June 30, 1974 - It was in the early morning of this day that a nightclub fire in Port Chester, New York claimed 24 lives. The club was called Gulliver’s, and it was a popular destination at the height of the disco era. Hundreds of young people were crowded on the strobe-lit dancefloor when a startling announcement was made. George Chase, [...]
June 28, 1983 – At 1:30 am on this day in Greenwich, Connecticut, a 100-foot section of the Mianus River Bridge collapsed and 4 vehicles plunged into the shallow water below. Three people were killed and three others were critically injured. Had the bridge failed later in the day when traffic on [...]
June 22, 1918 – Early in the morning on this day, an engineer on a troop transport train fell asleep and rammed his engine through a circus train that had stopped on the tracks. 86 people died and another 127 were injured.
The accident near Hammond, Indiana was one of the worst circus train disasters in [...]
