12/31/1986 the DuPont Plaza Hotel fire kills 97and injured 140 in San Juan, PR, the arson fire was started around 3:30 p.m. by three disgruntled employees, with cans of a flammable liquid used in chafing dishes in a storage room filled with furniture, the fire flashed over and extended up the grand staircase to the lobby and into the casino, egress from the casino was a pair of inward-opening doors – 12/31/2013 a Bangalore-Nanded express train caught fire in tunnel killing 26 and injured 9 of the 64 passengers after a fire broke out in an air conditioned bogie of the Nanded Express in Anantapur district in Andhra Pradesh around 3:15 a.m. – 12/31/1994 9:00 p.m. a fire occurred in a 468-bed hospital, a full-care facility, in Petersburg, Virginia, caused by smoking materials, killed five patients. The fire began in a patient’s room after smoking materials ignited bedding, including an “air floatation” mattress with foam plastic padding intensified when oxygen released from the hospital’s piped oxygen distribution system in the high-rise building of fire-resistive construction. Smoke spread into the corridor and into other patient rooms through open doors extended into a noncombustible concealed space above the ceilings on the same side of the corridor as the fire room. The smoke able to enter these concealed spaces because the walls were not continuous from the floor to the underside of the floor above. The building had been equipped with fire protection features currently required by fire safety codes, but lacked a fire sprinkler system in the room of origin or in the corridor; the hospital staff had been trained to respond to fire emergencies. – 12/31/1929 Bonham, TX Fannin County Courthouse is destroyed by fire and destroying nearly all county records – 1916 St. Ferdinand de Halifax, QB Insane Asylum fire kills 46 (“forty-five insane women patients, inmates”) a regular government establishments for the care of the insane was being used for the care of female patients. The facility housed 180 patients near Plessisville, Quebec – 1907 Carthage, NM mine explosion of gas and coal dust kills 9 at noon in the Bernal mine at Carthage, Socorro County owned by the Carthage Fuel Company. – 1862 the Civil War Battle of Stone’s River Tennessee begins, on the banks of Stone’s River outside Murfreesboro, Tennessee was fought in miserable weather that saw bitterly cold rain and sleet, the three-day battle involved more than 80,000 soldiers and inflict staggering casualties, with over 23,500 men killed, wounded, or missing was some of the most brutal and ferocious fighting of the war under the commands of General William Rosecrans (U.S) Braxton Bragg (CSA). In western Tennessee the Battle of Parkers Crossroads occurred when Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest escapes capture during a raid that was instrumental in forcing Union General Ulysses S. Grant to abandon his first attempt to capture Vicksburg, Mississippi. – 1775 Patriots are defeated by the British at Quebec under General Richard Montgomery and Colonel Benedict Arnold while attempting to capture the city under cover of darkness and snowfall; the effort costs Montgomery his life –
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