On This Day In HistoryToday in 1883, 142 years ago: the violent eruption of the Krakatoa volcano continues in Indonesia, which will explode on August 27 and will leave 36,417 dead.
Faraiwe@onthisday Perspective: in mid 1800s, world population was about 1.5Bn.
Today, we are sitting at just over 8Bn.
36,417 people then would be about 200k people.