -> Just how bad were the days of that war?
512.32 -> Let’s look at some statistics put together
by retired Sergeant First Class (SFC) David
516.11 -> Hack, who volunteered for service in Vietnam
in 1968, joining the 1st Infantry Division:
521.51 -> A total of 58,148 military personnel were
killed in Vietnam, 75,000 were severely disabled,
529.41 -> 23,214 were 100% disabled, 5,283 lost limbs,
and 1,081 sustained multiple amputations.
538.339 -> The first man to die in Vietnam was James
Davis in 1961.
542.339 -> Five men killed in Vietnam were only 16 years
old, while the oldest man killed was 62 years
547.96 -> old.
548.96 -> Of those killed, 61% were younger than 21
years old, and 11,465 of those killed were
554.8 -> younger than 20 years old.
556.58 -> Of those killed, 17,539 were married, and
the average age of the men killed was 23.1
563.48 -> years.
564.709 -> 1.
565.94 -> Cretaceous–Tertiary (K–T) extinction - For
number one, we’re stepping as far back in
571.181 -> time as we can.
572.38 -> To be precise, we will be going back 66 million
years ago to an event known as The Cretaceous–Paleogene
578.42 -> extinction event, which is also known as the
Cretaceous–Tertiary or K–T extinction.
583.67 -> This was one grey day folks when all of a
sudden there was a mass extinction of 80%
588.519 -> of the plant and animal species on Earth.
590.69 -> Okay, so what happened?
591.91 -> It is generally thought that the K–T extinction
was caused by the impact of a massive comet
597.12 -> or asteroid 6.2 to 9.3 miles (10 to 15 km)
wide.
600.56 -> It’s hard for this theory to be inconclusively
proven, but there is a good amount of evidence
605.009 -> to support it.
606.009 -> A huge crater 112 miles (180 km) in diameter
was discovered buried beneath sediments of
611.47 -> the Yucatán Peninsula near Chicxulub, Mexico,
and has been dated to the right period.
616.149 -> And a second smaller crater, which predates
the one at Chicxulub by about 2,000 to 5,000
620.93 -> years, was discovered at Boltysh in Ukraine
in 2002.
624.959 -> Whatever exactly happened, it was certainly
one of the worst days in the history
650.29 -> of the world.
654.47 -> So, what other bad days has the world had
that we didn’t mention?
660.839 -> Let us know in the comments . Also, be sure
to watch our other video called – Worst
664.75 -> Punishments In The History of Mankind.
666.54 -> Thanks for watching, and as always, don't
forget to like, share and subscribe.
670.11 -> See you next time!
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