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March 18, 2020
USA Resolve - Surviving Crises Together
YEAR | FATALITIES | DISASTER |
1996 | 230 | TWA Flight 800, Long Island, NY |
1996 | 220 | ValuJet Flight 592, Florida Everglades |
1997 | 0 | Global Economic Scare, DJIA drop from 7,715 to 7,161 (7.8%) |
1998 | 223 | United States Embassy Bombings in Tanzania, Kenya |
1999 | 271 | Midwest and Northeast Heat Wave |
1999 | 217 | Egypt Air flight 990 crash, off Nantucket, MA |
2000 | 0 | Y2K century rollover technology scare, DJIA drop from 11,497 to 11,357 (1.2%) |
2001 | 2,996 | September 11 terrorist attacks, stock markets closed for 6 days |
2001 | 265 | American Airlines Flight 587 crash, Queens, NY, 2nd deadliest air crash in U.S. history |
2001-2002 | 0 | Dot-Com Bubble collapse in tech stocks, Nasdaq drop from 5,048 to 1,139 (77.4%) |
2005 | 1,836 | Hurricane Katrina (FL, LA, MS, AL, GA, KY, OH), costliest U.S. natural disaster, $125B |
2005 | 120 | Hurricane Rita (LA) |
2005-2012 | 658,507 | HIV/AIDS pandemic peak, shown is total USA fatalities from 2005-2016 |
2008 | 112 | Hurricane Ike (TX, LA) |
2008-2009 | 0 | Economic Crash and recession, DJIA drop from 14,164 to 6,594 (53.5%) |
2009-2010 | 18,036 | H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic |
2010 | 13 | Deepwater Horizon Offshore Rig Explodes creating largest oil spill in U.S. history |
2011 | 348 | Super Tornado Outbreak, 360 tornadoes in Midwest & Southeast |
2012 | 158 | Hurricane Sandy, Most of East Coast, USA |
2016-2017 | 107 | Orlando, FL + Las Vegas, NV mass shootings |
2017 | 2,982 | Hurricane Maria (Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Caribbean) |
2017 | 106 | Hurricane Harvey (TX, LA), tied with Hurricane Katrina as costliest U.S. natural disaster |
2019 | 34,200 | Influenza (common flu) A + B virus deaths, among 35,500,000 known cases |
2019 | 150 | Corona Virus Covid-19, among 8,883 known cases in U.S., as of 6:35pm EDT, 03.18.2020 |
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