Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for March 25th: https://ko-fi.com/post/March-25-Click-Clack-Moo-D1D21CMEKW
Artist Birthday: Melanie Blatt of All Saints
Author Julie S. Howlin post of the day: Aretha Franklin
Bummer March 25th
March 25, 1911: A fire in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in Greenwich Village, New York City, kills 146 factory workers, most of them young women from Italian and Jewish immigrant families.
March 25, 1990: In the early hours of the morning, young people gather at the Happy Land social club, an unlicensed club, in The Bronx, New York City. They’re celebrating Carnival. Many of them are from Honduran immigrant families, and often of the Garifuna community (people of indigenous Caribbean and African descent). The club has no fire exits, sprinkler system, or alarms.
Coat check worker Lydia Feliciano, working at the club that morning, is visited by her boyfriend, Julio González. They argue and Feliciano tells González she doesn’t want to see him anymore. González is thrown out of the club. He returns and sets fire to the club with gasoline, which he disperses at the bottom of the stairs below the club’s only exit. The fire kills 87 people.
Lydia Feliciano survives the fire, one of only six survivors. Julio González is arrested, confesses to the arson, and is sentenced to life in prison. He dies in prison in 2016.
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