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jan 16, 1862 - England Mining Disaster

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Hartley Colliery disaster: Two hundred and four men and boys killed in a mining disaster, prompted a change in UK law which henceforth required all collieries to have at least two independent means of escape. (Northunberland)

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jan 16, 1862
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~ 163 years ago