1931 China floods 1931 China floods The 1931 China floods or the 1931 Yangtze-Huai River floods were a series of devastating floods that occurred in the Republic of China. They were some of the deadliest floods in history, and together formed one of the most lethal natural disasters of the 20th century, excluding pandemics and famines. Estimates of the total death toll range from 422,499 to between 3.7 million and 4 million. From 1928 to 1930, China was afflicted by a long drought. The subsequent winter of 1930 was particularly harsh, creating large deposits of snow and ice in mountainous areas. Early in
Country School (1931 film) Country School (1931 film) Country School is a 1931 animated short film by Walter Lantz Productions and stars Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. The soundtrack of the cartoon was missing for many years, until the discovery of a sound print in 2015. Oswald and his girlfriend Kitty were going to school, for which they were late. The teacher later played a song for all of the students, but a hippo student spat at the teacher and put a balloon in Oswald's pants, so the teacher smacked Oswald, at which the balloon burst. The teacher said that school was dismissed, then finally