What was the single most terrible event that happened?

Question

Not like a war, I mean something that happened over a day or two?

I say the Hiroshima bombing. Over 100,000 Japanese people in one shot. It was terrible.

Answer 1

I'd agree with you: Hiroshima.

But if you're going to go more long-term, I'd have to say the Shoah (Holocaust).

Answer 2

I would say the bombings of the twin towers on 9/11 and their subsequent collapse. Some people said the Hiroshima bombing, but you forget that without the bombing, more people would have to die. The bombing was tragic, but it was necessary to end the war.

Answer 3

The Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings are good examples.

Pearl Harbor and 9/11 are other good ones.

My choice for the most awful event was the inquisition where several million people were murdered by the Catholic Church for heresy.

FYI Heresy simply means choice. They had chosen to believe something else than the Catholoc church found acceptable to believe in.

Answer 4

What do you think that Hirshima bombing was? It was part of war.

The 9/11 attack on the twin towers comes to mind as being a horrible event that still ingers to this day, just as many have not forgot the bombing of Heroshima.

Answer 5

9-1-1 the twin towers . did u c the footage. good descent hard working people freaked and jumped out of 50 or 60 story bldgs. children maimed,burned,killed. families lost, friends taken,hearts broken..trust stolen! it was not war until they asked for it! check out my 360 blog called attack on america 911 footage. it is a video that brings tears to the toughest ! it was a great day for me because i left for basic training that day and got to make a difference!

Answer 6

Hiroshima bombing was just horrible.

Answer 7

The recent Indian Ocean tsunami killed more that the Hiroshima bombing. However, consider the following:

Worst Natural Disasters In History:

POSTED: 4:55 pm EST December 28, 2004
UPDATED: 10:04 am EST December 31, 2004

Here is a list of the worst natural disasters in recorded history.

Currently, the 2004 South Asia tsunamis would have the highest fatality count for a tsunami event, surpassing a tsunami in 1896 that killed 27,000 people in Japan.

2004 - South Asia--- An earthquake causes tsunamis that hit Sri Lanka, Indonesia, India, Thailand and other South Asian nations. The death toll is more than 120,000.

2003 - Iran--- A 6.3 quake devastated the Iranian city of Bam, killing more than 50,000 people.

1999 - Venezuela--- The death toll is still unclear from the rain-caused landslides that hit Venezuela in mid-December 1999; official estimates are as high as 30,000 deaths.

1998 - Central America--- Hurricane Mitch devastates much of Honduras and Nicaragua in Central America. More than 10,000 people were killed and some 2 million left homeless as mudslides swept away whole villages.

1991 - Bangladesh--- Bangladesh lost more than 130,000 people in April 1991 from cyclone-induced flooding.

1990 - Iran--- An earthquake triggers a landslide, causing from 40,000 to 50,000 deaths in western Iran on June 20, 1990.

1988 - Armenia--- In 1988, an earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale devastates Armenia, killing over 100,000 people perished.

1985 - Colombia--- And a small eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano in Colombia on November 13, 1985 leads to a massive mudflow that covers the city of Armero and kills more than 23,000 people.

1983 - Thailand--- Monsoons kill 10,000 people in Thailand over the course of three months in 1983. Some 100,000 people contracted waterborne diseases as a result of the storm.

1976 - China--- A deadly earthquake of a magnitude 8.0 strikes Tianjin, China, on July 27, 1976. The official casualty figure issued by the Chinese government was 255,000 people.

1970 - Bangladesh--- Bangladesh loses more than 300,000 people in November 1970 from cyclone-induced flooding.

1970 - Peru--- A magnitude 7.8 earthquake at Mount Huascaran, Peru, on May 21, 1970, causes a rock and snow avalanche that buries 2 towns, killing as many as 20,000 people.

1959 - China--- In July 1959, massive floods in China kill at least 2 million people.

*1938 and 1939 - China--- Floods kill 1 million people in a two-year period in China.

***1931 - China--- The massive flooding of the Yangtze River in China in 1931 caused more than 3 million deaths from flooding and starvation.

1902 - Martinique--- The eruption of Mont Pelée in Martinique, Lesser Antilles, in 1902, kills nearly 30,000 people.

1896 - Japan--- About 27,000 people drown following an earthquake-induced tsunami off the coast of Japan.

1887 - China--- In 1887, about 900,000 people died when the country's Yellow River burst its banks in the worst-ever recorded flooding.

1883 - Indonesia--- On August 26, Krakatoa, a small volcano on an uninhabited island between Sumatra and Java, explodes. The eruption and a tsunami kill 36,000 people in this Indonesian region.

1815 - Indonesia--- A volcanic eruption of Mount Tambora on Indonesia's Sumbawa island in 1815 kills than 90,000 people.

1780 - Caribbean--- "The Great Hurricane" hits the Caribbean in October 1780 and kills 22,000 people on the islands of Martinique, St. Eustatius, and Barbados.

1556 - China--- A quake hits the Chinese province of Shansi on February 2, 1556. It kills 830,000 people.

**1201 - Mediterranean--- The deadliest earthquake in history kills approximately 1.1 million people in Egypt and Syria.

Answer 8

9/11 That day took any inocence we had left and shot it down. For someone to do that just for spite(terrorism) is pure evil.

Answer 9

Anytime someone loses their life tragically, a terrible thing has happened. It matters not how many lives were lost, simply that life has ended.

Answer 10

1976 Tangsang earthquake;almost 700000 lives lost!