Collection of facts about the Spanish flu

This post is a collection of facts about the Spanish flu (1918-1920). There are 16 facts listed below.

• H1N1 subtype of the influenza A virus
• Indeterminate origin (newspapers misattributed epicenter to Spain)
• Began during the end of World War I
• Possibly began at an army camp in Étaples, France in 1916
• First recorded case in Haskell County, Kansas (January 1918)
• Conventionally began March 4th, 1918 at Camp Funston in Kansas
• Reached European ports in April 1918
• Reported in China in June 1918
• Second wave began in August 1918
• United States had 292,000 deaths between Sept - Dec 1918
• India had estimated 12 million deaths in 1918
• Third wave began in early 1919
• Fourth wave occurred late 1919 - early 1920
• Considered over by mid-1920
• Cases: 500 million (1/3 of the world population)
• Deaths: 17 - 100 million

Collection of facts about the July Revolution

This post is a collection of facts about the July Revolution (1830). There are 9 facts listed below. Source: Wikipedia

• Occurred July 26th - July 29th, 1830 (three days of riots)
• Preceded by July Ordinances ending the Chamber of Deputies, liberty of the press and excluding commercial middle class from elections
• Newspapers collectively agreed to not shut down
• Followed by three days of riots
• Tuileries Palace, the Louvre and Hôtel de Ville sacked on July 29th
• Charles X (Bourbon dynasty) was overthrown
• Louis Philippe I (Orléans dynasty) became King
• Hereditary right replaced with popular sovereignty
• Louis Philippe I later overthrown in 1848

Collection of facts about the Great Purge

This post is a collection of facts about the Great Purge (1936-1938). There are 10 facts listed below. Source: Wikipedia

• Political purge in the Soviet Union lead by Joseph Stalin
• Conducted by the NKVD (secret police of the USSR)
• NKVD lead by Genrikh Yagoda and Nikolai Yezhov
• Assassination of Sergei Kirov in 1934 led to show trials
• Removal of the 'Old Bolsheviks' within party leadership
• Removal of Red Army commanders
• Removal of the 'intelligentsia' (educated people) and wealthy peasants
• Dissenters sent to Gulag labor camps or killed
• Leon Trotsky later assassinated in 1940
• Total deaths: 700,000 to 1.2 million

Collection of facts about the Great Leap Forward

This post is a collection of facts about the Great Leap Forward (1958-1962). There are 8 facts listed below. Source: Wikipedia

• Goal to industrialize China and establish state-operated communes
• Private farming banned
• 25,000 communes averaging 5,000 households each in 1958
• Enforced grain quotas and widespread misreporting
• China was a net exporter of grain during 1958-1960
• Infrastructure projects included bridges, railroads, canals, reservoirs
• Caused the Great Chinese Famine (1959-1961)
• Total deaths: 15 - 55 million

Collection of facts about the Wall Street crash of 1929

This post is a collection of facts about the Wall Street crash of 1929. There are 14 facts listed below. Source: Wikipedia

• Preceded by speculative boom in the 1920s
• Many retail investors borrowed money to buy shares
• DJIA 381.17 stock market peak on Sept 3rd, 1929
• 32.6 P/E ratio of S&P Composite stocks in Sept, 1929
• Stock market down 10% in Sept, 1929
• 4.6% decline on Oct 23rd, 1929
• 11% decline at opening bell on Oct 24th, 1929 (Black Thursday)
• DJIA recovered and closed down 2.09% on Oct 24th, 1929
• 12.82% decline on Oct 28th, 1929 (Black Monday)
• 11.73% decline on Oct 29th, 1929 (Black Tuesday)
• 12.34% gain on Oct 30th, 1929
• DJIA closed at 198.60 on Nov 13th, 1929
• DJIA recovered to 294.07 on April 17th, 1930
• DJIA fell to lowest level at 41.22 on July 8th, 1932 (89.2% loss from peak)

Collection of facts about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

This post is a collection of facts about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1945). There are 10 facts listed below. Source: Wikipedia

• Hiroshima bombed on August 6th, 1945 (Little Boy)
• Nagasaki bombed on August 9th, 1945 (Fat Man)
• Total deaths: 150,000 to 246,000 (half in the first day)
• 90% of deaths were civilians
• Preceded by air raids on 64 Japanese cities
• Allies considered invading mainland Japan
• Germany surrendered on May 8th, 1945
• Allies demanded Japanese surrender in Potsdam Declaration on July 26th, 1945
• Japan surrendered on August 15th, 1945
• Resulted in the end of World War II

Collection of facts about the Balfour Declaration

This post is a collection of facts about the Balfour Declaration (1917). There are 7 facts listed below. Source: Wikipedia

• British government issued public statement supporting the creation of a Jewish nation
• Proposed in Palestine, then part of the Ottoman Empire
• Signed by Arthur Balfour, the British foreign secretary
• Published November 9th, 1917
• Preceded by British committee established in 1915 to determine plan for the Ottoman Empire
• Preceded by Sykes-Picot Agreement for dividing the region in 1916
• Led to creation of the state of Israel in 1948