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"Survivors remember horror of Our Lady of the Angels fire". Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on February 28, 2014. Head, Jennifer A. "Mount Carmel Archives, Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Finding Aid for Our Lady of the Angels School, Chicago, Illinois December 1, 1958 Fire Collection 1958 – 2008, bulk 1958 - 1959 ...
Battle of Gaixia (last stand at the Wu River) 202 BC Xiang Yu's Forces (Western Chu) Liu Bang's Forces (Han) After his defeat at the Battle of Gaixia, Xiang Yu was chased by Liu Bang's elite cavalry to the Wu River, where he made his last stand with the last 28 of his loyal soldiers. They killed hundreds of Han soldiers, but after being ...
February 23 – Leningrad hotel fire killed 16 including 9 firefighters and injured 36. May 7 – Bright Sparklers Fireworks fire, killed 26 and injured over 100. [155] June 27 - 21 people are killed in a fire in a fire at the Barbotan-les-Thermes spa in Cazaubon, France [156] September 3 – Hamlet chicken processing plant fire killed 25. [157]
Dorothy Day, who was present, wrote: "On Memorial Day, May 30, 1937, police opened fire on a parade of striking steel workers and their families at the gate of the Republic Steel Company, in South Chicago. Fifty people were shot, of whom 10 later died; 100 others were beaten with clubs."
Mesa Redonda fire: Lima: Peru: 291 deaths, 134 injuries: Shopping center 20 February 2003: The Station nightclub fire: West Warwick, Rhode Island: United States: 100 deaths, 230 injuries: Nightclub 3 November 2004: Seest fireworks disaster: Seest: Denmark: 1 death, 24 injuries: Factory 30 December 2004: República Cromañón nightclub fire ...
The fire was the United States' deadliest blaze since the December 1958 fire at Chicago's Our Lady of the Angels School that killed 95 people. It also marked the second fire in less than a week involving the elderly, following the November 18 disaster that claimed 25 people at the Surfside Hotel in Atlantic City .
Los Angeles awoke on the morning of Jan. 7 unaware that the city and the people within it were about to change forever. The most destructive fires in the city’s history claimed thousands of ...
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Ohio since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. [1] All of the following people have been executed for murder since the Gregg v. Georgia decision. All 56 were executed by lethal injection. [2]