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The Beverly Hills Supper Club fire in Southgate, Kentucky, is the seventh deadliest nightclub fire in history. It occurred on the night of May 28, 1977, during the Memorial Day holiday weekend. A total of 165 people died and more than 200 were injured as a result of the blaze.
Cumberland Falls State Resort Park is a park located just southwest of Corbin, Kentucky, and is contained entirely within the Daniel Boone National Forest. [3] The park encompasses 1,657 acres (671 ha) and is named for its major feature, 68-foot-tall (21 m) Cumberland Falls .
The Kentucky & Tennessee Railway in nearby Stearns, KY bought the track and a scrap company bought the old converted wooden cabooses. This resulted in the park's final fire. During the scrapping process for the wooden coaches, the bodies of the cars were accidentally set on fire with a cutting torch, with the fire quickly getting out of hand.
The 1921-1928 Newport, Kentucky steel strike was a labor dispute between steel workers in Newport, Kentucky and Andrews Steel Co., the owners of the Andrew Steel Plant and Newport Rolling Mill. [1] [2] The strike was primarily over continued union recognition of the three unskilled steel local who had won collective bargaining during World War I.
A tiny stream grew large enough and rushed fast enough to rip chunks of sediment out from under this shed near the old Star Fire strip mine site. ‘Destroyed again:’ Recovering from multiple ...
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Baird adopted an intermediate film technique where the live material was filmed using a standard film camera mounted on a large cabinet that contained a rapid processing unit and an early flying-spot scanner to produce the video output for transmission. The pioneer broadcasts were not, however, preserved on this intermediate film as the nitrate ...
The Old Lake County Jail in Crown Point, Ind., made famous when "most wanted" gangster John Dillinger escaped in 1934, is investigated by TAPS over reports of aggressive "prisoners" reopening sealed areas and doors. Later, the team travel to the historic My Old Kentucky Home where tragically 16 people died within 24 hours of contracting cholera.