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Disasters with highest death tolls - Black Friday Bushfires

Time: Thursday Jan 12, 1939

Place: Victoria, Australia

Details: The Black Friday bushfires of 13 January 1939, in Victoria, Australia, were among the worst natural bushfires (wildfires) in the world. Almost 20,000 km2 (4,942,000 acres, 2,000,000 ha) of land was burned, 71 people died, several towns were entirely obliterated and the Royal Commission that resulted from it led to major changes in forest management. Over 1,300 homes and 69 sawmills were burned, and 3,700 buildings were destroyed.

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January 1939

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Monday Jan 30, 1939 - Berlin, Germany

1939

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1939 - Germany
Alan Turing
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1939 - Cambridge, England
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1939 - U.S.
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1939 - U.S.
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1939 - U.S.
Charles de Gaulle
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1939 - France
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Monday Feb 27, 1939 - Spain
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Sunday Mar 26, 1939 - Spain
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Tuesday Mar 28, 1939 - Madrid, Spain
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Friday Mar 31, 1939 - Germany
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Saturday Apr 1, 1939 - Spain
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1939 - New York., U.S.
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May, 1939 - U.S.
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1939 - Spain
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May, 1939 - France
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Monday May 22, 1939 - Berlin, Germany
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Monday May 22, 1939 - Berlin, Germany
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Tuesday May 23, 1939 - Palestine
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1939 - Athens, Greece
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1939 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Jul, 1939 - Warsaw, Poland
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1939 - Moscow, U.S.S.R.
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1939 - Sofia, Bulgaria
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Tuesday Aug 22, 1939 - Germany
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Wednesday Aug 23, 1939 - Soviet Union (Present-Day Russia)
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Friday Aug 25, 1939 - England, United Kingdom
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Friday Sep 1, 1939 - Western Poland
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Saturday Sep 2, 1939 - Germany
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Sunday Sep 3, 1939 - London, England, United Kingdom
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Monday Sep 4, 1939 - France and United Kingdom
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Friday Sep 8, 1939 - Warsaw, Poland
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1939 - New York, U.S.
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
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Stan Lee
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1939 - Manhattan, New York, U.S.
Charles de Gaulle
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King Edward VIII
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Sep, 1939 - United Kingdom
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon
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1939 - Scotland, United Kingdom
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Sep, 1939 - Russia (U.S.S.R.)
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Sunday Sep 17, 1939 - Eastern Poland
World War II
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Sunday Sep 17, 1939 - Poland
World War II
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World War II
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Thursday Sep 21, 1939 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Thursday Sep 21, 1939 - Germany
Queen Elizabeth II at NASA
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Sep, 1939 - Balmoral Castle, Balmoral Estates, Ballater, United Kingdom
World War II
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Sep, 1939 - Moscow, Russia
Charles Cholmondeley and Ewen Montagu
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Friday Sep 29, 1939 - U.K
Schindler, Oskar Image
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Oct, 1939 - Kraków, Poland
World War II
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Monday Oct 2, 1939 - Kock, Poland
Charles de Gaulle
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Oct, 1939 - France
World War II
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Friday Oct 6, 1939 - Germany
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The Holocaust-Hitler signed a "euthanasia decree"
Oct, 1939 - Germany
United Nations
United Nations-Empty headquarters
1939 - Geneva, Switzerland
Thanksgiving Dinner
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Tuesday Oct 31, 1939 - U.S.
Schindler, Oskar Image
Oskar Schindler (Schindler's List)-Meeting Itzhak Stern
Nov, 1939 - Kraków, Poland
Schindler, Oskar Image
Oskar Schindler (Schindler's List)-Business Consultant
Nov, 1939 - Kraków, Poland
Schindler, Oskar Image
Oskar Schindler (Schindler's List)-German Enamelware Factory DEF
Monday Nov 13, 1939 - Kraków, Poland
Itzak Stern
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Saturday Nov 18, 1939 - Poland
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