On manual in camper in USA, you have point "If you turn on cruise control, you must stay behind the wheel", because in history some woman bought camper, drive on higway, turn on cruise control, and she go to bathroom, because she thought the car would drive itself. Camper crash on frist turn, she sue company who made that camper, and she won milions because, on manual, noone said that she must stay behind the wheel" ^^ PS: sory for my english...i do my best ^^

@SkyArmyKernal

6 ай бұрын

Your English is great! The only way to get better is to use it! And a great story you have to share!

@Tomikchomik1

6 ай бұрын

@@SkyArmyKernal thank you for your kindness

@Dragantraces

6 ай бұрын

Only problem is that, although this story is often more realistically told with a male driver (look at who is driving most RVs), this is not a real case. It is one of many contrived stories designed to bolster the unfounded demands to "reform out of control tort law".

@christopherdunham2637

6 ай бұрын

Wow, I guess if you sell a product, it's your responsibility to anticipate the stupidity of those purchasing your product, or you could be sued.

@ahhculdee

5 ай бұрын

My freshman year professor in law told this story all the time

The Great Smog of Manchester probably would not have led to the same amount of environmental regulations. Parliament is probably much faster to act when the smoke is hanging right outside their own bedroom windows.

@Kanbei11

6 ай бұрын

See also the Great Stink

Hey VTH, thanks to your livestream yesterday on genealogy, I discovered that my 4th great-grandfather served in the 63rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War, serving under Rosecrans, and was present for Sherman's march to Savanah.

@VloggingThroughHistory

6 ай бұрын

That’s awesome! Thanks for letting me know that

@BlueSideUp77

6 ай бұрын

Cool!

@charlayned

6 ай бұрын

I've dung into my family history quite a bit. I have an odd situation where four of my 4th great-grandfathers were all in the Civil War. Two of them were at Vicksburg. My mom's mom's side (Southard/Morrison) was in the 30th Illinois Company G, Infantry, Union (1861-1865). My dad's mom's side (Smith) was in the 41st Georgia Company A & C, Confederate (1862-1864). He spent a day and a half as a POW and was paroled. They faced off against each other, which I find strange. Other family in the war: My dad's dad's side (Brown) was 26th Tennessee Confederate Company B & H (1861-1964) and spent from February 62 to September 52 at Camp Morton as a POW from the battle at Fort Donelson. He was at Chattanooga, Stone's River, Chickamunga, and then into Georgia and North Carolina. Dad's Dad's other one (Clayton) was 6th Regiment Tennessee Cavalry ,Union (1862-1865). That group was in Tennessee, Mississippi, and a few incursions into Alabama. It was amazing to think that almost all sides of my family ended up serving in that war.

@highschoolhistorian

6 ай бұрын

@@charlayned Wow, that's really impressive. I think it's really cool, since we read about history all we want, but actually being descended from these figures truly requires an entirely different perspective to approaching history.

So one thing the creator forgot to mention about the nightclub fire is thats the reason why every exterior door has to open outwards. Not only did they have one exit door, that door only opened inwards so people couldn't get the door open because so many people rushed the door.

@theinfamousroflcopter2115

6 ай бұрын

The Iroquois Theater Fire is another reason which led to buildings' doors opening outwards, as well as exit signs that light even if the power in a building goes out. There is a documentary on it called "Downtown Disasters - A Chicago Stories Documentary." It mentions the fire and a 1992 disaster where basements in Chicago buildings started to randomly flood.

@Nostripe361

6 ай бұрын

Wasn’t this also the one that required exit doors to be available separate from the main door because it was revolving door and panicked people caused it to get stuck?

@jackj9816

6 ай бұрын

Probably also why clubs are meant to have a limit on the people in there

The Lisbon earthquake and tsunami was an important event in the enlightenment and the move away from people looking for superstitious religious explanations of events to a more sensible and scientific outlook. It also kickstarted the field of seismology.

Irish Potatoe famine... It always struck me off how in a few short years this south American vegetable root had replaced 1000s of years of oats and barley grains in the Irish diet. You have to figure in the first 100 years only the rich ate the potatoes because they were imports. (To the English crown)

My grandfather was born in 1909. He lived until 2001. He lived on a farm in Michigan and also drove a school bus for the local school. His wife, my grandmother, taught there. They lived through the Great Depression in that house, and for the rest of their days they saved pennies and would buy gifts for me from garage sales. It's amazing to think of all the things he lived through in his 91 years.

There was a Swedish chainsaw I believe with the warning “do not attempt to stop the blade with your genitals” and that one will always be the most disturbing warning label ever placed on a commercially produced item.

