When I initially started thinking about it, I was primarily only considering days when the United States was at war with another country; August 6th or August 9th (1945) due to how many casualties that we inflicted on Japan and factoring any other battlefront deaths. Obviously as a percentage of total population, it would be nothing compared with warfare from thousands of years ago so my question is only sticking to shear numbers....A lot of things to consider, mass extinctions (holocaust, other attempted extinctions or complete extinctions, Darfur, Japan marching through China at the beginning of WWII). I don't care about who the casualties were, as long as they can be verified through conventional sources. The only reason I posed this question relative to wartime is because it is much easier to research wartime casualties. Of course, the ultimate goal is to define the day in which more people (regardless of race, creed, or color) were slaughtered than on any other day.
2007-08-29
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