January 15 - Deadly Molasses Explosion of 1919
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January 15 - Deadly Molasses Explosion of 1919

2025-01-15

Today in labor history, January 15, 1919 marked one of the strangest industrial disasters in U.S. History.  That winter day in Boston the weather shifted suddenly and temperatures began to rise.  A fifty foot storage container containing 2.3 million gallons of molasses began to make strange noises. 

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