@ianbentley-rb7hs

4 ай бұрын

Good advice, that, unless you are looking to obtain a Darwin Award.

For the Netherlands one is the North Sea flood of 1953. It killed over 2.500 people and around 187.000 animals in the Netherlands. 9% of all Dutch farmland was destroyed as well ( I know we ain't the biggest but still a huge amount. It reformed our way of fighting the sea, with big impacts both in the Netherlands as well as outside of it. The storm affected the UK and Belgium as well.

@EdwardNygma1980

6 ай бұрын

I was just about to mention this, you beat me to it. 😉

The Coconut Grove Nightclub Fire gave us many lessons, but one that’s very interesting is how revolving doors are implemented. The nightclub’s main entrance was a single revolving door that got clogged with bodies in the smoke and chaos terrifyingly quick. Today, whenever you see a revolving door, it’s always flaked by two push-out doors on either side. Side note, love ya, VTH. You do amazing work. Hello from Boston!

"Regulations are written in blood"...I saw this when I was randomly watching some videos on OSHA violations. Definitely shows why regulations are generally a good thing.

@Demonslayer20111

6 ай бұрын

safety regulations yes. Others not so much

@havenless3551

6 ай бұрын

Government regulations are generally there to protect people/offer some form of legal recursion/prevent conflict/hold companies accountable. Nobody who can think critically dislikes these types of regulations, unless you're a corporation who wants to exploit cheap labour

@Demonslayer20111

6 ай бұрын

@@havenless3551 or maybe I just want to be able to build a damn shed in my backyard without jumping through hoops, or being told I cant

@FrancoDFernando

6 ай бұрын

@@Demonslayer20111 hahaha I was going to ask you about what regulations you disagree with…but man, I’ve been researching tool sheds and I encountered the same shit….total BS.

@havenless3551

6 ай бұрын

@@Demonslayer20111 Sure, and if you happen to build your shed in a floodplain or use it to abduct someone or to manufacture drugs or the shed burns in a fire, or you're illegally housing someone in the shed and charging rent, or you're running an illegal business out of your shed, or your neighbours complain and try to sue you, then what? The city has no evidence that this shed even existed if it burns down with people inside. A simple tool shed wouldn't violate any type of zoning restrictions and wouldn't need a build permit to be issued in most cases (source: I'm a professional land use planner). The red tape can and should be cut for a lot of bureaucratic processes to make it cheaper and easier absolutely, but these regulations are to prevent people from doing things that are illegal, dangerous, or can be seen as a nuisance to their neighbors. The regulations are inherently there to protect people.

There was a massive fire at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas back in 1980 that killed 85 people. Within 6 minutes of the fire being reported, the entire Casino floor had been engulfed in flames. Disgustingly, there were no fire alarms in the building, and although automated fire sprinklers were installed on the first two floors and top floor of the hotel, the casino did not have any fire sprinklers because local inspectors insisted to fire marshals that a fire would be quickly noticed and was thus unnecessary. MGM Grand owners also did not install fire sprinklers or fire alarms in any of the locations that would be affected by the fire and had only installed the bare minimum throughout the hotel due to “High installation costs”. The cost of a full fire detection and suppression system was only $192,000. The MGM Grand had to undergo a complete rebuilding that cost over $50 Million.

@architect011_3

6 ай бұрын

Yes, however I recall the vast majority of the deaths occurred on the upper floors and was as a result of the smoke. The smoke went up the building like a giant chimney because the stairs, elevators, shafts, and large seismic joints were not properly sealed. If the vertical building components had been properly sealed off, the fire would have been contained to the lower floors and who knows what would have happened above.

@kylewilson2819

6 ай бұрын

@@architect011_3 Yes, there were also many deaths in the emergency stairwells because the exits were sealed, ironically as a fire prevention measure.

@Ira88881

6 ай бұрын

A coworker’s father died in that fire. I recall that he JUMPED to his death, but I may be wrong.

The Great Fire of London in 1666 would be one of the top ones from a British perspective. Building regulations banning thatch in towns and encouraging brick and stone buiilding oveer wood, establishment of professional fire brigades (owned by insurance companies, you bought a plaque to fasten on your wall so they'd know if your house was on fire who would come to put it out), and of course new St Paul's and other churches and buildings that changed the London skyline and London landmarks so much. Not London's first widespread fire but the last that wasn't the result of military action.

