Thursday, March 18
The 77th day of the year 288 days left
Today in History
Nearly 300 students in Texas are killed by an explosion of natural gas at their school on March 18, 1937.
The Consolidated School of New London, Texas, sat in the middle of a large oil and natural gas field. The area was dominated by 10,000 oil derricks, 11 of which stood right on school grounds. The school was newly built in t…