Hagerstown, Maryland, USA
1871 - MARYLAND. A DESTRUCTIVE FIRE RAGING IN HAGERSTOWN.
HAGERSTOWN, Dec. 7 1 A. M. — Last evening at ten o’clock a fire broke out in the business house of Rollins & Burbank, agricultural implement dealers, Antietam street, opposite the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and rapidly spread to the adjacent buildings. The Episcopal Church and court-house were burned to the ground. All the public records were saved. Several lives were lost by the falling of the ... Read MORE...
Boston Daily Advertiser - Boston, Massachusetts - December 7, 1871
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1871 - MARYLAND. A DESTRUCTIVE FIRE RAGING IN HAGERSTOWN.
HAGERSTOWN, Dec. 7 1 A. M. — Last evening at ten o’clock a fire broke out in the business house of Rollins & Burbank, agricultural implement dealers, Antietam street, opposite the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and rapidly spread to the adjacent buildings. The Episcopal Church and court-house were burned to the ground. All the public records were saved. Several lives were lost by the falling of the ... Read MORE...
Boston Daily Advertiser - Boston, Massachusetts - December 7, 1871
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Brooklyn, New York, USA (Flatlands) (Flatbush)
1876 - THE HOLOCAUST. The Story as it Stood at Two O'clock This Afternoon. AN UNPRECEDENTED HORROR. EVERY HOUR ADDING TO THE LIST OF THE DEAD. THE CALAMITY NOT YET MEASURED.
A Hundred Bodies Recovered from the Ruins and a Hundred More Visible.
GENERAL FEATURES OF THE DISASTER.
Every hour since the fire in the theatre was extinguished has brought fresh and saddening evidence of the extent of the horror.
At first it was believed that few, if any, lives had been lost. About 7 o'clock it was known that at least twenty persons had been burned to death or smothred.... Read MORE...
The Brooklyn Eagle - New York, New York - December 7, 1876
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1876 - THE HOLOCAUST. The Story as it Stood at Two O'clock This Afternoon. AN UNPRECEDENTED HORROR. EVERY HOUR ADDING TO THE LIST OF THE DEAD. THE CALAMITY NOT YET MEASURED.
A Hundred Bodies Recovered from the Ruins and a Hundred More Visible.
GENERAL FEATURES OF THE DISASTER.
Every hour since the fire in the theatre was extinguished has brought fresh and saddening evidence of the extent of the horror.
At first it was believed that few, if any, lives had been lost. About 7 o'clock it was known that at least twenty persons had been burned to death or smothred.... Read MORE...
The Brooklyn Eagle - New York, New York - December 7, 1876
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San Francisco, California, USA
1900 - FELL ON MOLTEN GLASS. Scores Killed and Injured by the Collapse of a Roof. SEVERAL ROASTED TO DEATH.
Disaster Occurred at a Football Game in San Francisco - Victims Were Hurled on a Red Hot Furnace - Bodies Drawn From the Retorts With Pokers - The Dead and Injured.
San Francisco (Special). - By the collapse of the roof of the Pacific Glass Works while it was crowded with men and boys who were watching a football game between the Stanford and University of California teams, fifteen persons... Read MORE...
The Cranbury Press - New Jersey - December 7, 1900
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1900 - FELL ON MOLTEN GLASS. Scores Killed and Injured by the Collapse of a Roof. SEVERAL ROASTED TO DEATH.
Disaster Occurred at a Football Game in San Francisco - Victims Were Hurled on a Red Hot Furnace - Bodies Drawn From the Retorts With Pokers - The Dead and Injured.
San Francisco (Special). - By the collapse of the roof of the Pacific Glass Works while it was crowded with men and boys who were watching a football game between the Stanford and University of California teams, fifteen persons... Read MORE...
The Cranbury Press - New Jersey - December 7, 1900
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The Dalles, Oregon, USA
1901 - ATTEMPT TO WRECK TRAIN. NARROW ESCAPE OF PASSENGERS ON O. R. & N. NEAR THE DALLES. NUTS PLACED ON RAILS SEND ENGINE AND MAIL CAR FROM TRACK - ENGINEER AND FIREMAN INJURED - PASSENGERS ARE UNHURT.
Portland, Ore., Dec. 6. - The eastbound passenger train, No. 2, on the Oregon Railway & Navigation, which left this city at 9 a.m., was wrecked 12 miles east of The Dalles this afternoon.
The engine turned completely over and the mail car left the track, but turned only partially over. The composite sleeper and diner left the track, but remained upright. The other cars, including a private car ... Read MORE...
