Updated Deadliest Days in US History

[Lisa Starr]

GALVESTON HURRICANE - 8,000

TODAY (12/17/2020) - 3,656 :eek:

ANTIETAM - 3,600

9/11/2001 - 2,977


Be careful and be safe!

[Tom Stenzel]

According to History.com 195,000 Americans died of the Spanish flu in October 1918

To do that 6,290 people had to die each day. For the entire month. The carnage was horrible.

-Tom

[ChrisA Edwards]

I would like to think we are a little wiser today, about these things, than 102 years ago, but it appears not...

[Bill Dufour]

Due to the civil war death lists being posted in local post offices. President Lincoln instituted home postal delivery so people would not realize how many were being killed.
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