Open navigationClose navigationHome All the major chapters in the American story from Indigenous beginnings to the present day Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander History History from countries and communities across the globe A devastating mine disaster kills over 1,000 workers in Courrieres, France, on March 10, 1906. An underground fire sparked a massive explosion that virtually destroyed a vast maze of mines. The Courrieres Colliery in northern France was a complex series of mines near the Pas-de-Calais Mountains. Tunnels into the mines issued forth from several towns in the area and more than 2,000 men and boys worked the mines, digging for coal that was used mostly to manufacture gas. Fires raged from every opening of the mine and many people suffered terrible burn injuries. Since the fires continued to burn, rescuers and family members of the miners were unable to send help down the mine shafts. One rescue party of 40 men paid the ultimate price for their attempt—they were all killed when the shaft they were descending collapsed. Soon, French soldiers were called in to establish order from the mounting chaos outside the mine. As bodies began to be found, a mortuary was established near the mine. It took weeks for the all of the bodies to be recovered and identified. In the end, the casualty toll from this disaster was 1,060 miners killed, with hundreds more suffering serious injuries. Discover more of the major events, famous births, notable deaths and everything else history-making that happened on March 10th On March 10, 1864, President Abraham Lincoln signs a brief document officially promoting then-Major General Ulysses S. Grant to the rank of lieutenant general of the U.S. Army, tasking the future president with the job of leading all Union troops against the Confederate Army. The rank of lieutenant general had not officially been used since […] Local hell-raiser Jack Slade is hanged in one of the more troubling incidents of frontier vigilantism. Slade stood out even among the many rabble-rousers who inhabited the frontier-mining town of Virginia City, Montana. When he was sober, townspeople liked and respected Slade, though there were unconfirmed rumors he had once been a thief and murderer. […] The first discernible speech is transmitted over a telephone system when inventor Alexander Graham Bell summons his assistant in another room by saying, “Mr. Watson, come here; I want you.” Bell had received a comprehensive telephone patent just three days before. Alexander Graham Bell, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1847, was the son of Alexander […] Less than two weeks after their victorious recapture of the strategically placed city of Kut-al-Amara on the Tigris River in Mesopotamia, British troops under the regional command of Sir Frederick Stanley Maude bear down on Baghdad, causing their Turkish opponents to begin a full-scale evacuation of the city on the evening of March 10, 1917. […] After years of being repeatedly arrested and detained by his country’s British colonial government for his leadership activity in India’s independence movement, activist and spiritual leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is arrested on March 10, 1922 in Bombay on his most serious charge yet: sedition. Gandhi—nicknamed Mahatma, which means “the great-souled one”—is sentenced to six years […] The communist-controlled government of Czechoslovakia reports that Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk has died by suicide. The story of the noncommunist Masaryk’s death was greeted with skepticism in the West. Masaryk was born in 1886, the son of Czechoslovakia’s first president. After World War I, he served as foreign minister in the new Czech government. Later […] Tibetans band together in revolt, surrounding the summer palace of the Dalai Lama in defiance of oppressive Chinese occupation forces. 1970 The U.S. Army accuses Capt. Ernest Medina and four other soldiers of committing crimes at My Lai (also known as Songmy) in March 1968. The charges ranged from premeditated murder to rape and the “maiming” of a suspect under interrogation. Medina was the company commander of Lt. William Calley and other soldiers charged with murder […] With his heart greatly weakened from years of cocaine abuse, musician Andy Gibb succumbs to an inflammatory heart virus on March 10, 1988. He was only 30 years old. With his knee-buckling good looks and his brothers’ songwriting talents backing him up, 19-year-old Andy Gibb staged an unprecedented display of youthful pop mastery in the […] 1993 Dr. David Gunn is shot and killed during an anti-abortion protest at the Pensacola Women’s Medical Services clinic. Dr. Gunn performed abortions at several clinics in Florida and Alabama and was getting out of his car in the clinic’s parking lot when Michael Griffin shouted, “Don’t kill any more babies!” and shot the doctor three […] On March 10, 1997, the fledgling Warner Brothers (WB) television network airs the inaugural episode of what will become its first bonafide hit show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Buffy‘s creator, Joss Whedon, developed the series from an original script he had written for the big screen a number of years earlier. The 1992 movie, starring Kristy […] On March 10, 2006, the Cuban national baseball team plays Puerto Rico in the first round of the inaugural World Baseball Classic. While the Puerto Rican team was made up of major league All-Stars, the Cuban team was largely unknown to the world. Puerto Rico beat Cuba 12-2 that day, but the Cuban team would […] The world-famous playwright invented scores of new words and phrases. Here are 10 that have become part of the popular lexicon. From the Ottoman Empire to the American and French Revolutions, coffeehouses have offered a place for (sober) people to discuss new waves of thought. From Stalin's reign of terror to Gorbachev and glasnost, meet the eight leaders who presided over the USSR. Find out about six prominent captives who did time in one of history’s most forbidding prisons. We strive for accuracy and fairness. