Today in Fire History 6/11

6/11/2010 a flash flood on the Little Missouri River killed at least twenty people near a campground in the Ouachita Mountains, west of Little Rock, Arkansas. –

6/11/1964 Showa Denko Company chemical plant fire killed eleven in Kawasaki, Japan –

6/11/1912 Waukesha, WI Hotel was destroyed by fire –

6/11/1901 Port Royal, PA a mine explosion left thirteen dead –

6/11/1899 Perrysville, IN Railroad Station & Yard fire destroyed a large grain elevator containing 6,000 bushels of corn, the Chicago and Eastern Illinois railway station, and several freight cars that started from a spark from a passing engine. –

6/11/1805 Detroit, MI conflagration; started about 9:00 a.m. in a stable on Wayne and Shelby Streets. –

6/11/1776 Congress appoints Committee of Five, Thomas Jefferson of VA, John Adams of MA, Benjamin Franklin of PA, Roger Sherman of CT and Robert R. Livingston of NY, to draft the Declaration of Independence –

6/11/2001 Timothy McVeigh executed for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed at least 168 –

6/11/1979 John Wayne died –

6/11/1967 Tampa Riots a 19-year-old suspected of robbing a store was shot in the back and died; several days of riots around Central Ave followed –

6/11/1962 three prisoners “escaped” from Alcatraz Prison –

6/11/1955, a racing car in Le Mans, France, goes out of control and crashed into stands filled with spectators, killing eighty-two –

6/11/1949 Hank Williams, Sr., made his Grand Ole Opry debut

6/11/1898 the 1st U.S. Marines land in Cuba during Spanish-American War –

6/11/1859 the Comstock silver load discovered near Virginia City, Nevada –

6/11/1838 the Iowa Territory was organized –

6/11/1509 Henry VIII married his first wife, Catherine of Aragon –

16/11/488 the Battle of Sauchieburn, Scotland –