I am a volunteer firefighter from the Northeast. I live about an hour away from The Station Nightclub fire in Rhode Island in 2003. Following the disaster that killed 100 patrons, NFPA required sprinkler systems in nightclubs/venues that can hold 100 or more occupants. Also, the panic led to a human crush at the exits. This resulted in ALL emergency exits and fire exits in commercial buildings open outward, not inward. Some input from a firefighter living in NJ. I love history and I love your channel. Keep up the good work :)

I would say that a lot of the nuclear disasters in history have had the side effect of helping to put us in the current climate crisis we’re experiencing today around the world. Even though nuclear energy is far better for the environment than fossil fuels and major accidents actually occur a lot less, the public perception of nuclear energy will never recover from things like Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima.

@graffitisamurai

6 ай бұрын

You can make a straight line from the Fukushima disaster to Europe's anti-nuclear movement to appeasing Russian aggression to the war in Ukraine.

@bigty390

6 ай бұрын

@@graffitisamuraiUkraine never had control of the Nukes lol 😊

@duchessofmelon9967

6 ай бұрын

@@bigty390 Not what they're saying. The link is that as Europe became more and more anti-nuclear energy, they began to rely more and more on Russian oil. Which meant that as Russia started fucking with Ukraine, first by invading Crimea and then by starting the war in the Donbas and finally by launching the full invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Europe became more hesitant to make a strong stance, since a strong stance would cut them off from Russian oil.

@paulcochran1721

6 ай бұрын

@@bigty390 They gave up control to Russia in the Budapest Memorandum (1994). The U.K. And the U.S. agreed to protect Ukraine.

@cggc9510

6 ай бұрын

Better in terms of lower direct CO2 emissions, but not so much in local enviromental damage. It destroys land and requires tons of energy to mine and it releases H2O, tons of it, which is also a GHG. Then there is the storage and accident factors. So...short term, ok sub. Long term, bad sub.

The 2009 Indiana State Fair Stage Collapse still looms large in the entertainment industry. I dont know how many actual regulations came from it, but it changed a lot of the way we think about outdoor events regarding venues and weather procedures, temporary structures, and rigging.

Fun fact about the triangle shirtwaist fire: I had several classes in college in that building (it's now owned by NYU) and numerous students reported weird noises and events as if there were ghosts or something. My professors didn't believe it nor did I but a friend strongly believes he saw a ghost in a bathroom.

I believe the more recent night club fire you're referring to is the Station nightclub fire of 2003 in Warwick, Rhode Island. I lost a friend in that fire. I drive by the memorial twice a week.

@VloggingThroughHistory

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, that’s the one. I’m so sorry that you lost a friend in that. Very sad.

@rayross997

6 ай бұрын

Sorry about your friend. That tragedy was so awful and the fact there is the terrible video of it really makes one grasp the horror.

@deborahgibson9039

5 ай бұрын

So sorry for your loss, a terrible tragedy. 😢

For all my wrestling fans: This exact thing happened with the WWE, Eddie Guerreros death forced management to create the “wellness policy” which regulates which drugs both recreational and medicinal the athletes could use, and if you look at wrestlers & their causes of death, there is definitely a curve after the introduction of it. Sorry for the non history related comment it was just the first thing that came to mind when you mentioned reactions to bad things making others lives better

@eddiereekie2403

6 ай бұрын

Lmao WWE stars still use PEDs

an easy one of the top of my head in recent history would be 9/11. it changed the way we travel forever. my parents always tell me how different it was going to the airport before 2001

@VloggingThroughHistory

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, that’s absolutely true

@JordanKerrigan

6 ай бұрын

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@VloggingThroughHistoryYou also use to be able to buy temporary life insurance at airports. Which would insure someone if they were injured or killed in a plane crash. Jack Gilbert Graham would use the machine to take insurance out on his mom because he intended to use a bomb that he put in her luggage. The bomb would end up going off while the plane was in the air. It would result in all 44 people on board dying. At the time intentionally destroying a plane was not a crime. If you would like to learn more the youtube channel Disaster Breakdown made a video on it.

@TheLocalLt

6 ай бұрын

I’m not sure I’d put that in the same category. 9/11 was obviously a major tragedy and mass-casualty event but was an act of both war and terrorism. I’d put 9/11 more in the category of Pearl Harbor, as an act of war, and Oklahoma City, as an act of terrorism, rather than the freak events recounted in this video.

@architect011_3

6 ай бұрын

Not just the way we travel. 9/11 lead to several building code changes (in conjunction with the Station Fire which happened shortly thereafter). Plus, it lead to the Patriot Act. Department of Homeland Security. At least 2 different wars (Afghanistan & Iraq, and could probably point to others).

@barrybetzjr1573

5 ай бұрын

Let’s talk about the new departments created, awareness and policy changes

The Babbs Switch school house fire. Changed fire codes for schools. I know it is mainly an Oklahoma thing, but pastoring a church in Hobart where those who died were buried. It was something I always stopped by when doing funerals in the town.