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us HISTORY reviews and updates its content regularly to ensure it is complete and accurate Uncover fascinating moments from the past every day Learn something new with key events in history from the American Revolution to pop culture you agree to receive emails from HISTORY and A+E Global Media You must be 16 years or older and a resident of the United States A man was killed and another seriously injured by lightning when it struck a sports pitch in northern France during a training session yesterday evening (May 23) was coaching children at a local amateur football club during the storm.  He started to ask the group to make their way off of the pitch due to the weather and then was hit by lightning as he began to walk off with the group The seriously injured and unnamed player was transported to a nearby hospital One other person was slightly injured by the strike on the pitch in Courrières Other players for the club AS Courrières and people present were “shocked by the incident but unharmed Friends and family members gathered at the stadium where the incident happened to pay their respects and light candles for the dead player.  he must be injured,'" Jordan's father told media outlet BFMTV.  "But when I saw the eyes of the ambulance crew I quickly realised that he had died," he added I would have preferred it to be me [who was hit]," the father added.  The coach leaves behind a wife and young son calling him an "enthusiast" for the local football club.  "He was a teacher and he trained the children He was a great person in the club...Football was his whole life" leading to bus and tramways temporarily being closed.  Read more: Storms in France: what to do if at home, out walking or in car Storms are set to continue in France today particularly in the east and south-east of the country However most of Brittany and the south-west remaining free of adverse conditions especially in the Cévennes and Pyrénées but most will have cleared by the evening Temperatures are set to fall quickly as the evening comes.  Weather will remain calm in the west on Saturday (May 25) and some scattered thunderstorms may appear.  stormy weather will reappear in the north and west with rain and lightning potentially reaching the eastern Vosges mountains.  These weather patterns will move south towards Lyon and the Rhône valley at the start of next week although some rain will remain in Normandy.  Predictions from La Chaîne Météo (owned by Le Figaro) for the next four weeks are that the unstable and stormy weather will continue Frequent warnings for thunderstorms at the beginning of June are expected It is also predicted that warm air rising from the Mediterranean (which partly causes storms) will persist throughout the month early summer for those near the coast in the south.  Currently, there are no heightened storm warnings for today or the weekend, although this is subject to change. You can keep up to date with all official weather warnings on the Météo France website Read more: What action is advised with different Météo France weather warnings The geographical spread of Canadian nationals follows a similar pattern to Americans Her body was found outside initial search area by a walker over the weekend Sign in Join now, it's FREE! It is was heavy hearts that our family announces the passing of Joseph Courriere he will be remembered fondly by his friends and family From the moment he could walk he was always working with his hands lacrosse and anything with an engine; cars he was endlessly curious and he definitely knew how to test boundaries Joe’s inquisitive mind led him down his own path in life ensures that they hold all of the good that Joe was in them and that they honour his life every day Robert and Trinity will carry him with them always The family would love it if memorial donations were made to the charity of your choice in Joseph’s name A private service and cremation ceremony was held with close family The family wishes to send a special thank you to the staff at Arbor Memorial’s LeClair Cremation Centre for their care and compassion throughout this time Here is a look at the 10 worst coal mining accidents in history Turkey does not have the best track record when it comes to coal mining disasters With efforts being made to expand the country’s mining sector and a government that is incapable of deciding how to handle such incidents the country saw more than 25,000 mine accidents between 2000 and 2009 particularly at coal and other hard-rock mining operations given the stricter safety regulations of the developed world most mining accidents happen in developing countries where safety standards are lax in comparison Here is a look at the 10 worst coal mining accidents in history: On April 26, 1942, a deadly gas explosion in one of the shafts at the Benxihu — called Honkeiko by the Japanese — coal mine in China’s Liaoning province left 1,549 Chinese miners dead a dust explosion at the Courrières mine in Northern France on March 10 Two-thirds of the miners working at the mine at the time of the explosion were killed this time at the Mitsubishi Hojyo coal mine in Kyushu The disaster went down in history as Japan’s deadliest mine accident a methane explosion in at the Laobaidong coal mine in the Northern Chinese province of Shanxi left 684 workers dead The Chinese government kept information about the explosion secret until 1992 Nearly 50 years after the Mitsubishi Hojyo explosion an accidental explosion at the Mitsui Miike coal mine in Kyushu Japan left 458 people dead either due to the explosion itself or from carbon monoxide poisoning Another 839 people were injured as a result of the November 9 an explosion at the Senghenydd colliery killed 439 miners and one rescuer making the disaster the worst mining accident in the United Kingdom Though the actual cause of the explosion is not known it is assumed that a build up of methane was ignited by electric sparking from equipment The initial explosion triggered coal dust that escalated 1960 at the Coalbrook North colliery in South Africa was responsible for the deaths of 435 workers nor were any machines able to drill holes large enough to perform a rescue the shaft was abandoned and sealed with concrete The collapse of the mine is one of the worst mine disasters in South Africa A series of underground explosions at the Wankie No eight men were pulled alive from the mine; however several additional explosions released poisonous gas into 3 miles of tunnels making it impossible to carry on with rescue efforts The United Kingdom’s second-worst mining disaster happened many years before the Senghenydd explosions 1866 explosions caused by flammable gases resulted in the death of 380 miners and rescuers at the Oaks colliery in Stairfoot 1965 an explosion at in Ghori Dhori near the town of Dhanbad killed 375 workers hold no direct investment interest in any company mentioned in this article Investing News Network websites or approved third-party tools use cookies. 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Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world Marine Le Pen meets with residents during her visit to a local market in Courrieres 2024 at 6:56 AM EDTBookmarkSaveFrance’s National Rally continued to cement its lead in opinion polls a week before the country’s snap parliamentary election largely at the expense of President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist bloc Support for Marine Le Pen’s far-right party was pegged at 36% in a survey by Elabe published Sunday in La Tribune Dimanche That’s ahead of 27% for the left-wing New Popular Front alliance I regularly walk past the bronze sculpture of Holland’s founder the Rev Albertus Van Raalte in Centennial Park and hadn’t given much thought to the sculpture’s original modeler and the only record of the work was 1920s photographs in the Holland Museum’s archival collection created the statue from the museum’s historic photos for Holland’s sesquicentennial in 1997 Researching the French-Belgian origins of my own family recently I came across the following compelling story of Crunelle’s life — that of an immigrant boy from northern France who I learned that in 1882 Crunelle’s family emigrated from the mines of Courrières Not only did my family emigrate from the same area in 1882 The Crunelle and Lefever families were acquainted with each other immigrant miners looking for a better life in America Leonard Crunelle’s personal story has given the Van Raalte sculpture new meaning for me The article excerpted below was written by Isabel MacDougall in 1908 and appeared that year in The Craftsman magazine Once upon a time Leonard Crunelle was a coal miner For the important matter is not what he was but what he has made himself But Leonard Crunelle’s statues win the respect of other artists; who in criticizing do not say “These reflect credit upon a young man of limited opportunities.” No: they admire them they compare them quite seriously with the children modeled by those “little masters” of the Italian Renaissance Leonard Crunelle’s earliest exhibited work — ah The story of the little lad in Northern France whose father was a miner in that very Courrieres district (in Pas-de-Calais) which has since been the scene of such a terrible disaster (1,099 miners died there in a 1906 explosion) Yet life was not all labor in the miners’ thatched cottages The village had a band that played once a week in the square and a transplanted French family earning a hard living in an Indiana coal mine where everyone seemed to take advantage of their ignorance and a bewildered boy of 10 helping his father load coal to the limit of his puny strength When the family moved to Decatur (Illinois By that time Leonard was drawing full pay: also he joined with a few other lads to form an amateur orchestra West of the Alleghenies art practically dates back to the Columbian Exposition in Chicago (1893) Shortly before that it was that a well-known sculptor delivered a lecture on art in Decatur After his address some teachers of the town showed him drawings made by a young miner who was too bashful to come forward himself slow in his English speech and had worked in a mine since he was 10 years old that his gifts deserved a chance of growth in some more aesthetic environment Within six