History Short: Damn the Dam! (Dam Disasters) @HistoryandHeadlines
History Short: Damn the Dam! (Dam Disasters)  @HistoryandHeadlines
Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
On January 25, 2019, the people of Brumadinho, Brazil, found out how dam failure can be a catastrophe when a mining dam broke and 270 people were killed.

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