Daily Note

Historical Events

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Tanganyika Groundnut Scheme collapse and lessons

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Bat bomb Project X-Ray WWII bat-delivered incendiaries

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Sarajevo aftermath of Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassination

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Affair of the poisons at Louis XIV's court

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Johnstown flood of 1889

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Anglo-Zanzibar War: the shortest war

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Great Stink of 1858 and Bazalgette's sewer network

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Laki eruption and the Haze Famine

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Great Emu War in Western Australia 1932

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Donora smog of 1948 spurred air-quality policy

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Battle of Blair Mountain 1921

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General Slocum steamboat disaster

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Dancing Plague of Strasbourg 1518

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Cadaver Synod exhumed Pope Formosus on trial

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Boston Great Molasses Flood of 1919

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Halifax explosion of 1917

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Black Tom explosion of 1916

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London Beer Flood at Meux's Horse Shoe Brewery 1814

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Peshtigo Fire of 1871 deadliest U.S. wildfire

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