[SeekAndFind]

SOME OF THE WORLD's GREATEST DISASTERS THAT HAVE BEEN ENGINES OF DEVELOPMENT AND GROWTH :

The Great Fire of London, 1666.
The Great Earthquake of Lisbon 1775
The Great Tokyo Earthquake of 1923
San Francisco 1906
Tangshan, China 1976
The Great Fire of Chicago, 1871

[Uncle Chip]

You missed one:

The Election of Barack Obama 2008

[ASOC]

Please add
The Alaska Quake of 1964 and the EXxon Valdez spill of 1987.

Both saved South-sentral from certain economic doom.

[Cacique]

btt