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Worst Events In History

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    The Black Plague

  2. 2

    Holocaust

  3. 3

    September 11, 2001 attacks

  4. 4

    World War II

    20th century, 1940s
  5. 5

    Nanking Massacre

    Second Sino-Japanese War
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    Columbine High School massacre

  7. 7

    Space Shuttle Challenger disaster

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  1. mehmeh
    Worst Events In History at 2/20/2012 10:47 AM
    9/11 is worse than WWII?!?! seriously, come on.
  2. Cookie monster
    Worst Events In History at 10/04/2011 4:08 AM
    What about the port arthur massacre
  3. Brent
    Worst Events In History at 6/30/2011 1:10 PM
    This list is kind of unique dont agreee with the Black Death being number one The Spanish Flu pandemic killed many more people
  4. Anonymous
    September 11, 2001 attacks at 4/25/2011 6:37 PM
    I think we can all agree that this is not an accurate ranking....Columbine is on here.
  5. sandygirl0727
    September 11, 2001 attacks at 3/12/2011 4:37 AM
    Clearly this was not nearly as devastating as a whole f**king world war... sept 11th is so over-rated!!!
  6. billielover13
    Worst Events In History at 2/15/2011 8:33 PM
    Ok this list is pretty much wrong. Sorry to say but there are so many other worse events than 9/11! What about the Sierra Leone civil war or the Darfur genocide, or the Rwnadan genocide. Really this author needs to re-read all this and make a much better one.
  7. BLHS
    Worst Events In History at 11/15/2010 4:48 PM
    This is the worst list ever. Whoever made this is a huge idiot.

    Where is WWI, Vietnam War, any other War. 9/11 is not even in top 10. There has been way way way worse things than 9/11.
  8. Rob
    Worst Events In History at 11/10/2010 2:04 PM
    Rwandan genocide? Chinese cultural revolution? Indian ocean tsunami? Great depression? American Civil war? Serbian ethnic cleansing? Irish potato famine? Mogul invasion of Europe/middle east? Not a good list
  9. Anonymous
    Worst Events In History at 7/24/2010 3:06 PM
    I would rename this list to "Worst Events That I Happen To Actually Know About". Otherwise, I'm pretty sure that there would be a few things on here older than 100 years. What about the Armenian Genocide? The Crusades? Hiroshima? Destruction of the Native Americans? Stalin's Purges? Massacre of the Latins in Constantinople? Mongol Invasions?

    I think the dude who wrote this just needs to re-think the use of the word "History".
  10. DocHolliday
    Worst Events In History at 7/18/2010 3:29 PM
    Wow....just wow... September 11th was worse than world war 2? You don't even have the World War 1 on there, and that was a horrifying conflict. And putting Columbine on there? Forgive me for saying this, but in the grand scheme of things it was nothing. How about the Rwandan Genocide, the Ethnic Cleansing in the Balkans, the Killing Fields of Cambodia, and that's just in the 20th century.

    How about the collapse of the Roman Empire, the North American Slave trade, the Spanish Inquisition, the Stalinist Purges,
  11. nthensome
    Worst Events In History at 7/03/2010 5:12 PM
    Was this list written by a 10 year old?
    He/she obviously has a limited knowledge of history.
    I mean, Colombine? Really?
  12. NationalismIsStupid
    Worst Events In History at 4/20/2010 3:20 PM
    this is written almost solely through an american scope of history, columbine and the challenger don't belong anywhere on this list by scale alone, 9/11 was not that big compared to, say, almost any war ever, how about stalin's starving of 20 million of his own troops?, it could be argued that the holocaust falls within the scope of WWII, how about the crusades, the inquisition, or AIDS, how about the pope encouraging sex without condoms in Africa (because contraception is evil) causing untold misery and large scale AIDS epidemics?, how about hiroshima/nagasaki (or would that fall within WWII?), the wars of Alexander the great or Genghis Khan or Kublai Khan, Pol Pot?, Idi Amin, Darfur, Rwanda, the Serbian genocide, the US war against Iraq (we've killed over 80,000 civilians so far but we don't call it a genocide or report these as casualties on the American news), there are many events that far outrank half this list, I probably didnt even touch about a bunch that I don't even know.

    I mean columbine? really?
  13. Anonymous
    Worst Events In History at 4/15/2010 2:21 AM
    60 million people died in WW2 and it ranks under september 11 ?
  14. Anonymous
    The Holocaust at 4/12/2010 4:31 AM
    we must never forget the holocaust, most of us dont really think of the people who died, as people we think of them as numbers e.g 6 million Jews died so we must remember everysingle one of them.

    Never forget

    We are all people
  15. Anonymous
    Worst Events In History at 4/12/2010 4:29 AM
    I think this list is very accurate, all I would do would be to swap the holocaust with the black death
  16. sam
    Worst Events In History at 1/26/2010 2:30 PM
    i think that the oklahoma city bombing is one of the worst it killed 169 peeps!
    1. ptksmr
      Worst Events In History at 1/27/2012 7:41 PM
      Right, because history goes back only 20 years and absolutely no humanity exists outside US.
    1. Anonymous
      Worst Events In History at 4/12/2010 4:34 AM
      what is the oklahoma city bombing?
  17. Anonymous
    The Holocaust at 12/20/2009 11:30 PM
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