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The rains never came, and drought parched wide areas ^ the world in 1963.
Parts of Asia were hit hard* est, the National Geographic Society says. More than 800,OOOPakistanis were forced to abandon their homes in We^t Pakistan to seek food and waiter as famine followed u prolonged dry spell.
Tin mines in Burma and Malaya were closed because no water was available to wa h the ore-Bearing mud. Fertile rice - growing provinces on China’s southeastern coast suffered the worst drought in centuries.
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Hong Kong reservoirs almost emptied during seven months of subnormal rainfall. Household water was severely rationed, and the entire economy of the colony suffered. Devout Chinese released fish and turtles in the sea and turned loose pet monkeys, deer, and birds on land to propitiate tits spirits.
The worst drought in lh| century in Brazil shrank river levels to dangerous lows. Hy
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