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Today in History

October 8, 2016 by GµårÐïåñ
Today in History
(1871) Winds whip a small Chicago blaze into a firestorm
1871 A long drought, strong winds, buildings made primarily of wood, and perhaps a twitchy cow all combine to stoke a minor fire into a conflagration the likes of which Chicago has never seen. Two days of ferocious flames will leave hundreds of thousands homeless and kill some 300 people. .

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 of Chicago, Illinois, and left more than 100,000 residents homeless.

Start date: Oct 08, 1871
End date: Oct 10, 1871

— Source: wiki/Great_Chicago_Fire
(1918) Alvin C. York goes above and beyond on the Western Front
Born poor in rural Tennessee, and a conscientious objector at the outbreak of WWI, Corporal Alvin York now fights against the Germans in the Argonne Forest, killing 25 and capturing 132 almost all on his own. This heroism will promote him to Sergeant York and merit him the Medal of Honor.. 1918

Alvin Cullum York, known also by his rank, Sergeant York, was one of the most decorated soldiers of the United States Army in World War I. He received the Medal of Honor for leading an attack on a German machine gun nest, taking 35 machine guns, killing at least 28 German soldiers, and capturing 132 others. This action occurred during the United States-led portion of the broader Meuse-Argonne Offensive in France to breach the Hindenburg line and make the opposing German forces surrender.

Born: Dec 13, 1887 · Pall Mall, TN
Died: Sep 02, 1964 · Nashville, TN
Romance: Gracie Loretta York
Founded: Alvin C. York Institute
Children: woodrow wilson york
Parents: Eliza Jane Livingston · Uriah York

— Source: wiki/Alvin_York
(1952) Three trains involved in a deadly London-area collision
1952 In the worst railway accident in the UK’s peacetime history, 112 people die and more than 300 are injured when an express train collides into the rear of a morning commuter train, and both are then struck seconds later by a third train, at Harrow and Wealdstone Station near London. .

The Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash was a three-train collision at Harrow and Wealdstone station in London during the morning rush hour of 8 October 1952. 112 people were killed and 340 injured; it remains the worst peacetime rail crash in the United Kingdom.

Date: Oct 08, 1952

— Source: wiki/Harrow_and_Wealdstone_rail_crash
(1967) A revolutionary’s journey ends in the Bolivian jungle
Native of Argentina, revolutionary in Cuba, writer and doctor, Che Guevara has spent the last two years traveling in Africa and South America championing the cause of Marxist ideology. He’s now caught in Bolivia after 1,800 CIA-backed soldiers surround his guerrilla encampment. . 1967

Ernesto “Che” Guevara, commonly known as El Che or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia in popular culture.

Born: Ernesto Guevara, June 14, 1928 in Rosario, Santa Fe province, Argentina
Died: October 9, 1967 (aged 39) in La Higuera, Vallegrande, Bolivia
Cause of death: Ballistic trauma
Buried: Che Guevara Mausoleum, Santa Clara, Cuba
Education: University of Buenos Aires
Occupations: Physician, author, guerrilla, government official
Organizations: 26th of July Movement, United Party of the Cuban Socialist Revolution, National Liberation Army (Bolivia)
Known for: Guevarism

— Source: wiki/Che_Guevara
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