Anaconda Standard - Montana - December 7, 1901
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1901 - ATTEMPT TO WRECK TRAIN. NARROW ESCAPE OF PASSENGERS ON O. R. & N. NEAR THE DALLES. NUTS PLACED ON RAILS SEND ENGINE AND MAIL CAR FROM TRACK - ENGINEER AND FIREMAN INJURED - PASSENGERS ARE UNHURT.
Portland, Ore., Dec. 6. - The eastbound passenger train, No. 2, on the Oregon Railway & Navigation, which left this city at 9 a.m., was wrecked 12 miles east of The Dalles this afternoon.
The engine turned completely over and the mail car left the track, but turned only partially over. The composite sleeper and diner left the track, but remained upright. The other cars, including a private car ... Read MORE...
Anaconda Standard - Montana - December 7, 1901
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Clinton, Massachusetts, USA
1907 - CLINTON'S TOWN HALL DESTROYED BY FIRE.
LOSS OF $100,000 - PROBABLY DUE TO CIGARETTE STUB LEFT BY SOMEONE AFTER HIGH SCHOOL DANCE - TOWN RECORDS SAFE, AND NO OTHER BUILDINGS BURNED.
Clinton, Mass., Dec. 7. - This town was visited by one of the most disastrous fires in its history, this morning, when at 5:30 flames were seen breaking from the front end of the town hall located at the corner of Church and Walnut streets. In an hour... Read MORE...
The Fitchburg Sentinel - Fitchburg, Massachusetts - December 7, 1907
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1907 - CLINTON'S TOWN HALL DESTROYED BY FIRE.
LOSS OF $100,000 - PROBABLY DUE TO CIGARETTE STUB LEFT BY SOMEONE AFTER HIGH SCHOOL DANCE - TOWN RECORDS SAFE, AND NO OTHER BUILDINGS BURNED.
Clinton, Mass., Dec. 7. - This town was visited by one of the most disastrous fires in its history, this morning, when at 5:30 flames were seen breaking from the front end of the town hall located at the corner of Church and Walnut streets. In an hour... Read MORE...
The Fitchburg Sentinel - Fitchburg, Massachusetts - December 7, 1907
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Boston, Massachusetts, USA
1930 December 7 – The television station W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts, broadcasts video and audio from the radio orchestra program The Fox Trappers.
This broadcast also includes the first television commercial in the United States, an advertisement for the I. J. Fox Furriers company which sponsored the telecast.
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December 7, 1930
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1930 December 7 – The television station W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts, broadcasts video and audio from the radio orchestra program The Fox Trappers.
This broadcast also includes the first television commercial in the United States, an advertisement for the I. J. Fox Furriers company which sponsored the telecast.
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December 7, 1930
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Lancaster, Los Angeles, California, USA
1940 - 4 AIR OFFICERS, SCHOOL BOY DIE; TWELVE ESCAPE.
Lancaster, Cal., Dec. 7 - (I.P.) - The toll of a collision between a school bus and an army station wagon rose to five today with the death in Community hospital of 14-year-old HOWARD McCALEB.
Young McCALEB was the first to die of 12 students involved in the accident. The four other victims were inspectors attached to the army air corps at Riverside, Cal., and an enlisted army man. Two... Read MORE...
The Times - San Mateo, California - December 7, 1940
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1940 - 4 AIR OFFICERS, SCHOOL BOY DIE; TWELVE ESCAPE.
Lancaster, Cal., Dec. 7 - (I.P.) - The toll of a collision between a school bus and an army station wagon rose to five today with the death in Community hospital of 14-year-old HOWARD McCALEB.
Young McCALEB was the first to die of 12 students involved in the accident. The four other victims were inspectors attached to the army air corps at Riverside, Cal., and an enlisted army man. Two... Read MORE...
The Times - San Mateo, California - December 7, 1940
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1941 - December 7 - Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor
Attack on Pearl Harbor: Aircraft flying from Imperial Japanese Navy carriers launch a surprise attack on the United States fleet at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, thus drawing the United States into World War II. The attack begins at 7:48 a.m. Hawaiian Standard Time and is announced on radio stations in the U.S. at about 11:26 p.m. PST (19.26 GMT). (Wikipedia)
On December 7, 1941, "a date which... Read MORE...
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December 7, 1941
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Attack on Pearl Harbor: Aircraft flying from Imperial Japanese Navy carriers launch a surprise attack on the United States fleet at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, thus drawing the United States into World War II. The attack begins at 7:48 a.m. Hawaiian Standard Time and is announced on radio stations in the U.S. at about 11:26 p.m. PST (19.26 GMT). (Wikipedia)
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December 7, 1941
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1935 December 7 - Severe flooding hit parts of the Houston, TX, area. Eight persons were killed as one hundred city blocks were inundated.
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