19 year old James Salamites was driving with five of his friends in Hartford, Connecticut the night of October 14, 1975. He drove through a green light, only to strike a vehicle going through the intersection.
During the civil war, the manufacture of powder and explosives was often handled by the most vulnerable, young women and children, whose labor was needed when so many men had been sent off to war. On March 13, 1863, the confederacy experienced a munitions disaster, in the confederate capitol of Richmond.