Flooding along the Yangtze River in China drowns an estimated 100,000 people. Raold Amudsen reaches the South Pole on Dec. 14. On March 25 a fire at the Triangle Waist Co. in New York City kills 146 people. Most of them were young women. The building's exit doors were blocked.
Information is drawn from news accounts, archives and other historical records.
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