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The Hamlet chicken processing plant fire was an industrial disaster that took place at the Imperial Foods chicken processing plant in Hamlet, North Carolina, USA, on September 3, 1991 after a failure in a faulty modification to a hydraulic line. Twenty-five people were killed and fifty-four injured in the fire as they were trapped behind locked fire doors. Due to a lack of inspectors, the plant had never received a safety inspection in eleven years of operation, and it is thought that a single inspection would have easily prevented the tragedy. A full federal investigation was launched, which resulted in the owner receiving a 20-year prison sentence, and the company received the highest fines ever handed out in the history of North Carolina. However, the investigation also highlighted failings in the authoritative enforcement of existing safety regulations, and resulted in a number of worker safety laws being passed. Accusations of racism were leveled at both the fire service and the city of Hamlet in the aftermath of the fire. The plant was never reopened. The fire remains the worst industrial disaster ever to strike North Carolina, and the third worst American industrial disaster, with only the 1947 Texas City disaster and the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire being worse. (more...)
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Hurricane Felix becomes a Category 5 hurricane in the Caribbean Sea, becoming the second storm of that strength in the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season.
The Taliban release the remaining South Korean hostages in return for South Korea withdrawing its 200 non-combat troops within the year and suspending missionary work in Afghanistan.
Abdullah Gül (pictured) is elected as the eleventh President of Turkey by the Turkish Parliament, after secularist concerns delayed his initial candidacy.
United States Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announces his resignation, after several controversies over his actions.
Twin bombings kill more than forty people in Hyderabad, India, and nineteen unexploded bombs are found throughout the city.
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September 3: Labor Day in the United States and Labour Day in Canada (2007); Independence Day in Qatar; Armed Forces Day in Taiwan.
301 – San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, was founded by Saint Marinus.
1260 – Egyptian Mamluks defeated the Mongols at the Battle of Ain Jalut in Palestine, marking the point of maximum westward expansion of the Mongol Empire.
1783 – Great Britain and the United States signed the Treaty of Paris, formally ending the American Revolutionary War.
1901 – The National Flag of Australia (pictured), a Blue Ensign defaced with the Commonwealth Star and the Southern Cross, flew for the first time atop the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne.
1976 – The NASA Viking 2 spacecraft landed on Mars and took the first close-up, color photos of the planet's surface.
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A huaso, a Chilean countryman and skilled horseman, similar to cowboys, gauchos, and vaqueros, in a wheat field, 1940. Huasos typically wear a straw hat called a chupalla and a poncho called a manta or a chamanto. They are an important part of Chilean folkloric culture.
Photo credit: Toni Frissell
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