Operation Fiery Vigil, the 1991 emergency evacuation of more than 20,000 US military personnel and dependents from The Philippines. Deserves to be remembered.
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.