Which single day event in world history had the largest loss of human life?


Thanks.

12/10/2006 6:45:37 PM

that time the sun blew up

12/10/2006 6:51:04 PM

I love the smart asses on the wolf web.

12/10/2006 6:54:09 PM

firebombing of tokyo
youre welcome for doing your hw for you

12/10/2006 6:56:42 PM

Absolute loss or relative loss?

Either way, I don't know.

^Holy shit! Almost a hundred thousand people in one day? Goodness!

[Edited on December 10, 2006 at 6:59 PM. Reason : sss]

12/10/2006 6:56:43 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_natural_disasters_by_death_toll

12/10/2006 6:58:33 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Borodino

12/10/2006 6:59:06 PM

12/10/2006 7:06:10 PM

Listening to Robert S. McNamara describe the firebombing of Tokyo in The Fog of War is horrific.

"In that single night, we burned to death one hundred thousand Japanese civilians in Tokyo. Men, women and children."

12/10/2006 7:16:53 PM

That's what the get for messing with America!

12/10/2006 8:01:53 PM

how are you supposed to figure out this question anyhow?

THE ANSWER BURNED IN THE ALEXANDRIAN LIBRARY FIRE!

[Edited on December 10, 2006 at 8:47 PM. Reason : +]

12/10/2006 8:47:26 PM

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"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_natural_disasters_by_death_toll"

Conclusion: God hates China

12/10/2006 9:02:48 PM

relative loss is probably one day during the plague, or maybe when one of the first humans died.

12/10/2006 10:09:03 PM

No, Kris, back then Europe as a whole had very few people living in it, something like 20 million. They would have had to lose 20% in one day to match the 1931 floods in China. The plague doesn't kill all at once, it can take months before everyone has had a chance to die. Meanwhile, the flood surely lasted only a month or so.

12/11/2006 12:37:43 AM

Eh, in 1340, France and the Low Countries alone probably had nearly twenty million people. Exact estimates are impossible, of course, but the ones I've seen say Europe's total population at the time was over seventy million.

12/11/2006 12:45:34 AM

really? I had no idea. I guess my guesstimate was way off base, I stand corrected.

12/11/2006 12:54:13 AM

You're probably still correct, though. I doubt a million plus people died from the plague in a single day.

12/11/2006 1:09:41 AM

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"Exact estimates"

12/11/2006 2:57:49 AM

wolf web is slippin

this guy makes a thread and nobody makes fun of his name

ITS RIGHT THERE

BLOW JOB ANGEL

YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE TO DO WORK


now back to the thread

i wonder how many people just DIE every day...just of natural causes and shit
i mean, theres a lot of fuckin people in the world today

12/11/2006 4:20:41 AM

ok number 1...woodfoots post kinda threw me off but i'll try to continue
number 2...i fucking wish more floods would hit china now and weaken them as a country
number 3...i remember hearing in mea 101 that an earthquake in china like a pretty good while ago killed a ton of people
number 4 i will quote...

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"That's what the get for messing with America!"

amen brother

12/11/2006 4:43:59 AM

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""In that single night, we burned to death one hundred thousand Japanese civilians in Tokyo. Men, women and children.""

I cannot believe that.

America is a great country, and has always looked out for the downtrodden, poor, and oppressed people of the world.

It is a life-GIVER, not a life-TAKER.

America gives food and money to the Africans, democracy to the Asians, and erects [erected] great leaders in South America.

I REFUSE THIS ALLEGATION. It is BLASPHEMOUS, INSULTING, and UNPATRIOTIC. IT IS UNAMERICAN.

WHY DO YOU HATE AMERICA???

12/11/2006 5:04:23 AM

no, i'll tell you whats american

doing whatever it takes to be number 1...thats american

12/11/2006 5:12:16 AM

Very few of the world powers are immune from atrocities. You live in Saudi Arabia for chrissakes where the beat their wives you moron.

12/11/2006 5:17:19 AM

dear OEPII1,

Please move to a flood prone area of China.

Thanks

12/11/2006 6:52:56 AM

yeah OEP, you can't live in one of the most oppressive countries in the world and then come bringing that kind of shit as if we're all naive.

12/11/2006 9:29:48 AM

lol @ woodfoot

12/11/2006 9:48:01 AM

What about the Tsunami?

12/11/2006 10:33:21 AM

@OEP

Clever how you try to re-write history. It's not like we attacked Japan unprovoked. Furthermore, if we had not stopped Japan they would probably have become the largest colonial empire the earth has ever seen next to Great Brittan, and in the 20th century that is unthinkable.

That's right, when we bombed Japan we were looking out for the downtrodden and oppressed. We freed countless people from a brutal Japanese colonial rule. What happened to all the countries that Japan controlled as an empire? Did we take them as a spoil of war? Did we try to occupy Japan in perpetuity? No, see the 1951 SF Peace Treaty.

12/11/2006 10:36:43 AM

drunknloaded should probably never post in the soap box again.

12/11/2006 11:01:46 AM

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"No, Kris, back then Europe as a whole had very few people living in it, something like 20 million."

First off, that's wrong, secondly, who said that the bubonic plague only happened in europe?

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"They would have had to lose 20% in one day to match the 1931 floods in China."

I don't know about all that, but I do know that the plague is the only downward spikes you can see in a world population graph.

It's possible that they didn't loose enough in one day, but relative wise, it could be close.

12/11/2006 11:47:19 AM

Tishnik Massacre

12/11/2006 11:54:17 AM

I think the greatest one day death toll in the war was the Firebombing of a German city, whose name I've forgotten.

12/11/2006 12:08:28 PM

dresden?

12/11/2006 12:33:59 PM

Just by looking at these Wiki numbers, humanity may be good at wiping out large numbers of people in a single day, but at this point, God (or Mother Nature, depending on your viewpoint) holds the record. Maybe that'll change when we let the nukes fly, but until then...

12/11/2006 12:39:34 PM

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"@OEP Clever how you try to re-write history. It's not like we attacked Japan unprovoked. Furthermore, if we had not stopped Japan they would probably have become the largest colonial empire the earth has ever seen next to Great Brittan, and in the 20th century that is unthinkable. That's right, when we bombed Japan we were looking out for the downtrodden and oppressed. We freed countless people from a brutal Japanese colonial rule. What happened to all the countries that Japan controlled as an empire? Did we take them as a spoil of war? Did we try to occupy Japan in perpetuity? No, see the 1951 SF Peace Treaty. "

OEP may be a jackass, but none of that in any way justifies killing 100,000 people in one day.

Also, Germany was pretty uppity at this time in history too.

12/11/2006 1:00:41 PM

No, I didn't say that in retrospect we were justified. I'm saying we weren't the aggressors.

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"100,000 people in one day."

what if we killed them more slowly. Like 50,000 in two days? Is that better?

12/11/2006 1:31:32 PM

^I think you'd agree that killing someone with a gun isn't the same as killing someone in a fistfight, although their outcomes may be the same. There's a precedent being set here, and just like in the gun example, now people will feel like they have to carry a gun to be safe, just because someone used one once, and this could lead to some people who really shouldn't have guns getting the moral justification for having them.

12/11/2006 1:37:47 PM

In reference to Dresden: the population of Dresden, I believe, was much lower than that of Tokyo and less concentrated into smaller housing areas. Around 30,000 were killed in Dresden.

12/11/2006 1:58:41 PM

2 Kings 19:35 - An angel of the Lord kills 185,000 men.

12/11/2006 2:53:34 PM

didn't the tsunami a few years ago kill way over 100,000?

12/11/2006 3:37:08 PM