The Halifax explosion in 1917 when 2 ships ran into each other one of which was filled with war materials intended for Belgium caught fire and exploded destroying the city. I don't know if legislation or protocols changed to prevent future incidents like that but I can't imagine it didn't.

@koreygeren2677

3 ай бұрын

It lead to the Canadian Institution for the Blind.

My great grandmother was born in 1900 in England. She had a hilarious story about seeing an airplane for the first time. She was walking down the street with her mom, and they saw this odd thing in the sky flying along with a man piloting it. Her mom was absolutely horrified by what she was looking at, thought it was some demon contraption in the sky. My great grandmother thought to herself "I want to fly like that!!" And she was totally fascinated by what she was seeing lol. Talking to people like that is like time travel.

Chris, it is not just small fragments of fabric, cotton fibres and dust are not just flammable they are potentially explosive (like flour mills) from sparks. Mill fires in Manchester in the late 19th century, caused the creation of the factory safety acts- to make these work places more safe for their workers ( improving building standards) and increase the minimum worker age , which reduced child exploitation in factories and resulting in improvements in child education.

The Aberfan disaster had a significant impact on modern safety legislation in the Commonwealth countries.

@VloggingThroughHistory

6 ай бұрын

Makes a lot of sense. That actually would have been a great one for this video.

When you were talking about the people living through the 1920s and up .. Pandemic.. World Wars.. Great Depression and crazy fear of Nuclear War 😂 after the Atomic Bombs dropped in Japan .. 😂that’s insane

In the UK, the Victoria Hall disaster of 1883, resulted in legislation that exit doors must open outwards and that they have “push bar” opening mechanisms. 183 children died in this incident.

I always find it so infuriating when people attack others or berate them or shame them for talking about and reporting safety violations. "Tattle tale" or "Ruining the fun" or whatever. These regulations, these standards; are written in warm human blood. Their history is riddled with corpses. Those rules are there to make sure that you and Billy Bob jr over there can return to your families safe and sound.

If you want a more indepth telling of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, Extra History did a video on it a few years ago.

Been a avid viewer for awhile now and I wanted to say I've been loving your commentary and breaking down the history of event in these types of videos.

Gothic architecture and art was a result of the black death, it had a massive impact on culture as well as major positive economic implications as it basically allowed the creation of the middle class.

In the same realm of what you talked about at the beginning, a common saying in the aviation industry is that the Federal Aviation Regulations are written in blood. The rules are there for a reason.

I lived in southwest Washington in1980 when St Helens blew.Had a couple inches of ash in the backyard. My uncle Roy,who fought in WWI got the sleeping illness. (My dad was his much younger brother) My great grandfather's family died in the potato famine and he emigrated.

@theeclecticeccentric1566

6 ай бұрын

That should say great, great grandfather.

My family is from Oklahoma and my grandpa is still arpund in his 90s and he was raised here in the 30s. He said in Western Oklahoma theres a lot of graveyards filled with kids who died from dust bowl pneumonia. Very sad hard times.

You alluded to the Station Nightclub Fire in 2003, it was unbelievably tragic and happened not too far from me. I do think even by then there were multiple exits and sprinkler systems, but still, these are often afterthoughts for crowded venues that have to be enforced by the state.

@Mgbn78

6 ай бұрын

Is that the video where you see it spark up, and literally like 40 seconds later the room is pitch black and the camera guy just manages to escape? Fucking horrifying.

@9999bigb

6 ай бұрын

​@@Mgbn78yes that's the one. Watching that made me sick, but to this day, where ever I am, I always make sure I know where the exits are just in case I have to leave quickly and bring a lot of people with me.

@Mgbn78

6 ай бұрын

@@9999bigb yeah the stories of it. People were crushing so much out the exits that they just could not move. You’d hope most passed out long before the smoke got to them, let alone the fire. People say ‘oh you pass out from smoke inhalation before the fire gets to you’, you mean I feel the burning, thick smoke in my lungs? Fuck no.

@9999bigb

6 ай бұрын

@@Mgbn78 one of the more subtle, yet terrifying things about that video is after the camera man exits the club, and is running around filming everything, you slowly start to hear the screams from the inside of the club fall silent. It happens so gradually, you almost can't perceive it until the end of the video when all you hear is the sound of the firetrucks, the water, and the radios from the first responders talking to each other. Inside the bar? Not a peep.

