Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for March 9th: https://ko-fi.com/post/March-9-L3L2JCCD7
Bummer March 9th
March 9, 1911: The DuPont blasting powder plants explodes, destroying much of the town of Point Prairie, Wisconsin. Since the plant was closed at the time of the explosion, only three DuPont employees are killed. A fourth person, named Alice Finch, is said to have “dropped dead of fright.” Hundreds of Point Prairie residents are injured, including one man who loses an eye from flying glass and another whose ear is severed by flying glass.
March 9, 1989: 42-year-old photographer Robert Mapplethorpe dies of AIDS-related illness at a Boston hospital.
March 9, 1997: Christopher Wallace, a.k.a. The Notorious B.I.G., is murdered while sitting in a truck leaving a party in Los Angeles. Struck by four bullets, including one that hits his heart, the 24-year-old rapper dies at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
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