Today in Fire History 7/11

7/11/2008 a fire caused by a malfunctioning vent fan in a bathroom around 12:52p.m. at Stepping Stones Day Care in Tallahassee, FL claimed the life of a four year-old-girl

7/11/1978 a truck carrying liquid gas crashed into a campsite in San Carlos de la Rapita, Spain that killed more than two-hundred (243). Shortly after 3:00 p.m. a 38-ton truck carrying propylene gas crashed into a cement wall 120 miles south of Barcelona. –

7/11/1973 Varig Airlines B-707 in-flight fire killed 123, near Paris, France –

7/11/1926 Dover, NJ an ammunition depot explosion killed three, twenty were missing, and one-hundred injured –

7/11/1911 a wildfire burned down the town Oscoda, MI –

7/11/1905 Easton, PA the Paxinosa Inn a resort hotel was destroyed by fire that started from an overheated flue in the laundry on the east side of the inn and extended into the 40’ by 340’ four-story high wood structure –

7/11/1890 Chicago, IL the steamer Tioga owned by the Erie Transportation Company exploded at 7:45 p.m. at her dock at Randolph Street and the river killing thirteen.

7/11/1879 Bodie, CA a magazine that contained about five tons of giant gunpowder exploded at the Bodie Mine causing a fire that extended to the shaft killing five and injuring eleven –

7/11/1979 the Skylab crashed to Earth –

7/11/1914, 19-year-old George Herman “Babe” Ruth Jr. played his first game for the Boston Red Sox, pitching seven innings and allowing two earned runs in a win over Cleveland.

7/11/1864 Confederate forces led by General J Early during the Civil War invaded Washington D.C Fort Stevens

7/11/1804, in a duel held in Weehawken, N.J., Vice President Aaron Burr fatally shoots his long-time political antagonist Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton, a leading Federalist and the chief architect of America's political economy, died the following day, and one of America's greatest statesmen passed into history –

7/11/1789 the U.S. Marine Corps was created by an act of Congress –

7/11/1767 President John Quincy Adams was born in Braintree (now Quincy), MA, son of the 2nd U.S. president, John Adams, the younger Adams would inherit a passion for politics and follow in his father's footsteps, and winning the presidency in 1824, succeeding James Monroe; later in his career he would argue the controversial Amistad slave ship case before the Supreme Court.  –

7/11/1274 Robert the Bruce a Guardian & King of Scotland was born –