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As of October 6, 6,551 fires had burned 184,961 square kilometres (71,414 sq mi), [2] about 5% of the entire forest area of Canada, [8] and more than six times the long-term average of 27,300 square kilometres (10,541 sq mi) for that time of the year. [1] As of mid-October, the total area burnt was more than 2.5 times the previous record. [9]
The Operation Meetinghouse firebombing of Tokyo on the night of 9–10 March 1945, was the single deadliest air raid in history, [34] with a greater area of fire damage and loss of life than either of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima or Nagasaki. [35] [36]
During the campaign, Trudeau said he remains open to getting rid of Canada's FPTP if re-elected, provided there is consensus on the issue; he also expressed his preference for ranked voting over proportional representation. Trudeau had promised during the 2015 campaign that the 2015 federal election would be the last federal election to use FPTP.
World War II deaths by country World War II deaths by theater. World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history.An estimated total of 70–85 million deaths were caused by the conflict, representing about 3% of the estimated global population of 2.3 billion in 1940. [1]
A 2020 study estimated the total Jewish population of the Chicago metropolitan area, both religious and irreligious, at 319,500. [173] Chicago's population declined in the latter half of the 20th century, from over 3.6 million in 1950 down to under 2.7 million by 2010.