@TheLocalLt

6 ай бұрын

This comment brought back a flood of memories, some of which I’m ashamed of looking back even though I was just a young kid. Growing up in the Boston area fascinated by the evening news (I’m now a broadcaster), the 1999 Worcester Cold Storage fire incorrectly colored my understanding of the 2003 Warwick nightclub fire. Because the Worcester fire occurred in an abandoned industrial area of an already-rough city, I incorrectly assumed both 1) that such events were typical for a place like Worcester and 2) that Warwick must be a similarly rough place (“war” is in the name after all) where people went to seedy dangerous nightclubs to engage in irresponsible activities which resulted in the fire. Of course I later learned the full circumstances of both, and how much of a tragic outlier both events truly were. I even later had a teacher in high school who had been a student at URI at the time and frequented the Station; she had been planning to go to the Great White show the night of the fire but was unable to attend, likely saving her life. RIP to both the Worcester Firefighters lost in the line of duty as well as the innocent attendees lost at the Station.

"Did you ever look at the labels of commonly used items and wonder why they have the warnings that they do?" Yes; every time I see a sign that says "NO DIVING ALLOWED" next to a Jacuzzi.

@VloggingThroughHistory

6 ай бұрын

Truth.

I have a photo in my inherited stash of old family pics that really startled me when I saw it. It was of the Eastland laying on its side in the Chicago River. It must have been taken by my great-grandfather in the month between its capsizing in 1915 and when it was righted and hauled away. It was obviously taken from a small excursion boat-that must have been a rather gruesome sight on river tours that month. For those unfamiliar with the Eastland, it was a very tippy boat made worse when it adhered to the post-Titanic regulations on lifeboats. After being filled up with an estimated 2500 Western Electric employees out for a business-sponsored picnic in Michigan, it rolled onto its side and over 800 people died.

@josephvarno5623

6 ай бұрын

That led to changes in how shipping was regulated as the Eastland, the ship that wiped out entire families, had been largely rebuilt and was top heavy without the correct ballasting. I used to walk by the site on a daily basis walking from Northwestern Memorial Hospital to Ogilve Transportation center along Wacker Drive.

A lot of aviation disasters have this impact - for example, the 1954 Comet explosions led to greater understanding of explosive decompression and thus made air travel much safer as planes could be better designed. Sadly, lessons are sometimes learned from disasters which are applied and then result in considerable death later on. For example, there were lessons learned from the Ash Wednesday bushfires in Australia which were applied in the Black Saturday bushfires - and resulted in deaths in that bushfire.

First thing that came to mind, according to my parents (i was born in 2005) before 9/11 you could go into the cockpit of a plane perfectly legally to see what it's like, me never having this experience ofc

I am looking forward to a newer episode about the Johnstown flood. You always go into such detail and I enjoy your commentary on all subjects. If you haven't already read it, may I suggest a book, "The Truth Behind The Irish Famine" by Jerry Mulvihill. It is a good read with many illustrations. It opened my eyes to the truths that I had no idea about!

@VloggingThroughHistory

5 ай бұрын

Yeah I wanna get over there and do something with Jared Frederick from Reel History. He lives nearby and we have been wanting to collab

While I've grown up in PA around a lot of history, because the Johnstown Flood is practically right in my backyard, I ended up spending a lot of time around it. The first relief project of the Red Cross was helping in Johnstown after the flood. Gotta love when a place embraces their tragedies and nickname their city Flood City due to the 3 major floods it has suffered. If you do come back to the area, feel free to look me up.

The Dixon bridge disaster was the most high profile of numerous bridge collapses in the 1800s that highlighted the need for stricter standards in the profession of civil engineering. Eventually it became standard practice to require a licensed professional engineer to approve a project before it could be built.

I am a teacher and a student I had about 8-9 years ago had a great grandmother who worked in Triangle Shirtwaist. She was home bedridden with an illness the day of the fire thankfully.

He talked of the 1889 Johnstown Flood, but there was a second flood In Johnstown in 1936 that was equally as devasting, although not as deadly. My father was 2 years old and my Grandfather worked at the US Steel Mill In Johnstown. He would tell stories of how he had to walk across the tops of train box cars to get across the river and up the hill to get home in Westmont. The 1936 flood led to the passage of Flood Control Legislation in 1937 and 1938 which created the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) and early warning systems for those down river from dams. The Johnstown Dam was changed from the earthen dam to a concrete dam, and improved the runoff channels, which helped reduce the risk of future flooding in the valley.

