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American History

mahatmakanejeeves

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6. I got that one.

Reply to appalachiablue (Reply #4)

Sun Jan 28, 2024, 03:41 PM

Jan 2024

Sat Dec 30, 2023: On this day, December 30, 1903, 602 people were killed in Chicago's Iroquois Theatre fire.

602 is the highest death toll for a single-building fire in the United States.. The Cocoanut Grove fire is in second place, coming in at 492 deaths. I'm leaving out the World Trade Center, because that was a deliberate act. Several structures were felled in that attack.

The Iroquois Theatre had been open for only five weeks when the fire occurred.

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On the night of Saturday, January 28, 1922, the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre in Washington, D.C., collapsed. [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2024 OP

Jacob "Jack" Urdong died that day. Sneederbunk Jan 2024 #1

Indeed. Thanks. mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2024 #2

Who was he? Goggle did not have it. Thanks. efhmc Jan 2024 #3

I don't know. Maybe Sneederbunk does. Thanks for writing. And good afternoon. NT mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2024 #5

Terrible tragedy, there were other earlier Theater disasters, appalachiablue Jan 2024 #4

I got that one. mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2024 #6

Thanks a bunch, that's it, and for all the others. appalachiablue Jan 2024 #7

Thanks. I'm surprised every time I hear that someone actually reads them. mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2024 #8

I appreciate your work and posts, always! appalachiablue Jan 2024 #9