July 9, 1993 – On this evening during an after-work party, a young lawyer named Garry Hoy was demonstrating how the windows in his 24th-floor office were unbreakable. He took a running start and threw his body against the glass. As he had done many times in the past, Hoy bounced harmlessly off the glass. Another group [...]
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 26, 1995 – This was the day that the EPA declared a backyard shed in Golf Manor, Michigan as a Superfund site. A hazmat crew rolled into the suburban address and carefully dismantled a workspace that had been used by a 17-year-old Eagle Scout to create a primitive nuclear reactor. The boy’s name was David Hahn, but he is [...]
