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December 6, 1907: The Monongah mining disaster was a coal mine explosion at Fairmont Coal Company's Number 6 and 8 mines in Monongah, West Virginia, which killed 361 miners. It has been described as "the worst mining disaster in American history" and was one of the contributing events that led to the creation of the United States Bureau of Mines.


171 of them were Italian migrants. Others killed in the disaster included Russians, Greeks, and immigrant workers from Austria-Hungary. 216 women were widowed, and the miners left behind 475 children, with a further 31 born after the disaster. Ugh, dark times.

The WV Mining Disaster That Killed Hundreds of Italian Men and Boys





December 6, 1917: More than 1700 people were killed and 9,000 injured after a devastating explosion aboard French munitions cargo ship SS Mont-Blanc after colliding with the Norwegian vessel SS Imo in the harbour at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The explosion flattened more than 2 square miles of the city of Halifax. Everything within a half mile radius was obliterated. The blast was the largest human-made explosion at the time, releasing the equivalent energy of roughly 2.9 kilotons of TNT.


The exact number killed by the disaster is unknown. The Halifax Explosion Remembrance Book, an official database of the Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management, identified 1,782 victims. As many as 1,600 people died immediately in the blast, tsunami, and collapse of buildings. The last body, a caretaker killed at the Exhibition Grounds, was not recovered until summer 1919. An additional 9,000 were injured. 1,630 homes were destroyed in the explosion and fires, and another 12,000 damaged; roughly 6,000 people were left homeless and 25,000 had insufficient shelter. The city's industrial sector was in large part gone, with many workers among the casualties and the dockyard heavily damaged.

CBC News: A city destroyed: The Halifax Explosion, 100 years later in 360-degrees
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSuX9RvLq54


Dec 6, 1941: LT Ichiro Kitajima briefed torpedo bomber pilots aboard the aircraft carrier Kaga about the plan to attack Pearl Harbor the next morning. Planes from the Kaga would score hits on the battleships Nevada, Oklahoma, Arizona, California, West Virginia, and Maryland.




The guided missile cruiser USS Galveston (CLG-3) fires a three six-inch gun salvo in 1968 (projectiles can be seen upper left hand corner). In the 1986 film TOP GUN, Maverick's G-1 leather flight jacket includes a USS Galveston “Far East Cruise ’63–4” patch.




Dec 6, 2012: Submarine Cryptologic Technician Robert Patrick Hoffman II, 40, of Virginia Beach, Va. was arrested. Fell for not one, but 2 honeypot traps. One by Russians and one by FBI with agent alias Tracey Tea. His license plate read "GR8 LEI." In 2014 he was Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison for Attempted Espionage.




The New York City Police Department has the armory & manpower of a CIA-backed paramilitary army, but can't find a lone wolf who rode away on a penny-farthing.


Man on the Run





"Like other insurers they play by the rules"


Maurice R. Greenberg (born May 4, 1925) is an American business executive and former chairman and chief executive officer of American International Group (AIG), Insurance Hall of Fame and the Thousand Points Of Light club. Establishment guys like Maurice wrote & lobbied the rules which congress signed into law.



Pete Hegseth Will Make The Pentagon Great Again


Three wives, seven kids, wow, that is a feat in of itself! Brady Bunch +1!




Dec 6, 2024: Gov Ron DeSantis hereby declares Dec 6th as Naval Air Station Pensacola Remembrance Day in Florida.