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The War Nerd: Why Sherman was right to burn Atlanta This week marks the 150th anniversary of Sherman’s March from Atlanta to the Sea, which set off on November 16, 1864—the most remarkable military campaign on the 19th century, the campaign which got Lincoln reelected, broke the back of the Confederacy, and slapped most of Dixie’s insane diehards into the realization they were defeated.
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When a national disaster unfolded live in 1986 That's how it was, for the most part, in the 1980s. Yet, when NASA's Challenger shuttle exploded on January 28, 1986, killing all seven crew members, the catastrophe unfolded live on a little known 24-hour news channel: CNN.
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Atlanta United FC: MLS's 2017 expansion team selects its name Born in the 1830s and then reborn toward the end of the 19th century, Atlanta is a big, bustling metropolis rich in history and iconography.
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Columbia, South Carolina On February 17, 1865, in the last months of the Civil War, much of Columbia was destroyed by fire while being occupied by Union troops under the command of General William Tecumseh Sherman. Jeff Goodwyn, mayor of Columbia, sent William B. Stanley and Thomas W. Radcliffe to surrender the city to Sherman's troops.olumbia is also combined with the Orangeburg and Newberry micropolitan areas to form the Columbia–Orangeburg-Newberry Combined Statistical Area, which has 928,368 people according to the 2013 Census estimates and is the second-largest CSA in South Carolina.
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1996 Manchester bombing Introduction. The Chicago Fire of 1871, also called the Great Chicago Fire, burned from October 8 to October 10, 1871, and destroyed thousands of buildings, killed an estimated 300 people and caused an estimated $200 million in damages.
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THE TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FACTORY FIRE The 100th anniversary of the Triangle shirtwaist factory fire, which killed 146 workers in a New York City garment factory, marks a century of reforms that make up the core of OSHA's mission.
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FBI 'used Mafia enforcer' to find bodies in Mississippi Burning case The burnt-out car used by the three civil rights workers Photo: AP. By Tom Leonard in New York. 12:47PM BST 25 Jul 2008. Edgar Ray Killen, 84, was convicted in 2005 of ordering the Klan killings of the trio 41 years earlier, a crime that was dramatised in the film Mississippi Burning.
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- The mishap involving an AirBus A320 occurred around 7:15 p.m. as Flight 50 from Savannah, Georgia touched down in Boston, where nearly three inches of snow had fallen earlier in the day, the airline said.
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THE TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FACTORY FIRE The worst day I ever saw. One hundred years ago on March 25, fire spread through the cramped Triangle Waist Company garment factory on the 8th, 9th and 10th floors of the Asch Building in lower Manhattan. Workers in the factory, many of whom were young women recently arrived from Europe, had little time or opportunity to escape. The rapidly spreading fire killed 146 workers. The building had only one fire escape, which collapsed during the rescue effort.
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Great Fire of 1901 It was one of the worst disasters in Florida history and the US' third largest urban fire, next to the Great Chicago Fire and the 1906 San Francisco fire.
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Speedbird 9 Suffers Quadruple Flameout Speedbird 9 Suffers Quadruple Flameout. June 24, 2015 By Mike Leave a Comment. On June 24, 1982, a British Airways Boeing 747 on a scheduled flight with multiple legs from London to Auckland flew through a cloud of volcanic ash in Indonesia, resulting in the failure of all four engines.
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- Homeless man charged in I-85 collapse released from Atlanta jail. The 39-year-old homeless man accused of setting the fire that brought down a chunk of Interstate 85 was released on bond from the Fulton County jail Wednesday.
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In 1898, White Supremacists Killed 60+ African Americans in One of Deadliest Mass Shootings in U.S. Bishop William Barber joins us in studio for an extended interview to discuss another, less known mass attack: the infamous Wilmington massacre of 1898, when white supremacists seized armed control of the North Carolina town and killed at least 60 African-American residents, drove hundreds more out of town, burned down the local African-American newspaper and installed a former Confederate officer as the new mayor.
