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law
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Disasters & Accidents January 15 1919
A Wave of Molasses: Boston's Strangest Disaster
On 15 January 1919, a fifty-foot steel tank in Boston's North End burst, sending millions of gallons of molasses through the streets in a wave that killed 21 people — and produced a landmark corporate-negligence case.
Politics & Power June 15 1215
Runnymede: King John Seals Magna Carta
On 15 June 1215, in a meadow beside the Thames, King John of England accepted the barons' Great Charter — a failed peace treaty that became, through reissue and reinvention, the founding text of the rule of law.