25:30 On that subject, I'm surprised the aviation industry wasn't mentioned at all. Not just plane crashes, but aviation incidents in general are taken extremely seriously. How planes are built was revised to improve evacuation speed, how the blades in jet engines are made, the way doors and windows are designed, the design of fuel/oil heat exchangers, checklist revisions, inventing technology to prevent mid-air collisions, crew resource management improvements, air traffic control procedures, de-icing procedures, quality control in maintenance, the fact that GPS used to be a military only technology until it was made available for public use for free in response to a passenger jet (Korean Airlines Flight 007) being being shot down after accidentally flying over Soviet air space, the list goes on. Pretty much every time there's an incident or crash, the aviation industry gets safer. That's why flying is the safest way to travel. If you want more details on this subject, listen to the "Black Box Down" podcast or watch KZread channel "Mentour Pilot". They do deep dives into specific incidents and what changes were made to make flying safer.

@stephanieneal5942

6 ай бұрын

Mentour Pilot is the best! I was also surprised that Tenerife wasn't on this list.

Hey vth! Been watching for a while now and getting more and more into history as a subject. What are some books you could recommend reading that cover similar topics u touch on in your videos? Or even better, maybe a whole video where you list your favorite books on history?

We just had a horrible rain storm the other day here in NC, I had never seen flooding so bad in my life, I felt so bad seeing my local farmers crops all completely underwater.

8:24 my maternal grandmother was born in London in 1919. She died of emphysema though.

I thought the night club fire was more to do with Great White firing off pyrotechnics. Thus why Rammstein doesn’t play small gigs.

25:33 The first thing that popped into my head was the death of Dale Earnhardt Sr at the Daytona 500 in 2001. This led to more safety changes that has helped to not have a death in their 3 major series since.

You should look into Haller’s(Blue) Army in WW1- it’s an interesting bit of history

Love your content 😊😊😊❤❤

I’m thinking of the Beverly Hills Supper Club Fire in Northern Kentucky that happened in 1977 right down the road from where I live. It is the third worst nightclub fire in US history, killing 167 people and led to a ton of building code changes.

I listened to an interesting podcast(I can’t remember the name) that said that some people believe that some of the deaths attributed to the Spanish flu could have also been from aspirin poisoning which became a popular drug at the same time. Reasons being that people thought it would help with the sickness and no one knew taking too many aspirin was bad for you. Apparently the symptoms of aspirin overdose was similar to the Spanish flu

Learned a lot from this one 👍

re: the Spanish Flu. My maternal grandmother was born in 1894 and 'just the flu' was neither a phrase in her vocabulary nor one to be uttered in her presence.

@cervanntes

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, my grandmother lost her older sister to the Spanish Flu and there was no such thing as "just a flu" to her either.

Working in the power industry, my workplace wouldn't be as safe as it is now if not for the lessons learned by my predecessors--lessons that were learned through lives, limbs, and physical abilities lost. Especially here in Florida, the hometown of Hurricanes.

The shirt factory fire was the cause of why doors designated as exits either from a room or building have to swing out instead of inward. And there is now a standard width of the door frame.

This seems closer to just American history rather than history in general

The fire at a nightclub you mentioned was The Station Nightclub Fire in West Warwick, RI on February 20th, 2003. The place was over crowded, had only one exit for patrons, and was completely preventable. Like morons, they set off pyrotechnics inside a nightclub... WHY would you do that!?!? Lets set off something incredibly flammable inside! It'll be ok. It led to clubs that allow 100+ people to have automatic fire sprinklers installed, more exits for patrons to leave through, and (in New England states at least) a moratorium on pyrotechnics inside clubs.

@blagageorge3824

6 ай бұрын

pretty much the same thing happened here in Romania just a few years ago (2015 or 2016, can't remember exactly). idiots set off fireworks indoors at a concert, dozens dies. worse, the walls were lined with flammable (and cheap) material that made a bad situation a complete disaster. people just don't learn

One of your points REALand TLY struck home... I had grandparents born around 1900. As a young adolescent they both saw the invention of the airplane served in WW2..( even saw the plane evolve into jets that they actually flew on...) But when the first man walked on the moon they could not (and privately did not) believe it!!! It was just too too much !!! >>> LOVE your channel keep up with the GREAT WORK and THANK YOU!!!

The 2011 Joplin, Missouri tornado made home builders start using hurricane ties on rafters that could withstand higher wind forces.

If I’m remembering correctly, the Mount Tambora eruption also inadvertently gave us Frankenstein. It was in the summer of 1816, a very cold summer due to the eruption, and Mary Shelley, along with Percy Shelley and Lord Byron were vacationing in Geneva. They created a competition to see who could tell the best scary story. Now I’m not sure they would’ve had a scary story contest in the middle of summer if it hadn’t been for the weird weather, which was caused by the eruption. Two of my ancestors , and married couple who possibly had lost children in Ireland, came to southern Ohio at the end of the potato famine to have a family, from Galway. We did a lot of research on the famine, Ireland, and Britain at this time. It was shocking how poorly this was managed , and how cruel the British were towards the Irish . One of their sons would marry another Irish immigrant, and have my great grandfather. Also from my research, I had an ancestor who came over as a result of the 1848 revolutions, and one who came over because of the unification of Germany.

