Banqiao: The Dam Failure China Hid for Decades

It is one of the deadliest engineering disasters in human history, and it was kept secret for years. In 1975, a typhoon dropped a year's worth of rain in a day onto central China, and the Banqiao Dam, built to be unbreakable, broke. A chain of dam failures sent a wall of water across the plains below, and when the floods, famine, and disease were counted, the death toll ran into the tens, perhaps hundreds, of thousands.

In this episode of Six Feet of History, August Mercer tells the story of the dam that could not fail, the night it did, and the decades of silence that hid the scale of it from the world. Six Feet of History is a daily true history podcast digging up the dark, forgotten, and untold stories of the past. New episode every day.

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