Disasters
- On 15 August 1950 an earthquake and floods in Assam, India killed 574 and left 5,000,000 homeless.
- Mount Lamington erupted in Papua New Guinea on 18 January 1951, killing 3,000 people.
- On 31 January 1953 the North Sea flood of 1953 killed 1,835 people in the southwestern Netherlands (especially Zeeland) and 307 in the United Kingdom
- On 9 September 1954 an earthquake centered on the city of Orléansville, Algeria killed 1,500 and left thousands homeless.
- On 11 October 1954 Hurricane Hazel crossed over Haiti, killing 1,000.
- On 19 August 1955 Hurricane Diane hit the northeastern United States, killing over 200 people, and causing over $1.0 billion in damage.
- On 27 June 1957 Hurricane Audrey demolished Cameron, Louisiana, US, killing 400 people.
- In April 1959, the Río Negro flooded central Uruguay.
- Typhoon Vera hit central Honshū on 26 September 1959, killing an estimated 5,098, injuring another 38,921, and leaving 1,533,000 homeless. Most of the damage was centered in the Nagoya area.
- On 2 December 1959, Malpasset Dam in southern France collapsed and water flowed over the town of Frejus, killing 412.
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Famous quotes containing the word disasters:
“Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace
The day’s disasters in his morning face.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774)
“The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.”
—Quentin Crisp (b. 1908)
“Those who escape death in great disasters are surely destined for good fortune later.”
—Chinese proverb.