If I remember correctly, after the potatoes stopped dying, potatoes from the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island were used to reintroduce potatoes to Ireland. Nice red spuds.

9-11, the survivors mentioned that the exit signs weren't visible, dust and smoke rises, they said that exit signs should be at floor level. Makes sense to me. Nothing's been done since.

There was a gasoline pipeline rupture in Bellingham, WA in the ‘90s which led to laws and regulations to improve pipeline safety.

Weird History has an extremely funny video about Andrew Jackson’s giant cheese wheels. He was given two cheese wheels one weighing a thousand pounds and another weighing seven hundred pounds

very interesting video!

My grandfather born 1899..and he got his draft notice a few days before the war ended..and he did almost die from that flu

VTH, there is an interesting fact about the Cocoanut Grove fire that could have made it one of the biggest sports-related disasters in U.S. history as well. The 1942 Boston College Eagles football team was ranked #1 in the nation, undefeated at 8-0, and were winning by an average of almost 29 points heading into their last game at home against Holy Cross, which was 4-4-1 at the time of the game. If the Eagles had won that game they had planned a celebratory party not only for their undefeated season but for their invite to the 1943 Orange Bowl, however Holy Cross crushed them 55-12. The Eagles cancelled the party as a result, then lost to Alabama at the Orange Bowl for good measure. However, if the Eagles had won their game hours before and went ahead with their planned celebration how big an event that would have been even during World War II?

The Galveston Hurricane of 1900. ~8,000 perished, over 1 Billion USD in damage, and it inspired protection against floods such as raising land and sea walls. Also inspired a wave of Vice businesses and crime due to the economy in the city being destroyed.

The guy may not be far off on the Encephalitis theory. There has been a noticed uptick in similar conditions from Covid (which we generally associate as Long Covid in some instances).

Re: warning labels. While I have not worked in an industry making a product, I do marketing and signage for a service, and the need to constantly revisit and revise disclaimers, etc due to people either being foolish, or angling for a scam.

Teneriffe 1977 was the most impactful air disaster to have started the series of air traffic regulations we have now.

Germany losing to Napoleon made public education in Germany mandatory. Gneisenau whilst reforming the Prussian army realized that soldiers were more efficient when they could read orders. Prussia/Germany became the first state with mandatory public education in the world, mainly to get poor lower class soldiers to an education level where they were able to read orders.

The 1906 damage was attributed to fire rather than an earthquake, so many earthquake protective measures were not immediately implemented over denial of possible future earthquakes.

Look on the side of a jar of peanuts. There's an allergy warning that the product contains peanuts.

Nice mention of Dante's Peak (I was thinking of Mt. St. Helen in terms of the ash cloud). I think the volcano was linked to 589 A.D. (AKA: the worst year ever ((another Weird History video)).

Hey VTH, you aughta find a Video this August to remember the US Shipwreck that they want us to forget, the U.S.S Indianapolis, when you brought up the Titanic I instantly thought "Ok, Lifeboats are valuable, but big ships with Precious Cargo tend to Sink Fast".

Very few ever speak of the Bath City Massacre. Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic a few days after it and many forgot.

The black plague was also way worse at spreading then the actual potency of the disease and most of that was attributed to the awful and dirty living conditions in these major cities in Europe. If I recall correctly, the highest chance of survival was in remote and rural farm lands in Europe. The highest percentage of morality was in big cities like London, Venice, Munich, Paris, etc.

Deceber 1, 1958. Our Lady of the Angels School Fire. Changed school fire codes and forbade doors from being locked or barred from the inside. Here in Chicago. 95 deaths. 92 were children.

I admit my knowledge on this is quite limited, so I may be wrong, but I feel that the Hillsborough disaster could count as another disaster that changed things, certainly in U.K. sport. They’re only now reintroducing standing at football matches, and there’s always a limit on ticket sales to stop overcrowding

The Halifax Explosion. The explosion led to damage of Canada's income-generating gateways such as the port of Halifax, leading to Canada's economic strains and a recession. the good news in the aftermath destroyed neighbourhoods were rebuilt to safer standards, while medical treatment, social welfare, and public health saw advances and improvements.

An Austrian painter not being accepted into art school

The Great Stink would be one on my list. Also Mao getting people to kill Sparrows.