months a slender brown-eyed French youth was mixing plaster clearing away debris for sculptors at work under the unfinished dome at Jackson Park After the fair he worked at any job he could find daytimes and studied in the Art Institute night classes He became a pupil and useful helper to Lorado Taft In those days of Sunday violin practice the amateur orchestra usually met under the roof of a kind and cultivated woman who possessed a piano and whose young daughter played with them A boy and girl romance sprang up to a musical accompaniment — scarcely out of the ranks of day laborers scarcely out of his teens — Leonard Crunelle modeled with caressing hands a bust of his first baby and sent it to Chicago And an artist jury to a man went down before the soft appealing little head; praised it and loved it and gave it a good place in the exhibition at the Art Institute Later that same baby bust went to the Cotton States Exposition in Atlanta and won a medal for the young sculptor whose first work it was those valiant encouragers of art in the West and perhaps as great a compliment as it ever received lay in the way the purchasing lady cuddled the tiny face in her arms illustrates a point he wishes to make with the cast of “Baby Marguerite,” and his audience never fails to break into pleased applause when they look at the little head that seems to look back at them with the fearless calm of innocence .. To find out more about the history of this area The Holland Museum Archives are on the lower level of the museum call (616) 392-9084 or visit www.hollandmuseum.org Turkey's is among the world’s worst mining disastersStaffPublished May 14 2014This article was published more than 10 years ago With the death toll in this week's Turkish coal-mine explosion continuing to rise a look at some of the world's worst mining disasters The Benxihu colliery disaster occurred on April 26 located near Benxi in the Liaoning province of China The fatal explosion of the underground coal mine was caused by a mixture of gas and coal dust The fire exploded out of the mine shaft entrance The ventilation system was shut off and the pit head was sealed by the mine operator to deprive the underground of oxygen An electric fence was erected around the pit to obstruct the entry of miners' relatives is the second deadliest coal mining disaster in history because of a massive explosion sparked by an underground fire in one of the pits of the Courrieres Colliery The fire was detected around 270 metres underground the day before the explosion The outlets of the pit were closed to starve the fire of oxygen The next morning a huge explosion emanated from the still-smouldering fire at the pit and caused a blast on the surface It was caused by a gas explosion at the mine located in the island of Kyushu caused thick black smoke to come gushing out of the air vents before it finally blew the elevator cage 15 metres into the air with a massive blast People within a 200-metre radius of the mine entrance were also impacted by the explosion the second deadliest in China after the Benxihu colliery disaster located near Datong in the Shanxi province of China The accident was caused by a methane explosion Information was suppressed by the Chinese government for more than three decades The Laobaidong disaster is the most fatal coal mine disaster since the inception of the People's Republic of China in 1949 The Mitsui Miike coal mine explosion on Nov was the second deadliest coal mining disaster in Japan after the Mitsubishi Hojyo Coal Mine Disaster in 1914 Four hundred fifty-eight miners were killed in the accident and 833 were injured It was triggered by a coal-dust explosion about 500 metres below the mine's ground-level entrance which collapsed the tunnel roof at multiple locations Most of the deaths were due to carbon-monoxide poisoning Most of the poisoned survivors suffered severe brain damage Miike was one of the oldest and largest coal mines in Japan The coal mine ceased its operations in 1997 The Westray Mine disaster occurred at a coal mine in Plymouth Approximately eight months after the mine was opened by Curragh Resources Inc. with assistance from both the federal and provincial governments an underground methane explosion killed all 26 miners working underground at the time A public inquiry found that the mine had been mismanaged and miners' safety ignored and it cited poor regulatory oversight in pinpointing the causes for the disaster The company went bankrupt and the mine was permanently sealed in 1998 The Copiapó mining accident was a rarity: a mining-accident story with a happy ending a cave-in at the San Jose copper/gold mine deep in the Atacama Desert trapped 33 miners about 700 metres underground more than 5 kilometres from the mine's entrance The mine had a troubled history of fines, deaths, accidents and safety violations, prompting little hope that the trapped men would be found alive. Nonetheless, the men survived a record 69 days underground, and were eventually rescued in reasonably good health by a winching operation Oct Sources: mining-technology.com Welcome to The Globe and Mail’s comment community. This is a space where subscribers can engage with each other and Globe staff. Non-subscribers can read and sort comments but will not be able to engage with them in any way. Click here to subscribe If you would like to write a letter to the editor, please forward it to letters@globeandmail.com. 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