Today in Fire History 6/13
6/13/2014 a fast-moving 4:00 a.m. fire ripped through a three-story single-family residence in Newark, NJ leaving six dead –
6/13/2013 an explosion and fire at the Williams Companies Inc. chemical plant in a sparsely populated area about 20 miles from Baton Rouge in Ascension Parish, in the town of Geismar LA; killed at least one person and injured sixty-one, thirty-one required transport to area hospitals; the plant produced approximately 1.3 billion pounds of ethylene and 90 million pounds of polymer grade propylene a year. –
6/13/1980 Hercules, Inc. plant fire, in Covington, VA losses exceed $20 million –
6/13/1908 Providence, RI a manufacturing plant fire that started from an oil explosion at the British Manufacturing Company was destroyed and more than 500 employees were displaced. –
6/13/1906 Baltimore, Maryland was again destroyed by fire two years after the conflagration of 1904 –
6/13/1897 Clinton, IN a bituminous coal mine fire –
6/13/1888 Union, SC conflagration; several business in the district buildings were destroyed. –
6/13/1381 a peasant army marches into London during the Peasants' Revolt burning and looting the city –
6/13/1973 Kissinger and Le Duc Tho sign new peace agreement –
1972 Hurricane Agnes developed
1971 the "Pentagon Papers" are published by the New York Times damaging the credibility of Cold War policy –
1966 the Miranda rights are established when the Supreme Court hands down its decision in Miranda v. Arizona –
1956 after 72 years, Britain gives up Suez Canal to Egyptian control –
1944 Germans launch V-1 rocket attack against Britain –
1942 Germany puts four saboteurs on Long Island –
1895 the 1st auto race held from Paris-Bordeaux-Paris –
1805 Meriwether Lewis reaches the Great Falls on the Missouri River –
1777 Marquis de Lafayette arrives in South Carolina serving as General Washington's deputy –
1774 Rhode Island becomes 1st colony to prohibit slavery –
1633 the Charter for Maryland is given to Lord Cecil Baltimore –
0323 Alexander the Great dies –