(Sauberman) Ultimately, due to misjudgments and mistakes the Iroquois Theater burned down, killing a total of 602 people; because of this, stricter theater fire codes were passed. During Christmas vacation a play called Mr. Bluebeard was playing at the Iroquois Theater; and parents took their children to see it. At the beginning of the second act of the play, a spark from an arc light flared up and caught a drop curtain on fire. At first audience members didn’t think much of the flash of light, thinking it was part of the play. (Taylor) The spark then burst into flames, with the fire expanding rapidly behind the stage.
The men under the command of Candelario Lopez burned and looted the city and the forces under Pablo Lopez, Beltran and Castro attacked the American forces. The men under Cervantes penetrated unopposed into the heart of the city killing anyone who stood on their way. After kicking the door open to the commercial Hotel they searched it desperately looking for Ravel who was out of the town at the time. L. Burkhead the postal administrator left the hotel with his wife and kids through a back door just before the hotel collapsed in flames. Arthur Ravel who was 16 years old at the time, witnesses this carnage only because the two men assigned to accompany him to his dad’s store were shot by the town folk.
It all started out when a soldier was attacked by a group of angry rebels, who challenge the soldiers to fire into the crowd. They are all surprised when a couple of the British soldiers do fire and kill five citizens. This causes more riots, and the event is soon in the newspaper headlining “The Boston Massacre.” Being the great leader that he
Between the hours of 12:00AM and 1:00AM on April 19th Dzhokar and Tamerlan were spotted and they engaged in a shoot-out with the officers. During the pursuit improvised explosive devices were thrown at the police, as many as 300 rounds were exchanged. Tamerlan was killed by police during the exchange. Dzhokar, while escaping the scene ran over his brother’s body and got away from the police. Britannica.com 23 July 2014 Boston Marathon bombing of 2013 This was the start of the manhunt that shut down the city of Boston.
After moving a group of 45 soldiers to a nearby island under false pretences Cornelisz’ followers began to kill off people that posed a threat to them or caused any trouble. They walked around the island wearing gold and red clothing and doing as they wish. In total they murdered 125 people including men, women and children. The only problem for them was that the soldiers that he intended would die actually didn’t and when they had heard of the killings started to make
Ivan was convinced of one thing, "I am God on earth". In Moscow during the first year of his rule, a great fire burned 2/3 of all the wooden buildings, including part of the cremlem. During this fire, a mob attacked the cremlem, capturing and murdering a family member of the tsar who was thought to be the cause of the fire. Ivan struck back by arresting the political adversaries who were thought
Her neighbors helped her out by getting the furniture and other valuables out of the burning house. The Maycomb’s old fire truck jammed on the route, had to be pushed by a crowd of men. By the time Maycomb’s fire truck reached to the site, a fire truck from Abbottsville County came and began pumping water on the house but soon the whole house collapsed and gushed fire all around. The fire was completely
Late in the evening, on September 19, 1966, my squad was ambushed trying to reach another squad, cut off from our main unit. As we ran down a path and around a curve toward the village, the NVA ambushed us, wounding the boy in front of me. We hit the ground and returned fire. I tried to yell out orders, but there was so much firing going on, I could not even hear myself yelling. As I looked back, our company corpsman ran toward us and was shot, got up, was shot again, and killed.
BACON’S REBELLION GINA HARRISON HIST221 I005 SPR 13 PROFESSOR GWENDOLLYN NOBLE 26 May 2013 The occasion of this rebellion, which occurred in 1676, is not easy to recognize but has been determined there were many things that concurred towards it. Bacon’s Rebellion was a riot in the early history of the colony of Jamestown, Virginia; Nathaniel Bacon rebelled and held a riot in Colonial Virginia. Numerous factors made the revolution inevitable, such as, high taxes, decreased tobacco prices, and resentment against unexpected privileges towards those close to the governor, Sir William Berkeley. Bacon, later elected to the new House of Burgesses forced Berkeley to summon because Bacon commanded to forbidden but successful expeditions
We had been defeated on the war of revolution, but failure is always our motion, we had sworn an unbreakable promised that we will never stop fighting until we reach the gate of freedom. As a great manoeuvre in 1905, we had created a Red Army – who will bring us to the gate of freedom and justice. Comrades! As I said “a great liberating war has risen”. The whole Europe is a battlefield and we are a vanguard in this war.