Phineas Gage Struck with a Tamping Iron / Great fire of Smyrna started - September 13

Phineas Gage was struck through the skull with a tamping iron on this day in 1848. / On this day in 1922, a fire in Smyrna in Asia Minor -- present-day İzmir, Turkey -- began blazing through the city. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers