Editing 1930s (section)

==Disasters==
[[File:Hindenburg disaster.jpg|thumb|right|The German [[dirigible]] [[airship]] ''[[LZ 129 Hindenburg|Hindenburg]]'' exploding in 1937]]
[[File:Dust storm approaching Stratford, Texas.jpg|thumb|A dust storm approaches [[Stratford, Texas]], in 1935, during the [[Dust Bowl]]]]

* The [[1931 China floods|China floods of 1931]] are among the deadliest natural disasters ever recorded.
* The [[1935 Labor Day Hurricane]] makes landfall in the [[Florida Keys]] as a Category 5 hurricane and the most intense hurricane to ever make landfall in the Atlantic basin. It caused an estimated $6 million (1935 USD) in damages and killed around 408 people. The hurricane's strong winds and storm surge destroyed nearly all of the structures between [[Tavernier, Florida|Tavernier]] and [[Marathon, Florida|Marathon]], and the town of [[Islamorada]] was obliterated.
* The German [[dirigible]] [[airship]] ''[[LZ 129 Hindenburg|Hindenburg]]'' explodes in the sky above [[Lakehurst, New Jersey]], United States on May 6, 1937, killing 36 people. The event leads to an investigation of the explosion and the disaster causes major public distrust of the use of [[hydrogen]]-inflated airships and seriously damages the reputation of the [[Luftschiffbau Zeppelin|Zeppelin company]].
* The [[New London School explosion|New London School]] in [[New London, Texas]], is destroyed by an explosion, killing in excess of 300 students and teachers (1937).
* The [[New England Hurricane of 1938]], which became a Category 5 hurricane before making landfall as a Category 3. The hurricane was estimated to have caused property losses of US$306 million ($4.72 billion in 2010), killed between 682 and 800 people, and damaged or destroyed over 57,000 homes, including the home of famed actress [[Katharine Hepburn]], who had been staying in her family's [[Old Saybrook, Connecticut]], beach home when the hurricane struck.
* The [[Dust Bowl]], or "Dirty Thirties", a period of severe [[dust storms]] causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian [[prairie]] lands from 1930 to 1936 (in some areas until 1940). Caused by extreme [[drought]] coupled with strong winds and decades of extensive farming without [[crop rotation]], fallow fields, [[cover crop]]s, or other techniques to prevent erosion, it affected an estimated {{convert|100,000,000|acre|km2}} of land (traveling as far east as New York and the Atlantic Ocean), caused mass migration (which was the inspiration for the [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning novel ''[[The Grapes of Wrath]]'' by [[John Steinbeck]]), food shortages, multiple deaths and illness from sand inhalation, and a severe reduction in the going wage rate.
* The [[1938 Yellow River flood]] pours out from [[Huayuankou, Henan|Huayuankou]], China, inundating {{convert|54,000|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}} of land and killing an estimated 500,000 people.
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