April 30, 2026
Tag: December 30 1903
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The Iroquois Theatre Fire
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Chicago, December 30, 1903. Fire, smoke and chaos caused by fear, killed over six hundred soles today at the new Iroquois Theatre on Randolph Street. That’s the way the lead story in the Chicago Sun-Times began on the morning of December 31, 1903. A grusome story of death and suffering that need not have happened.
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Nearly one hundred fifty years later the battlefield where George Custer lost his last battle is still hallowed ground. The site is visited by thousands every year. If a trip to Montana is out of the question, there are many postcards to collect.