



Hurricane Katrina made landfall near New Orleans, Louisiana,
as a Category 4 hurricane on August 29, 2005. Despite being
only the third most powerful storm of the 2005 hurricane season,
Katrina was among the worst natural disasters in U.S. history.
In the wake of the storm, there were over 50 failures of the levees
and flood walls around New Orleans and its suburbs. The levee
and flood wall failures caused widespread flooding.





Michael Jackson was born in Gary, Indiana in 1958. He began
performing with his four brothers in the pop group the Jackson
5 when he was a child.
The group scored its first No. 1 single in 1969, with “I Want You
Back.” By age 11, Jackson was appearing on TV, and by age 14
he had released his first solo album.