• .

    When Edward Berner could not serve his customer flavoured soda water on the Sabbath, he served him up a bowl of ice-cream topped with chocolate ice-cream soda flavouring - the first ice-cream sundae!

  • .

  • .

A coal mine disaster in Pennsylvania killed over 100 men and boys

On the 6th September, 1869, a coal mine disaster at Avondale, Pennsylvania, claimed the lives of over 100 men and boys.

You might be interested to know:
  • On 8th March, 1924, The Castle Gate coal mine disaster in Utah, USA, claimed 171 lives... Read more »
  • On 6th December, 1907, The worst mining disaster in American history occurred... Read more »
  • On 10th March, 1906, The Courrieres mine disaster in France killed over 1000 people... Read more »
More from
Mining Accidents
After »

  • .

      

  • .