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  2. 1945 Empire State Building B-25 crash - Wikipedia

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    Ground injuries. 24. On July 28, 1945, a B-25 Mitchell bomber of the United States Army Air Forces crashed into the north side of the Empire State Building in New York City while flying in thick fog. The crash killed fourteen people (three crewmen and eleven people in the building), and an estimated twenty-four others were injured.

  3. United States strike wave of 1945–1946 - Wikipedia

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    The US strike wave of 1945–1946 or great strike wave of 1946[1] were a series of massive post-war labor strikes after World War II from 1945 to 1946 in the United States spanning numerous industries including the motion picture (Hollywood Black Friday) and public utilities. In the year after V-J Day, more than five million American workers ...

  4. List of elevator accidents - Wikipedia

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    An elevator fell at the Príncipes de España Hospital, killing 7 visitors. [24] L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain: 6 1 2019-12-31 A temporary elevator at an under-construction tower at a farmhouse fell from a height of 30 metres (98 ft) when the cable broke during a New Year's Eve party. A businessman and five members of his family were killed.

  5. Empire State Building - Wikipedia

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    The building was designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon and built from 1930 to 1931. Its name is derived from " Empire State ", the nickname of the state of New York. The building has a roof height of 1,250 feet (380 m) and stands a total of 1,454 feet (443.2 m) tall, including its antenna.

  6. List of striking United States workers by year - Wikipedia

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    The data is considered likely un-comprehensive but still used the same definition of strikes as later periods. For this era, all strikes with more than six workers or less than one day were excluded. [3]: 2–3, 36 No concrete data was collected for the amount of strikes from 1906 to 1913 federally. [3]: 2-3, (8-9 in pdf)

  7. History of union busting in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The history of union busting in the United States dates back to the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century. The Industrial Revolution produced a rapid expansion in factories and manufacturing capabilities. As workers moved from farms to factories, mines and other hard labor, they faced harsh working conditions such as long hours, low pay and ...

  8. Hollywood Black Friday - Wikipedia

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    Hollywood Black Friday, or Hollywood Bloody Friday, [1] is the name given, in the history of organized labor in the United States, to October 5, 1945.On that date, a six-month strike by the set decorators represented by the Conference of Studio Unions (CSU) boiled over into a bloody riot at the gates of Warner Bros.' studios in Burbank, California led by Herbert Sorrell.

  9. Hindenburg disaster - Wikipedia

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    The Hindenburg disaster was an airship accident that occurred on May 6, 1937, in Manchester Township, New Jersey, U.S.The LZ 129 Hindenburg (Luftschiff Zeppelin #129; Registration: D-LZ 129) was a German commercial passenger-carrying rigid airship, the lead ship of the Hindenburg class, the longest class of flying machine and the largest airship by envelope volume. [1]