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- Great Chicago Fire. The Great Chicago Fire was a conflagration that burned from Sunday, October 8, to early Tuesday, October 10, 1871. The fire killed up to 300 people, destroyed roughly 3.3 square miles (9 km2) of Chicago, Illinois, and left more than 100,000 residents homeless.
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- 36) The immediate cause of the Atlanta Riot of 1906 was A) African-Americans being denied the right to vote. B) the election of Tom Watson as governor of Georgia. C) the acquittal of Leo Frank in the murder of Mary Phagan. D) stories in the Atlanta newspapers about African-American men assaulting white women.
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Lessons Learned: The Firebombing of Tokyo On March 9, 1945, B-29 bombers in the U.S. Air Force began dropping incendiary bombs on the city of Tokyo.This raid, known as Operation Meetinghouse, caused incredible destruction, killing perhaps 100,000 people aand burning out fifteen square miles of the city.n March 9, 1945, B-29 bombers in the U.S. Air Force began dropping incendiary bombs on the city of Tokyo.
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Atlanta United FC: MLS's 2017 expansion team selects its name Born in the 1830s and then reborn toward the end of the 19th century, Atlanta is a big, bustling metropolis rich in history and iconography. It’s been a transport nexus in the rail and jet ages, it hosted an Olympics and it was a primary front in the civil rights movement.
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- Fires. 1  1856: A large fire destroyed at least 10 downtown businesses and 8 houses, as well as the sheriff's office. 2  1869: The West Market Square fire, from which arose The Phoenix Block (the present Charles Inn). 3  1872: Another large downtown fire, on Main St., killed 1 and injured 7.
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Did General Sherman salt Southern fields in the Civil War? For instance, it was widely reported that Sherman had burned the town of Dallas, Georgia in 1864. A reporter from Harpers Weekly discovered in 1866 that this just wasn't the case. Sherman did report burning the town to the War Dept., but the only thing he actually destroyed was the train depot.
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Chicago History Unfortunately, the buildings, streets and sidewalks were made of wood, and most of them burned to the ground in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. The Chicago Fire Department training academy at 558 W. DeKoven St. is on the site of the O’Leary property where the fire began.
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Tulsa, Oklahoma Black America’s most prosperous community, Black Wall Street in Tulsa, Oklahoma, went up in flames June 1, 1921, in the KKK-led Tulsa Race Riot. According to Wikipedia, “During the 16 hours of the assault, over 800 people were admitted to local hospitals with injuries, an estimated 10,000 were left homeless, and 35 city blocks composed of 1,256 residences were destroyed by fire caused by bombing.”
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- Brotherhood: Life in the FDNY (2005) Burn (2012) Burned: The Science of Arson (TV: 20/20 Episode May 7, 2010) Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232 (A.K.A. A Thousand Heroes, TV 1992) Detroit on Fire: A Documentary (Constance York 2011) Dust to Dust: The Health Effects of 9/11 (TV 2006) Escape: Because Accidents Happen: Fire (NOVA 1999)
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The March to the Sea begins Sherman captured Atlanta in early September 1864 after a long summer campaign. He recognized his vulnerability in the city, however, as his supply lines stretched all the way from Nashville, Tennessee.
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- The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City were destroyed on September 11, 2001 when two airliners crashed into them. In an earlier attack on February 26, 19…93, a truck bomb was exploded in the parking garage under the North Tower. 21 people found this useful.
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- The town of Pleasant Hill. Missouri was burned by Charles Jennison a...nd his band of Jayhawkers on November 17, 1861. Jayhawkers also burned the towns of Dayton, and Nevada, Missouri. At Kingsville, Missouri the town was burned and nine men killed. In September of 1864 Martin Rice, his son, along with six neighbors were captured by the 9th Kansas Cavalry. The six neighbors, all civilians were murdered, but Rice and his son were spared.
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Shermanâs March The Fall of Atlanta. General Sherman’s troops captured Atlanta on September 2, 1864. This was an important triumph, because Atlanta was a railroad hub and the industrial center of the Confederacy: It had munitions factories, foundries and warehouses that kept the Confederate army supplied with food, weapons and other goods.