The Great San Francisco, California Earthquake and Fire destroys 25,000 buildings, leaves at least 227,000 homeless, and claims 700 to 3,000 lives.

       NOTE: No thought was given to federal aid being administered.

       [restored 5/29/2022]

Subsequent Events:

Authority:

“Law of the Jungle”
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References:

“Today in History,” Orange County (California) Register, 18 April 2011, News:3.

1906 San Francisco earthquake – Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1906_San_Francisco_earthquake

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,167,124,467,492

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