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===== Major incidents in the U.S. ===== * 26 July 1943, [[Los Angeles, California]]: A smog so sudden and severe that "Los Angeles residents believe the Japanese are attacking them with chemical warfare."<ref>{{cite magazine | date = 2010 | url = https://www.wired.com/2010/07/0726la-first-big-smog/ | title = July 26, 1943: L.A. Gets First Big Smog | author = Jess McNally | magazine = Wired}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Buntin |first=John |title=L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PIHClVp5F4AC |access-date=12 October 2014 |year=2009 |publisher=Harmony Books |location=New York |isbn=9780307352071 |oclc=431334523 |page=108}}</ref> * [[1948 Donora smog|30-31 October 1948]], [[Donora, Pennsylvania]]: 20 died, 600 hospitalized, thousands more stricken. Lawsuits were not settled until 1951.<ref name="autogenerated2">{{cite web | date = 1948 | url = http://www.radford.edu/~wkovarik/envhist/7forties.html | title = World War II and the Postwar Years | publisher = Environmental History Timeline | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110205085302/http://www.radford.edu/~wkovarik/envhist/7forties.html | archive-date = 5 February 2011 }}</ref> * [[1966 New York City smog|24 November 1966]], [[New York City, New York]]: Smog kills at least 169<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/the-killer-london-smog-event-of-december-1952-a-reminder-of-deadly-smog-events-in-us/2012/12/19/452c66bc-498e-11e2-b6f0-e851e741d196_blog.html |title=The Killer London Smog Event of December 1952: A Reminder of Deadly Smog Events in the US |last=Tracton |first=Steve |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=20 December 2012 |access-date=25 February 2015}}</ref> people.
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