The 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora released so much ash into the atmosphere, that the year 1816 was dubbed "The Year without a Summer", as in some places some rivers remained frozen even in July.

I know its three months late but I have to add the radium girls, these women would paint the glow in the dark paint on clocks, toys, nail polish, plates, and so many more. The problem was radium (as it's name implies) is radioactive and these women suffered horribly for it with cancer, missing teeth (from cleaning paint brushes with their mouths), black finger nails, and many other issues. This lead to companies being held responsible for employee health, the end to using dangerously radioactive materials in consumer goods, and better working rights for women

unfortunately, some rules were written in blood, After the RMS Titanic sunk they started an iceberg lookout crew, called The International Ice Patrol which is still in operation today, and no ship since the Titanic has been sunk due to an iceberg,plus every year on the 15th of April that crew fly over the site of where she sank and drop a wreath of flowers. And didn't Pompeii and Herculaneum also get covered by a pyroclastic flow from Mt Vesuvius,which is still active but they have a monitoring team for it now, Thank You so much Mr VTH for all the very informative and amazing content you are by far my favourite KZread channel ,for many reasons like not talking over videos which i see so many history channels do and not just saying wow or OK! , you Sir give so much useful extra information, I am Learning alot with every video you react to,. Elisabeth

Volcanoes also have different types of eruptions. Mount St Helen is in a rebuild phase after its explosive eruption that will occur again.

On June 30, 1956, a Trans World Airlines Super Constellation and a United Air Lines DC-7 collided over the Grand Canyon, Arizona, killing all 128 occupants of the two airplanes. The collision occurred while the aircraft were flying under visual flight rules in uncongested airspace. The accident dramatized the fact that, even though U.S. air traffic had more than doubled since the end of World War II, little had been done to mitigate the risk of midair collisions. On May 21, 1958, Senator A. S. "Mike" Monroney (D-OK) introduced a bill to create an independent Federal Aviation Agency to provide for the safe and efficient use of national airspace. Two months later, on August 23, 1958, the President signed the Federal Aviation Act, which transferred the Civil Aeronautics Authority's functions to a new independent Federal Aviation Agency responsible for civil aviation safety. That is how and why the FAA was born.

I'm stunned that the Grand Canyon Collision isn't on here. In the 50's before the Airlines were on specified routes, companies would use the Grand Canyon as a "tourist attraction" during long flight times to western cities. Well on one fatefull day a TWA and a United flight took the same detour, only problem was that it was the same detour in opposite directions. The planes collided, 270 people lost their lives and the FAA and predetermined pre-flight routes were established.

@JordanKerrigan

6 ай бұрын

It was actually a United Airlines plane colliding with the TWA. The crash also happened in 1956. The channel Disaster Breakdown did a video on it. Also it was the event that resulted in the FAA being created.

@JohnReedy07163

6 ай бұрын

@JordanKerrigan Oh man you're right 🤦‍♂️ I have a book on Deaths at the Grand Canyon and it's included there. I wasn't looking at it when I commented. Still would have thought it would be here.

Well this is from Ireland but in relation to the last topic. In 1981 there was a fire in a nightclub called Stardust. The fallout is still going to this day with a new inquest starting in 2023 Of the 800 in the club 48 people died and 214 non fatal injuries. Thought survivors and family members who took there own lives are linked to this. Due to an inquiry mentioning arson(though no evidence) the owner then could not be sued. There were many safety problems like locked doors, the owner was able to make a full claim for insurance

The Irish Potato Famine shaped what would become the town that I grew up in from Northeast Wisconsin. Over half the population of the town can trace their ancestry back to the 1840’s in Ireland on at least one side of their family. It’s a weird one for me because I feel horrible for the Irish and angry at the British government of the time for it, but how different would my life be had the famine never occurred or been handled better by the government. Half my friends have that Irish ancestry.

Krakatoa's eruption in 1883 led to major advancements in the understanding of world weather patterns.

The Black Death also had a benefit sense the people who survived it had a much stronger immune system so in the long run it made humans stronger

Well this isn’t natural but this was a disaster nonetheless. In 1983, Korean Airline flight 007 accidently flew over Soviet territory without knowing several times, so the Soviets eventually shot it down. The flight recorders weren’t discovered since the Soviets kept them hidden until their collapse. This incident led to GPS being available for civilian use which at the time was only used in the military, the directive issued by president Reagan

History of civilian aviation is literally a list of disasters we've been learning from.

I think about stuff like this, but on a lower level such as the crudely hand written sign in a store or restaurant.

Great point about people born early 1900s. That would suck, but think of how they could tell their grandkids “back in my day”😂