American disasters
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Three Mile Island: nuclear disaster
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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire: flames of labor reform
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Reviews the causes and effects of some major blackouts, from the 1965 power outage that affected much of New England to the 2001 rolling blackouts in California, focusing on the 1977 blackout in New York City that lasted over twenty-five hours. The 1970s was a difficult decade for New York City. Fiscal and social problems plagued the city throughout this time. All of it came to a boil on July 13, 1977, when a blackout occurred in the midst of a terrible...
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Johnstown flood: the day the dam burst
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The stock market crash of 1929: dawn of the Great Depression
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